A New Hampshire woman was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole Wednesday after she was convicted of fatally stabbing her brother-in-law in 2021. Ren Rodgers, 28, of Hollis, will be eligible for parole after 18 years in prison. Her attorney was not immediately available for comment Wednesday. Rodgers was convicted of second-degree murder last month for stabbing 21-year-old Christopher Kellar to death in a Boston hotel room on Feb. 20, 2021.
A district court gave approval for the shooter's name to be changed from Robert to Robin in 2020, acknowledging that Westman identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification. According to the New York Post, which translated Russian Cyrillic writing in the shooter's journal, Westman expressed regret about being transgender ahead of the attack. I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself, wrote Westman, according to the Post.
You know, 96% of attackers when you're looking at the US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center, looking at 172 mass attacks in the US between 2016 and 2020 96% were non-trans men, Keilar said. So I know you're focusing on this shooter being trans. The shooter was trans and that is certainly of note. But are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic and you perhaps miss the through line that connects them all?
"If [music] had anything but piano and organ, like if it had electric guitar or drums, it was considered Satanic or bad," he says, highlighting the extremism of his parents' beliefs. "We weren't allowed to go to movie theaters, we weren't allowed to watch movies, we didn't have TV. All the girls in our house had to wear skirts ... even to bed, I had to wear skirts."
"It's a decision Angel made and Mel has been understanding, likewise Eddie. There was no big event to mark it. Angel just wanted it to be known what pronouns are now suitable."
The media frenzy around a sermon claiming 'Jesus was trans' oversimplified a legitimate academic discussion on artistic interpretations of Jesus' identity and societal norms.