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Officer called hero after Utah rampage - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com

SALT LAKE CITY - An off-duty police officer having an early Valentine’s Day dinner with his wife was credited Tuesday with helping stop a rampage in a crowded shopping mall by an 18-year-old gunman who killed five people before he was cut down.

A day after the shooting, investigators struggled to figure out why a trench-coated Sulejmen Talovic opened fire on shoppers with a supremely calm look on his face.

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Talovic had a backpack full of ammunition, a shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol, police said. Investigators knew little about Talovic, except than he lived in Salt Lake City with his mother and was a Bosnian refugee, according to Reuters. He had four minor incidents with police when he was a juvenile, police said. He was enrolled in numerous city schools before withdrawing in 2004, the school district said.

And lest I be accused of insensitivity... if you'll take a look at the wiki entry for the Bosnian war - you'll be hard pressed to find a mention of Islam in the article. Up at the top, they quickly redefine Bosnian Muslims as 'Bosniaks', a term I hadn't heard before in the news.

Ain't that odd? It's like they don't want to mention the 'm' word for whatever reason...

Update:

Over at 'Talk' portion of the Wiki article about Talovic, there's quite a discussion about his ethnic and religious background, with folks arguing that any mention that he's a Muslim should be stricken from the record.

Well, at least some are arguing that Wiki needs to put out ALL the info, not just what's PC.

Why the need for everything to be politically correct? Who decides what is correct and what is not? It is up to the individual to decide what is PC and what is not, rendering it completely useless without some objective standpoint to judge it. The man was Muslim; that is a fact of the case, and therefore it belongs. Why is everyone so damned liberal here!?!

J.