Michigan woman blames internet conspiracy theories for father's fatal shooting rampage
A Michigan woman whose father committed a fatal shooting attack against their family on September 11
to identify the Kunin Conspiracy theory and several strands of online disinformation for the mental degeneration that preceded his actions
He had a sense of reality. Rebecca Landis told the daily beast
But then after 2020, when Donald Trump lost, he started going down these crazy rabbit holes
Lana's father, 53 year old Igor. Lanus shot and killed her mother
Tina Landis as well as the family's dog during the attack. The elder Lanus also shot and wounded 25 year old Rachel Lanus who reportedly
escaped the house and managed to contact police. The Detroit news reported that Rachel Landis was placed in stable condition following her father's rampage
Officers shot and killed in Orlando at the scene after he allegedly began shooting at them with a shotgun
Rebecca Landis who was not at the house during the attack called Q and a very big contributor toward her father's attack
I think that he was always prone to mental issues. She told the news
but it really brought him down when he was reading all those weird things on the internet
Lana also identified herself as the Reddit account behind a post further describing her father's mental descent into the weaponized conspiracy theory
in 2020. After Trump lost my dad started going down the queue rabbit hole
He kept reading conspiracy theories about the stolen election, Trump vaccines, etcetera
He always said he wanted to keep us safe and healthy. It kept getting worse and he verbally snapped at us a few times
Nothing physical though. He never got physical with anybody. Dot Well, at around four AM on September 11th
he had an argument with my mother and he decided to take our guns and shoot her
my dog and my sister, my mother succumbed to her wounds and my sister is in the hospital right now
The Daily Beast also noted that Q and on a conspiracy theory, positing Trump as a heroic figure defending U S interests from a nebulous
array of government related forces has been linked to several other killings
A California man who allegedly murdered his 10 month old daughter and two year old son in Mexico told police that his crimes were motivated
by Cunanan. According to prosecutors in 2019 A Q and a nonbeliever allegedly killed the purported head of the gambino mafia family in a misguided
attempt to bring him to a Q and A tribunal that suspect was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial earlier that year
Seattle Cunanan believer convinced his brother was a lizard person, murdered him with a samurai sword
Michigan has also been a hotbed of related weaponized disinformation campaigns for several years including some that have culminated in specific violent or threatening actions
based on the lie that Trump really won the 2020 election over current United States President Joe Biden. He did not
for example
in April 2020 a rash of right wing demonstrators congregated at the Michigan statehouse to protest social safety measures enacted by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to
mitigate the spread of COVID 19. That October several men were arrested after investigators found they used Facebook to organize a plot to kidnap Whitmer
Two of them, Adam Fox and Barry Croft were convicted in August 2022 on charges of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of
mass destruction. In December 2020. A group of fake right wing electors aided by GOP state reps
Matt Maddock and Dare Rendon were stopped while in the process of attempting to enter the state capitol and cast fraudulent votes for Trump
Like many of the other conspiracy theories motivating real life violence. Cunanan is a slightly reworked retelling of a decades old weaponized and highly anti
Semitic narrative that is perhaps best known as the fully debunked and discredited satire
the protocols of the elders of Zion