Michael Cravey: I'm being set up. I need to figure this out.
Spoiler:
It's an interesting story about a guy like you & me. a GLP poster, internet researcher & youtube video maker. he claims to have cracked the batman shootings (among other things) & connected it to the sikh temple shootings (there was also a 2nd shooter there imo). he was the guy I was referencing & occasionally sourcing during the aurora thread. he started with some amazing videos exposing the anomalies of the shooting & crime scene but later it turned into him documenting someone following him and his being gang-stalked. it's nuts.
during all this, he was contacted by someone posing to be a popular local TV reporter & was asked to meet with him. the “reporter” never showed. around that same time, cravey is (allegedly) stabbing some dude in the neck & fleeing in his jeep. this happened @ 7 am. 3 hours later, he was seen talking to some guy in a petsmart parking lot. the man drives away & he walks toward the store when he is approached by the police. refusing to drop the hatchet he is carrying, he is shot and killed.
some of the news (MSM) coverage @ the time:
Michael Cravey Fatally Shot By Cops After Allegedly Stabbing Man On College Campus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/michael-cravey-stabs-man_n_4890706.html
A Florida man was fatally shot by police after he allegedly stabbed a man on the University of Florida campus Monday morning. Michael Cravey, a 28-year-old Gainesville man, was allegedly wielding a hatchet when officers found and opened fire on him, The Gainesville Sun reports.
UF stabbing, chase, death of suspect traced
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20140316/ARTICLES/140319662/0/search?p=all&tc=pgall&tc=ar
As Preston was getting out of his blue car, he noticed the driver of the unfamiliar vehicle walking around the back of his car and looking at his license plate. Preston asked the younger man, who police have said was Michael Cravey, if there was a problem or if he needed help, the police report said.
"Do you have a gun?" Cravey reportedly asked him.
Preston told detectives he was confused and said no. Cravey then made statements about meeting "Mike Potter," but Preston told him he didn't know a Mike Potter, the report said. That's when Cravey reportedly pulled out a 4-inch folding knife and Preston told his wife to run. As Beckie Preston locked herself in the car, Cliff Preston ran toward the sidewalk yelling for help. Cravey caught up to him quickly and knocked him to the ground, the report said. UF student Karah Mechlowitz was waiting for her friend in the same parking lot when she saw Cravey chasing Preston and laughing. She thought it was prank until she saw him stab Preston in the neck, the report said.
The whole time, Cravey seemed to be enjoying himself, she said.
could he really have been told to meet a 'mike potter' there? set up?
anyways, attacks random stranger & car chase ensues...
UPD, the Gainesville Police Department, Alachua County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Highway Patrol scoured the area for Cravey. Around 8:30 a.m., Cravey went through the drive-thru at the campus McDonald's on Northwest 13th Street and got a meal, the report said.
Maureen texted Michael, but he seemed to have no idea what she was talking about. Around 8:30 a.m., Michael's younger brother, Mather Cravey, called Michael on the phone. Michael told Mather he was going through a McDonald's drive-thru as they were speaking. Mather asked his brother what he was doing and urged him to do whatever the police were asking of him or to go home if nothing was going on.
"I'm being set up," Michael told him. "I've got to figure this out."
Minutes later, police said Cravey crashed into another vehicle near Sonny's BBQ and Southwest 37th Boulevard. Bystanders told officials he had run into the Pier 1 Imports in Butler Plaza.
At 10:03 a.m., Officer Wayne Clark heard over the scanner that GPD had spotted Cravey speaking with a person in a pickup truck and walking through the parking lot near Best Buy toward PetSmart. He's also holding a black-and-yellow hatchet in his right hand, the report said.
At 10:04 a.m., GPD Lt. Mike Schibuola approached Cravey with his gun pointed at him and ordered him to drop the hatchet. Cravey instead sprinted toward Schibuola with his hatchet raised, the report said. Schibuola fired his weapon, shooting multiple times and hitting Cravey. In the report, the number of shots bystanders and officials heard ranges anywhere from five to 10.
and of course...
Her son had never been violent, she told UPD Detective Duffy and GPD Detective Martin Honeycutt. Cravey was very interested in global conspiracies and spent most of his time researching and re-examining these conspiracies online, the report said.
Cravey made YouTube videos under the name Thomas Brinkley about conspiracy theories involving Aurora, Colo., mass shooting suspect James Holmes. In several videos, Cravey debated incidents surrounding the Aurora theater shooting and said he was at the center of a conspiracy theory involving Holmes.
