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On April 23, 2018, the word incel was suddenly on the radar of Toronto and the rest of the country.
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That was the day that a troubled young man named Alek Minassian drove a van down Yonge St., slamming into scores of people, killing 10 and injuring 16 others.
Minassian was a follower of the incel philosophy, a pathological hatred of women who took a pass on sex with these people.
Here are some of the movement’s twisted luminaries:
Elliot Rodger, the patron saint of the incel movement.
ELLIOT RODGER – 2014
411: The movement’s founding father. On May 23, 2014, Rodger killed six people and injured 14 others in a rampage in Isla Vista, Calif. near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He later killed himself.
Chris Harper-Mercer murdered nine at an Oregon college.
CHRIS HARPER-MERCER – 2015
411: On Oct. 1, 2015, Harper-Mercer, 26, shot to death an assistant professor and eight fellow students at the Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Ore. He was wounded by cops then killed himself.
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Sheldon Bentley murdered a homeless man.Photo by EDMONTON JOURNAL /POSTMEDIA
SHELDON BENTLEY – 2016
411: The Edmonton security guard was unhappy at being involuntarily celibate. On July 31, 2016, he stomped a homeless man to death. He was found guilty of manslaughter and robbery and sentenced to four years in jail.
William Atchison murdered two students at a New Mexico high school.
WILLIAM ATCHISON – 2017
411: Atchison, 21, shot two students to death at Aztec High School in Aztec, N.M. on Dec. 7, 2017. He was a former student at the school and killed himself as cops closed in.
Students are evacuated by police from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a Nikolas Cruz, inset, alleged opened fire. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
NIKOLAS CRUZ – 2018
411: On Feb. 14, 2018, Nikolas Cruz, 19, walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. and allegedly murdered 17 people and injured 17 others. COVID-19 has delayed the trial. He has pleaded not guilty.
Scott Paul Beierle, 40, murdered two innocent women at a Tallahassee yoga studio then killed himself as cops closed in. He was a devoted member of the incel movement.Photo by FACEBOOK
SCOTT BEIERLE – 2018
411: On Nov. 2, 2018, Beierle walked into a Tallahassee, Fla. hot yoga studio and shot six women, killing two of them. He then killed himself.
Germany found death in Tobias Rathjen.
TOBIAS RATHJEN – 2020
411: Rathjen shot and killed 11 people at two shisha bars near Frankfurt. He then went home, where he murdered his mother before turning the gun on himself.
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