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~~It was a McDonald's customer who turned him in.~~ (Edit: the article I read has been updated)
But I can't help but find the whole thing really suspicious. In his possession they found a gun, silencer, and three-page hand written manifesto.
Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone? That just feels hard to believe.
He was America's Most On TV Human for the last week. I'm not shocked someone recognized him. And its not like he was picked off a bus in Manhattan at random. The guy was traced all the way to Pennsylvania.
He probably could have gotten away if he'd laid low for another week or two. But this absolutely sounds like a guy with some serious mental health issues who was not thinking ten steps ahead as everyone in the fandom wanted to believe. He was just some angry 20-year-old doing a more newsworthy version of a school shooting, not The Leftist Jackal plotting elaborate Mission Impossible style assassinations.
The same kind of person who signs their bullet casings.
You're not shocked someone saw someone and immediately recognized him as the hooded figure on the TV? "Oh yeah, I recognize those eyebrows, I'm going to call the police immediately," doesn't sound unusual to you?