She seems to be doing a lot of traveling (Gateway pundit gets excited over her trips).
There was also some early conspiracy theories because her facebook page included photos of her visit to Dubai.
Attention: Two things you have to keep in mind.
One, Filipinas have extended families. And so travel to many areas that an average Yank would not. Visiting relatives. I suspect her family are OFWs. (e.g. Dubai and Hong Kong). One doubts she was an ISIS spy.
Two: This sounds more and more like what we call here an "AMOK" murder.
"an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malay culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior".
A normal guy who snapped.
Usually someone who is "nice" and keeps the anger inside, and then explodes.
In the US, there was a sort of joke expression: "Going Postal", after several ordinary postal workers shot up their workplace.
Here in the Philippines, we have these reported now and then in the news.
But the most famous one was when a cop who was upset at losing his pension (fired because of accusations of corruption) and then murdered a bunch of Chinese tourists. Why Chinese? Chinese are often disliked here, and hey, they were a target of opportunity. And a lot of people criticized the local mayor for negotiating instead of taking him out with a sniper.
we also had a casino attack: the guy entered into a casino with guns and gasoline, and a lot of people died from a fire related to his crime. He needed money, and was probably simply intending to rob the place, but the fire got out of control.
The real danger is that the press will hype this up to inspire copycat crimes, as happened with school shootings that inspired other angry teenagers.
so far, there is no motive: maybe he was descending into paranoid schizophrenia, since mental illness runs in his family. Maybe he was paranoid from early Alzheimer's or a stroke.
Homicide hunter had a poignant episode about a loving man who got paranoid and delusional after a stroke, and ended up killing his family. LINK.
Sigh.
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I should write a comment about gun control.
My grandfather was a cop, and knew about kids who accidentally shot by playing with their dad's gun. So we never had a gun in our house.
But my mom, who grew up with brothers, had no gun but belonged to the gun club at school and cherished her "sharpshooter" medal.
My sons had hunting rifles: we lived in one of those areas where people "cling to guns and religion", and the first day of deer hunting season is a school holiday.
But when my older son started acting out, I made sure the firing pin from his rifle was "lost", just in case. (long story).
Here in the Philippines, Marcos confiscated all the guns back in the 1980s. However, most middle class folks have one or two stashed away just in case.
When I visited here 20 years ago, I was not surprised when Lolo took out his Glock and cleaned it. However, I was a bit startled when he also brought out his World War II sub machine gun and cleaned that one.
His son is Christian, so made him give the guns away after he had a stroke, so no I don't know which relative has them now.
So now, if a druggie decides to rob us, we only have George our killer Labrador, for protection.
Sigh. I probably would be too slow to do anything in an emergency anyway. Unless one is trained, one does tend to "Freeze".
But soldiers and cops are trained to react under fire: Which is why one is reading of so many heros in Las Vegas, of men who shielded their loved ones, of men showing people the closest area to evacuate, of men who stole trucks etc to take people to the nearest hospital. And of men and women giving first aid to those wounded.
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