The toddler received lacerations on their face from knife slashes from the perpetrator. Police shot and killed now-identified Noemi Guzman while she was wielding the knife and holding the child hostage.
The child is stable, and recovering, in the hospital.
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adieudaemonic4 days ago
+867
When you look her up she has a history of violence, older news articles all state she had considerable mental health issues. It is unfortunate we clearly did not have the capability to help her, which led to this child and others involved suffering.
867
Bituulzman4 days ago
+188
Good lord. This story sounds like the exact duplicate of the killing of a 3 year old near Cleveland a couple years ago. Mentally ill woman, took some knives from a thrift shop, walked next door to the grocery store and then stabbed a child and his mother at random.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cleveland-woman-life-sentence-fatally-stabbing-3-year-old-boy-rcna240156
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MalusDracula3 days ago
+22
The CCTV of her stabbing the brick wall out front of the grocery store before going in and people just walking past her like its nothing...it is so strange to watch.
22
NoKatyDidnt4 days ago
+210
That is a shame. I was literally just reading another post where this subject came up. There aren’t enough resources for mental health available.
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TwoLegitShiznit4 days ago
+146
They can have a trillion dollars a week in funding. There still aren't enough people with the empathy, patience, and know-how to help all the people that need help.
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solomons-mom4 days ago
+153
This a big issue. Another problem is that empathy, patience and know-how does not cure severe mental illness.
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Loud_Let49074 days ago
+219
Might come off as controversial, but she has had a long leash here in Omaha. So please, save any of your empathy for the 3-year-old hugging a teddy bear in a hospital tonight with 2 major cuts and stitches in the double digits and mental scars to last a lifetime.
Empathy started for Guzman with a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict for an equally heinous string of crimes in 2024- dousing her father with gasoline and proceeding to break into a church, wielding a knife with intent to kill.
Empathy in 2026 for Guzman looked a lot like a bullet to center mass.
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this_dudeagain4 days ago
+39
Why wasn't she in a long term care facility?
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Lumos4054 days ago
+12
Yeah, she should have been detained to mandatory inpatient treatment at a minimum
12
Extension_Variety1902 days ago
+3
Show me one in Nebraska that is available to people without a lot of money or platimum level health insurance.
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this_dudeagain2 days ago
+2
Lincoln Regional Center
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Dalionking2254 days ago
+73
Yeah honestly f*** that b****, the child being safe and sound is all that matters and the parents and child making a full recovery emotionally
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SugarDue81603 days ago
+11
I have a high level of empathy usually for unstrung people who get left behind by our crumbling mental health system.
But as a mom, reading this, I wanted to rip her throat out.
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FluFlammin90004 days ago
+6
No offense because I understand the emotions behind the situation especially when a child is involved, but this type of thinking is exactly why mental health services are still so fucked and does nothing but ensure stuff like this is going to continue.
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Loud_Let49074 days ago
+104
Mental health services seem fucked because some percentage of people with a poor draw in life will always just be incompatible with society. Full offense.
Since Guzman doused her father in gasoline, threatened a priest with a knife, refused continuing treatment of mental health (in other words, she would not take ownership of her mental health), then yeah, society ought to have little room for empathy for her, as it is all saved for her victims
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zakabog4 days ago
+62
She should have been committed to a mental health facility when she was found not guilty by reason of insanity. That's the whole point of the insanity plea, you are not compatible with society as you cannot tell right from wrong, so why wasn't she in a long term care facility.
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ithinkitslupis4 days ago
+47
I'm not sure how that's incompatible with increasing access to mental health services to hopefully stop things like this from happening even the first time, let alone 2 additional times.
Mind you long term involuntary stays for people unwilling to medicate and stay functioning in society are mental health services too. Having that person commit a third offense harming a child in a walmart parking lot is a failure.
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ID_SINK4 days ago
+12
You can ensure that children aren’t harmed without summary execution by simply remanding these people to mental health facilities indefinitely
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Lumos4054 days ago
+8
She was actively stabbing a child. She could have killed him. The police did the right thing in this instance and saved the child.
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[deleted]4 days ago
+31
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zernoc564 days ago
+12
Which is why education funding is so important. It’s very expensive getting a degree to be a neurologist, psychologist, or therapist.
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lacegem4 days ago
+11
Few problems can be solved tomorrow, but the solution to any problem could start tomorrow.
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strega_bella3124 days ago
+2
I wonder how many people would need that help though if we just lived in a generally more patient, empathetic society in the first place.
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squirrelbus4 days ago
+3
Well it would help a lot if we paid the people who cared a living wage.
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Uncle_Hephaestus4 days ago
+2
idk that would drive people to study mental health so now definitely not. but ten years if you kept it at 1T-ish you could possibly have the ability to at lest make a dent.
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danny0wnz4 days ago
+18
Or the people who don’t want help.
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NoKatyDidnt4 days ago
+9
There are those, yeah. Lots unfortunately. But I also think many are too ill to know they need it.
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danny0wnz4 days ago
+3
Yes, sorry my comment was meant to encompass them as well. It should’ve been more “resistant” in some shape or form. Whether it’s out of a refusal or unknowingly.
There’s also people who experience side effects and Will feel that the “help” is the enemy causing the undesirable side effects.
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ingen-eer4 days ago
+11
Reagan and his admin closed the mental institutions during his presidency and that sector of public services has never recovered. With no infrastructure or clear plan of how to help these folks, and also no solution for keeping their illnesses from hurting those around them, this is what we get. It sucks.
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NoKatyDidnt4 days ago
+5
Agreed. The old system was broken, but good grief. I think it would have been easier in the long run to give it an overhaul.
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FluFlammin90004 days ago
+5
There are if you have money, if you're poor you're SOL at least in this country. As someone who is extremely poor and has finally decided to try and deal with my mental health issues I've been very quickly reminded why I never bothered in the first place.
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3rd-party-intervener4 days ago
+61
We need to open institutions again both for the safety of the person and public
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ZantaraLost4 days ago
+29
That's a great idea... except for the simple undeniable fact is that just about every single time we try that in the West, funding is inevitably stripped away and they're turned into basically oubliettes for the undesirable.
Add to that the capitalist mindset that's so prevalent that if you aren't producing, you're worthless ALONG with the For Profit Prison System we still refuse to deal with and anyone with two braincells can see how that shit is going to backfire so damn quickly.
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Possible_Answer90892 days ago
+2
Not to mention, once you're in it can be incredibly hard to get out, even if one is deserving of freedom. There is a history of parents throwing their children into an institute and then that child is incapable of leaving in adulthood. Police, government, and other authorities can use it to essentially imprison their enemies.
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Life_Vacation91324 days ago
+8
We can’t afford mental health facilities if we send all of our money to a genocidal regime in the Middle East.
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LinuxUbuntuOS2 days ago
+3
They’d rather just kill all the mentally ill people than help them, Holocaust 2.0
Trump literally told a family member that they’d be better off with their disabled son dying.
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Metacomet994 days ago
+2
Be careful what you ask for. We've already tried that and they turned into hellholes. And you just might end up in one if someone doesn't like your hair color.
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sithelephant4 days ago
+48
I question extremely 'capability to help her'. This kinda assumes well funded available mental health care, and well, ...
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aecrux4 days ago
+51
may i interest you in an easily accessible handgun in this trying time?
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sithelephant4 days ago
+12
Do you have anything in belt-fed mental health aids?
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Righteous_Iconoclast4 days ago
+5
Best I can do is a double-stack mag and a complimentary AI assistant.
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sithelephant3 days ago
+2
Can it have the voice of Arnaud Amalric?
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RandomHamm3 days ago
+2
I love my emotional support M1A2 Abrams
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ChmeeWu4 days ago
+3
The streets are not good substitutes for professional help at a mental institution
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EvilCaveBoy4 days ago
+4
We do have the capability. We lack the will.
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New_Anarchy3 days ago
+1
We have the capability, just not the empathy.
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I_hate_alot_a_lot3 days ago
+3
I have a 3 year older and I legit just can’t imagine the recovery on this. She’s barely able to keep it together when I tell her she’s had enough milk or snacks.
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SilverAgedSentiel4 days ago
+253
2024 Assault: She was previously accused of dousing her father in a flammable liquid and cutting him with a knife.
Church Break-in: Following the assault on her father, she allegedly broke into the rectory of St. Frances Cabrini Church with a knife, forcing a priest to barricade himself in a room until he could be rescued through a window by emergency crews.
At the time of the Walmart incident, she had been released on bond after pleading not guilty to charges of arson, burglary, and assault related to these previous events.
In March 2024, a Douglas County judge released Noemi Guzman on a personal recognizance bond, which did not require her to pay any money for her release. This decision was made despite the state's arguments for a high cash bond due to the violent nature of her previous charges, which included stabbing her father and breaking into a church rectory.
https://www.wdsu.com/article/omaha-walmart-shooting-kidnapping/71016291
https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-woman-accused-of-stabbing-father-and-setting-fire-to-church-released-from-custody/60300899
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Full_Championship6094 days ago
+100
But...why...do they keep letting her go?
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zzztoken3 days ago
+30
I don’t know how it’s going in Nebraska, but in Nevada we have people on the streets with over 20 convictions, including violent ones. Judges just keep letting them out. While I don’t agree with it, we can’t just not listen to judges, one of our Sherriff’s actually defied a judges order to release an inmate who had over 25 convictions including violent assaults. I don’t know why this keeps happening, maybe from prison overcrowding, but it seems to be a serious issue.
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[deleted]4 days ago
+1
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flatpetey4 days ago
+37
This is completely that judges fault. She was obviously unstable and violent.
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NoKatyDidnt4 days ago
+28
Well jeez. That is a heck of a rap sheet.
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Tale_of_two_kitties4 days ago
+53
Oh shit, this is the same woman that broke into Cabrini?? She really had some newsworthy antics.
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Fryboy113 days ago
+7
What the f*** is wrong with this judge? She tried to set her dad on fire then when that didn’t work she attacked him with a knife. She was still free awaiting a bond hearing when she took a priest hostage.
The judge decided that she didn’t need to post cash bail after trying to kill her dad and taking a priest hostage… the f***?
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fauxedo4 days ago
+12
Why would Alvin Bragg continue to let this happen? /s
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Moal4 days ago
+114
[Update about the little boy with pictures of his injuries.](https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-walmart-shooting-boy-injured-surgery/71018997)
Poor little guy. He looks so sad in the photos.
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savvy-misanthrope4 days ago
+50
Not to mention the poor kid might remain traumatized for a very long time!
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severed134 days ago
+24
It'll definitely stick around somewhere in the back of his mind, but I hope the majority of it is forgotten as an actively recountable memory
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Mysterious-Fig-22803 days ago
+3
Hard to forget if you have a giant scar on your face every time you look on the mirror …
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NoKatyDidnt4 days ago
+6
I feel so bad for the poor little guy. I’m so glad that everyone in this situation reacted so well. It could have been even more tragic. 😞
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Fragrant-Cap46483 days ago
+25
Why do insane people like this keep getting out to attack more people? At a certain point once a nutcase has been arrested for harming people enough times maybe its time to actually do something instead of letting them out to kill someone, or be killed themselves.
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Ono-Sendai_Surfer3 days ago
+21
Because activist judges and DAs that are soft on crime keep releasing them or cutting them deals. Our judicial system is rotten and it's because of these scumbag judges that have a revolving door policy for career criminals and violent offenders. Seems like these days the perpetrators have more rights and are given better treatment than the actual victims.
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Negative_Baker_21414 days ago
+432
Horrifying all around, but thank god the kid survived. Someone trying to knife a 3‑year‑old in Walmart is not “de-escalate with kind words” territory. Maybe stores need visible security near entrances.
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Loud_Let49074 days ago
+137
FWIW: most grocery stores in Omaha have armed security, usually off duty police officers in uniform.
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stonksuper4 days ago
+12
That’d be the most boring job ever. Forever stuck grocery shopping.
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happycheff4 days ago
+33
This is new information to me. This sounds like Las Vegas or similar "bad" neighborhood stuff. I didn't know Omaha was so gritty.
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couchjitsu4 days ago
+24
Idk why they do it. But Hy-Vee (regional grocery store) has a guy in tons of tactical gear keeping watch
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Loud_Let49074 days ago
+15
You can’t think of one headlining reason why Hy-Vee would choose to have visible security?
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couchjitsu4 days ago
+21
Oh c*** I forgot they had a shooting a couple years ago.
I guess I'm becoming numb
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Raus-Pazazu4 days ago
+5
Most areas in Vegas have a security guard on patrol covering a block's worth of locations, normally paid through the owners of what ever strip mall is nearby. They're normally full time security guards, so very few of them are off duty anything picking up some extra work, but that being said I would not f*** around around most of them. They're armed, underpaid, and bored out of their minds. It does not take much to get an adrenaline boost in someone like if they think shit is going down at all, for better or for worse.
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NoKatyDidnt4 days ago
+2
That’s exactly it. When it’s mind numbingly boring, anything else is going to catch attention and cause an adrenaline spike. FAFO.
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PlagueQueens11874 days ago
+4
Omaha can get incredibly gritty. It’s *mostly* confined to one half of town, but that half of town has some pretty intense neighborhoods. Not like, Baltimore 2011 level gritty, or Memphis 2019 gritty, but definitely as gritty ad KC or Minneapolis or Denver.
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Greizen_bregen4 days ago
-2
This particular area of Omaha is very gritty, to say the least. Omaha is a small city, but with big city problems, not in small part due to historical segregationist policies. All of us in Lincoln just shake our heads at them with disdain and superiority from down I-80.
-2
MadDaddyDrivesaUFO4 days ago
+3
This Walmart is in the Aksarben area, it's not really that gritty over there
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No_Bluejay99014 days ago
+2
Gritty like the neck of John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful?
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Loud_Let49074 days ago
+9
This Walmart is not even gritty. It is the equivalent of the 27th and Superior walmart in Lincoln. Besides, the entire city of Lincoln leeches off of college kids and their parents money, so Im not sure why you’re acting like your shit doesn’t stink.
What a weird f****** thread to grandstand about your city on, man.
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mkrom284 days ago
+6
since when? I know a couple Hy-Vees have armed security but I’ve never seen an armed guard in Super Saver, Russ’s, Fareway, etc.
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lurkadurking4 days ago
+5
B&R stores aren't part of the same group, that's probably why
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mkrom284 days ago
+3
yeah, while that’s true, op said most grocery stores, not just hy-vees which is why i mentioned b&r stores.
do you work grocery? im a traveling reset merchandiser and ive never heard anyone refer to them as b&r stores in the wild!
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thegracelesswonder4 days ago
+45
This could have happened in a park or on a sidewalk. Should we have security everywhere at all times?
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Horse_HorsinAround4 days ago
+8
Actually, maybe we need visible security everywhere crime happens.
/s
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Malnurtured_Snay4 days ago
+6
Didn't this happen to Tina Fey in her own front yard?!
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Malnurtured_Snay4 days ago
+3
(Which is not to take anything from your point...just a memory that came up)
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Salt_Cardiologist1224 days ago
+30
Agreed on everything except your last sentence. This happened at one store today. How many stores experienced no violent crime today? And how many other days has this store experienced no violent crime? Having more security doesn’t help for super rare events—it means having them everywhere for something that rarely happens which is a waste of resources and just physically impossible.
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NoKatyDidnt4 days ago
+3
You’re absolutely right about that. I don’t think there is a cop out there who would do it differently. The ones I’ve known wouldn’t. Their only regret/concern would be for the child, and how much they would be affected.
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datsoar4 days ago
+26
You want to increase surveillance and people with guns? F*** no.
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Showdown56184 days ago
+5
I'm happy the kid survived too. This nightmare scenario could had easily ended horribly.
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strega_bella3124 days ago
+2
Reminds me of that woman who stabbed a 2 year old, I think at a target, for literally no reason at all. Baby died and she's in prison. And my husband thinks I'm crazy for not wanting to take our son out alone.
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yogi-bearqueef4 days ago
+42
f****** maniacs out here
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BjornStankFinger4 days ago
+84
Good f****** riddance.
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Diligent_Advisor_1284 days ago
+7
This and only this
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InfiniteMangoGlitch4 days ago
+47
I'm not sorry she died. With her previous actions, she should have been locked up in a solitary behavioral unit. She was clearly a danger to others. Officials should have taken action on this. This is coming from someone with previous mental health issues.
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Critical-Pirate-26654 days ago
+109
Stealing a problem like a 3 year old is a bold decision
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Jaxsoy4 days ago
+52
She was cutting it up with a knife. Not sure why the headline decided to leave that part of it out
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nickman9404 days ago
+108
Why you gotta call them an it
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Epic_Brunch4 days ago
+29
Him. We don't call children "it". If you don't know the gender you say "them".
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Xsiah4 days ago
+13
There was a lot of important information, sometimes you just have to read more than the headline.
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Critical-Pirate-26654 days ago
+4
Whuuuuuuu...that's another bold choice
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mulletstation4 days ago
+5
Yeah -2 or +5
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MidnightMath4 days ago
+16
How old are they when they begin to yearn for the mines?
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Smashego4 days ago
+10
The children yearn for the mines the second they emerge from the womb.
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Xsiah4 days ago
+6
From their first mine
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MidnightMath4 days ago
+2
What about mimes?
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EternalCanadian4 days ago
+2
*Gestures vigorously*.
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Kinetic_Strike4 days ago
+2
I told our kids that a while back (not for the first time). Oldest says, “no we don’t.”
He was playing Space Engineers, running a jackhammer down in a mine when he said it.
The look on his face when I pointed that out…
:D
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Automatic-Corner-1574 days ago
+21
Is it just me or is knife violence among the mentally ill becoming more and more prevalent?
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who-are-we-anyway4 days ago
+24
Way easier access than a gun
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cp7104 days ago
+13
A woman killed a three year old here in Ohio a few years ago at a grocery store. Chillingly similar, child was in a cart in the parking lot, except she stabbed the mom as well. I think about it often when shopping with my toddler. That poor mother and innocent baby.
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Incorrect_Username_2 days ago
+3
People with mental health issues - like significant schizophrenia, bipolar, etc - often have tremendous difficulty with normal interactions, especially when they are in a state of decompensation.
Their affect is often a bit off, they don’t respond with appropriate tone or thoughts all the time.
This makes just buying food or performing simple tasks difficult. Let alone buying or obtaining a gun
A knife on the other hand is way easier to obtain - steal it from your family, friends house etc… take steak knives off of dining tables at establishments and so on. The impulsivity and accessibility makes it just all around easier
I don’t think they have a tendency towards knives outside of that particularly
—— I’m an ER doctor in a large city who deals with decompensated psychiatric patients on a regular basis. Not unheard of to pull a steak or kitchen knife off them. VERY rare to find a gun. Usually guns are found in the trauma bay when removing clothing from GSW patients - and they generally don’t have dense psychiatric histories
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bashdaP3 days ago
+1
It's always been bad the issue is judges and weird ass people feeling for criminals keep pushing to release these animals onto the streets
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Competitive_Fig_66684 days ago
+18
Bring back mental asylum. Surely funding could be reached using monies from preventing homeless encampments, that obviously didn't work.
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punky1004 days ago
+49
She was trying to TAKE a child???? Does she know how expensive they are???
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theDinoSour4 days ago
+5
Have you not been selling them? Don’t sit on that inventory.
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GoofinBoots4 days ago
+3
"2023 model, second owner, acquired from Wal-Mart."
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zzztoken3 days ago
+1
Girl def was intending on selling the kid
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WeTheSummerKid4 days ago
+11
She had a knife. No way a Taser would be fast enough (or reliable enough) to stop her before she seriously injured either the kid or cop or both. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Besides, if the prison finds out, she isn’t gonna live long.
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M1sfit_Jammer4 days ago
+36
Is everything alright in Omaha?
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Smokes_LetsGo8764 days ago
+16
Honestly Omaha does pretty well in a lot of aspects. We definitely got our issues, but all in all it's a pretty good city
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Loud_Let49074 days ago
+30
All clear now. Police acted swiftfly. Sounds like the suspect was neutralized 5 minutes from when 911 was called
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xoducexnxtyxspfils4 days ago
+49
I think they meant in general
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Loud_Let49074 days ago
+46
Same problems as any other mid-sized metro city
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Somekindofcabose4 days ago
+2
We dont see things of this nature like ever
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davedude1153 days ago
+1
The roads suck so bad it’s driving people to insanity but meanwhile they’re building a multi million dollar street car for the homeless
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Flyerastronaut3 days ago
+1
Its a little better now, I guess
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xAustin90x3 days ago
+4
Happened 2 minutes up the street from me. A cruiser whizzed past me at probably 80mph on my way to work
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Djei_Tsial_III3 days ago
+5
We need to start holding these judges accountable
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Ilovemyhousepanthers3 days ago
+3
Omg that poor baby! That's who I'm concerned for. Sad about the woman, mental illness is a curse. It's just bad that an innocent child got caught up in this.
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Kribbins3 days ago
+3
Mentally ill people often refuse treatment, and family members often can’t get legal guardianship of them to override their wishes. Even if family got guardianship, it is very difficult to force treatment on an unwilling person, logistically and legally speaking. And the cost to commit someone to a mental health facility for life is enormous. So most psychotic, mentally unstable people are roaming free. Kind of sobering to think about.
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291877654325698644 days ago
+18
hell is too good for her
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RipDiligent43614 days ago
+6
She was all fucked up in the head man. If you're religious, you should thank your God for not giving you that kind of mind.
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chaseking73 days ago
+6
Bring back insane asylums!
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Slow_Back82513 days ago
+6
This is how you deal with it.
Because judges shouldn't invoke DEI when it comes to insane folks.
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Texasville444 days ago
+2
People are nuts I tell you!
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Guilty_Explanation293 days ago
+2
Mentally ill or not
She almost killed an innocent kid
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ubeeu4 days ago
+3
That’s as old as my grandson 😞
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Randomonius4 days ago
+5
Womp womp. Glad the kid is ok
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FatnessEverdeen343 days ago
+2
"Not guilty by reason of insanity" should not exist
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Due_Use12853 days ago
+1
Saw this on the news. People have become so brave
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spleenliverbladder2 days ago
+1
Wild. We just had a slasher in the Walmart in Michigan this summer. Stabbed 11 people. Guy was crazy (obviously) and the cops were looking for him in a different county.
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Capital_Past691 day ago
+1
Hopefully it was the same woman who falsely accused an Indian guy of trying to kidnap her kid at a Walmart a few years ago.
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SirDanielFortesque981 day ago
Just another average left-wing delulu.
Pronouns: was/were.
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