Utah Shooter Was a Bosnian Immigrant

A man who shot and killed five people and seriously injured four others at a Utah shopping mall Tuesday before being shot dead by police was a Muslim refugee from Bosnia, according to immigration officials. Police have said 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic, a legal permanent resident living with his mother, had four minor incidents with police when he was younger, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported.

There are two important things revealed in this story that the drive-by media hasn’t reported. In initial reports the man’s mother is quoted as saying her son was a good boy. The first thing the major media outlets didn’t report was Talovic’s previous run-ins with police.

Second, I haven’t seen a single major news media outlet report that the shooter was a Muslim. I guess they’re still hung up on this “Islam is a religion of peace thing.” You can bet that if it was a Christian fundamentalist, that would have been the first thing they reported about the shooter.