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Rapha x Colin Strickland 4Moriah Wilson murder: Colin Strickland ‘in hiding’ until suspect Kaitlin Armstrong found
Gravel racer Colin Strickland is said by a friend to have gone to ground until his partner Kaitlin Armstrong, currently on the run after being accused of murdering Moriah ‘Mo’ Wilson, has been caught due to fears for his own safety.
The 35-year-old dated fellow gravel racer Wilson briefly last year after he and long-term partner Armstrong broke up.
However, the pair subsequently reconciled, and while he remained in contact with Wilson, aged 25, he has insisted that their relationship was “platonic and professional.”
Wilson had been in Austin, Texas ahead of competing in the Gravel Locos race which she was favourite to win when the friend with whom she was staying found her dead at home with multiple gunshot wounds at 10.30pm on Wednesday 11 May.
She had been swimming with Strickland earlier in the day, and he drove her home on his motorbike. Shortly after he left, a vehicle registered to the address where he and Armstrong live arrived at the property, and she has been identified as the prime suspect in the investigation with a warrant issued for her arrest.
US Marshals, who are leading the search for the 34 year old, released CCTV pictures earlier this week which led them to believe that Armstrong, who disappeared on Friday 13 May, took a flight from Austin to Houston and transferred onto another one to LaGuardia airport in New York City.
> Moriah Wilson murder: Suspect Kaitlin Armstrong ‘fled to New York’
A close friend of Strickland’s, who gave his name only as David, told the Daily Mail: “None of us can sleep. He’s staying out of sight until she's caught. I do know where he is but I’m not mentioning where for his safety.
“He's not in Texas – he’s got completely out of Dodge.”
David, who worked at Wheelhouse Mobile, the vintage trailer refurbishment business owned by Strickland and Armstrong, said: “She was our accounts payable manager for our business and set up the website and things like that.
“She had nothing to do with the building processes or design or anything that was more in my wheelhouse.
“Before the murder, the person I knew was a really sweet and nice human that was trying to make her dream in this world, whatever that was.
“She always had goals she was after and just always kept busy. No red flags for anything that would result in an outcome like this that we were aware of.”
Referring to Wilson’s murder, he said: “After it happened, she [Armstrong] didn’t do what most soap operas would have had her do, which is go back home and kill the one thing you can't have [Strickland]. It’s dark.
“We think we live in a world where we can see crazy on people’s faces – show up at a gas station and there's a guy there on drugs and you think, that face has got crazy written on it – I'm going to go to the next gas station.
“With this girl, there was not one red flag. Not one. No rage, drama, nothing. Nothing showed out over the last year and that tells me that there's something buried so deep that Mo being in town lit the wick to everything that was suppressed prior to that.”
Armstrong, a yoga teacher who besides the trailer business with Strickland last year began working in a real estate office in Austin, where she also owned three rental properties, was interviewed by police following Wilson’s murder but released on a technicality, since when she has gone on the run.
It is thought that she believed that Strickland – who in recent days has been dropped by most of his sponsors, including Rapha and Specialized – and Wilson had rekindled their romantic relationship, and that she tracked their movements through their respective Strava accounts.
David said: “I'm not trying to paint a picture but if it was just jealousy, there'd be so many more jealousy deaths that we’d see every day.
“That's the scariest part about it – she bottled and suppressed it for so long that she went out and did an act like this.
“It's just so disturbing. I can't imagine what that [Mo’s] family’s going through because their daughter just got caught in the middle – the wrong place at the wrong time with a crazy person,” he added.
Wilson’s family have made it clear that they do not believe she was in a relationship at the time of her death.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Hard cases make bad law- although I may be misquoting. We have one nutter single-issue poster here, parachuted in by hard-right Republican influencers presumably. I was listening to the BBC on holiday and heard that Biden was speaking to Congress (I think) about gun control, and only a few hours later a few people were killed by yet another 'active shooter' in Idaho- another religious right survivalist state, a nearby American told me
Seems rather sick that people would step over the poor woman's death to rant on with their views about gun laws for a society thousands of miles from their own, of which they probably have very little connection with or interest in, to furher push their political views. I would much rather people just offer condolences to her and her family.
Mitt, is that you?
It is not true that there were no red flags: Armstrong expressed that she wanted to murder Wilson and was visible shaking with anger when she said this. This has been reported by multiple sources elsewhere. Strickland is culpable because he bought Armstrong the gun. It is possible that Armstrong could not buy a gun because of a warrant out for her arrest. There were red flags.
RIP Moriah
It's the sort of murder that may not have happened if it were not for America's non-existent gun control.
79% of murders in America are carried out with guns compared with 4% in the UK.
Guns make it far too easy for a normally "sweet nice person" with no previous violent tendencies to kill.
That 79% doesn't really tell the story - more useful is that the USA has five times the murder rate of the UK, which in many other ways is fairly similar (rates of mental illness, family breakdown, etc). While the UK does at least have universal healthcare, mental health treatment is very hard to get and waiting lists are very long.
Oddly, Americans are much more likely to claim adherence to a religion that has "love your enemy" as well as "love your neighbour" in its philosophy that British people. But perhaps some read as far as Cain and Abel and conclude that they've learnt enough.
Guns are an enabler of the carnage, that's undoubtedly true. At the heart of this is a dysfunctional democracy with legislators for sale and gerrymandering.
What I find incredibly offensive about U.S. politics is how the Republicans that receive huge donations from the NRA are now standing up and "sending thoughts and prayers" to the families of the latest school shooting victims. It's typically considered to be a sin to pray for something that you are not prepared to do anything towards (as opposed to being unable to control).
From what I've seen it's mainly the democrats that have tried to make the current gun related atrocities in to political point scoring. Well, only those committed by a white perpetrator.
Obama even used a tweet decrying one of the atrocities to remind everyone that it's 2 years since George Floyds death. Fucking deplorable.
I wasn't referring to political point scoring. It'd be difficult for NRA sponsored senators to make a political point about how more guns makes everyone safer just after a school shooting. Instead they are trying to move it into a religious arena and declare things like "now is not the time for gun discussions".
I'm not trying to say that the Democrats are innocent as some of them also receive money from NRA-related groups (far fewer of them though and significantly less money). Personally, I think the Democrats are as corrupt as the Republicans - it's a problem with a two-party system in that it doesn't matter if you vote for a douche or a turd sandwich.
Here's a handly little spreadsheet of career donations that U.S. politicians have received from the NRA and related groups: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-7PdCI2NawSgP1QE-cGYVYedetYqepR-4jBweaJyqFo/edit#gid=1782600961
Incidentally, gun deaths have now overtaken road deaths for young people in the U.S.
(Remember, Giro is owned by a significant donor to the NRA)
I applaud you for posting data, even if I suspect you were trying to make the opposite point that your data does. I try to explain this to people frequently, but the NRA is just a near-fictional bogeyman. The NRA simply does not have that much money. Look at the numbers. Only 19 of 533 politicians on that list have received over $1M dollars from the NRA ( and associated groups ) over their entire careers. In some cases, those careers span four decades. That's a relative pittance compared to the money involved in US politics -- on average $16M for a Senate campaign and $2M for the House. And almost exactly half of those politicians received either nothing from the NRA, or the NRA funded their opponents.
By far the biggest spend on that whole list was Independent groups funding ads attacking Obama ( in support of Romney )! And how did that work out for them?
The US has the gun laws we have because about half the country wants them -- not because of some relatively tiny, not-particularly well-funded lobby, with only at-most 5M members ( more likely far less ).
Although he actually didn't, but let's not let that get in the way of some good outrage.
Rendel just posted it mate.
That's not 'a tweet decrying one of the atrocities' - it's a tweet about the Floyd anniversary. It's just prefaced with a recognition that people's attention is, understandably, dominated by the recent shootings. It doesn't suggest any link, equivalence, or comparison between the two, even if many people have (mostly, one suspects, intentionally) misinterpreted it as doing so.
He posted a series of moving and well-considered, as one would expect of him, tweets about Uvalde, and then asked that people also remember that it was the anniversary of Floyd's murder. Pretending that's fucking deplorable is...fucking deplorable.
What does George Floyds death have to do with the recent shootings? Put that in a completely different tweet, not whilst mentioning the Uvalde atrocity.
It's perfectly reasonable to say while we grieve for this, don't let's forget that. I'm afraid your revolting comments about Democrats trying to make capital out of mass shootings only if they're white remove any credibility you have and show your agenda.
My agenda? Spit it out Rendel, let's not deal in nuance here.
Barrack Obama had 8 years to do something about the gun laws in the US. 8 years! He was the President of the United States for 8 years and did nothing about the gun laws.
Think Biden or Trump or whoever else gets in next will do something?
Your agenda appears to be a fairly rightwing "lefties do nothing" one with a hefty side order of race baiting.
You appear to be confused as to how the US constitution works. The President does not have the power to pass or amend laws, he can only send laws and amendments to the legislature for approval. Obama can certainly be accused of a lack of action on gun control in his first term, as he knew that it could lose him some major states that he needed for re-election. In his second term, after Sandy Hook, he sent a radical (for America) series of proposals to Congress, including more stringent background checks, bans on assault weapons (the ones used in the vast majority of atrocities) and armour-piercing bullets and a limit on the size of magazines. They were all thrown out by the Republicans. He didn't do nothing, when he tried to do something he was thwarted by the legislature.
So, he only TRIED to do something when he thought it could cost him votes and his next term. He then used a tradgedy to again make it look like he wanted to do something, then could blame it others for him not being able to do something?
So, my original point still stands. He did nothing.
As for my "race baiting" you are dead wrong. I see that there's a narrative in the US that must be adhered to. A narrative designed to split the country along racial lines instead of trying to bring the country together. The democrats used to be a party for the people but lately have become the biggest race baiters going. They used to want to tax huge companies and make them pay their fair share, not any more. They're all the same though, no matter who gets in, no matter who is running the country because they run it to suit them, not the people who put them there.
Did you actually read what I wrote? I can only assume not, so to recap, Obama sent a radical package of gun control measures to Congress, which were voted down by Republicans. That's how the US Constitution works, the President has no power to pass laws. This is US democracy 101, it's not difficult, if you don't understand it I can't help you, I'm afraid. Do please tell me what Obama could have done differently to impose gun control?
I read and understood it very well.
Instead of requesting tiny changes, something that would probably get passed and start the ball rolling in a "waterfall starts with one drop of water" way, he went balls deep, probably knowing full well (I'm assuming he knew how the constitution works too) that it wouldn't get passed but he could ride off in to the sunset saying he tried his darnedest.
Was that any closer or are you going to come up with yet more excuses for him having done cock-all to help gun control? As per usual in any democratic society, he only did something when he thought it would directly or indirectly affect his seat on the gravy train.
Given that he proposed the gun control measures in his second term, and that US presidents can't run for a third term, it was of no personal advantage to himself to propose them. Can somebody please recommend a good basic primer on US politics for sparrowlegs? Because I'm out on trying to explain to someone who can't listen and is on a repeat loop.
Seems like we both are. Except one of us is a realist.
I have no interest in the minutiae of US democratic workings. All I see is bluster, from both sides. But back to Obama. What he did was allow himself to leave office with what he considered a clear conscience. Nothing more. No amount of you jingling shiny keys in front of me will prove otherwise. But by all means, you carry on proving me wrong by offering nothing but more bluster with a huge side order of arrogance.
AKA facts.
Facts they may be but one fact which is also undeniable, and one it sounds like we both agree on, is that he did absolutely nothing, not one thing to help gun control during his 8 years in office.
This is the part where you fall back on your "facts" now and prove me right. Again.
I give up. He sent gun control measures to Congress. That is the only way a President can have gun control measures passed. Congress voted them down. You say that's the President's fault and he did nothing? I am well and truly out, as Professor Dawkins so wisely said, don't enter into an argument with an idiot, the best you can hope for is to say you won an argument with an idiot. Cheerio.
When you fail to win an argument, resort to name calling. That always wins.
sparrowlegs earlier:
Change "did" for "achieved" and I think the pair of you'll then need to find something else to argue about. I believe Obama said that himself.
I'm sure you will though!
(Meantime have some bonus opining on what the "gun problem" is and why it's hard for legislators.)
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