NC, Southport, reports of a mass shooting at Southport Yacht Basin, September 27th 2025.

[Inthedetails]

That sounds lovely.

The area will come back from this, I promise. It sounds like a place I'd like to visit.

100% agree. I live in Manhattan, and the downtown area came back after 9/11 (even better than ever, tbh).

jmopinion

 

[Justice101]

It will be interesting to see A) if it was a legal gun (which it probably was) and 2) when it was purchased.

Shouldn't there be some kind of legal record of a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia? Or are the gun laws so lax in North Carolina that basically anyone that is not a convicted felon can buy one?

 

[Shanny964]

What's up with his 2 names??

He changed his given name Sean Debevoise, to Nigel Edge in 2023 as he said he could not trust his family, most likely due to the PTS and delusions he has been facing. He was shot 4 times and left to die, as a Marine Sgt. He apparently was a Purple Heart recipient.

 

[justtrish]

Because he's out of touch with reality, imo.

jmopinion

Yes exactly, but I think it might also tell us something about how his mental health declined over the years. Something was causing him to go back and start fixating on things from the past like that event he attended. I am curious if he told anyone he thought he was poisoned after that night in the days/weeks after or did this not come up until recently when he started saying all the other things.

Edited to add: I see the post about his name change in 2023, so it seems maybe the key timeframe is somewhere in 2022-2023 and maybe he had some increasing or worsening issues that caused the name change and all the court cases.

 

[rsteen]

Yes exactly, but I think it might also tell us something about how his mental health declined over the years. Something was causing him to go back and start fixating on things from the past like that event he attended. I am curious if he told anyone he thought he was poisoned after that night in the days/weeks after or did this not come up until recently when he started saying all the other things.

Edited to add: I see the post about his name change in 2023, so it seems maybe the key timeframe is somewhere in 2022-2023 and maybe he had some increasing or worsening issues that caused the name change and all the court cases.

Post-covid/lockdowns perhaps? Perhaps he was unable to access treatment during the pandemic and fell deeper and deeper into his delusions.

 

[justtrish]

Post-covid/lockdowns perhaps? Perhaps he was unable to access treatment during the pandemic and fell deeper and deeper into his delusions.

GREAT point! I think this could be a contributing factor. I know it's also a time when conspiracies ran wild. I think too much time home and nothing to do really did a number on people. So, if he was starting to go down a darker path and then COVID hits and he's suddenly got life upended in other ways I can definitely see it making all the conspiracy ideas run wild. IMO