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Gay Bar Suspect Had Violent Web Site

Web Site Had Filled With Hate Imagery

POSTED: 8:01 am EST February 5, 2006
UPDATED: 9:14 am EST February 5, 2006

New Bedford gay bar shooting suspect Jacob Robida, 18, left a trail long before he drove away from New Bedford last week. His web pages on myspace.com detail a young man intrigued by hate and death.

Newscenter 5's Pam Cross reported that Robida called himself "Jake Jekyll" on the Internet, where he trumpted his love of violence. To demonstrate, he posted a picture of himself with a swastika tatoo on his hand.

Robida also called himself a white supremacist and bragged of his affinity for hatchets and his fascination with the neo-Nazi movement, according to entries on his Web site. In one Web entry, Robida said he was interested in "death, destruction and chaos."

Robida's Internet homepage was full of references to Insane Clown Posse, a band on the Psychopathic Records Label. The company's logo depicts a silouhette of a man wielding a hatchet.

While Robida was on the run, other Internet posters filled his Web site with comments. One person wrote: "I thought you were smarter than this. Those people had nothing to do with your problems. You should go to jail before you hurt more people."

A friend said she was surprised by the attack in the bar. Now she says she hopes for the best.

"Everybody just hates him now and, I don't know, he must of had, like I said, reasons, or something happened. Could have been any number of things," Heather Volten said.


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