Hidden Truth About Illegal Aliens And Crime

 by Allan J. Feifer

The Democrats have done their best to hide the data, but it is possible to use available information to extrapolate just how bad illegal alien crime is.

Every day, all over America, illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and naturalized Americans from a rogue’s list of countries to our South and from the Middle East kill, rape, rob, and defraud us, almost with impunity. Yet, if you try to prove it by citing reliable government statistics, you can’t. The left works hard—it may be its most important job—to ensure you can’t find out exactly how bad things really are across America.

The bottom line: almost no states or the federal government track crimes using reliable indicators of someone’s country of origin, immigration status, or citizenship status. To the extent that states do, information is spotty and irregular. Only one state, Texas, keeps comprehensive records...only one! (Thank you, Governor Abbott!)

And, if you guessed that blue states not only don’t collect such data, but have created laws to ensure that information is not collected, you would be correct. Several Democrat-led states and localities have laws or official policies that restrict asking for, collecting, or sharing immigration or national-origin information for most public, state, and local government purposes. Notable examples include California’s SB 54 (the California Values Act), New Jersey’s Immigrant Trust/Privacy Protection laws, and statewide/local guidance in New York; many other blue states have statutory or policy limits on participation in federal immigration programs.

Recently, moments after being sworn in as Governor, Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger’s first act was to reverse all policies that former Governor Glenn Youngkin had enacted on a range of immigration and cooperation subjects. Her statements were masterclasses in duplicity, promising to enforce the law, even while making it impossible for Virginia law enforcement to do so because ICE detainers are administrative, not judicial:

I have full confidence that Virginia law enforcement agents are keeping Virginia safer when exercising their authority under Virginia law.

 

And, importantly, any time there is a judicial warrant in hand, state and local law enforcement should be, and the expectation is, they should be cooperating with any other law enforcement agencies that might need their assistance.

By stating this and through other Executive Orders, Spanberger wasted no time in returning Virginia to its status as an aggressive and repressive sanctuary state, effectively favoring non-citizens over citizens. Recent high-visibility incidents in Virginia that involve illegal aliens include Old Dominion, the Fairfax bus stop stabbing, the stabbing death of a 3-month-old, and a machete murder. There are more, but it’s hard to dig most of them up due to the limitations previously mentioned.

But, what if there were a way to tabulate an approximation, imperfect, but a starting point to achieve a national number? Obviously, the left wants to ignore this possibility because it would likely drive people into the streets in a furious demand that the carnage stop by reversing policies that are intended to obscure data and encourage the veritable war on traditional America.

We’ll extrapolate official Texas numbers and see where that takes us—Data and Assumptions:

• Texas population (July 1, 2024): 31,290,831.
• U.S. population (2024 estimate): 340,110,988.
• Texas share of the US population: 31,290,831/340,110,988\approx 9.20% of the country.
• Texas DPS cumulative DHS-matched counts (June 1, 2011–Feb 28, 2026): homicide 1,123; assault 78,122; robbery 3,394; sexual assault 7,629. These are charges tied to DHS-identified non-citizens.
• Time window length used: June 1, 2011 → Feb 28, 2026 ≈ 14.75 years.
• Calculations (method: proportional extrapolation)
• Sum Texas violent charges used: 1,123+78,122+3,394+7,629=90,268.
• Extrapolate to the US by population share: 90,268/0.09197\approx 981,500 total extrapolated US charges over the same period.
• Per-year estimate: 981,500/14.75\approx 66,600 violent-offense charges per year nationwide (DHS-matched non-citizen charges, estimated).
• Category breakdown (rounded)—Offense Texas cumulative Extrapolated US cumulative Estimated per year: Homicide 1,123 ~12,200 ~828 / year Assault 78,122 ~849,300 ~57,600 / year Robbery 3,394 ~36,900 ~2,500 / year Sexual assault 7,629 ~83,000 ~5,600 / year (Totals match rounded to ~66,600 violent, non-citizen crimes per year nationwide

Of course, some states will have lower illegal alien crime rates (e.g., Vermont) but that will be offset by those that have high rates, such as California, New York, etc.

A note about my calculations:

Bad enough at over 66,000 violent non-citizen crimes annually, these numbers are likely greatly understated. Why? First, my numbers spanned 15 years. The Biden presidency greatly upped the tally of non-citizens, and we are naturally experiencing greater numbers of non-citizen violent crime today than 15 years ago. Second, the number of non-citizen crimes is understated because authorities cannot always confirm someone’s non-citizen status. Lastly, and this is a big one, these stats are based on arrests. A significant portion of criminals go undetected and unarrested.

Most reported violent offenses do not result in an arrest; nationally, roughly 60–65% of violent offenses are not cleared by arrest or exceptional means (i.e., not “cleared”) in recent years—about 63% not cleared in 2022 and 58% not cleared in 2020. If one adds that into the assumption, our 66,000 number rises to at least 150,000 murders, rapes, and violent assaults annually.

But wait, that’s not the end of this horror show guaranteed to make you ill! We are not even beginning to count the non-violent crimes, scams, thefts, and petty crimes committed. No one seems even to want to make a guess, but it’s got to be hundreds of thousands of crimes by non-citizens each year. Just look at Minneapolis and Los Angeles, where immigrant fraud is rife.

All of us are paying for this financially, socially, and personally, as every American reading this is a victim in some way, whether it’s the cost of credit due to fraud, higher taxes than they would otherwise be, the loss of someone close to us, or, for some, even being afraid to walk our streets.

One other group for which no statistics exist: naturalized Americans who go on to become (or already were) criminals. The numbers here are also staggering, and the fact that too many government agencies won’t collect the relevant data is a crime in itself.

Can you imagine the outcry if we really could quantify the cost in actual murders, economic destruction, and the resulting loss of emotional wellness due to non-citizen crime? It would force change almost overnight, as if waking up from a nightmare. The hue and cry for immediate reform would expose the leadership of every major city in America, leaving no room for misinterpretation about how bad non-citizen criminality has become. Spare me the fake numbers of crime having been vastly reduced. NYC cops don’t arrest violators anymore; they’re too afraid of Mamdani! Police are on defense, almost everywhere in America, afraid to do their jobs.

This could be the wake-up call for Americans to take to the streets demanding accountability and change.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/unveiling_the_hidden_truth_about_illegal_aliens_and_crime.html

The EU Puts its Euros on Gavin

 by Thomas Kolbe

Donald Trump’s opposition to climate policy and mass immigration is putting massive pressure on Europe. There, preparations are underway to support California governor Gavin Newsom. He is expected, as the 48th president, to prevent a continuation of Trump’s policies.

America remains a country of high social mobility and upward opportunity -- something we no longer see on today’s European continent. It may sound kitschy to many Europeans, yet America's vibrant economic centers, high geographic mobility, and the flexibility of its people still create the conditions for this unique phenomenon.

Admittedly, the narrative of the “land of unlimited opportunity” may sound exaggerated today -- something akin to self-promotion. Yet at its core, it still holds true. Can one still make something of oneself in the U.S.? Donald Trump’s deregulation program, combined with tax cuts for businesses as well as small and medium incomes, has in any case helped to revive this promise of upward mobility.

Trump’s policies go hand in hand with the elimination of fiscal privileges and subsidies. His goal: the systematic dismantling of the fiscally secured and media-backed strongholds of power of a socialist apparatus that reflects the spirit of European regulatory policy.

Put simply, under Trump, American nationalism and a rejection of ideological engineering have returned to the political agenda. With intense competition and market-driven policies at home, alongside a trade and tariff strategy reminiscent of presidents like Alexander Hamilton and William McKinley, this forms a clear countermodel to his predecessors. They had significantly advanced the European model of climate socialism as a tool of power consolidation.

For the record: it was President Barack Obama who, in 2009, identified carbon dioxide as a lever of power, integrated European regulatory frameworks, and began systematically undermining the traditional American values of individual liberty, mobility, free markets, and minimal government.

The public outrage over Trump’s reversal in key questions of political power architecture stems largely from the fact that too many had grown comfortable in a world of subsidies, NGOs, and public-sector employment. European climate socialists now pin their hopes on Gavin Newsom. In two and a half years, he is expected to enter the White House and initiate a return to the status quo ante.

In Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and London, they are likely already counting the days until a possible political shift in Washington.

Trump has fallen out of favor with Europeans because his agenda of prioritizing American national interests mercilessly exposes the ideological contradictions and intellectual weakness of European socialism. Whether in foreign policy -- where the U.S. asserts itself forcefully toward countries like Venezuela or Iran -- or in its confrontation with the climate lobby and the left-wing NGO complex, Trump’s policies reflect the will of many Americans to finally address the consequences of globalist policies and draw the logical conclusion: dismantling this socialist overreach.

It is telling that his migration policy meets fierce resistance in the strongholds of Democratic Party power. Where migration and poverty industries have taken root, the immigration authority ICE encounters near civil-war-like resistance.

Yet it is not Trump’s fault that the European social model lies in ruins.

Europe suffers from a lack of self-criticism and a general unwillingness to confront its own ideological failures. Meanwhile, nuclear cooling towers are demolished, coal seams flooded, and gas infrastructure dismantled. The politics of ideological immaturity collide with Washington’s hard-nosed approach and the necessary repair work on a deeply damaged social and economic body.

No matter who the Republican Party nominates as Trump’s potential successor -- be it J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio -- the German press has already made its choice. It longs for America’s return to European-style climate socialism: more comfortable, more predictable, and promising continued access to public funding -- even for its own future. To underline this, the German weekly WirtschaftsWoche (Business Week) recently published a guest article by Gavin Newsom.

Newsom seeks to persuade foreign governments to view California as an independent economic entity -- the world’s fifth-largest economy, still embodying the spirit of boundless opportunity.

The implicit message is clear: California’s economic stagnation is not the result of high taxes or aggressive climate policies in the European mold -- nor of its war on oil and gas -- but solely the fault of Donald Trump’s tariff policy.

California is Europe in miniature -- a shadow of the Old Continent cast across the United States. It now finds itself exposed by Washington’s market-driven reforms, which throw its model into stark contrast. The results are increasingly visible: one system succeeds, the other falters.

In his guest contribution, Newsom naturally avoids addressing the consequences of California’s climate policies. As in Europe, CO2 costs are placing enormous strain on industry. Companies are leaving -- just as they are in Germany -- and relocating to states like Texas or Florida, where industrial production is still valued.

Newsom’s socialist course, which began in 2019, is evident not only in rising public debt. More striking is the emergence of a full-fledged poverty management industry. Years of open-border policies enabled the development of a deeply corrupt system of dependency management. California has become a magnet for illegal migrants, drug addicts, and other lost individuals; at the same time, the political framework sustains an extraction economy similar to what we observe in Germany’s migration sector. The parallels are striking.

The Sunshine State, once a place of aspiration for so many, now resembles -- especially in its urban centers -- the kind of social decay familiar from Europe’s migration-driven slums.

Hardly a model to be proud of -- yet, for WirtschaftsWoche, seemingly the ideal form of postmodern urbanity.

Newsom frequently points to the success of Silicon Valley, the powerhouse of digital innovation. Yet this engine of growth quite literally fell into his lap; he has contributed nothing of substance to enhancing the state’s innovative capacity. Silicon Valley existed before Newsom -- and it will exist after him, if necessary in a different location, in new form, after escaping the suffocating grip of bureaucratic overreach.

A final word on those Europeans who hope for Trump’s failure: with Newsom and a return of the United States to European climate socialism and mass immigration, capital flight from the EU might temporarily slow. It is entirely possible that European leadership could buy time by pointing to a faltering America. But it would change nothing about Europe’s decline -- only delay the inevitable.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/the_eu_puts_its_euros_on_gavin.html

China is rumored to have suffered a shattering national security breach

 by Andrea Widburg

Before now, most of us were probably unaware of the term “petabyte,” which is equal to a million gigabytes. Ten petabytes is an incomprehensibly large number, equal to 2-3 billion books, 2 million HD movies, or hours of global internet traffic. But it’s an important number because it is the amount of data allegedly stolen from China’s National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin, which holds classified military data. This story is very “alleged,” because China has said nothing, but tech sources think at least some of the report is true.

An organization calling itself FlamingChina has posted on Telegram and other dark web sites that it hacked the NSCC, shared a few examples of the data now in its possession, and offered to sell it to the highest bidder. That could easily be an empty boast or a con to sell fake data, but according to one report, some computer experts think the material FlamingChina posted has the look of the real thing:

The post claimed that the dataset included “research across various fields including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformatics, fusion simulation and more.”

Online samples of the hacked data appear to show internal folders, login details, technical manuals and schematics linked to weapons testing and aerospace work.

Cyber experts have reviewed samples of the stolen data and appear to think it is genuine.

China has not confirmed anything, but that doesn’t mean the data breach hasn’t happened. Regimes like China will never admit to a massive attack on their computers, especially because China, for decades, has been the one attacking other computer systems, whether commercial or government.

And of course, this still could be a con. While it’s true that FlamingChina provided a very small data sample, that sample might be all it has. People are allegedly paying thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency for these samples, but there’s no definitive evidence yet that the group has anything beyond snippets (or, again, that the samples are real).

CNN has picked up on the story and offered a hypothesis about what it could mean if the hacker group really did break into the Tianjin NSCC, which is “a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for more than 6,000 clients across China, including advanced science and defense agencies.”

The report from CNN explains that the documents currently available aren’t just generic science documents. Instead, they are marked “secret” and contain “technical files, animated simulations and renderings of defense equipment including bombs and missiles.” Cybersecurity experts agree that “the size of the dataset would make it attractive to adversarial state intelligence services.” I imagine that the US government would also be very interested.

If the data breach is real, it gets added to the list of problems currently bedeviling China, chief among which is its struggle to obtain oil since Trump seized Venezuela’s Maduro and began the military action in Iran. Before all this started, China was getting around 2 million barrels of oil per day from those two countries. Trump’s actions disrupted that supply.

Currently, China is drawing on stockpiles (which, notably, we don’t have since Biden sold off our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help Democrats in the midterm election) and substituting Russian and Brazilian oil for the lost Venezuelan and Iranian oil. It’s managed to restore its flow, but at a much greater cost due to shipping issues and rising oil prices.

When you add its oil woes to the problems China has had managing the impact of Trump’s tariffs (e.g., disrupted trade with its one-time best customer, America, the necessity of finding new markets, pumping government money into the economy to offset the trade loss, etc.), China’s economy is, to use a non-technical term, not happy. It’s certainly not in free-fall, because it’s already adapted to the tariffs, but it’s not roaring, with an estimated .3 to 1.0 percentage point drop in GDP from the tariffs alone. To all this, you can add China’s other woes, which are explained in greater detail here and here.

In other words, Trump’s actions haven’t dealt a death blow to the Chinese economy, but they’ve certainly given it a bad cold. The last thing China needs is for massive amounts of national security information to be on the open black market. (Of course, given how poorly Chinese weapons systems have performed in Venezuela and Iran, maybe those buying its secrets aren’t getting a lot of bang for the buck.)

If you want a deeper dive, Shanaka Anselm Perera, an Australian analyst, offers his take on what this all means for China:

Anyone who underestimates China is making a huge mistake. Trump has never made that mistake, for he views China as America’s most formidable geopolitical adversary. However, it’s possible that, thanks to a combination of China’s internal weaknesses, Trump’s actions, and this alleged hack, China is somewhat weakened (albeit still very dangerous).

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/china_is_rumored_to_have_suffered_a_shattering_national_security_breach.html

Is there one last card Trump can play with the mullahs?

by James Zumwalt 

There may be one more card President Donald Trump can play with Iran’s mullahs that could prove very telling in forcing their hand. It involves something of immense value to them—a card they have never had to play before, since they have always been calling the shots. As such, there has been no time during nearly a half century in which they have had to put their own lives in harm’s way to move an agenda forward.

Ever since coming to power, the mullahs have always viewed the Iranian people as a human bank account from which they could make withdrawals as necessary to create and maintain the ideological Islamist state they desired. The size of their withdrawals never mattered.

Whether the deaths numbered in the tens of thousands due to protests against the Islamic state Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini created and led between 1979–1989, or in the tens of thousands more lives lost under the tenure of his replacement, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (1989–2026), or in the hundreds of thousands killed on battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war (1980–1988), violent death was a common vice under the mullahs.

Not only have the number of deaths been of no consequence to the mullahs, but neither has who’s been sacrificed. The most heinous violations have been against those who are the most vulnerable—their children. Most unconscionable is what they did during the Iran-Iraq war.

The Iraqis prepared defensive positions that were often surrounded by minefields. Iranian attempts to penetrate them resulted in very high casualty rates. Unwilling to lose their well trained Islamic Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) soldiers, the mullahs hit upon the idea of using a more expendable asset—Iranian children.

Children as young as nine were recruited and given one to three months of training—as if that much were needed for the role they ultimately played. They were presented with plastic keys to wear around their necks. Assigned to IRGC units, they were instructed to attack Iraqi defensive positions, clearing a path through the minefields for the IRGC personnel to then follow. The children were deceptively told, should they be killed—i.e., when they were killed—the keys they were given would open the gates of paradise.

Life has always been an easy card for the mullahs to play because their lives have never been put at risk. Accordingly, Trump needs to play what we will call the “Saddam” card with the mullahs. Having fought a bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq that ended almost four decades ago, every mullah undoubtedly knows who the dictator was and the ultimate fate that befell him.

Unfortunately for him, Saddam felt he could trigger two wars with the U.S. and retain power in Iraq. While the first Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990–February 28, 1991) did leave him in power, the second (March 20, 2003–December 18, 2011) did not. Forced to flee, a dirty and unshaven Saddam was eventually found hiding in a spider hole by U.S. forces on December 13, 2003.

Having ruled his country for almost 24 years, the Saddam filmed emerging from the spider hole was not the immaculately dressed dictator the world knew. Cleaned up and put on trial by his own people, Saddam was found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed by hanging on December 30, 2006.

For the first time in 47 years, death has become a reality for the mullahs responsible for orchestrating those of so many others during their rule. But, as religiously self-important as the mullahs believe themselves to be, it is unlikely they wish to suffer the indignant demise of a public hanging as did Saddam.

Accordingly, with U.S. ground operations in Iran now being planned, it  is time for Trump to play the Saddam card. He needs to inform the mullahs they have one last chance to surrender and survive. They can turn themselves in now—and while they will still be tried for any crimes they have committed—they will not suffer Saddam’s fate, as they will be spared from execution.  However, for those failing to comply, the noose awaits.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/is_there_one_last_card_trump_can_play_with_the_mullahs.html

Why is Pope Leo meeting with Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod?

 by Monica Showalter

In reports picked up by left-leaning outlets such as the Daily Beast and New Republic, Vatican-oriented freelance journalist Christopher Hale has tweeted that President Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, has met in a private audience with Pope Leo XIV.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod this morning.

Axelrod was chief strategist for President Obama in his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaign.

As I reported last month, there are early talks between Vatican officials and President Obama’s circle about a meeting between…

— Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) April 9, 2026

Axelrod, really?

What kind of message does that send? The pope has declined an offer to visit the U.S. for its 250th anniversary in favor of a trip to visit the illegal migrants on Lampedusa (which might bring him an unexpected round of protests from angry locals sick of being robbed and raped by them) on the grounds that he doesn't want any trip to be political. But meeting the most political of political operatives, an absolute political manipulator and operator like Axelrod, reeks of political plotting. Axelrod doesn't go to the Vatican to chew the fat with the pope and buy souvenir rosaries. What really is this meeting about and why is the pope now openly meddling in U.S. politics? What does he want, other than to oust Trump?

While it's true the pope schedules his meetings in advance, it's simply too strange of timing to think it could be anything but political coming as it has on the heels of a Free Press report which claimed that the Vatican's papal nuncio, or ambassador, had a confrontational meeting at the Pentagon where "Avignon," a state takeover of the Church, was supposedly brought up as happened centuries ago.

Now the pope's meeting with Trump's top opposition, Obama's strategic operative, the guy who engineers Democrat victories?

It looks like the pope is playing politics now, U.S. politics, even though his Vatican and Peruvian citizenship ought to make him irrelevant to U.S. internal and external political matters.

He's been first obliquely, and then more directly complaining about the U.S. and Israeli military action in Iran, calling for an "offramp" for Trump, which was the language others used on Putin earlier in the now-largely ignored Ukraine war, even though a successful U.S.-military operation would free the Iran's nationals to become Christians in a striking instance of the Vatican working against its own interests.

The entire focus (or at least media coverage) of his papacy seems to be on countering the U.S. no matter what it does despite everything else going on in the world.

He's been gradually attempting to micromanage U.S. internal policies as well as foreign policy that the voters (including the majority of Catholic voters) voted for, first obliquely, and then more directly in favor of the actual enemies of the Catholic Church, the party that persecutes the Little Sisters of the Poor for not paying for abortion pills.

After the reported Pentagon spat, which I can't say is true or not, now he's meeting with Axelrod? I wonder what the two of them are talking about. Hale seems to think it's a photo op with Obama ahead of any meeting with President Trump, but if so, big deal, I doubt there will ever be a pope-Trump meeting, and I also doubt that Axelrod would preoccupy himself with something so small. Axelrod is a man focused on taking full power.

The one thing the pope has in common with Axelrod is that both come from Chicago, so the pope seems to have gone down into the Chicago Way with this encounter. Perhaps he is trying to spook Trump and nothing of importance will be discussed.

What the heck would the pope have to say to Axelrod, an avowed atheist from a bona fide communist background that would merit a minute of his papal time? The two do not intersect. While Axelrod is more commonsensical than the Squad arm of Democrat politics, he's also a guy who engineers political elections to win those elections for the left, his latest strategy being the Spanbergerization of the Democrats, running as moderates but governing as extremists.

Axelrod is all in for promoting abortion, euthanasia, socialism, global warming myths and money extraction, high taxation (which reduces charitable and religious giving), state power to persecute religions, as well as doing what the European Union, Soros, and United Nations dictate to preserve the globalist status quo, reducing the U.S. standard of living and ultimately forcing us to eat bugs, even as a party elite remains intact and untouched by such privations. He's all in for appeasing foreign dictators to end American power as we know it, which is what the Iran deal and Obama's 'wave' with Cuba's military dictator indicate. That a weak America taking orders from eurotrash is his idea of a good thing.

Chris is a nice guy and I like him personally, but he's very left-wing, and there are many occasions in which his analysis and sometimes information from Vatican sources has been wrong. I always read his reports with caution. But for a long time he has held the view that Pope Leo was elected to confront President Trump. While I've always thought of that as lefty wishful thinking, a meeting like this suggests he could be right, even though as Catholics, we expect our pope to stay out of political matters and focus on salvation of souls. 

If he's right, what a shame. I hope he's wildly wrong. We don't need a pope who treats the Church and his papacy like an activist NGO.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/why_is_pope_leo_meeting_with_obama_s_top_strategist_david_axelrod.html

US summons Iraq's envoy over militia strikes

 The United States summoned Iraq's ambassador to Washington on Wednesday over attacks by Iran-aligned militias against American diplomats and facilities, according to the US State Department.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau met with Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Khirullah and delivered what officials described as a "strong condemnation" of the strikes.

"The Deputy Secretary stressed the United States will not tolerate attacks on US interests and expects the Iraqi government to immediately take all measures to dismantle the Iran-aligned militia groups in Iraq," the statement read.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/US-summons-Iraq's-envoy-over-militia-strikes/66041870

ChatGPT Accused Of Aiding Florida State Mass Shooter

 by Steve Watson via modernity.news,

Big Tech’s leading AI faces growing accusations of enabling violence rather than preventing it.

Attorneys representing the family of Robert Morales, killed in the April 17, 2025, Florida State University shooting, announced plans to sue OpenAI and ChatGPT. The law firm Brooks, LeBoeuf, Foster, Gwartney and Hobbs stated the suspected gunman, Phoenix Ikner, was in “constant communication” with the chatbot leading up to the attack.

Ikner opened fire outside the FSU student union, killing Morales, a 57-year-old Aramark worker and father, and Tiru Chabba, 45, a vendor from South Carolina. Six others were wounded. Court records list more than 270 images of ChatGPT conversations as exhibits.

The firm declared: “We have reason to believe that ChatGPT may have advised the shooter how to commit these heinous crimes. We will therefore file suit against ChatGPT, and its ownership structure, very soon, and will seek to hold them accountable for the untimely and senseless death of our client, Mr. Morales.”

Recent coverage also notes newly released chat logs where Ikner reportedly asked ChatGPT about school shootings and the busiest times on campus.

One post referenced details such as the chatbot informing him the Student Union was busiest between 11:30am and 1:30pm, with the shooting occurring at 11:57am.

The New York Post reported the claims in detail.

OpenAI responded by saying they identified an account believed to be associated with the suspect after the shooting, proactively shared information with law enforcement, and cooperated fully. They claim to build ChatGPT to respond safely and continue improving safeguards.

Yet the body count linked to such interactions keeps rising, while the company’s selective enforcement and post-incident cooperation fail to reassure victims’ families preparing legal action.

This incident follows another high-profile case. In February 2026, Canadian trans shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar carried out a deadly attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

OpenAI employees were alarmed by his disturbing ChatGPT messages and discussed alerting authorities, but the company chose not to notify police beforehand, instead banning the account.

They only contacted law enforcement after the shooting. A family has already sued OpenAI over that incident as well.

These developments echo earlier warnings. ChatGPT once provided detailed suicide instructions and drug-and-alcohol guidance when prompted as a fake 13-year-old.

Studies have found that as many as one in four teens now rely on AI therapy bots for mental health support, raising questions about vulnerable users interacting with systems that appear inconsistent on harm prevention.

ChatGPT’s selective ideological programming has also been repeatedly called into question. For example, it once refused a hypothetical request to quietly utter a racial slur even to save a billion white people.

Americans expect technology that upholds safety and individual responsibility, not systems that lecture on ethics while allegedly guiding violence. The mounting lawsuits and documented failures demand accountability from OpenAI and scrutiny of the priorities embedded in its models. Until Big Tech prioritizes preventing real-world harm over narrative control, these tragedies risk becoming a grim pattern rather than isolated failures.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/openais-chatgpt-accused-aiding-florida-state-mass-shooter