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No sources indicate that the perpetrator acted on behalf of any biases he may have against LGBTQ+ people, not even in his alleged confession to his husband. And yes, that's right, the perpetrator himself was homosexual and in a same-sex relationship at the time of the murder. While this page does not directly accuse the perpetrator of committing a hate crime, the categories are extremely misleading on this subject and are grouping a man who simply killed his coworker in with cases of people who genuinely acted on a homophobic agenda. While some LGBTQ labels are understandable given the victims and perpetrator were all homosexual, to label the incident as something that no reputable source can support is illogical and the labels are blatantly false. - MountainJew6150 (talk) 02:54, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This article has too much emphasis on the murder of Gabby Petito
It's tragic, I understand, but this article has very little to do with the murder of Gabby Petito and the murderer's subsequent suicide. The background information section literally ties the incidents together as closely as using the timeline of that homicide to dictate the timeline of this homicide case. The details between the two cases are nothing more than synchronicity, which is when two seemingly related events by either time frame or geographic location, are not actually related to one another. While this double murder may have occurred while Petito and her murderer were in or near the city, this doesn't mean the incidents are directly related. While public interest in Petito's murder may have launched this case into higher publicity, the incidents are not related. While I think Gabby Petito deserves a passing reference near the bottom, she really does not need to be mentioned in a random shooting that had absolutely nothing to do with her. For reference, the pages on two separate mass shootings in Oregon and in Phoenix offer nothing more than passing references despite having being relatively similar incidents (a young loner shooting random people and themself), relatively similar geographic locations (both occurred in the United States), and identical time frames (both occurred on 28 August 2022), both pages only got passing references of one another because ultimately, there is no actual connection between one random murder-suicide and another murder-suicide no matter how hard the media tries to connect the two. So to recap, Gabby Petito's murder is a tragedy that did raise awareness to this incident, but it doesn't deserve to be mentioned as many times as it does throughout the article, especially with such specifics that pertain to that case. - MountainJew6150 (talk) 03:16, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
