When Cole Carini appeared in a Virginia emergency room in June , he was missing a hand, several fingers from his other hand and was covered in shrapnel wounds. I will not be afraid of the consequences no matter what I will be heroic I will make a statement like [incel murderer ] Elliott Rodgers [sic] did he thought to himself.
Just a month earlier, Armando Hernandez, Jr. He loaded three round magazines for his AR rifle, and started a video livestream as he stepped out of his car. By the time police apprehended Hernandez, he had shot three people, none fatally. He targeted couples, prosecutors say, because he was angry at his lack of romantic success with women.
Carini and Hernandez are just the latest in a line of incels -- lonely, romantically frustrated young men -- whose anger has exploded in acts of deadly violence. Law enforcement officials believe violent incels have murdered at least 47 people in North America in the last six years.
That number is likely low, given how little we know about incels, and how recently they have become a community of interest for law enforcement.
Further, the label of incel adopted now describes much more than loneness or singledom, including the subset of incels who are consumed by homicidal rage. Since then, angry young men have taken up his cause, leaving women terrorized โ and all too often, dead. Those partners tend not to be incels, who in turn believe they are being deprived of their sexual birthright. This is immediately evident on incel chat rooms and other online forums, which are inundated by suicidal and homicidal rhetoric and threats.
