Slide Directory

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Slide Directory

• 1. Real Events Endangering Job go
• 2. Psychiatric Condition Was Irrelevant to
  Homicidal Acts go
  
• 3. Ideas of Tampering With Equipment Irrelevant
  go
  
• 4. Ideas of Tampering With the Fish Irrelevant go
  
  
• 5. Byran Uyesugi Knew Right From Wrong go
• 6. Byran Uyesugi Felt Like He Was Going to Lose
  His Job go
  
• 7. Byran Uyesugi Regarded Killing and Violence As
  An Option go
  
• 8. Byran Uyesugis Longstanding Violent Fantasies
  go
  
• 9. Telemedicine go
• 10. Byran Uyesugi Was Able to Conform His Conduct
  go
  
• 11. Intimidation by Byran Uyesugi go
• 12. Indifference by Byran Uyesugi go
• 13. People Who Anticipated Byran Had No
  Reservations About Killing go
  
• 14. The Equation go
• 15. Final Result go

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Real Events Endangering Job

• Inability to handle technical demands of 5100
• Machines being phased out, with no plans for
  maintaining service force
  
• Lowest number of calls worked
• Team telling customers to complain about his
  behavior (Ford Kanehira, Peter Mark, Mel Lee)
  

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Real Events Endangering Job II

• Team members openly complaining management didnt
  have the guts to fire him (Ford Kanehira, Ron
  Kataoka, John Sakamoto)
  
• Increased frequency of managers complaints
• Threats by manager to write him up
• Complaints he was not backing up team members
  (Ron Kataoka)
  

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Real Events Endangering Job III

• Customers asking that he not service their
  accounts
  
• Mel Lee losing confidence in him
• Group alienation nobody wanted to pair with
  him
  
• Lowest ranked at earlier time of threatened
  layoffs

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Real Events Endangering Job IV

• Having a meeting about him on November 2
• Previous meeting about him endangered job (1993)

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Psychiatric Condition Was Irrelevant to Homicidal
Acts

• No previous history of violence at times of
  greatest anger associated with delusions
  
• No previous history of violence in the context of
  hallucinations
  
• No change in facts of delusions
• No increasingly dominant presence of delusion

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Psychiatric Condition Was Irrelevant to Homicidal
Acts II

• No relation of delusion to Mel Lees call
• No hallucinations at the time of the killing
• No history of violence in response to
  hallucinations
  
• No increasing disorganization of behavior (job,
  relatedness, social)
  

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Psychiatric Condition Was Irrelevant to Homicidal
Acts III

• No change in sleep cycles
• No withdrawal

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Ideas of Tampering With Equipment Irrelevant To
the Mass Homicide

• No tampering incident around the time of the
  killings
  
• No technical problems that day
• Decision prompted by Mel Lee call

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Ideas of Tampering With the Fish Irrelevant To
the Mass Homicide

• Did not know Balatico would be there
• Fish incidents decreased during 1999.
• No violence when even more angry with the issue
  in the past
  
• No recent incident of fish damage
• No recent incident in conjunction with his choice
  to kill his co-workers
  

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Byran Uyesugi Knew Right From Wrong

• He knew he had been placed on warning for violent
  threats or violence
  
• He restrained violent urges because he knew he
  would be fired
  
• Even knew he could be sued for violence
• Butterflies in stomach before attack not
  something I do every day
  

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Byran Uyesugi Knew Right From Wrong II

• Blamed the victim (Balatico, Lee) absurdity
  reflects defensiveness
  
• Expected to go to jail
• The pet stores would be shocked by this
• The public would not think this is right

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Byran Uyesugi Knew Right From Wrong III

• I gave them a reason to fire me.
• Concealed preparation of weapon and holstering
• Concealed weapon
• Scoping scene on the second floor

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Byran Uyesugi Knew Right From Wrong IV

• Concealed the launch of the attack by the water
  fountain
  
• Avoid exposing self at front of building after
  Matsuda exited
  
• Slip out back after ending attack at front
• Obscure road to exit

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Byran Uyesugi Knew Right From Wrong V

• Fled scene to a secluded place
• Recognized why police would be looking for him
• Referred to Balatico as one of the victims
• The law should be changed

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Byran Uyesugi Felt Like He Was Going to Lose His
Job

• I wasnt going to give them the reason to fire
  me.
  
• Raised firing with Nitta without basis
• 1090 machine being phased out
• Couldnt handle the demands of the 5100 machine
  (computer support, more parts)
  

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Byran Uyesugi Felt Like He Was Going to Lose His
Job II

• Complaints leading to a meeting about him
• Mel Lee threatened to write him up
• Told friend, George Tokita he was going to lose
  his job two weeks before killing
  
• Told Sunia after the fact that Xerox setting him
  up to be fired
  

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Byran Uyesugi Felt Like He Was Going to Lose His
Job III

• Lowest numbers
• Customers refused to work with him, forcing
  managers to remove him from accounts

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Byran Uyesugi Regarded Killing and Violence As An
Option

• They wouldnt have the balls to fire me
• Warned Nitta ahead of time
• Wives heard husbands joke better get bulletproof
  vest
  
• Locked up guns when things getting bad at work

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Byran Uyesugi Regarded Killing and Violence As An
Option II

• Taking a Glock with him to work every day for 2-3
  years
  
• Bought a magazine pouch 2-3 years earlier, though
  not shooting for recreation anymore
  
• Deterrent to previous violence was awareness of
  legal consequences, lawsuit, and firing rather
  than own belief that it was wrong to kill others
  
• Only thing he wouldnt do for - homosexuality

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Byran Uyesugi Regarded Killing and Violence As An
Option III

• Get it over with part of the eventual plan
• Necessary to kill so that no one would celebrate
  that they got him to quit
  
• If injured, coworkers would eventually recover,
  and feel they got the best of him because he
  would be fired or jailed
  
• Mass shooting so no one left to claim victory

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Byran Uyesugi Regarded Killing and Violence As An
Option IV

• Did it to make a point
• OK to kill someone who hassles with you
• The law should be changed

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Byran Uyesugis Longstanding Violent Fantasies

• Original suspension threat to Inaba and bash
  some skulls
  
• Interpretation of why card canceled
• Statement to Nitta
• Loaded Glock for 2-3 years

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Byran Uyesugis Longstanding Violent Fantasies II

• Magazine pouch no one at work armed to create a
  shootout
  
• Feed them to tilapia

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Telemedicine

• No research at all in medicolegal evaluations
• No research comparing sincerity and completeness
  of information in a forensic examination
  

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Telemedicine
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Telemedicine
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Byran Uyesugi Was Able to Conform His Conduct

• Finished job
• Finished next job
• Did not attract attention at home
• Then I would have gone off

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Byran Uyesugi Was Able to Conform His Conduct II

• Did not initiate attack on a planned victim
• Composed to Valerie Nakahara and Lance Hamura
• Casing before initiating
• Computer as ruse

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Byran Uyesugi Was Able to Conform His Conduct III

• Focused, specific activity
• Methodical plan
• No bizarre behavior
• Lack of expression

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Byran Uyesugi Was Able to Conform His Conduct IV

• Specific targets, specific spared
• Moving in an economical, calm way execution
  style
  
• Choosing when to stop when out in open

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Intimidation by Byran Uyesugi II

• They wouldnt have the balls to fire me
• Fear of provocation told them of gun
  collection
  
• Comments to Nitta If fired, will come back and
  shoot everyone

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Intimidation by Byran Uyesugi

• Limp discipline for absence, poor integration,
  low workload, customer complaints
  
• No response to no fucking way

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Indifference by Byran Uyesugi

• 245 of tending to his fish, watching TV while
  anticipating mass killing
  
• Might as well get it over with
• Just take care of business
• Fuck It

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Indifference by Byran Uyesugi II

• Would have shot him if he were standing there
  looking stupid or something
  
• I didnt know them (families of deceased) why
  should I care how they feel
  
• (About surviving families) Theyre single
  parents I have my problems too

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People Who Anticipated That Byran Had No
Reservations About Mass Homicide

• Ron Kawamae - KILLED
• Ron Kataoka - KILLED
• Jerry Watanabe retired in 1998
• Peter Mark - KILLED
• John Sakamoto - KILLED
• Russell Inaba left team at first opportunity
• Ford Kanehira - KILLED
• Clyde Nitta left company
• Roy Ogawa retired in 1998

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The Equation
Permanence of his inevitable failure
Blaming co-workers for undermining
Resenting co-workers satisfaction
KILL KILL The Last Word
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Progression
93

• I wouldnt give them a reason to fire me
• -Byran Uyesugi

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Progression II
93
Fall 1999

• They were looking for a reason to fire me
• -Byran Uyesugi

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Progression III
93
Fall 99
Nov. 2, 99

• I decided to give them a reason to fire me
• -Byran Uyesugi

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Image Directory

• Xerox 5100 VS. 1090 go
• Conference Room Sketch go
• The Water Fountain go
• Sequence I, Byrans Sketches go
• Sequence 2, Byrans Sketches go
• Sequence 3, Byrans Sketches go
• Sequence 4, Byrans Sketches go

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Xerox 5100 Xerox 1090
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Conference Room Sketch
Peter
Ford
Ken
John
Mel
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Byrans Indication of the Water Fountain
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Sequence I, Byrans Sketches
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Sequence II, Byrans Sketches
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Sequence III, Byrans Sketches
2
1
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Sequence IV, Byrans Sketches
1
2