Starblade reportedly stabbed to death by a fellow aspie

[Pi]

From Furry_drama2 on LJ, I find this crappy report of the recent stabbing death of "Mathew Finnegan", which is almost but not quite Starblade's name. (http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100924/NEWS01/9240328/Monterey-man-pleads-not-guilty-in-friend-s-death)

Anyway, another online paper has people who do actual journalism: http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_16162357?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1

Friends of Hill and Finnigan said Thursday that both men attended MPC and that they met about a year ago through a private, off-campus program — College Living Experience.

The national program, with offices around the country, including one on Munras Avenue in Monterey, provides services for young adults with attention-deficit disorder, Asperger's syndrome, autism or nonverbal learning disorders to help them acquire independent living skills, according to the organization's website.

One side of a Twitter conversation recently:

<Starblade> @malytwotails If this guy who's sending me death threats is serious, about killing me and exposing my past acts, I
won't have such a choice.
    12:45 AM August 24, 2010 // from web[Monterey, CA]
<Starblade> @malytwotails I just need a place to live. In fact, I'd hide out on the streets if I needed to. I don't think I'm safe living in California.
    12:54 AM August 24, 2010 // from web[Monterey, CA]
<Starblade> @thanksfor1984 No I'm not. I need to leave California, but the people/police here IRL don't believe me and nobody online believes me either.
    12:56 AM August 24, 2010 // from web[Monterey, CA]

So, after all of the suicide threats, none of which he follows through with, he ends up getting stabbed by a friend. I, uh... Fuck you, I'm a dragon?

[loki]

Copied from my LJ:

Via Zoren on Twitter:

    Just got a call from someone who Identified themselves as an acquaintance of a Mathew Finnigan aka Starblade. They said he has passed away..



A search uncovers this news article:

    A Monterey man accused of stabbing his friend to death pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of murder.

    Monterey police said James Torrey Hill was arrested early Wednesday after officers found Mathew Finnigan, 26, at an apartment complex in the 800 block of Casanova Street. Finnigan was found about 2:10 a.m. with stab wounds to his chest.

    Hill, who was at the scene, was initially arrested on attempted murder charges

    But Finnigan was pronounced dead about 7 a.m. at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose.
    Monterey man pleads not guilty in friend's death

LJ Account of Starblade: http://stolen-humanity.livejournal.com/profile
Obituary: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montereyherald/obituary.aspx?n=matthew-paul-finnigan&pid=145738446

The birthdays are both May 12th and the pictures have some resemblance:

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/4/47/Starblade_wants_to_dance.jpg - 2006

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412169113&v=wall&ref=sgm - 2010

Still waiting to see if FD_2 can figure out if it's really Starblade or not.

[Pi]

Monterey County Superior Court has a case for "Hill, James Torrey". CRSS102193A, if anyone wants to keep an eye on it. https://www.justicepartners.monterey.courts.ca.gov/Public/JPPublicViewCase.aspx?id=od4NmSl+cZwfVPxza+WoZg==

Not sure when the link expires, but I'm sure you people can work out how to operate the search feature if it does.

[rodox_video]

Now I feel pretty bad for having made fun of him on and off over the years.

His legacy is now "the dude who coined FUCK YOU I'M A DRAGON", and that is just not a cool way to go at all.

[a pigeon]

His FA account has had its status changed to deceased now.

There's a police report about the murder:

http://www.ci.monterey.ca.us/newsroom/2010/murdersuspectarrested100922.pdf

On September 22, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Monterey Police Officers responded to the
800 block of Casanova on the report of a man who had been stabbed.  On arrival
they found 26 year old Matthew Finnegan  suffering from  a sharp force injury. 
James Torrey Hill, a 21 year old male, was with Finnegan. 
 
The investigation revealed that Hill caused Finnegan’s injury. Hill was initially
arrested for attempted murder and Finnegan  was flown to Valley Medical
Hospital in San Jose by CALSTAR. 
 
At 7:00 AM, the Department was notified that Finnegan died as a result of his
injuries.  Hill is in custody at the Monterey City Jail and has been booked for 187
PC, Murder. He is being held in lieu of $1,000,000 bail. 

[Dima]

I found out about this earlier because Arcturus posted a decidedly uncouth journal about it going "heh good riddance"

Being stabbed by your friend is a pretty sad way to go.

[Jim Demintia]

One is left to wonder where his parents are. Usually when people with mental issues and/or autistic-like problems can't make it on their own they stay with their parents. Which is a whole host of other issues, but at least it seems less likely he'd fall in with the kind of people who were likely to murder him.

[rodox_video]

Portal Of Evil weighs in

[Sechs]

I found out about this earlier because Arcturus posted a decidedly uncouth journal about it going "heh good riddance"

Oh that Arcturus, all class as always.

[Kindrift]

The journal in question.

so someone got murdered

and I can't help but be every so slightly amused.

, aka Matthew Finnegan, was murdered by a friend, according to news.

Being as someone who gave me a lot of shit, I can't help being a little happy. Even if they're dead, I can't say that I'm sad.

*gets more dewatches ooo*

And he's now suspended from FA for writing this.  It would seem that Arcturus and Starblade were a bit of the same: both transsexual otherkin dragons who turned into utter social pariahs.  I suppose there wasn't enough astral space for the two of them.

[Jim Demintia]

I'm going to say that out of over 300 comments, there are maybe a dozen that agree with his sentiment. So yeah...when you've got furries calling you on being an insensitive dipshit, you know you're an insensitive dipshit.

[rodox_video]

The Arcturus journal just got wiped. Whoever has the most up-to-date cap is strongly encouraged to post it here.

[a pigeon]

Here's one from yesterday, has about 100 odd comments by the looks of it:

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/466/arcstarbladedeath.jpg

Witchiebunny (the admin who suspended Arcturus) made a thread about Arcturus' journal on furrydrama_2:

http://community.livejournal.com/furrydrama_2/208136.html

& Dragoneer weighed in with solemn pontification. It seems those two have been posting in quantity on every entry coming up on FD_2 in recent weeks. With the likes of Arcturus around, they'll have an ample supply of even more broken and horrible people to make themselves look ever so slightly better by comparison.

[Jim Demintia]

354 comments. Probably want to download it or whatever, it seems to be locking up Firefox when I try to display it from the link.

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/4379/sosomeonegotmurderedarc.png

[m_estrugo]

Rather than taking a screenshot of it, I'd suggest saving as HTML. The file is way too big to be handled properly.

[Jim Demintia]

Well, here's this. Not really sure where a good place to host HTML files is though. I don't have a personal server.

[Arche Kruz]

Wow, apparently Nicole Dubois was forced to send a DMCA notice to have her works taken off e621 because Arc refused when she asked nicely, and because of this, he much later decided to treat the news of her kidney failure months down the line with complete insensitivity? Fuck this person!

[a pigeon]

According to Princess Piche. posting on Furrydrama_2, Arcturus' suspension has been upgraded to a permaban from FA. His userpage says it's for "among other things, harassment and general trolling behaviour".

He wove his rope and built his gallows I guess.

[rodox_video]

To be honest, Arcturus seems to have spent the last year or so hell-bent on becoming the next Sibe. He's pushing all the right buttons and pissing off all the right people.  This pretty much marks the official start of him being a politically useful boogeyman among the highest levels of furry.

All he needs to do now is spend some time in jail, fuck some dogs and catch AIDS.  (Thing is, though, Sibe was never anywhere near as vicious.)

[Pi]

According to Princess Piche. posting on Furrydrama_2, Arcturus' suspension has been upgraded to a permaban from FA. His userpage says it's for "among other things, harassment and general trolling behaviour".

He wove his rope and built his gallows I guess.

Hmm, hmm, hmm.
Some user shouts:

Posted: a day ago
I'm disappointed with the Hall of Shame.
Arcturus isn't on the list. He's been a constant thorn on everyone's side.

Posted: a day ago
He'a an asshole, that's for sure. I happily await the day where he fucks up bad enough to get himself banned for life.

Posted: a day ago
All we could do now is report him for harassment. Let's hope it gets somewhere.

I mention this on twitter, and the WYS kiddies jump all over me:

<ajkirwin> So I got banned from FA for 'general trollish behavior', 'harassment' and 'other things'
    about 2 hours ago // from TweetDeck[Philadelphia Area]
<two_pi_r> @ajkirwin you got banned because silverautomatic and that miru dude are putting you on the WATCH YOUR STEP WATCH LIST
    about 2 hours ago // from twmode[Seattle] in reply to ajkirwin
<AuroraBorealia> @two_pi_r Arc was banned for harassment and trolling, you fucking retard. Not because Silver is putting him on a fake list.
    about 1 hour ago // from web[Illinois]
<SilverAutomatic> .@two_pi_r Don't know who "miru" is, but yup. @ajkirwin got banned because of us putting him in the Hall of Shame. Our bad. Sorry! #Sarcasm
    about 1 hour ago // from web[Oakville, CT]
<tderek99> @two_pi_r Horrible, baseless logic at its finest!
    about 1 hour ago // from web[Bronx NY] in reply to two_pi_r
<AishaLeHerisson> @two_pi_r  ... Erm... whut?  @ajkirwin got banned for posting a Journal about being glad someone died. That's...  just wrong. :/
    about 1 hour ago // from web[North Wales] in reply to two_pi_r