Going Dark: The Inverse Relationship between Online and On-the-Ground Pre-offence Behaviours in Targeted Attackers

This was completed to present a general overview of their behaviours in the months leading up to the event, and to provide a detailed assessment of their online activities in the seven days prior to their incidents and the day of their terrorism attacks. [...] Rogers interviewed Bowers over the course of several days in the autumn of 2022 to analyse the offender’s mental state at the time of the attack. [...] Discord provided information on its website that confirmed the veracity of the data, and the online diary included visual confirmation of the perpetrator in the form of numerous selfies which were included in the document.13 To equalise the timeframe of Bowers’ accessible online data, we utilised Gendron’s Discord logs to determine his overall activity in the three months leading up to his act of. [...] Frequency of Payton Gendron’s Discord entries in the seven days leading up to his act of violence and on the day of the attack (7–14 May 2022) Offline Behaviours According to Payton Gendron’s online logs, the Buffalo shooter made the final decision to attack four months prior to his act of terrorism. [...] Each offender scouted their target location(s), though the time sequences differed: Krajčík made a reconnaissance of the bar three months prior to and in the hour before his attack; Gendron inspected the supermarket two months prior to the incident, as well as on the day before and day of the attack; Bowers waited until the hour prior to the act of violence to observe the synagogue, due to his c.