News Today: Trump Diehard and Former Milo Yiannopoulos Intern Stabs Father to Death for Calling Him a Nazi: Report

The alleged murderer is a conspiracy theorist with ties to the far right.

A prolific online troll and former intern of Milo Yiannopolous has been charged with murder in the first degree after allegedly stabbing his father to death in his Washington home. According to audio of the incident obtained by the Daily Beast, 33-year-old Lane Davis set upon his dad, Charles, after the latter called him a Nazi. "He’s chasing us around the house,” Lane's mother, Catherine, told a police dispatcher. “He’s mad about something on the Internet about leftist pedophiles and he thinks we’re leftist and he’s calling us pedophiles. And I don’t know what all.”

Lane has entered a plea of not guilty, and his trial is scheduled for January.

The Smallish Island native fits a disturbing if increasingly familiar profile. After dropping out of Washington State University in 2004, he developed a following on YouTube peddling conspiracy theories that ran the gamut from 9/11 being an inside job to vaccines causing autism. By 2014, he had become a fixture in Gamergate, a campaign of online harassment of women in the video game industry that included doxxing, rape and death threats. Lane would ultimately renounce his fellow travelers in the movement, but that did not stop him from targeting Joshua Idehen, whose manager, agent and charity he contacted accusing the London musician of pedophilia. 

Shortly thereafter, he began working for Milo Yiannopolous, with whom he helped pen an article accusing the MacArthur Foundation of promoting censorship on social media. Yiannopolous, who was recently outed for his close collaboration with prominent neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right, has since released the following statement to the Daily Beast:

“Mr. Davis was a volunteer for me for a brief period of time prior to my founding MILO Inc. I was unhappy with his work and discontinued the relationship. I then experienced his anger firsthand as he threatened me and later went to Buzzfeed making false and inaccurate accusations."

Lane parlayed his short tenure at Breitbart into an unpaid blogging gig at a far-right website called TheRalphRetort.com, which features such verticals as "SJW Crazies" and "Campus Crazies," and whose editor, Ethan Ralph, is serving an eight-month sentence in Loudon Country, Virginia for assaulting a police officer. Ralph's wife, Nora, has pledged to remove all of Lane's stories, which he posted under the name Seattle4Truth. 

A fervent Trump supporter, Lane had grown increasingly agitated in recent months, so much so that his father had taken to recording his rage-fueled outbursts on his phone. On the day of his arrest, the Daily Beast reports Lane "retweeted posts celebrating the Second Amendment, bemoaning diversity, and spreading conspiracy theories that alleged Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in a child sex ring and DNC staffer Seth Rich had been murdered." 

“He just lives on the internet and he gets really worked up about everything that’s going on," his mother told police. "He needs an intervention of some kind here.” 

Minutes later, her husband was bleeding to death on their back porch, and her son had raised his hands in the air, awaiting his arrest.

H/T Daily Beast

 

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