ELKHART, Ind. (WNDU/Gray News) – An Indiana man has been charged with murder after investigators say he shot and killed a sex offender who had recently been released from prison.
Nicholas Stanley, 35, is accused of killing 35-year-old Allen Cogswell early Tuesday morning at the Daylite Inn on Cassopolis Street.
According to The Goshen News, police confirmed that Cogswell was a sex offender who had been released from prison in May.
Court records stated that Stanley is related to a victim in that case.
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Stanley is currently being held without bond at the Elkhart County Jail. An initial hearing is scheduled for July 3.
While there may be a likelihood that the victim’s status (as a PFR) played a part in the shooter’s motivation, it is by no means a proven fact, nor the ONLY motive. The shooter (a relative of the victim) may have had multiple reasons for committing the crime (assuming he, in fact, did it). Needless to say, his guilt/motive must be proven in a court of law through admissible evidence. Let’s see how this plays out.
murder after murder
serial killer targeting PFR in NH
Child of PFR murdered in Maine by someone from Canada who used the hitlist to come to the states just to kill people on it
State by state, victim by victim
innocent people killed in the way of getting to a PFR over and over again
The violence the government has incited and the deaths the government has caused with its hit list creation has caused WAY more damage to the public in far more ways and far-reaching effects than even the worst person who committed a sex crime could ever cause!
Why would the government want to sanction such crimes? Money?
PLEASE already! Why haven’t we demanded immediate emergency relief for all the crimes against humanity brought through this Monster SORNA creation?
The recidivism rate of SORNA / SORA – related murders and violence is extremely frightening and high and this beast is growing more dangerous by the day!
But it’s Congress’s beloved pet.
It is repugnant to the Constitution and must be abolished for public safety!
A law that causes death and violence to ANYONE should not exist, and Congress should know that!
The guy murdered a registrant for doing something to a relative, doesn’t justify murdering another human being. The guy did time and we all know that it isn’t a walk in the park and being on the registry isn’t a day at the beach. Another example for abolishing the registry!! Stop supporting government approved murder while calling it street justice.
Assuming the reporting that this guy was related to the registrant’s victim is accurate, the only thing we can blame the registry for is revealing the registrant’s address.
I give it a week before there’s a GoFundMe for this guy. And I’m sure he’ll get the minimum sentence for whatever he ends up getting convicted for, which likely won’t be the highest murder charge despite being exactly what it was.
The fact that the victim was a PFR may or may not be the motive for the alleged crime. It may be a partial motive, or it may not have been a factor at all. We know nothing about it at this point. We may discover later that there were other motives (a debt, as an example, or did the victim previously inform on the accused?). We have no idea what transpired, and we should not draw conclusions without evidence.
By the way, this is the second time I have posted this to this site. Wondering why it was not published previously. And this is not the first time this has happened.
So the shooter was acting on behalf of his relative to kill the abuser? Did his relative put him up to this, or did he annoint himself? I’ll be surprised if the DA seeks first degree. If the victim was a small child, 1st & 2nd are definitely off the table, and at most he might get 3rd degree manslaughter with 5 years max
He peeked in his hotel room window, so should he be on the registry for being a peeping murderer.
We know exactly why this happened: Because Americans believe superstitious nonsense that “molestation” hurts a child forever. It’s “soul-damaging.” It’s “worse than murder.” It’s like a curse, put on a child by a witch, that will haunt them forever–and into the afterlife, too–which is the same ridiculous nonsense that vigilantes hundreds of years ago believed when they hunted witches. If this is true, then it actually is an injustice that the man killed, Allen Cogswell, was “only” jailed for 6 or 7 years. But anyone with any reason knows that it CAN’T be true. Why didn’t anyone before 1980 realize it that it was so easy to “destroy someone’s soul?” Why make a pact with the devil or make crude poisons when you can just touch someone inappropriately? Why did no one know this for thousands of years of human history? Why did evolution make us so ridiculously fragile that just being touched once would make us, for all intents and purposes, brain-dead?
Because it’s not true. It’s the great lie. Am I saying it shouldn’t be criminal? No! But lots of things that are criminal are not considered “worse than murder.” Getting slapped by a stranger isn’t “soul destroying,” but it shouldn’t be legal. Getting spit on, being threatened with violence, being robbed, being scammed–these are bad, criminal things that make our lives worse and shouldn’t be legal but no one believes they require a lifetime of therapy to recover from. Why do we pretend to be so fragile? Are we proud of being that pathetic?
Allen is probably a mentally ill person who acted out in a very antisocial way and the best thing for him would have been short-term institutionalization until he can act appropriately, and honestly for most of modern American history that’s exactly what would have happened. Instead, the state labelled him a monster and gave his address to a man who wanted him dead. The state is responsible for Allen’s death,