High IQ people are less likely to commit crimes because they have a clearer picture of the future and more capacity for abstract thought (necessary for empathy). But when they do go on a rampage, they are more dangerous than dummies.
Los Angeles Times: For days, dozens of Los Angeles police detectives worked around the clock to track down a man suspected in a monthlong series of carjackings, robberies and shootings.
The crimes stretched across Los Angeles County, from a shooting in Burbank that left two people wounded to a dramatic police chase after a carjacking in Carson on New Year’s Day. At least one man had been killed, a 37-year-old fatally shot in Panorama City.
Investigators believed the suspect, Artyom Gasparyan, was using stolen license plates to throw them off his trail. The Los Angeles Police Department put its elite Robbery-Homicide detectives on the case and deployed hundreds of other officers to find the suspect.
Authorities say the case finally broke Monday afternoon when undercover officers tracked Gasparyan to a car repair shop in the San Fernando Valley. At some point, police said, the 32-year-old noticed the officers, jumped in his silver Volkswagen and sped off.
Gasparyan was ultimately shot and critically wounded by police on the 5 Freeway in Sun Valley, where he crashed into another car while driving the wrong way near the Glenoaks Boulevard exit…
After Gasparyan was loaded into an ambulance, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck made an impromptu stop at the scene. Gasparyan, the chief said, was a “very, very dangerous individual.”
Police went public with their search for Gasparyan on Saturday, describing him as an armed and dangerous man wanted in a series of crimes that began in northeast Los Angeles on Dec. 6.
Soon after the LAPD’s announcement, Burbank police said Gasparyan was suspected in a Dec. 9 shooting in the 1700 block of North Catalina street, where a man was shot and wounded outside his home. A gardener working down the street was also shot in the foot as the suspect fled, the man’s co-worker told the Burbank Leader.
