By A wedding reception in New Hampshire and a newsroom in California became the scenes of sudden bloodshed in recent days, jolting communities and raising questions about the rise of politically charged violence from the left.
On Saturday night, guests at a wedding celebration at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, New Hampshire were forced into chaos when a 23-year-old man allegedly opened fire, according to WMUR. Authorities said Hunter Nadeau has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 59-year-old Robert Steven DeCesare. Two others were wounded. Witnesses reported the suspect shouted “free Palestine” and “the children are safe” before firing multiple rounds from a pistol into the crowd. One attendee, Tom Bartelson, described the terror: “Getting together for a dance for the bride and groom and then all chaos went off. We heard about six shots and everybody ducked for cover and next thing you know we’re rushed into safe spots and things like that,” wrote The New York Post.
AUDIO: witness to Nashua shooting. It was in restaurant, unrelated to the wedding pic.twitter.com/uYpumznNlA
— Chris Maidment (@ChrisMaidmentNH) September 21, 2025
Just days earlier, on the opposite coast, another eruption of violence carried an unmistakable political undertone. In Sacramento, Anibal “Al” Hernandez Santana—a former legislative director for the California Federation of Teachers—was arrested for allegedly firing three rifle rounds into the lobby of ABC10, a local television affiliate. His social media accounts revealed a trail of hostility toward conservatives, including mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination and wishing death upon President Trump. In one post, the account linked to Santana sneered: “Our thoughts and prayers are with Charlie Kirk and his family. May the prudence of his cost-benefit analysis for 2A rights vs. school shootings live on forever.”
Radical leftist Democrat and rabid gun control advocate Anibal “Al” Hernandez Santana shoots into the lobby of a California ABC television station on Saturday September 20th.
Apparently gun control only applies to people that aren’t Anibal or aren’t left wing violent radicals.… pic.twitter.com/ocSeCV6o48
— Callie (@Decadent_Angel) September 21, 2025
US News and World Report noted that Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho said investigators found a calendar note on Hernandez Santana’s refrigerator stating “Do the next scary thing” and dated Sept. 19, the day of the shooting.
A search of the suspect’s car turned up an anti-Trump book, Ho said Monday. Authorities also found a handwritten note that said “For hiding Epstein and ignoring red flags,” Ho said. The note mentioned FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying they were “next,” prosecutors said.
Evidence points to a politically motivated crime and “it appears that he was also looking at other places, other people,” Ho said. But he didn’t say why prosecutors believe Hernandez Santana targeted the ABC affiliate specifically or whether it might have been related to ABC’s suspension of late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel over comments made about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The sequence of attacks has shaken both law enforcement and community leaders. At the wedding, police swiftly apprehended Nadeau at the scene. “Video surveillance has confirmed there was only one shooter and they are currently being detained,” Nashua police announced on Twitter. In Sacramento, FBI Director Kash Patel emphasized the seriousness of the ABC10 shooting: “Targeted acts of violence are unacceptable and will be pursued to the fullest extent of the law.”
Both cases underscore a troubling trend: political grievances morphing into violence, often cloaked in rhetoric about justice or resistance. From the chants of “free Palestine” in New Hampshire to the online tirades of a teachers-union lawyer in California, the pattern is clear. These incidents suggest that far-left anger, once confined largely to social media, is spilling into real-world confrontations with deadly consequences.
Nadeau is expected to face additional charges tied to the injuries of the surviving victims and will appear for arraignment Monday in Nashua. Santana, meanwhile, was initially released on bail by California authorities before being re-arrested on federal charges for interfering with licensed broadcasts. Both men now stand as reminders that political extremism does not confine itself to one side of the ideological spectrum—and that the cost, measured in fear and bloodshed, falls upon ordinary Americans caught in the crossfire.
Neither shooting, for obvious reasons, led the nightly news on any of the mainstream media channels, reminding everyone that one of the biggest biases in media isn’t how things get reported, but what gets reported.
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