The Murder of O'Connor was the unplanned killing of fraudulent Vietnam War veteran O'Connor by Lewis Wilson.

Background[]

O'Connor falsified a story about him serving in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and joined the New York Veteran Support Group, where he shared his extremist rhetoric. Although most of the other veterans dismissed his views, his words resonated with Lewis Wilson, whose experience serving in the United States Army traumatized him.^[1] Curtis Hoyle did the best he could to support Wilson when his mental state kept deteriorating, but things continued to get worse. Unable to adapt to a civilian life, Wilson tried to apply to Anvil and become a contractor, but Hoyle discouraged Billy Russo from letting him in, which only infuriated Wilson more.^[2]

One day, Wilson joined O'Connor for a two-man protest outside of the Bronx County Courthouse, advocating for a teacher who was on trial for bringing a firearm into the classroom. They were approached by Fahey, who said that they did not have a permition for a public protest, although Wilson kept insisting that what they were doing was within the law. As their argument escalated, Fahey claimed that Wilson reached for his gun and arrested Wilson on the spot, while O'Connor immediately abandoned him and ran away. Taken into custody by the New York City Police Department, Wilson decided to clal Hoyle instead of father, who bailed him out. Hoyle then revealed to Wilson that O'Connor had been lying about service and the Vietnam War all along and he does not deserve Wilson's respect.^[1]

Murder[]

Lewis Wilson visisted O'Connor at his place, who began to tell about the New York City Police Department not changing a bit since he returned from the war. However, Wilson told him that he looked into O'Connor's army records and confirmed that he lied about serving in Vietnam, although O'Connor claimed that everything on the internet is falsified. Wilson then asked O'Connor if he knew the name of the air base outside Tam Kỳ, to which he did not know the right answer. O'Connor tried to dismiss the accusations by saying that those were just stories, but Wilson lost his temper and said that he could not jump make up things like those, taking personal offence to his lies.

O'Connor then demanded Wilson to leave his house and tried to throw him out, to which Wilson responded with a punch to his face. As the two started to fight each other, O'Connor managed to get a hold of a knife and slashed Wilson across the stomach. Despite that, Wilson was a better combatant, so he wrestled the blade out of his hands and stabbed O'Connor in the gut. He then proceeded to stab O'Connor repeatedly, until he fell into his chair and died from a blood loss.^[1] Wilson then proceeded to discard his blood-soaked shirt and cover O'Connor's body with shower curtains to cover the smell, before leaving the house and driving away.^[3]

Aftermath[]

Upon returning home, Lewis Wilson was met by his father who noticed that his son struggled with something and tried to comfort him, but Wilson's mind kept getting worse. He even stuck a gun into his mouth and contemplating commiting suicide but a few moments after, he gave up on that idea. As his mental state reached its lowest point, Wilson followed O'Connor's rhetoric of the current system in the United States mistreating veterans and taking away people's rights to its extreme. Wilson used O'Connor's house as his hideout and created several homemade bombs^[3] that he used to commit terrorist attack at several municipal facilities in New York City.

While the FBI investigated the bombings, Wilson wrote a manifesto and mailed it to Karen Page, believing that she would understand him after standing up to Frank Castle, and threatened the New York Bulletin into publishing it. Wilson then called on the Ricky Langtry Show and threatened both Stan Ori, whose anti-gun lobby he found an attack on people's rights, and Page who publicly condemned his actions. Both Castle and Curtis Hoyle recognized Wilson's voice and went after him to prevent more terrorist attack, as Hoyle managed to find him first at O'Connor's house. Hoyle saw O'Connor's body and the bombs, and tried to help Wilson, but he was too far gone and the two fought each other. Wilson was able to overpower Hoyle and knock him out, before tying him to a bomb and leaving him inside the house, as he expected someone to come after him.^[4]

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