“We still have to build a timeline, then we can figure out, ‘Why Lafayette?'” Edmonson said. He killed two people Thursday before turning the gun on himself.
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UPDATE: Reuters is reporting that Houser legally purchased the gun at an Alabama pawn shop in 2014. “Why would you come here and do something like this?” In one prominent fight with local officials, he unfurled a banner outside his bar in the state of Georgia picturing a swastika.
“We still have a family, and it can’t stop me from living”.
Details quickly emerged about Houser’s mental problems, prompting authorities in Louisiana and Alabama to bemoan the underfunding of mental health services in America.
But he never said or did anything that presaged the outbreak of violence.
In April 2008, Houser’s wife, Kellie, his daughter and others filed court papers seeking a temporary protective order against Houser, saying he had “perpetrated various acts of family violence” and had a history of manic depression and bi-polar disorder.
“Whatever he wanted to talk about, it would generate calls”, said Floyd.
On Thursday night, he bought a ticket for the showing of “Trainwreck”, a romantic comedy. Inside his motel room they found wigs, glasses and other disguises. His vehicle was parked right outside; the keys had been left on a tire and the plates had been switched out.
The suspected gunman, John R Houser, who police described as a drifter from Alabama, opened fire with a. 40 caliber handgun about 20 minutes into the film “Trainwreck“, sending panicked theatergoers ducking behind seats and running for the exits.
Houser’s involuntary hospitalization likely should have been the red flag that prevented him from buying a gun, but it was only one of a handful of documented instances that suggested he was a troubled and unsafe person.
“We deal with a lot of hard people”, LaGrange Police Chief Louis Dekmar told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“Like I said, in Louisiana, we toughened our laws a couple of years ago”.
“It was a odd”.
Two families are planning funerals after another deadly shooting at a movie theater.
He praised the “selfless heroism” of two wounded teachers. One individual had been hit four times.
A man who lost his family, home and businesses as he spent years angrily espousing right-wing extremism on television and the Internet did not say a word as he opened fire on strangers in a darkened cinema. The blasts from the gun produced flashes of light in the dark theater, she said. “A man had actually dragged her out”. Mayci Breaux, who attended the same 7 p.m. show with her boyfriend, was an honor student who aspired to be an X-ray technician. Ms Johnson ran clothing and art boutiques, played in a rock band and planted fruit trees for neighbours and the homeless. “Stay strong Lafayette”, read a sign in front of a Walgreen’s.
Warren said that seeing someone carrying a weapon into a movie theater -even if they were a law-abiding citizen-would make her think twice about going inside.
The wounded ranged in age from teenagers to their late 60s.
A memorial sprang up outside one of Johnson’s stores, and people were still adding to it Saturday. Three patients were admitted to the facility; two were treated and released late Thursday night. “Well, you may not be able to get him or her to go see the counselor but you could go see the counselor yourself”. “Then he became your sworn enemy”, Hardin said. But she “knew something was happening” when she saw muzzle flashes, Mann said.
On PoliticalForum.com, a user identifying as Rusty Houser boasted about posting with his real name and that he “say(s) what he thinks”.
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The next year, Houser applied for a concealed carry permit but was denied based on a previous arson charge and his wife’s allegations. Police said his mother had recently loaned him some money because he said he was trying to get his life together.
