Lafayette Police Department Three security cameras caught Houser before he carried out his fatal attack.
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Lafayette police released the 911 calls from the shooting Thursday (July 30).
A police officer responding to a deadly shooting at a Louisiana movie theater last week yelled for a dispatcher to “send anybody you got” to the chaotic scene.
Surveillance video released on Thursday shows the gunman in last week’s theater shooting as he purchases a ticket, enters the lobby and walks about 10 minutes late into screen 14, where he would soon open fire during a showing of the comedy film “Trainwreck” and kill two people and injure nine others before killing himself.
Meanwhile emergency dispatchers were deploying more and more officers to the scene.
He says: ‘Listen, I need units and I need units with rifles in here.
And in contrast to the manic response from police and public, video footage was released of Houser calming walking into the lobby of the Grand 16 theater, paying for his ticket and walking to his showing. Houser, 59, then killed himself, as indicated by police.
Houser, a drifter, was also seen on surveillance video checking into a motel near the theater in early July.
In 2008, a Georgia judge ordered Houser detained for a mental evaluation after relatives claimed he was a danger to himself and others.
The other two were Mayci Breaux, 21, of Franklin, Louisiana, who died at the theater, and Jillian Johnson, 33, of Lafayette, who died at the hospital. But the judge says she didn’t have him involuntarily committed, which could explain how he passed a federal background check last year that enabled him to buy the.40-caliber handgun.
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Services for Johnson, who was a musician and gift shop owner, were scheduled to be held at a Lafayette memorial home later on 27 July. Breaux was a college student studying to be a radiology technician.
