Houser allegedly killed two people and wounded nine others who were watching the new comedy “Trainwreck“, a film written by and starring the feminist comedian Amy Schumer.
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The flashes came from Houser’s.40-caliber, semi-automatic handgun.
As his targets raced for the doors, Houser fired off 11 rounds before attempting to slip out through the cinema’s emergency exit.
Two Lafayette Police officers, who happened to be in the Grand’s parking lot exchanging paperwork, responded immediately.
Police rushed in just after the shots rang out. Breaux died on the scene and Johnson died later at a nearby hospital.
The names of some of the injured became known – including husband and wife Bo and Jerry Ramsay; Breaux’s fiancé, Matthew Rodriguez; and Johnson’s close friend, Morgan Egedah – while community groups planned a number of gatherings.
Tributes have flowed in to the two women killed in the attack.
Investigators are still trying to figure out what brought Houser from Alabama to Louisiana in early July. He had a room at a nearby Motel 6, which is now under investigation by law enforcement. There are plenty of Tea Party supporters who are distrustful of government and don’t commit mass shootings. His parents were described as wealthy and powerful.
Calvin Floyd, who hosted a morning call-in show on WLTZ-TV in Columbus, Georgia, said Houser also espoused other radical views, including his opposition to women in the workplace. In 1989, court records say, he was accused of hiring someone to burn down a Columbus lawyer’s law office. “I do not want to discourage the last hope for the best, but you must realize the power of the lone wolf, is the power that come forth in ALL situations”.
“They had a chance to lock this guy up”.
Swearingen described Houser as “strange”. His occupation is “hustling”, he writes, and under a “family” heading, he says, “No family safe in US environment”. Houser’s brother Rembert Houser Jr. was his stockbroker, he said.
Educated in accounting and law, he owned bars in Georgia – including one where he flew a Nazi banner out front as an anti-government statement. He filed for bankruptcy in 2002.
Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor told the Ledger-Enquirer that Houser in 2006 was denied a pistol permit, and was served eviction papers March 25, 2014, while living on 32nd Street in Phenix City.
A police report included with the request for a protective order said Houser believed his daughter and her fiance, who were 23 and 26 at the time, were far too young to Wednesday and that he was mad at his wife for not stopping the marriage.
The documents said Houser was living in Phenix City but had traveled to Carroll County, Ga., where his family lived and “perpetrated various acts of family violence”, adding that he “has a history of mental health issues, i.e., manic depression and/or bipolar disorder”.
They say Houser vandalized his house before vacating it, and explain there was cement poured down the drain, gas and other flammables placed in and around the fireplace, paint spewed about the house along with feces and dead fish.
The homeowner’s wife Pat tell us Houser was a deep dark, very troubled soul.
Floyd, meanwhile, hosted Houser several times on his television show. “It is a shame Tim McVeigh is not going to be with us to enjoy the hilarity of turning the tables with an IRON HAND”.
Last January, he wrote on one online forum: “Hitler is loved for the results of his pragmatism”. “There is no question of his being the most successful that ever lived”, the SPLC reported.
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The gunman who shot up a Lafayette, LA movie theater, killing himself and two victims, had a troubled past with roots in Alabama.
