Police said they found 13 shell casings.
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“About twenty minutes into the movie, you hear one loud shot and you’re sure that’s not what it is because it would never be that”. “I’d be afraid to go to the movies, you don’t know who is going to be in there”. Craft said Friday morning that there are indications that alcohol may have been consumed but no sign of drug use by the shooter.
Investigators are speaking to Houser’s family and looking into his writings on the Internet, Edmondson said. The officers followed him into the theatre and heard a single shot before finding him dead inside, police said. They added the license plate had been switched on his vehicle.
“It is apparent that he was intent on shooting and then escaping”, Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft said.
Houser was a drifter who’d become estranged from his family back home in Louisiana and arrived in Lafayette, a city of about 120,000 people about 60 miles west of Baton Rouge, in early July. The gunman killed himself.
Court documents seeking the order said John Houser, “exhibited extreme erratic behavior and has made ominous as well as disturbing statements”. To protest, he put up a banner that had a swastika on it encircled by the words, “Welcome to LaGrange”, according to a story in the LaGrange Daily News.
He told the newspaper he was “completely against” the Nazi philosophy but chose the symbol because it represents a government’s ability to do what it wants.
Jillian Johnson, 33, co-owner of a Lafayette gift and toy shop died later at a hospital and nine others were injured, including one critically.
Johnson was remembered Friday as an all-around “creative force” who ran clothing and art boutiques, played in a rootsy rock band, helped organize a music festival and used her design skills on T-shirts and other crafts.
The wounded ranged from their late teens to their late 60s. The condition of the others wasn’t immediately available.
Police say they are checking out suspicious packages inside the Lafayette movie theater where a gunman opened fire Thursday.
“He wasn’t saying anything”.
Another eyewitness said a teacher in the cinema saved her friend’s life by jumping in front of her to take a bullet.
Houser’s family disclosed he had “a history of mental health issues, i.e., manic depression and/or bi-polar disorder”, according to court documents in 2008, when he made violent threats in an effort to stop his daughter’s wedding. His family was concerned he could be a danger to himself and others, as stated by the petition.
She filed for divorce in March.
“She was trying to beautify the neighborhood, uplift the people around here to take care of their homes”, Martin said.
“She was… a phenomenal musician, which is what most of the community knew her for”, Rowe said.
It all seems so distant from the Rusty Houser of earlier years, the one who seems to be portrayed in a profile on the professional networking site LinkedIn, the one who graduated from law school and who, reported by the LinkedIn profile, owned restaurants and invested in real estate and hung out his shingle as a financial adviser.
“Just like the victims”, Craft said, “we’re searching for answers, too”. “We don’t know why he decided to stop and stay in Lafayette”.
Nine people were wounded in the attack Thursday night. Comforters were torn, with feathers scattered all over the home; human waste was left in buckets; cut-up goldfish were strewn about the pool and the house.
About a dozen police personnel could be seen outside the motel.
“There’s nothing to believe that there was any kind of motive”, said Col. Michael Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police.
My heart is broken and all my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Louisiana.
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Jindal, a presidential hopeful, called the shooting “an very bad night for Louisiana”.
“Today is a day that not only angers but saddens all of us”, Jindal said.
“We can hug these families”.
President Barack Obama was briefed about the attack while on his way to Africa. “This is Anywhere, USA”, said Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who went to the crime scene in the city of Lafayette to meet with law enforcement and victims.
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The Louisiana shooting occurred three years after James Holmes entered a crowded movie theater in suburban Denver and opened fire during a Batman film, killing 12 people and injuring 70 others.
