He said his daughter and her friend escaped, uninjured. “But there’s always a concern”, said police Cmdr. He then tried to make his way out of the theater with the crowd, according to CNN. Outside, a woman was laying down, shot in her leg, said Jacob Broussard, who heard the gunshots from another theater across the hall. They searched his motel room and found wigs and other disguises. He had switched its license plates and stashed the keys on top of a tire.
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“It is apparent that he was intent on shooting and then escaping”, said Lafayette police chief Jim Craft. Houser then returned to the theater and shot himself in the head with his.40-caliber handgun, Craft said. Houser, mad he was being evicted, left it behind completely uninhabitable, they said. He helped run two bars in Georgia from the late 1970s to 2000, the page says.
After killing the pair and wounding nine others, the suspected gunman, John R. Houser, turned his. Overall, he fired at least 13 rounds.
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.
CBS46 has learned that Houser used to live in Georgia.
Mayci Breaux will be remembered as much more than a slain victim of Thursday evening’s tragic shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana.
She was also a member of the local band The Figs and co-founder of Acadiana Food Circle.
The wounded ranged in age from teenagers to their late 60s, Craft said.
One of the teachers remained in the hospital Thursday night and the other was released, said Jindal. Their conditions weren’t immediately available.
A single shooter opened fire in a 7:30 p.m. screening of the Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck, before turning the gun on himself.
“He wasn’t saying anything”, Domingue said.
“We talked about her wedding, how I’d be her maid of honor, about us having kids at the same time, how we’d all be close”, Ali said, adding that the devastating news had yet to fully set in.
Stories of heroism emerged. “Just walking down the aisle and firing”, Doggett said. There’s no record he ever became a lawyer in either state. Between the arrest for the arson and some indication of mental health issues, the permit was denied.
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.
“They had so many plans – just to get married, have kids”, Breaux told the paper.
“That was risky and could’ve been extremely unsafe”, Taylor said.
Two women lost their lives in the incident.
The estranged wife was unsure where her husband had been living since they split.
Police weren’t sure why Houser ended up in Louisiana seven years later.
Investigators were still working to determine the motive in the shootings.
“It didn’t factor as we were making the decision just 15 minutes ago”, said Haasz, 52.
Thea St. Germain has worked with Breaux at the Coco Eros Fashion Boutique in Lafayette for about a year. “He’s deceased so we may now never know”. He was forced back into the theater before shooting to kill himself.
The AP also reported a dozen police personnel could be seen outside the motel.
“That was a horrific scene in there”, Colonel Mike Edmonson of the Louisiana state police said at the conference.
Bobby Jindal on Friday deflected questions about whether Thursday night’s movie theater shooting should prompt a reevaluation of gun policies.
Jindal called the shooting “an bad night for Louisiana”.
“We have no reason to believe that this individual acted beyond this location here”, Edmonson said.
“We can hug these families”.
President Barack Obama was briefed on Air Force One by Lisa Monaco, his homeland security adviser, while on his way to Africa.
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On his way to Lafayette, Governor Bobby Jindal asked citizens to “please say a prayer for the victims at Grand Theatre and their families”.
