[Blue House Sue]

Patrick Dowdell

That’s a last name I have never seen.

Patrick, that could be Irish, but Dowdell could be from anywhere.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sounds like a bad dude for whom violence was a way of life.

[Robert DeLong]

Sources believe Dowdell was targeting his wife, not magistrate Judge Dan Shimshock or his staff.

[Secret Agent Man]

Less Dowdell.

More cowbell.

[Steely Tom]

A-hole Dowdell had been making threats against his wife and had assaulted her. She had recently gotten a "Protection From Attack" order from the court after he threatened to kill her if she divorced him.

His wife — more than 20 years younger than he was — was one of the people he killed, along with a police officer who tried to stop him. The third person killed was Dowdell himself.

He doesn't look particularly scary.

[PAR35]

I’m thinking he was probably guilty as charged.

[Safetgiver]

He had been due in court on charges related to domestic violence. ... Guilty.

[Eagles6]

Just down the road.

This is a heavily armed rural area and shootings are very rare.

Of course this happened in a "gun free zone", i.e., the magistrate's office.

All law abiding citizens were unarmed.