Posted on 12/29/2021 8:43:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
A gunman who went on a shooting rampage in several locations around the Denver area, killing five people and wounding two, targeted his victims based on previous personal and business dealings, authorities said.
Lyndon James McLeod, 47, was also killed Monday night after he shot a police officer who confronted him in a busy shopping district in the Denver suburb of Lakewood.
[T]he gunman knew most of his victims but not the last person he shot — a clerk in a hotel in Lakewood’s Belmar shopping area. Sarah Steck, 28, who died of her injuries Tuesday, was apparently targeted because of a dispute with the hotel...
McLeod once owned a business in Denver called Flat Black Ink Corp. at an address that is now World Tattoo Studio...
The first shooting took place at a tattoo shop less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from that address. Four of the victims, including three who died, were shot at two tattoo shops in the Denver area.
When officers spotted the car suspected of being involved in the shooting at the Belmar shopping area — where shops line sidewalks in a modern version of a downtown — McLeod opened fire and officers shot back, Romero said. He ran away and allegedly threatened some people in a restaurant with a gun before going to the Hyatt House hotel, where he spoke briefly with Steck, the clerk, before shooting her, he said.
About a minute later, the Lakewood police officer saw McLeod and ordered him to drop his weapon. She was shot in the abdomen but fired back at him, Romero said.
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What is it?
Dunno. Just that it looks similar to what he is seen carrying on the fuzzy surveillance camera footage.
Wild Bill was a character, and did some crazy stuff, but this guy is a real mad hatter:
https://nypost.com/2021/12/28/denver-shooting-spree-suspect-lyndon-mcleod-identified/
ABC reported he “held extremist views and had a history of psychiatric episodes.” I guess he had one last “episode” — this time with dead bodies and grieving families left behind.
So this was some sort of fight with different tattoo businesses? All the victims pictures.. tattooed and pierced.
Business dispute, I think.
My ccw instructor said if you have to go up against a rifle with a handgun, dump the mag in him.
I was just looking at this:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/denver-shooting-gunman-lyndon-mcleod-rampage-tattoo-novel-lakewood
(Denver-area gunman who killed tattoo artists may have acted out scene from his own dark novel, report says)
‘...an epic, visceral journey into the dark heart of every man broken by society,” while another reviewer said the characters “give full vent to their sexism, racism, and every other -ism kept out of mainstream discourse,” according to the Post’
AWWWWWWWW RIGHT!!!!!
“I had the right number of holes in me right from the factory.
Not going to change that!
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Just so totally true...
Colo. has no common border with S.D.
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Their clients can’t tell the difference?
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