Shooter Timothy Dale Johnson
Arkansas' Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney addresses his party's state convention in North Little Rock, Ark.
Posted on 08/14/2008 1:54:39 PM PDT by Zakeet
The man who shot and killed the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party had a Post-It note at home with the victim’s last name and phone number along with 14 guns, antidepressants and a last will and testament, according to court documents.
But local police said they still have no indication that the shooter knew Bill Gwatney, the 48-year-old former state senator who was gunned down inside his party’s headquarters on Wednesday.
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Investigators have yet to identify a motive, but said Johnson recently left a job at a Target in Conway, Ark., after writing graffiti on one of the store’s walls.
Police could not confirm whether Johnson resigned or was fired, but a statement issued by the Target store Thursday said Johnson “voluntarily quit.” It declined to give further details.
On Wednesday, police were called to the Target after Johnson became “extremely irate” following the incident over the graffiti, Conway police officer Sharen Carter told FOXNews.com.
When police arrived at the store, Target manager Steve Powers told them that Johnson was “no longer employed with Target and no longer allowed on the property,” Carter said. Other store employees said Johnson’s body shook as he turned in his ID badge.
“His behavior must have been severe enough that he was no longer allowed on the premises,” Carter said.
One of Johnson’s co-workers said his anger erupted around 7 a.m. local time when he wrote graffiti on a wall in a hallway that said, “This hall is too G** d*** narrow,” according to the local television station KTHV.
The employee said that an hour later he wrote another message on a door that said, “Target is run by dumb jocks and sorority f******,” the station reported.
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Shooter Timothy Dale Johnson
Arkansas' Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney addresses his party's state convention in North Little Rock, Ark.
When will we hear that he listened to Rush and Hannity? And that he is a registered Republican. Or that he attends church.
I was thinking since we haven’t heard anything about party reg yet, that’s a strong indication he will be a Dem.
Too many nuts walking around loose with guns these days.
My condolences to the family of Bill Gwatney.
According to his voting records, he mostly voted in GOP primaries, but he also voted in the Democratic primary in 2006.
Taking antidepressant meds...Prozac perhaps?
Probably a factor in his flipped out rage.
The employee said that an hour later he wrote another message on a door that said, “Target is run by dumb jocks and sorority f******,” the station reported.
He was apparently nuts, didn't seem to like authority, and thought that Target should tailor their store architecture to fit him, not the customer. So he might well have been a Democrat.
No doubt McCain holds Target stocks.
I bet he also had several chairs, an assortment of shirts, various canned vegetables, and some spare light bulbs "at home." I wonder, which of those items caused him to commit this terrible act?
Sound like he was just having a bad day.
I'll the antidepressants were SSRIs .
The note was written on hillary stationary?
The nutburger had a problem with Chevrolets???
“The employee said that an hour later he wrote another message on a door that said, “Target is run by dumb jocks and sorority f******,” the station reported.”
What is the f****** word?
Target will now be sued because they weren’t empathetic with this wacko and didn’t understand why he insisted on writing naughty graffiti on the walls.
I'll bet the......
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/arkansasstatecases/supreme/2007a/20070125/06-1058.pdf
This may be the same Tim Johnson. If so he was badly injured in 2002. He’s mentioned in the text, but I can’t find his specific case.
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0808/544219.html
“Gwatney owned three Little Rock area car dealerships, and Wednesday’s search of Johnson’s home turned up two sets of keys for vehicles from Gwatney car lots.”
Well, isn’t that interesting. The nut went off because he didn’t like the car he was sold, not because of politics or talk radio???
Well, isn’t that interesting. The nut went off because he didn’t like the car he was sold, not because of politics or talk radio???
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