Posted on 09/02/2019 1:39:29 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
ODESSA, Texas (AP) The gunman in a spate of violence after a routine traffic stop in West Texas had just been fired from his job and called both police and the FBI before the shooting began, authorities said Monday.
Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator had been fired Saturday from Journey Oilfield Services. He said both Ator and the company called 911 after the firing but that Ator was gone by the time police showed up. FBI special agent Christopher Combs says Ators statements on the phone were rambling.
Authorities said Ator killed seven people and injured at least 22 others Saturday before officers killed him outside a busy movie theater in Odessa.
Combs said Ator was on a long spiral down before the shooting and that he went to work that day in trouble.
This did not happen because he was fired. He showed up to work enraged, said FBI special agent Christopher Combs of the suspected shooter.
Combs said the place where Ator lived was a strange residence and that the condition reflected what his mental state was going into this. He didnt elaborate.
Online court records show Ator was arrested in 2001 for a misdemeanor offense that would not have prevented him from legally purchasing firearms in Texas, although authorities have not said where Ator got the AR style weapon he used.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Thank you.
https://journeyoilfield.net/
Journey Oilfield Services
Yes it did.
..... The use of the term "Strange Residence" .... Tells me that his place of domicile contained a scenario and items they didn't expect to find. I wonder what they found? I wonder what he was involved with?
We need to listen to the 911 response and the FBIs response.
Did they take him seriously? Did they ask his location? Did
they offer to help him, especially the FBI? Did they try to talk
him down before he went postal or was he put on hold?
Or did he get the dang electronic menu - press 1 for ....?
Or have their tapes been erased already!
Sounds like the dead dogs of the neighbors.
I dont know anything about the conditions there or his company, so you may very well be right. The articles have said long haul, but that may be his license class and have had nothing to do with his actual job.
In any case, looking at this guys situation according to people who lived around him, Im amazed that he even had a job. Drugs may have been part of his problem, but it looks to me like it went deeper than that.
Sounds like this one could have been put in jail (NOT “prison”) just for being disorderly and disturbing the peace at work. Could’ve at least been delayed, observed, maybe given advice on what to do next by the legal types watching him.
“[[[Mental health issue. This is the problem no one wants to address.]]]
And one the left has absolutely no interest in”
That’s entirely out of self preservation.
Life comes with the risk of death. Sad but unavoidable.
Curtailing the liberty of the innocent does not ameliorate that risk.
Where is your source for 9 kids? The only place I saw that was the absurd mylife postings that retarded morons think are accurate even though anyone can edit them on the fly.
The only source Ive seen for the nine kids was the moronic mylife postings.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/02/texas-spree-shooter-seth-ator-called-cops-fbi-shortly-before-massacre/
FWIW, the article linked above says the perp did place a call to the FBI’s tip line.
>>So in a way he went postal and NO gun law would have stopped this crime<<
Sounds like folks that lived around him knew he was off. The dude has had the cops called on him, also had a record. To top it off...HE called 911 AND the wonderful agency called the FBI...and they did nothing.
You’re correct...no law would have stopped this.
It’s worse than that. As the Parkland shooter case demonstrated, the best way to bury a tip about a potential spree shooter is to report it to the FBI, while the best way to spill newsworthy classified information is to pass it along to the FBI’s senior leadership for dissemination to the news media.
While I understand good people work at the FBI and they try to do the right thing, can we conclude that after Comey and others have been charge of the FBI, that a culture of decay has taken hold and that the entire organization has become...well...ineffective?
Just saying...the facts seems to point to this conclusion.
JoMa
“...called both police and the FBI...”
Best way to stay off the FBI radar...call them up. Better yet, tell them you aren’t interested in learning how to land because you are just going to fly into buildings and won’t need to land.
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