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Michael's is an arts and crafts store. Actually, it's 90% crafts, 9% overpriced flimsy furniture, and 1% art supplies-I go there for the 1%, as there simply aren't enough art supply sources in west central Mo for me to be picky. The customers are IMO absolutely average : The racial breakdown seems to be in line with the population in the areas where the stores are located. The income level seems to be $25,000-75,000. Not upscale but not 'dollar store', either. Just completely average.

Thanks for the info on Michael's. I don't know, I think it's not useful to try to make connections out of everything. I know a lot of people enjoy doing it and there's nothing wrong with it, but I would be more interested in seeing what sort of places the victims were shot from. I mean, if you're planning on setting up and waiting for a random target you'll need to be concealed in some fashion- whether hidden in a group of trees or inside a vehicle. If he was using wooded cover to shoot from, I would imagine he picked his sites because they offered him the best possibility of making a shot and getting away- not because he knew the people he was shooting shopped at any particular store. Ditto the cemetary- there must have been a conveniant place to shoot from and that's why he used it.

It had crossed my mind that perhaps he had actually thought he was going to have to shoot it out with police that first day and that's why he took as many targets as he could- he figured he would go down in a blaze of glory. Maybe he was amazed he got away afterwards and spent the weekend soaking it all in. He's sitting there watching the news, eating potato chips, replaying the kills in his mind and enjoying how he's suddenly a superstar. Then he decides to get back to it- this time one target at the time- to see how long he can keep the area living in fear.