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To: ColdOne; All

Has anyone heard what the make/model and caliber of the rifle was?

That’s my sole remaining interest other than the well-being of those shot.


12 posted on 06/21/2017 11:13:32 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Allegedly an SKS.


14 posted on 06/21/2017 11:15:29 AM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: Mariner

In addition to the ammunition, investigators found a laptop computer, a receipt for a November 2016 gun purchase and additional SKS rifle components. Hodgkinson, from Belleville, Ill., used an SKS 7.62mm caliber rifle and a 9mm handgun during the shooting at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park on June 14.

“(Hodgkinson) fired over 60 shots, 50 of those shots were from the SKS rifle,” Slater said, adding it didn’t appear that Hodgkinson had a particular target in mind and it was a spontaneous shooting.

He said the 9mm handgun was purchased after the election of President Donald Trump in November 2016. In Bellville, police were reportedly called to Hodgkinson’s home......................from the link.


34 posted on 06/21/2017 11:45:44 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: Mariner

SKS 7.62X39


52 posted on 06/21/2017 1:55:38 PM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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