Louisiana tragedy does not discourage local moviegoers

The Republican governor described the “methodical” manner in which the gunman carried out the shooting as “barbaric”. But he turned back as police officers approached, reloading and firing into the crowd before killing himself with a single shot inside the theater, police said.

Authorities said he had swapped license plates on his Lincoln Continental, which he parked right outside an exit door of the theater.

His family said they feared him so much they hid his guns and had him hospitalized. “One person was shot four times”. PHOTOS: Lafayette movie theater shooting ” Everyone was running down the stairs, freaking out, climbing over chairs and people. As many as nine other injuries have been reported, ranging from serious to life-threatening.

Nine people were wounded in addition to the two women killed.

On a 2012 forum discussing the murder of a 60-year-old man in a Georgia deer processing business Houser wrote he was “sincerely sorry” for the man’s death and that most people aged over 50 “in certain businesses” are “rock solid morally”. 40 caliber semi-automatic handgun and said that Houser purchased it at a pawn shop in Phenix, Alabama in February 2014.

“At one point, Houser’s now ex-wife was so anxious about what he might do that she removed all weapons from their home and told authorities that he should not have a gun”.

“He just didn’t show up on any of the instant background checks”, Griffin said.

The gunman, identified as 59-year-old John Russel Houser, fired at least 13 times from a handgun, police said.

He arrived on July 2 or 3 and had been staying in a motel, Craig said. “We don’t know that”, said Louisiana State Police Colonel Michael Edmonson.

A former local television host in Georgia says the man who killed two people in a Louisiana movie theater appeared on his show numerous times in the early 1990s and advocated violence against people involved in abortions. “There (were) goldfish – he cut them up, put them different places in the whole house”, Bone said.

The domestic violence complaint was never prosecuted. There’s no indication he had an accomplice, Edmonson said.

Tributes poured into Johnson’s Facebook page overnight and into Friday morning. He declined to talk about that, saying, “It hasn’t been 24 hours”. “We’re known for family and for food and for festivals and for comfort”. Of the victims wounded in the Louisiana shooting, some face injuries that have placed them in critical care.

The Daily Beast probed into Houser’s online history and found a history of radical conservative political beliefs expressed on various message boards, as well as Tea Party affiliations and neo-Nazi and white supremacist sympathies. A 2008 protection order filed in Superior Court details how Houser’s family believed that he was a danger to himself and others. She told her father that she did not hear the gunman say anything before opening fire.

Randall Mann said his daughter Emily and her friend escaped uninjured.

“This is a normal movie theatre in a normal part of a normal town”.

“Her friend literally jumped over her and, by her account, actually saved her life”, Jindal said.

But the movie’s star, Amy Schumer, tweeted, “My heart is broken and all my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Louisiana”.

“It just seems like he was kind of drifting along,” Craft said.

Jindal recounted the story of two teachers, enjoying the last few days of summer break, caught up in the melee. “She made life better, from what she said … from her hand to what she made”. Instead, she was struck in the leg.

Outside a Boston ticket office, Richard Force considered that among thousands of U.S. movie theaters, two shootings represented only a tiny fraction.

There are clues suggesting this wasn’t a spontaneous act.

Nearly exactly 3 years ago, James Holmes opened fire on a packed screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colorado, in a meticulously-planned attack.