Louisiana shooting: Gunman had history of ”mental health issues”

That’s when John Russell Houser got up and began firing.

The officer identified the deceased as two white women aged 21 and 33.

December 23, 2012 – Houser and wife separate.

Craft later told CNN that Houser had a criminal record, including previous arrests for arson and a misdemeanor charge for selling alcohol to a minor.

Instead, police said, Houser’s mother sent him $5,000.

“Rusty had an issue with feminine rights”.

Kellie Houser said her long-gone husband called her as she left work on March 30 and asked for her address. He was pretty even-keeled until you disagreed with him or made him mad. Bone said Houser shouted profanities and threats, and told the family he wouldn’t leave.

His first two victims in the 100-strong audience were sitting right in front of him in the Grand Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Hardin said he once partnered with Houser on a real-estate project, but they had a falling-out and hadn’t spoken since around 2007.

What’s still unknown is exactly why he shot up the theater or even why he was in Lafayette at all, since it is about 500 miles from where he lives in Georgia and Alabama.

However, only six years after the court order, he walked into a pawn shop in Alabama and came out while packing a.40-caliber handgun, the one he used in the mass shooting.

“Obviously somebody with this kind of history should have never been able to buy a gun”, Jindal said, noting that Louisiana laws would have prevented Houser from legally buying a gun.

But he never said or did anything that presaged the outbreak of violence.

A month after Houser bought the gun last year, the family that bought his foreclosed home filed suit to evict him.

Houser allegedly threatened his family, who took out a temporary protective order against him in April 2008, according to court filings.

Houser had a history of legal and mental problems. Meaux, who was shot in the leg, told her colleagues that Martin, who was shot in the kneecap, still managed to pull a fire alarm, their former principal Heath Hulin said. “I didn’t hear anybody screaming either”, Domingue said.

A Lafayette group has started a Facebook page encouraging people to counter any Westboro picketing.

At that point, court officials should have reported Houser’s involuntary mental commitment to the Georgia database that feeds the FBI’s background check system, which provides for a delay of up to three days when records suggest a buyer may be ineligible. He splattered paint and human waste all over the walls. He tried real estate in Phenix City.

He arrived on July 2 or 3 and had been staying in a motel, Craig said. In his room, said Lafayette police chief Jim Craft, police said they found “wigs and glasses and disguises, basically”.

Houser’s only known relative in Lafayette, an uncle, died 35 years ago. In an online profile, he boasted that he had made dozens of such appearances. He was opposed to women having a say in anything. You invite people into your home and it’s comfortable.

Houser’s role was limited to call-ins and occasional debates on “15 or 20 episodes”. “I would want a gun-free area in most of the places that I go”. “He had lot of anti-tax issues, and apart from that campaign, he was one of the guys who’d show up to city meetings to complain”.

Mann then ran with a crowd of people into the lobby. We will love you forever.

Both hosts recalled Houser’s political career as a odd, fringe affair.

Houser was raised in Columbus, Georgia, the son of a longtime city tax commissioner who died in 1984. He said now was “not the time” to discuss policy.

“I don’t think I can go inside a movie theatre for quite some time now”.

The violence left the friends and families of two women grieving. He then brought up euthanizing animals.