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

“It wasn’t to die in this theater”, said Col. Michael Edmonson, of the Louisiana State Police. One victim “played dead to stay alive”, according to Jindal.

Houser made the local news in LaGrange in 2000 after he was arrested on three counts of selling alcohol to minors at his bar, Rusty’s Buckhead Pub.

Houser visited the theater a couple of times. The man who lives there now was shocked to learn this.

Local ambulance services say that eight people were taken to hospital. City Marshal Brian Pope told the newspaper that the shooter committed suicide after the incident.