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Shooting At Louisiana Theater, At Least 9 Shot, 3 Dead, Shooter Dead
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Louisiana movie theater shooter John Russell Houser had history of mental illness, praised Hitler in online posts
BY MEG WAGNER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, July 24, 2015, 12:07 PM
Updated: Friday, July 24, 2015, 2:10 PM
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Lafayette cinema shooter John Russell House had a history of mental health issues, which prompted his family to seek protection against him, officials said.
The Louisiana movie theater shooter had a long history of mental health issues — which once prompted his wife to hide his guns after he made violent threats in an attempt to stop his daughter's wedding — and posted a bizarre Christmas Day rant against the “financially failing filth farm called the US.”
John Russell Houser, who celebrated Adolf Hitler’s “pragmatism” in online message boards, killed himself inside Lafayette’s Grand Theatre Thursday night after his rampage during a showing of "Trainwreck."
Two women died in the shooting, and nine more people were injured
Houser — an Alabama native who was estranged from his family and living in a Lafayette motel at the time of the attack — had a “volatile mental state” and "a history of mental health issues, i.e., manic depression and/or bi-polar disorder," his relatives said in 2008 court paperwork.
COPS: 'DRIFTER' GUNMAN JOHN HOUSER KILLS 2 IN LA. THEATER SHOOTING
His wife at the time Kellie removed all of his guns from their home and petitioned a judge to involuntarily commit Houser, the 2008 documents showed.
The family grew fearful of the 59-year-old dad after he made violent threats, apparently outraged at his daughter’s engagement.
His daughter, 23-year-old Kirbey Ellen Houser, was set to wed 26-year-old Andrew Michael Broome, but Houser felt they were too young to marry.
“He has exhibited extreme erratic behavior and has made ominous as well as disturbing statements” that their marriage would not occur, the filing said. He was living in Phenix City, Ala., and most of his family was in Carroll County, Ga., so he drove across the state line and "perpetrated various acts of family violence."
Houser also took his complaints about the marriage to Carrollton police. Chief Jimmy Bearden said he “couldn’t tell by just talking with Rusty if he was a mental patient or was just a concerned parent,” documents showed.
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A judge granted the family's request to have him involuntarily committed to a hospital as “a danger to himself and others.”
But he was still violent when he got out, the family said. So his wife, daughter and other relatives also obtained a protective order preventing him from coming near them.
An Alabama sheriff’s office denied Houser a pistol permit in 2006, again citing his mental health, the Acadiana Advocate reported.
His criminal history, which dates back to a 2005 domestic violence complaint, included harassment, theft and traffic offenses.
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Houser became a "drifter" after estranging from his family. Last year he was evicted from him home. He later went back to break its windows and put dead fish and feces inside, according to a reporter from WRBL.
Police aren't sure why Houser ended up in Louisiana.
"It just seems like he was kind of drifting along," Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft said. He had an uncle that once lived in Lafayette, but he died 35 years ago.
The 59-year-old was known for his radical, often angry opinions that he spouted on a call-in radio show and his social media profiles.
A former local television host in Georgia said he featured Houser on his show numerous times in the early 1990s because his radical opinions would “make the phones ring.”
Houser’s condemned women in the workplace and encouraged violence against people involved in abortions, said Calvin Floyd, who used to host a morning call-in show on WLTZ-TV in Columbus, Ga.
Floyd described Houser as an "angry man" who made "wild accusations" about all sorts of local officials and topics.
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Police surround the Grand Theatre following the deadly shooting.
More recently, Houser seemingly reveled in the U.S.’ impending “death” and celebrated Adolf Hitler for his “pragmatism” and “accomplishments.”
“The bible doesn't ask me to like what it says, only to obey it. Death comes soon to the financially failing filth farm called the US,” he wrote on Christmas Day 2013, commenting on an article about why women shouldn’t hold leadership positions in the church.
“The end to the modern day Rome comes soon,” he wrote on the same day, citing an article about weak leadership in the church.
On other online forums, Houser voiced his support for neo-Nazism, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported on its Hatewatch Blog.
“Hitler is loved for the results of his pragmatism,” he wrote last year on a stateofmind13.com message board. “There is no question of his being the most successful that ever lived. At this time the US is no more than a financially failing filth farm. Soon the phrase ‘ruling with an iron hand’ will be palatable anew.”
Houser — who acted alone in the Thursday cinema rampage — once posted about the “power of the lone wolf” on a forum for Golden Dawn, Greece’s neo-Nazi party.
“Do not mistake yourselves for one minute, the enemy sees all posted on this website. I do not want to discourage the last hope for the best, but you must realize the power of the lone wolf, is the power that come forth in ALL situations,” he wrote.
Houser earned a law degree from Faulkner University in Alabama in 1998, the school confirmed Friday.
On his LinkedIn page, the 59-year-old described a storied career: He owned two bars in Georgia, flipped properties in Alabama and once persuaded 685 people to buy T-shirts from a phony weightlifting federation, he claimed.
Police are still investigating the Thursday shooting.
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Imagine if this happened during Straight out of Compton
Bruh you already KNOW some Southern Cacs are contemplating that shyt as we speak. That many blacks in one spot gonna have Cacs plottin' like
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This dude was friends with judges and mayors. He hated government
Do you question anything? How does the governor tweet about 1 hour before it happens?
Lafayette theater shooter: Why did he do it?
John Russell Houser -- the gunman in Thursday's movie theater shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana -- arrived in town this month an apparent drifter, estranged from his family, with history of domestic violence, mental issues and "extreme erratic behavior," according to police and court documents.
n 2008, relatives in Georgia accused him of family violence and sought a restraining order against him that mentioned a history of mental disorders, including manic depression and or bipolar disorder, according to court documents.
The documents say that at the time Houser's wife was so concerned about his mental state she had removed all guns and weapons from their home.
And then there was last year when he was evicted from his Phenix City, Alabama, home after causing some sort of damage there, according to the Russell County, Alabama, sheriff.
At some point, he also was apparently arrested on an arson charge, police say, although that complaint may have been dropped.
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A downward spiral
By 2008, it was clear that things were not going well for Houser.
That's when his wife, daughter, her fiancé and his parents sought a protective order, saying they were worried about his "extreme erratic behavior" and "ominous as well as disturbing statements" that his daughter's impending marriage would not happen.
A day after one particularly jarring incident in April of that year -- he'd shown up at his daughter's work and then gone to the home of his wife's aunt and made threats there -- they obtained an order involuntarily committing him "because he was a danger to himself and others," according to the court filing.
According to the filing, Houser said he'd continue his "erratic as well as threatening behavior" once he got out of the hospital in an effort to stop his daughter's marriage.
Interactions with police
Houser popped up a few times in the years since. He appears to have posted hundreds of messages on political forums espousing anti-government and anti-media views as recently as 2013.
That's a year before he was evicted from his Phenix City home, according to Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor
"He damaged some of the property there, and I know he had done something to the gas line and the fireplace, but I do not know the details," Heath said.
He had a few interactions with police in Russell County, including an arson complaint that may have been dismissed, Taylor said, and a request for a permit to carry a concealed weapon that was denied because of that arrest. But none of the issues foreshadowed Thursday's violent outburst.
"He has been a complainant on a few things and had a few traffic tickets, and that's all I have about him," Taylor said.
Why Lafayette?
He arrived in Lafayette in early July, taking up residence at a Motel 6, said Craft, the Lafayette police chief. Why he chose the city or what he was doing there remains a mystery.
The only known link he had to Lafayette was an uncle who once lived there, but he died 35 years ago, police said.
There's some indication Houser was trying to turn things around, Louisiana State Police Col. Michael Edmonson told reporters.
"His mom had loaned him some money. He was going to get his life together," Edmonson said.
Then came Thursday night. Police said Houser had swapped the license tag on his blue 1995 Lincoln Continental and parked it near the theater exit to the Grand Theatre 16, ready for a quick escape. He might have been drinking, Craft said, but there's no evidence of drug use.
He bought a ticket to the show just like everyone else, filed in and sat down. After the movie began, he stood up and began firing, police say.
He apparently tried to make his way out of the theater along with the people he'd just been shooting at, then saw police swarming in, Craft said. Houser then reloaded his .40-caliber handgun, returned to the theater and shot himself in the head as police pushed toward him.
Mindful of possible booby traps such as those set by Aurora, Colorado, theater shooter James Holmes three years ago, police blew out the windows of Houser's car and used a robot to blow open the trunk. While initially suspicious of some of the things they found inside, they found no explosives, authorities said.
Searching his hotel room, they found wigs and glasses -- "disguises, basically" -- leaving police yet one more thing to figure out.
John Russell Houser -- the gunman in Thursday's movie theater shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana -- arrived in town this month an apparent drifter, estranged from his family, with history of domestic violence, mental issues and "extreme erratic behavior," according to police and court documents.
n 2008, relatives in Georgia accused him of family violence and sought a restraining order against him that mentioned a history of mental disorders, including manic depression and or bipolar disorder, according to court documents.
The documents say that at the time Houser's wife was so concerned about his mental state she had removed all guns and weapons from their home.
And then there was last year when he was evicted from his Phenix City, Alabama, home after causing some sort of damage there, according to the Russell County, Alabama, sheriff.
At some point, he also was apparently arrested on an arson charge, police say, although that complaint may have been dropped.
......
A downward spiral
By 2008, it was clear that things were not going well for Houser.
That's when his wife, daughter, her fiancé and his parents sought a protective order, saying they were worried about his "extreme erratic behavior" and "ominous as well as disturbing statements" that his daughter's impending marriage would not happen.
A day after one particularly jarring incident in April of that year -- he'd shown up at his daughter's work and then gone to the home of his wife's aunt and made threats there -- they obtained an order involuntarily committing him "because he was a danger to himself and others," according to the court filing.
According to the filing, Houser said he'd continue his "erratic as well as threatening behavior" once he got out of the hospital in an effort to stop his daughter's marriage.
Interactions with police
Houser popped up a few times in the years since. He appears to have posted hundreds of messages on political forums espousing anti-government and anti-media views as recently as 2013.
That's a year before he was evicted from his Phenix City home, according to Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor
"He damaged some of the property there, and I know he had done something to the gas line and the fireplace, but I do not know the details," Heath said.
He had a few interactions with police in Russell County, including an arson complaint that may have been dismissed, Taylor said, and a request for a permit to carry a concealed weapon that was denied because of that arrest. But none of the issues foreshadowed Thursday's violent outburst.
"He has been a complainant on a few things and had a few traffic tickets, and that's all I have about him," Taylor said.
Why Lafayette?
He arrived in Lafayette in early July, taking up residence at a Motel 6, said Craft, the Lafayette police chief. Why he chose the city or what he was doing there remains a mystery.
The only known link he had to Lafayette was an uncle who once lived there, but he died 35 years ago, police said.
There's some indication Houser was trying to turn things around, Louisiana State Police Col. Michael Edmonson told reporters.
"His mom had loaned him some money. He was going to get his life together," Edmonson said.
Then came Thursday night. Police said Houser had swapped the license tag on his blue 1995 Lincoln Continental and parked it near the theater exit to the Grand Theatre 16, ready for a quick escape. He might have been drinking, Craft said, but there's no evidence of drug use.
He bought a ticket to the show just like everyone else, filed in and sat down. After the movie began, he stood up and began firing, police say.
He apparently tried to make his way out of the theater along with the people he'd just been shooting at, then saw police swarming in, Craft said. Houser then reloaded his .40-caliber handgun, returned to the theater and shot himself in the head as police pushed toward him.
Mindful of possible booby traps such as those set by Aurora, Colorado, theater shooter James Holmes three years ago, police blew out the windows of Houser's car and used a robot to blow open the trunk. While initially suspicious of some of the things they found inside, they found no explosives, authorities said.
Searching his hotel room, they found wigs and glasses -- "disguises, basically" -- leaving police yet one more thing to figure out.
Likely London, but it's almost three years into the future, so it depends.
Well played. Well played indeed.
But not DS2?!?
I already got the physical nikka I need the physicals for all my live mixtape copies
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It's convenient to say he was crazy when in reality he was terrorist.
you legit crazy
shyt probably moreyou think that many people would of died if another dude busted out his DE
abc 20/20 did a mock shooting in a lit auditorium style classroom
the armed attendants winded up shooting innocent bystanders or reacting way too late to not get shot
imagine in a dark theater
