Gunman in Capitol shooting identified (32 y/o, lived with parents, "not well")

Source: 9 news, Denver, Colorado





Read more: http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=73833

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A troubled man, indeed. MKJ

The gunman has better lines than television cop show writers. He should have done that instead of being a nut bar and living it.

psychiatric problems. That poor man. My heart aches for him and his parents.

I checked around just long enough to see what leads at the top of the hour and nothing. Zip, Nada, Zero reporting.

I guess the assassination attempt of a US Governor is NOT news worthy.:cry:

It's a Democrat. This could have been an awful shooting, and a governor could have been killed. Oh no, that's not important to talk about on national TV.

News reports say that after the shooting, he went into D.A. mode and took charge. He walked around the capitol and told the tourists, who were now potential witnesses, not to talk to each other about the crime.

It's kinda cool -- I think - to have a pro-active governor, instead of one who would be led by state troopers into hiding place.

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Sgt. Steve Garrow of the Northglenn Police says according to the police report, the suspect told the employee, "Today is the day I will reign. The emperor is coming."


Guess he didn't see Sicko

There was clearly a crazy man in posession of a gun in her store.

She really should have reported him while he was there waiting for the alteration. I would have.

there because he had a gun. She did file a police report after he left.

From the article:'

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"Snyder was a white man with no criminal record, though he's had numerous traffic violations."

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Am I the only one that finds that sentence a bit strange? What's Ms Woodward trying to say? I guess the fact that not only did Snyder have a clean criminal record, but he was also white should come as a surprise? I guess I could be reading too much into it.

Anyway, my heart goes out to his family, this has got to be hard for them.

Aaron Richard Snyder, the man killed Monday at the Capitol, had been diagnosed as delusional and was under the care of a doctor, his mother told Northglenn police.

When Northglenn police got a report Monday from a Mister Neat's store about a suspicious man who rented a tuxedo, they began an investigation. They spoke with Snyder's mother, Kathie Snyder, early Monday afternoon.

Kathie Snyder told officers, according to the police report, that her son had been diagnosed as delusional by a Littleton doctor and was getting treatment.

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He sent an e-mail to all employees of the company at 8:25 a.m. the day he died, according to Rita Davis, Fort Collins police spokeswoman.

"Thank you very much for hiring me. I have not properly identified myself. I am the emperor, the sovereign rule of this nation. God has bestowed this honor on me. Today is the appointed day in which God has chosen for me to begin my reign. I have decided to favour (sic) Advanced Energies as a company. Please keep the Emperor's desk free for my use in R and D purposes when I have spare time. I take engineering very seriously. With love in Jesus Christ, signed Aaron Aurelius Ricardus Constantinus."

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6395729

Three months before his fatal mission at the Capitol, Aaron Snyder legally purchased a Smith & Wesson handgun from Sportsman's Warehouse in Thornton.
Snyder passed the instant background check with flying colors, store manager Jason Perez said today. Perez reviewed the receipt after being contacted by ATF following yesterday's shooting.

"All we know is he purchased it from here," Perez said. "There were no red flags. Everything was legal. He was just like any other ordinary Joe that wants to purchase a gun for leisure or anything else they're doing."

A search of Colorado court records shows Snyder had a half dozen minor run-ins with the law between 1995 and 1997, all of them traffic-related.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5632871,00.html

those people like a friend of mine who congregate on internet and insist they are from the plantagenet family or some other line that had many kings(my friend is a plantangent) and that they are the true rulers chosen by god and they are also of the bloodline decended from Christ.

This REEKS of someone who fell into that.

My friend whos bloodline makes her a "princess" (by some pretty creative geometry) went off to england to marry a "prince" last December. He was also a knights templar so he said.... naturally she came back and declared the man insane. She's back to internet trying to find someone of worthy bloodline to marry again.

From the guys new name, he's one of them. They all do that from what I can tell - decide smth like that would be a derrivitive of their name so decide it's really their true name, and then adopt the name of the bloodline they fall into as their last name.

Below - typical post from one of them - I just googled this one for the first time...
http://www.vanpraagh.com/forum/messages.cfm?id=120459

follow the replies to his post and you see more of them coming out of the woodwork...

there is no other way for me to look at it. just wow...

That should keep the peasants from dropping their shit on your desk..

Jim Rob