A mass shooting is four or more people shot, not including the shooter, at the same general time and location. This shooter knew his victims. Kyle Rittenhouse was apparently only a spree shooter.
The shooter was a tattoo shop owner, shot at a few other tattoo shops, he suffered from psychiatric breakdowns, and he was being investigated throughout 2020 by the police. He was on FBI wanted list because of a book he wrote, apparently.
Alicia Cardenas 44; Danny Schofield, 38; and Sarah Steck, 28, were among the five people killed by the shooter. Police did not release the identities of the other two fatal victims. The shooter, Lyndon James McLeod, 47, was also killed in a gunfight with police. Two others, including a police officer whose identity has not yet been released, were injured in the shootings, Denver and Lakewood police said at a joint press conference Tuesday.
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McLeod previously owned a business, Flat Black Ink Corp., in the 200 block of W. 6th Avenue, the area of the second shooting, state business records show. The records show the business was formed in 2005 and was listed as delinquent in 2017.
Flat Black Ink is also listed online as the publisher of three books written under the pen name Roman McClay that featured a character named Lyndon MacLeod. The books were described in an online review as “an epic, visceral journey into the dark heart of every man broken by society,” according to one reviewer on the website GoodReads. Another reviewer on Amazon called the first book an “800-page Alt-Right rant” and said it featured fantasies about killing people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement.
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- At 5:25 p.m., Denver police received a report of a shooting at a business near East First Avenue and Broadway. Two women were killed, including Cardenas, and a man was injured. That man remained in critical condition but is expected to survive.
- Police then responded to a home in the 200 block of West Sixth Avenue where the shooter broke into the building. The shooter fired at the occupants, but nobody was injured. Police believe the shooter then set a van on fire in the alley behind the building.
- At 5:45 p.m., Denver police responded to a residence in the 1200 block of Williams Street where they found a man shot and killed just inside the building.
- Four minutes later, Denver police officers in an unmarked vehicle found a van that matched the suspect vehicle near Zuni Street and West 13th Avenue. Police pursued the vehicle until Zuni Street ended. The shooter then started firing at the officers, who returned fire. The shooter disabled the officers’ vehicle and drove away.
- Lakewood police at 5:58 p.m. received a report of shots fired at Lucky 13 Tattoo Parlor on Kipling Street. Police found Scofield dead inside the shop.
- At 6:04 p.m., Lakewood police saw the suspect van near a Wells Fargo Bank in the Belmar shopping area. Police tried to contact the van and the shooter opened fire. Police returned fire but the suspect escaped.
- At 6:10 p.m., the shooter entered the Hyatt House in the shopping area and shot Steck, who was working the front desk.
- At 6:12 p.m., a Lakewood police agent found the shooter on foot near the intersection of West Alaska Drive and South Vance Street. The agent ordered the shooter to drop his gun, but he shot her. The agent returned fire and killed him.