Latest On Odessa Shooting

By Tom Knighton

Yesterday, Texas experienced yet another mass shooting in the month of August. Not the best way to wrap up a month that already had one major mass shooting as it was.

The killer has been identified, and he wasn’t exactly unknown to police.

[Name redacted so as to not give these nimrods any more attention], 36, opened fire with an AR-style rifle during a traffic stop on Saturday and went on a shooting spree before being killed by police.

[The shooter], from Odessa, West Texas, had a criminal record and was arrested in 2001 and charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass and evading arrest.

He entered guilty pleas in a deferred prosecution agreement where the charge was waived after he served 24 months of probation, according to records.

That brush with the law would not have prevented [him] from legally purchasing firearms in Texas, although officials have not said where [he] got his weapon.

Investigators are looking into a possible motive for the shooting rampage – which ended when [the killer] was gunned down in hail of bullets outside a cinema.

This is the latest in a deadly string of attacks that have plagued the United States in the last month. This follows Gilroy, El …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms