Gunman in Greenwood Park Mall shooting identified

STORY THIS AFTERNOON THE GREENWOOD COMMUNITY IN SHOCK AND MOURNING AFTER A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE AT THE MALL SUNDAY AFTERNOON LAW ENFORCEMENT IS NOW TRYING TO GATHER EVERY PIECE OF EVIDENCE CAME TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE ALL ASKING AT THIS POINT THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON I'M NICK MCGILL AND I'M BEER SHOW AT MAY WE START OUR TEAM COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON WITH WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW RUSS MCQUAID IS STANDING BY WITH THE GUNMAN'S IDENTITY AND THE TIMELINE HE SAID FOR KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE AND ERIC GRAVES HAS MORE ON THE VICTIMS AND THEIR STORIES ARE GOING TO BEGIN WITH RUSH THOUGH EXPLAINS WHAT AUTHORITIES HAVE ALREADY LEARNED FROM AN OVERNIGHT SEARCH OF THE SUSPECT'S HOME FOR US AND GOOD AFTERNOON OFFICIALS SAY THEY DON'T KNOW WHY JONATHAN SAFRAN MEN THE ALLEGED GUNMAN OPENED FIRE INSIDE THE GREENWOOD PARK MALL LATE SATURDAY SUNDAY AFTERNOON HOWEVER IT SEEMS THE MORE QUESTIONS THAT WE AND INVESTIGATORS ASKED THE MORE THERE IS TO LEARN ABOUT THIS TRAGEDY THIS IS THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE TWENTY YEAR-OLD GREENWOOD MAN WHO POLICE SAY CAUSED SUCH HAVOC WHEN HE OPENED UP ON A FOOD COURT FULL SHOPPERS INSIDE OF GREENWOOD PARK MALL LAST NIGHT WEAVING THREE VICTIMS INCLUDING A HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD AND TWO OTHER PEOPLE WOUNDED WHEN INVESTIGATORS RAIDED HIS NEARBY APARTMENT EARLY THIS MORNING THEY FOUND HE LEFT THE OVEN TURNED ON WITH THE LAPTOP COMPUTER IN A BUTANE BOTTLE INSIDE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION POLICE SAY HE BROUGHT TWO RIFLES TO THE MALL LEFT ONE OF THE BACKPACK IN A RESTROOM SPENT AN HOUR PREPARING AND THEN THE AD HE WAS ARMED WITH A RIFLE AND A PISTOL WHEN HE EMERGED AND BEGAN FIRING MORE THAN TWO DOZEN SHOTS INTO THE FOOD COURT OFFICIALS SAY SAN FERMIN QUIT HIS WAREHOUSE JOB IN MAY HAS BEEN TOLD BY THE FAMILY THAT HE WAS BEING EVICTED FROM HIS APARTMENT AND DIDN'T HAVE A CAR SO HE PRESUMABLY WALKED TO THE MALL FROM HIS NEARBY APARTMENT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NO MOTIVE HIS FAMILY MEMBERS THAT WE SPOKE TO JUST AS SURPRISED AS EVERYONE ELSE WAS THEY SAID THERE ARE NO INDICATORS THAT HE WAS A VIOLENT FOUR UNSTABLE AND SHE VICE AND DESCRIBED ILYSE ADDICTED AND HE'S THE TWENTY-TWO YEAR-OLD MAN FROM SEYMOUR WHO FIRED BACK HE SAID DICKENS ACTIONS WERE NOTHING LESS THAN HEROIC AS DICK IT WITH HIS LEGALLY OWNED HANDGUN OPEN FIRE FOR MORE THAN THIRTY FEET AWAY AND TOOK DOWN THE SUSPECT LIVE OUTSIDE OF

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Published: Mon Jul 18 2022