Once Again a Mass-shooting By Someone "Known to Law Enforcement"

It wasn't the FBI (Funded But Incompetent) this time. But still... Denver, Lakewood shooting spree: 47-year-old man who killed 5 people, injured 2 identified

Police identified the shooter as Lyndon McLeod, 47, and said he knew many of the people he targeted. McLeod had previously been investigated by law enforcement in 2020 and 2021 but that the investigations did not lead to state or federal charges, Denver police Chief Paul Pazen said.

“This individual was on the radar of law enforcement,” Pazen said.

Not that being "on the RADAR" does any good, it seems. This isn't the first time, and it probably won't be the last. Here's a sample, collected by Conservative Treehouse from March of this year, of what the FBI knew ahead of time in face of mass shootings.

• Boulder, Colorado shooter - Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa
• The Pulse Nightclub shooter - Omar Mateen
• San Bernardino Terrorists - Tashfeen Malik
• The Boston Marathon Bombers - the Tsarnaev brothers (in this case they were tipped off by the Russians)
• The Garland, Texas, shooters - Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi
• The Parkland High School shooter Nikolas Cruz
• The Fort Hood shooter - Nidal Hasan

Those are just off-the-top of my head… Anyone notice a pattern?

Meanwhile the political FBI agents chase the ghosts of mysteriously invisible white supremacists conducting random acts of unidentified racism.

In the current case, McLeod knew several of the people he killed. As I type this, not all the details have been released, my guess is that they are still trying to track down next of kin for some of the victims.

The rampage moved from Denver to Lakewood (near to Denver) and included at least one running gun battle with police.

McLeod, who died after being shot by a Lakewood police agent, opened fire in at least six different locations across the two cities before dying in an exchange of gunfire with a Lakewood police agent in the busy Belmar shopping district. Romero did not identify the agent who shot McLeod, but said she killed him after McLeod shot her in the abdomen. The agent underwent emergency surgery Monday night and is expected to survive.

I was sent to look for more information on this story by The Other McCain and Denver Gunman Kills 4, Wounds 3.

Of course, what counts as a “mass murder” in Denver is just a typical weekend in Chicago, in terms of total body count. Is everybody in Chicago having a mental health crisis? They must be crazy to elect Lori Lightfoot as their mayor, but other than that — and the constant gunfire — there are few other symptoms of their struggles with mental health.

Of course that is understating the situation. HeyJackass! which views the latest weekend as running from 12 PM Friday thru 6 AM Monday counted 4 killed and 28 wounded. A typical weekend in the summer would be much worse.

And Robert Stacy McCain has an update on how McLeod was known to law enforcement. Denver Shooting Rampage Update: Gunman Identified as Tattoo Artist Lyndon McLeod, Was Known to Cops.

Denver Shooting Rampage Update: Gunman Identified as Tattoo Artist Lyndon McLeod, Was Known to Cops Posted on | December 28, 2021 | 1 Comment Before the identity of the Denver shooter was known, I’d predicted that we would “eventually be told the gunman “struggled with mental health issues,’” and sure enough, Lyndon James McLeod, 47, “had a history of psychiatric episodes,” according to “multiple law enforcement sources.” [SNIP]

He seems to have targeted other local tattoo artists.

So the motive was revenge, probably for imaginary wrongs. That is to say, the people McLeod murdered hadn’t actually done anything wrong to him, but in his mind they were villains, because they were successful and he was not.

There is more, at both the Other McCain links, the Conservative Treehouse link, and the link to the Denver Post at the top.