嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う in Louisiana theater rampage had history of mental illness
By Kathy Finn
LAFAYETTE, La., July 24 (Reuters) - A 59-year-old man once 入院させるd for psychiatric care was identified by 当局 on Friday as the 銃器携帯者／殺しや who fatally 発射 two people in a rampage at a central Louisiana movie theater before 殺人，大当り himself as police の近くにd in.
John R. Houser, who bore a volatile 関係 with family and railed against the U.S. 政府 online, opened 解雇する／砲火／射撃 on Thursday with a .40 caliber handgun about 20 minutes into the comedy film "Trainwreck," sending panicked theatergoers ducking behind seats and running for the 出口s. One woman pulled the 解雇する／砲火／射撃 alarm.
"This is a normal movie theater in a normal part of a normal town. This is Anywhere, USA," said 共和国の／共和党の 知事 Bobby Jindal, a 大統領の 競争相手 who went to the 罪，犯罪 scene in Lafayette. "This just shows these senseless 行為／法令／行動するs of 暴力／激しさ can literally happen anywhere."
Houser bought the gun 合法的に from a pawnshop in Alabama in 2014, police said, にもかかわらず a history of mental illness and having been 否定するd a 隠すd-carry 許す seven years earlier because of a 国内の 暴力／激しさ （民事の）告訴 and a 事前の 放火（罪） 逮捕（する）.
Police said Houser 行為／法令／行動するd alone and appeared to have carefully planned his attack in 前進する with hopes of making a quick 逃亡.
Before buying a ticket for the 7 p.m. show, Houser parked his blue Lincoln 大陸の 近づく the theater's 緊急 出口 . He had switched its license plates and stashed the 重要なs on 最高の，を越す of a tire. Disguises 含むing glasses and women's wigs were later 暴露するd in a 地元の motel room where he was staying.
"It is 明らかな that he was 意図 on 狙撃 and escaping," said Lafayette Police 長，指導者 Jim （手先の）技術, who 述べるd Houser as an 失業した "drifter" from Phenix City, Alabama.
Houser never made it 支援する to his car. As police 群れているd the Grand 16 Theater, 位置を示すd along a main thoroughfare in Lafayette, he reloaded his ピストル, re-entered the auditorium and 解雇する／砲火／射撃d several more 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs at the （人が）群がる before 殺人，大当り himself, （手先の）技術 said. In 新規加入 to the gun, he was carrying two 10-一連の会議、交渉／完成する magazines of 弾丸s.
Police said they did not know why the 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う 開始する，打ち上げるd the attack in Lafayette, 概略で 55 miles (90 km) 南西 of the 明言する／公表する 資本／首都 Baton 紅.
THREE YEARS AFTER AURORA
The 狙撃 was the 最新の in a 一連の 集まり 殺人，大当りs in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, 含むing the 致命的な 狙撃 of five U.S. servicemen in Tennessee, and the 大虐殺 of nine African Americans at a South Carolina church in 最近の weeks.
The 最新の 行為／法令／行動する of 明らかに 無作為の gun 暴力／激しさ （機の）カム almost three years to the day after 12 people were killed at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado.
It is likely to heat up a festering political 審議 in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs over 接近 to 武器s and the 権利 to 耐える 武器, 保護するd under the Second 改正 of the U.S. 憲法.
大統領 Barack Obama had told the BBC in an interview 空気／公表するd on Thursday before the 狙撃 that his biggest 失望／欲求不満 was the 失敗 to pass "ありふれた-sense gun safety 法律s."
Not counting Thursday's 出来事/事件, a total of 203 集まり 狙撃s have been 報告（する）／憶測d so far this year, によれば the 集まり 狙撃 Tracker website, a （人が）群がる-sourced database kept by the anti-gun group GunsAreCool, which defines a 集まり 狙撃 as any event in which four or more people are 発射.
当局 最初 said seven people were 負傷させるd in the Lafayette rampage, three of them 批判的に. （手先の）技術 said later Friday that five 犠牲者s remained 入院させるd and that four others 負傷させるd in the 出来事/事件 had been 扱う／治療するd and 解放（する）d.
The two dead were identified as Mayci Breaux, 21, from Franklin, Louisiana, and Jillian Johnson, 33, from Lafayette. Breaux was about to begin 熟考する／考慮するs at Lafayette General Hospital to become an x-ray 専門家技術者. Johnson owned a Lafayette gift shop.
Two of the 負傷させるd 犠牲者s were teachers, Jindal said, one of whom told him that she 生き残るd the attack because her friend rolled on 最高の，を越す of her as 弾丸s rang out. That teacher then managed to pull a 解雇する／砲火／射撃 alarm in the theater, he said.
'VOLATILE MENTAL STATE'
Houser had a history of mental illness, によれば police 公式の／役人s and 法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs. A political 保守的な who joined the Tea Party, Houser was 述べるd as a "gadfly" who 発言する／表明するd his 見解（をとる）s on talk 無線で通信する and ran for 地元の political office.
In April 2008, he was ordered not to 接触する his wife, daughter and other 親族s after they とじ込み／提出するd a request for a 保護の order against him in Carroll 郡, Georgia.
In the request, Houser's estranged wife, Kellie Houser, said she 恐れるd for his "volatile mental 明言する／公表する" after he 脅すd to stop the wedding of his daughter and her boyfriend, によれば 法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs. She said h er husband was on daily 医薬s for manic-不景気 and bipolar disorder at the time.
Earlier, Houser was involuntarily committed to a hospital for psychiatric care, によれば 法廷，裁判所 文書s. His family was 関心d he could be a danger to himself and others, によれば the 嘆願（書）.
Houser's wife とじ込み／提出するd for 離婚 in March after they separated in 2012 に引き続いて 29 years of marriage, 法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs show. によれば the clerk of 法廷，裁判所's office, the 離婚 had not been 完結するd.
Houser 適用するd for and was 否定するd a 隠すd carry-許す in Russell 郡, Alabama, in 2006 because of a 国内の 暴力／激しさ （民事の）告訴 とじ込み／提出するd against him by his wife in 2005 and an 放火（罪） 逮捕（する） dating 支援する to 1989 or 1990, 郡保安官 ヒース／荒れ地 Taylor told reporters. He said Houser was known to have undergone 治療 for an 明示していない mental illness while in Alabama in 2008 and 2009.
In 2014, Houser was （刑事）被告 of vandalizing a home from which he had been 立ち退かせるd after a foreclosure but was not 逮捕（する）d in 関係 with that 出来事/事件, the 郡保安官 said.
A LinkedIn page that appears to have belonged to Houser 述べるs him as an entrepreneur with a specialty in 投資 管理／経営. He helped run two 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s in Georgia from the late 1970s to 2000, the page says. His education 含むd a 法律 degree from Faulkner University, a Christian school in Montgomery, Alabama. The page also 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d an undergraduate degree in accounting from Columbus 明言する／公表する University in Georgia.
（手先の）技術, the police 長，指導者, said Houser had been discussing "with a couple of businessmen" in town the idea of 開始 a two-minute 自動推進の oil change service.
Houser was a member of the 保守的な Tea Party, によれば Tea Party Nation.com, and he was a guest host on a now-消滅した／死んだ political commentary show.
A たびたび（訪れる） commenter on PoliticalForum.com, a messaging board covering social and political topics, Houser wrote about 200 地位，任命するs on 大統領 Obama, 税金s and how "the U.S. is about to 落ちる," using the 指名する Rusty Houser.
In 返答 to a thread in May 2013 about the 落ちる of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, Houser wrote: "Truth carries with it an understanding of death. Rather than live without it, I will take death."
Houser also 表明するd an affinity for white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology and wrote about the "力／強力にする of the 孤独な wolf," によれば online activity 特記する／引用するd by the Southern Poverty 法律 中心 and the SITE 知能 Group, which 監視する 極端論者 groups.
Bobby Peters, a former 市長 of Columbus, Georgia, said Houser was a 地元の 行動主義者 who （機の）カム to 会議 会合s and had hosted a talk show where he interviewed elected 公式の／役人s. Columbus is across the 明言する／公表する line from Phenix City, Alabama.
"I'm not going to say that he gave any 調印するs that he was going to do some 肉親，親類d of 行為／法令／行動する like this. Not at all. He was just very erratic," Peters said.
(付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Phil McCausland in New Orleans; Dan Whitcomb and Victoria Cavaliere in Los Angeles; Letitia Stein in Tampa, Florida; Karen Brooks in Austin, Texas; Laila Kearney, Joseph Ax, Angela Moon and Lena Masri in New York; 令状ing by David Adams, Frank McGurty and Steve Gorman; Editing by Meredith Mazzilli, Lisa Shumaker and Ken Wills)
