3 dead after random shooting at Colorado Walmart, suspect still at-large
The man wanted for a deadly shooting at a Walmart in Colorado on Wednesday night has been identified by police as 47-year-old Scott Ostrem.
He fled the scene in a red Mitsubishi Mirage and is still at large, according to the Thornton Police Department. He should be considered “armed and dangerous,” police said.
Two men and one woman were killed in what police say was a "random" shooting.
The suspect was wearing a black jacket, maroon shirt and jeans when he nonchalantly walked in the front door of the Walmart in the Denver suburb of Thornton and opened fire with a handgun, randomly targeting people in the front of the store near the registers. Ostrem then exited the store, got into a car and drove away, police said after reviewing security footage from the store.
Amid an ongoing manhunt for the gunman, police released a surveillance photo of the suspect and his car late Wednesday.
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No Trump tweets yet on this act of terror but we will keep our eyes open for it.
To soon to tell if it was an act of terror at this point.
Is it wrong for Trump to comment about the attack in NY by a radical Muslim follower of ISIS?
It is highly unlikely this Walmart shooting was a terrorist attack.
But it is "just like" a terrorist attack, isn't it? Random shooting, no warning, no causal factors.
Aren't these Americans just as dead even though it was not jihadist?
To think, in Colorado they have the "Make My Day Law" and, there were no good guys with guns to stop him.
We will get him this isn't Chicago where this crap goes unpunished.
ever incident like this results in the same dialog.
take away the guns... protect yourself....
nothing changes, nothing is done and the next incident we well all say the same hing.
insanity at it's finest.
No, it means that Chicago, people are murdering each other at an alarming rate, so alarming that it has become passé on the news. While people complain about cop shootings across the U.S., the numbers are nowhere near Chicago's murder numbers-and very few people are talking about that.
Ever been to Miami? Philadelphia? White male, anyone want to guess if tRump even notices.
As long as people are willing to do this sort of thing there will always be a place they can do it. If a cop was stationed in the front door he would have simply been the first target. Police regardless of their favorite motto are not there to serve and protect, they are on the job to enforce the law and if in that exercise they can protect they will. It is just like being a pedestrian, if you are not observant of your surroundings you might become a victim.
How come in states like Colorado with the "Make My Day Laws" shootings seem to be more often instead of less often? It seems that if they have such a law that people would be less likely to pull a gun on someone or, walk into a theatre since according to people like you, with such laws in place there will be more "good people with guns", seems to be just the opposite is true.
Mainly when this shit happens I advocate for more mental health help for the mentally ill, that doesn't infringe on anyone's rights that I know of. And America sure needs it.
And nothing changes. See ya next time.
No, bigots are the ones that believe 'Chicago' is a buzz word for 'Blacks'. Right now it's a buzzword for shootings.
Like California? New York? Illinois? Where are you talking about besides Colorado?
Florida, Texas, Nevada.
They were probably hiding behind the customer service desk....wetting themselves
Seriously dude? Umm....maybe the reason "WE" will get him is because they have an name and picture of the suspect!.....duh!
Why hasn't he called NYC's mayor or the state's governor? Why is he politically attacking the one of that state's senators? Why is he such a piece of shit?
Obama remained quiet about the problem...and what is Mayor Rahm doing about it?
Play the race whenever you think it will work, but it doesn't in this case.
I think you're confusing Colorado's Make My Day Law (called the Castle Doctrine in other states) with the Stand Your Ground Law (nicknamed the Make My Day law).
I'm sure you will. You all still need your daily freakout.
Said the crusted old pot to the clean, shiny kettle.
The best to all involved.
I'm actually surprised we dont see more of this considering the amount of untreated mental illness and the number of guns floating around in America in non responsible hands.
Issues which nothing is ever done about.
So of course we can expect more of this.
I'm sure that we will find out that he purchased his gun legally and had never been adjudicated for mental illness.
Liberals seem to think that treating mental illness is quick and easy, and that the fix is permanent. They will lament about lack of funding
Meanwhile, we know more about the NY terrorist than we do about the Las Vegas shooter. Why has that story gone eerily quiet??
You seem to know a lot about how liberals think. Do you know what us independant think as well ?
Mental illness is rampant this country yet it is totally underfunded and ignored for the most part.
You are correct about most mental illnesses being temporary though, many times once the chemical imbalance is corrected (usually by medications) the insane person returns to normal.
And even if this individual did buy his gun legally there are millions of guns in irresponsible people hands who for a quick few bucks could be anyone's.
But lets ignore all that shall we and focus on something else. This is too complicated to solve.
It really is and I dont see it changing.
I thought it was because he's dead.
It was a terrorist attack, plain and, simple. You don't open up with guns that have bump stocks on them on a crowd of people unless you are intending to create terror, that makes it terrorism and, you don't have to be a Muslim to be a terrorist.
News reports seldom if ever open a story only to say they know nothing, are we now going to have an Alex Jones moment?
You mentioned his race.
That statement was racist.
You of all people ought to understand your own "buzzwords" like "white".
Nobody is arguing with that, but WHY has the investigation and all the people involved in it gone so silent, like there is something to cover up?
Who's Alex Jones?
I wouldn't say that. They "banned" a flag.
It all went to hell in a hand-basket in Michigan when we decided we couldn't afford to operate all the State Mental institutions and shut them down. Homelessness immediately shot up, jails started to fill up, shelters became overloaded, petty crime went up.
They were not the most pleasant of places but they served a purpose. Our current system is obviously failing.
The same thing happened in a town I lived in as a kid. Raygun shut down the mental health hospitals and the insane flooded our streets. Crime shot up and people started locking everything up.
I guess there was a price to pay saving that money. We paid it for years. Slowly things got back to normal in the town but it took years for those people to find other help, move on or end up behind bars for something.
Now it isn't much better there is still a shortage of help for the millions of mentally ill people in this country.
I guess there is still a price to pay. And some people pay it for us all.
Reagan was shutting down Mental Hospitals in your town? I wonder why he picked your town? Or maybe it wasn't Reagan?
In 1967, Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS), which went into effect in 1969 and quickly became a national model. Among other things, it prohibited forced medication or extended hospital stays without a judicial hearing.
Yeah it was the boggy man. LOL
So Congress stopped the funding.
So, take it a step farther.......why was it signed into law? Court battles against the entire Mental Health System in the U.S.?
Yiu forgot to mention that the bill was a bipartisan effort. And if you read it it did not defund mental health hospitals but limited involuntary commitment. Voluntary commitments were still allowed as were commitments brcause of criminal convictions.
Usually these killers are quite sane, know right from wrong, and evilly decide to chose wrong, and KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHY. Most criminals are legally and medically sane, they simply chose to commit crimes.
Because the Democrats in their idiocy thought being locked up was cruel, and wanted the mentally ill to be mainstreamed back into the broader society. It's all there in the historical record, but I am not going to look it up for you.
The gun was burning a hole in his pocket. Itchy trigger finger brought on by gun love.
I’m glad it wasn’t a UHaul rental truck burning a hole in his pocket.
What's the use of having a nice pistol if you can't shoot somebody with it?
What's the use of renting a truck if you can't run someone down with it?
Please don't ever buy a gun.
Colorado seems to have some pretty high profile mass shootings in their history. Mass murder with U-Hauls - not so much.
Now "that" ..... is good one.
Bravo!
Yeah "Love Gun" ...... i enjoyed that tune back in the day .......
Wow, the venom is especially voluminous today but like usual problems with your comments inevitably arise.
First all Love Gun wasn't Gene Simmons song. Paul Stanley wrote, produced and sang the song. Simmons had nothing to do it.
Second i realize you are probably more of Iggy Azalea fan since she doesn't write songs about genitalia you hate but but rather about genitalia you love but no worries. Comment removed for skirting [ph]
Lastly, no cares what you think about "Love Gun" except you. I know i don't.
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The person in question isn't very bright.
Bright enough i think, she's just really pissed off at certain things in this world ...... like most men ..... specifically white men for some reason. Now if you're a conservation white male?
Fahgetaboutit!
More like some perceived slight or need to be something other than an invisible loser, in another place he would throw acid or some other equally barbarous action.
No, he just wanted to kill some people. The gun was the tool. He could have used a truck.
Very likely he is a liberal, as almost all the mass killers have been.
Though I hate to draw the conversation away from the standard politics, race, religion aspects I would like to express my condolences the friends and family of the dead and injured.
I also hope that this pos had some cause or ideal for this crime cause otherwise this shit just doesn't make sense to me.