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Was 9/11 an inside job?
The more they publicize this crap the more deranged people are going to copy it.
This same thought crossed my mind.
CASSELBERRY, Fla. - A central Florida woman who fatally shot her son then killed herself at a shooting range wrote in suicide notes to her boyfriend that she was trying to save her son.
"I'm so sorry," Marie Moore wrote several times. "I had to send my son to heaven and myself to Hell."
She signed two of the notes "Failed Queen."
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Authorities said Wednesday they still had no motive for the murder-suicide that shocked fellow customers and employees at the Shoot Straight range in Casselberry, about 10 miles north of Orlando, on Sunday.
"We have no clue. I don't even want to begin to speculate," said Deputy Chief Bill McNeil of the Casselberry Police Department.
Son shot in back of head
The gun range's security video shows 20-year-old Mitchell Moore taking aim at a target in a booth when his mother, 44, walks up behind him and points a gun at the back of his head. In the next frame, the son is seen falling to the ground and a nearby patron appears to alert others as he points to the unseen carnage.
The gun used was rented at the range.
According to a police report, earlier footage from the surveillance video shows the mother and son taking turns shooting and talking with other customers in the adjacent lane. "They seem to be getting along fine," one of the responding officers said.
The son died at the scene. Marie Moore was still alive when officers arrived at the range but later died at a hospital.
Woman reportedly had mental illness
Mitchell's father, Charles Moore, told police that Marie Moore had a history of mental illness and had previously attempted suicide and been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in 2002 under the state's Baker Act.
Larry Anderson, a manager at Shoot Straight, said it's unclear whether the Moores had been to the range before, but they weren't regular customers. The range requires that customers fill out a form with a series of questions, including whether they have ever been convicted of a felony or been declared mentally unstable. But it has no way to verify the information.
Anderson defended the range's policies, saying: "If someone acts right, we have to assume they are right."
Based on the writings and audio recordings that he's seen in the media, Anderson said, it's clear that Marie Moore was "bent on doing it."
"Sometimes, like what happens Sunday, you have no control," Anderson said. "There's nothing you can do to prevent it."
Possibly a fringe opinion, but I have no sympathy for either decedent, and pretty much consider this his fault.
Possibly a fringe opinion, but I have no sympathy for either decedent, and pretty much consider this his fault.
Anyone with a history of mental illness has no business holding a firearm. Anyone who knowingly places a firearm under the control of someone with a history of mental illness should be held liable for damages that result, in particular because that person has an established affirmative defense precluding any criminal penalties.
IMO, had he survived, he should have faced criminal negligence charges at minimum, and if FLA has such a statute, felony murder since the mother died.
I consider it his fault in a criminal sense because the mother, having an established history of mental defect, could not have been held criminally responsible for her actions. If the son knew about her history of mental illness, he should not have permitted her to hold a firearm. That he did makes him criminally liable for her actions.