-Caveat Lector-
The gunman is described as suffering from 'schizophrenia'-- was that
*really* his problem?
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" Stagner had been ranting about "hellfire and damnation" at a liquor
store near the scene of the shootings, said owner Linda Trujillo. She
said Stagner bought a mini-bottle of whiskey and a Gatorade but she ran
him off when he started yelling at passers-by."
<snip>
"The Denver Post, citing an unidentified source, reported that Stagner
had recently been treated for schizophrenia and may have stopped taking
his medication...."
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Man accused of killing 3 gave warning, friend says
The Associated Press
RIFLE, Colo. (July 5, 2001 1:01 p.m. EDT) - The man accused of killing
three people and wounding four in a rampage through an RV park warned a
friend he planned to shoot some people and then himself, according to
the friend, who says he dismissed it as a joke.
Hours before the shooting Tuesday night, Mike Stagner, 42, made the
threat casually to bartender Ted Diaz Jr. at The Sports Corner bar. Diaz
said he had known Stagner to make suicidal threats. "I blew it off," he
told the Rocky Mountain News. "He was always either going to jump off a
bridge or shoot himself, but this morning I was shocked when I found out
it was him."
Stagner, who has a long criminal record, was arrested Tuesday night and
held on three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted
first-degree murder. Police were investigating whether the shootings
were race-related. Stagner is white and the victims were believed to be
Latino. Earlier Tuesday, Stagner had been ranting about "hellfire and
damnation" at a liquor store near the scene of the shootings, said owner
Linda Trujillo. She said Stagner bought a mini-bottle of whiskey and a
Gatorade but she ran him off when he started yelling at passers-by.
The Denver Post, citing an unidentified source, reported that Stagner
had recently been treated for schizophrenia and may have stopped taking
his medication. The rampage began when Juan Hernandez-Carillo was shot
and killed as he talked on a pay phone outside City Market.
Police said Stagner then walked across the parking lot toward the
trailer park, shooting a 19-year-old Mexican immigrant, identified by
witnesses as Anjelica Toscono. Toscono was in critical condition with a
gunshot wound to the head. When Stagner reached the trailer park, he
fatally shot two men sitting outside a small mobile home and drinking
beer, authorities said. Their names were not immediately released.
The gunman walked all the way through the trailer park before shooting
and wounding three more men, two in their car and one outside his home,
investigators said. Stagner then walked back out through the park,
stopping only to reload, police said. As residents fled, Stagner crossed
back to the supermarket parking lot, where police arrested him, city
manager Selby Myers said.
Members of Hernandez-Carillo's family said he had come to Rifle from
Mexico and had been working for a plant nursery. Relatives said they
were trying to get enough money to send his body back to Mexico to be
buried. "He was everybody's friend," daughter Maria Dolores Hernandez
said. His brother, Guadalupe Hernandez, said he didn't think the
shootings were racially motivated. "I think he's crazy," he said.
Over the last 20 years, Stagner has been arrested on numerous charges
including burglary, assault, drug possession and drunken driving.
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