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http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/24/us/louisiana-theater-shooting/index.html
The Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater shooter was 59-year-old John Russel Houser, Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft said Friday.
Craft described Houser as "kind of a drifter" who was from Alabama and had been in Lafayette since early July, staying in a local hotel. Authorities have found various "disguises, basically" at the hotel room where he'd been staying.
Houser fired at least 13 rounds, according to the police chief.
"It appears he was intent on shooting and escaping," Clark said of the shooter. "The quick law enforcement response pushed him back into the theater."
As to his motive, Col. Michael Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police said, "Why did he come here? Why did he do that? We don't know that."
As the previews ended and the lights dimmed for the screening of the comedy "Trainwreck," a man stood up inside a Louisiana movie theater, pulled out a handgun and began firing indiscriminately.
The shooter, a 58-year-old man, killed two people and wounded nine others at the Lafayette multiplex Thursday night before he turned his gun on himself and took his own life, police said.
The shooting comes within days of the guilty verdict in the Aurora, Colorado, theater massacre.
"There's nothing to believe that there was any kind of motive," said Col. Michael Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police.
"We want to talk to the (victims') families first and let them know what happened," Edmonson said. "We owe them that respect."
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