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2019-09-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Seth Ator, 36, reportedly identified as Texas shooter

[NYPOST] The assault rifle-toting madman who killed seven people and maimed more than 20 others in a roving Texas spree was identified Sunday as Seth Ator.

Ator, a 36-year-old resident of Odessa, Texas, was first named as the assailant by CBS News, citing law-enforcement sources.

When his gold Toyota pick-up truck was pulled over for a minor signaling infraction along a stretch of I-20 near Midland, Texas, on Saturday, Ator blasted approaching state troopers, seriously wounding one, authorities have said.

He then peeled off, firing indiscriminately with his AR-style rifle out of the truck as he floored it towards Odessa, authorities said.

Along the way, he killed a USPS worker and hijacked her mail truck, continuing the spree, officials said.

He made his last stand in the parking lot of an Odessa movie theater, where he was killed in a shootout with cops as horrified onlookers prayed for their lives.

Authorities are yet to identify a concrete motive behind the onslaught.

Texas mass shooter had record of criminal trespass and evading arrest

[Washington Examiner] Details are beginning to emerge about the gunman who killed seven and injured at least 19 others during a shooting rampage in Odessa and Midland, Texas on Saturday.

The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Seth Ator, had a criminal record dating back to his teenage years.

In 2002, Ator pleaded guilty to criminal trespassing and evading arrest, both misdemeanors in Texas. He avoided jail time but received two years of probation according to public records, which indicate the crimes took place in McLennan County. Adjudication was deferred in the case, which can be granted to first-time offenders and allows a conviction to be kept off of one’s record.

He also got a traffic citation in 2018 for a federal motor carrier safety violation while in Ector County, the same county in which Odessa is located.

According to ABC 25, Ator was from Lorena, Texas, a small city of about 1,500 people located in the Waco metropolitan area in the central-eastern part of the state. People who knew Ator said that he graduated from Lorena High School in 2001, a school that currently enrolls about 570 students. People in the area said they had lost touch with the Ator family over the past five years.

Ator’s parents divorced in 1987, and his mother and father now live in Amarillo and San Antonio respectively, according to Heavy. He reportedly has one sister, and his family has long roots in Texas.

Related: Neighbor of Texas gunman says he threatened her with rifle last month

Posted by Fred 2019-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 background on Seth Ator here.

Posted by lord garth 2019-09-02 01:10|| 2019-09-02 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Red Flags Everywhere

"Related: Neighbor of Texas gunman says he threatened her with rifle last month" along with recent other red flags in the article. Police were called on these incidents but would not respond.

Former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wacrow called the shooter's actions toward Alonzo "behavioral red flags" and wondered why police reportedly failed to act during a CNN interview on Sunday.

"The fact that a neighbor called the police on this one incident, and they didn’t act, that has to be fully investigated," he said. "That's what we always talk about here at this desk in the aftermath of these crisis situations when we look back at who these people are, and we say, 'Look, we clearly see there was a leading indicator of the propensity for violence.'"

He added, "We need to stop that along that behavioral continuum before someone transcends into an act of mass shooting and it creates these horrific events."

Posted by Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-09-02 05:11|| 2019-09-02 05:11|| Front Page Top

#3 REPORT: Odessa gunman fired from trucking job morning of shooting rampage

Posted by Zenobia Ebbineger7578 2019-09-02 05:22|| 2019-09-02 05:22|| Front Page Top

#4 So was he simply traveling with the weapons because he's an unhinged riminal, or was he going somewhere to do something when the cops stopped and perhaps we all got lucky the damage wasn't worse.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-02 13:42|| 2019-09-02 13:42|| Front Page Top

#5 He was allegedly pulled over for "failure to signal." The cops would never get anything else done if they operated like that where I live...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-02 14:20|| 2019-09-02 14:20|| Front Page Top

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