Giffords gunman made online rants before killing
PHOENIX (AP) — The man who shot former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was unraveling in the months before the rampage, issuing paranoid, expletive-filled Internet rants about government conspiracies, suicide and killing police, according to new law enforcement documents released Thursday.
The FBI released the documents in response to media requests for investigative files associated with the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting that killed six people and injured 13, including Giffords. Jared Loughner, 25, was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting outside a grocery store in Tucson.
Loughner's deteriorating mental state before the shooting has been chronicled in previously released documents, psychological reports and media interviews with witnesses, but the FBI files released Thursday provide some new details.
Loughner ranted on his MySpace page about the government spending illegal money, how he couldn't trust the police and referred several times to suicide and killing authorities. On Dec. 20, 2010, he wrote: "I HAVE THIS HUGE GOAL AT THE END OF MY LIFE: 165 rounds fired in a minute!"
A week earlier, according to the FBI files, Loughner wrote that he was glad he hadn't committed suicide.
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