A girl stops and checks the flowers at the Sol Tribe tattoo shop on Broadway in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, December 28, 2021. | Source: Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty
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The prime suspect in a deadly mass shooting in and around Denver has been widely described on social media as a white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer who also harbored hatred toward women. And the folks making these claims came with receipts.
After keeping his identity secret for more than 24 hours following a shooting spree in multiple locations that claimed five lives on Monday night, law enforcement officials in Denver finally named Lyndon James McLeod as the gunman who ultimately died after a brief shootout with police.
McLeod had been criminally investigated this and last year for unspecified suspicions, according to reports. However, no arrests ever came from the probes.
He is accused of killing two people and injuring another at a tattoo parlor at around 5 p.m. Monday in Denver; firing shots at a Denver intersection and forcing his way into a home; killing a man at his Denver home; shooting at police while they tried to pull him over; driving to nearby Lakewood and killing another person there; and killing a woman who was in a hotel in Belmar before an officer shot him. Law enforcement, which said McLeod used to own a tattoo parlor in Denver, suggested he knew at least some of his victims and called the shootings targeted attacks.
The Denver Post reported that McLeod may have been dressed as a police officer when he carried out the killings.
The 47-year-old’s motive had not been publicly revealed as of early Wednesday morning, but a growing number of viral tweets suggested McLeod’s alleged history as a white supremacist may have had something to do with it.
A Twitter account for Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists, which describes itself as a group that is “Exposing fascists and disrupting their organizing in so-called Colorado,” tweeted to this writer that McLeod “was a white nationalist.” The group pointed to its own tweet making a similar claim.
Source: Denver Mass Shooter Lyndon McLeod Identified On Social Media As A ‘White Supremacist’ And ‘Nazi’
