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suicidal Washington state man who shot up several police cars and stations complained that the officers were bad shots after they failed to kill him during the rampage
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Hans Hansen was heavily armed with six rifles, a shotgun and a handgun and had access to 20,000 rounds of ammunition after he was wounded in an Oct. 15 shootout with officers in Marysville, Wash.,
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The 43-year-old appeared in court Monday, his eye blackened and a wound on his head from where a gunshot grazed him.
“I wish I was dead," Hansen told detectives during an interview at the hospital. “Your guys aren't very good shots.”
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learning his son was suicidal and a subsequent fight with his wife the evening of the shootout, the money-troubled Hansen started a drinking binge that ended with him loading up his truck with weapons.
The targets were chosen “so he could fire at cars and buildings and engage the police in a gunfight and be killed,
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He left his Lake Stevens home, cops say, shooting up police stations in Granite Falls and Lake Stevens before engaging officers in Marysville in a gunfight. One officer was wounded by shrapnel in the chaos.
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who was wounded and taken into custody, planned to continue his shooting spree at the Navy Support Complex in Marysville if cops failed to end his life.
Photos show the gunman’s truck had several bullet holes through the windshield, and a sticker in back that reads: “Meet my family,” beside images of five guns of different sizes.
Hansen’s cabinet business recently failed, and he learned he’d be evicted from his home. His health was failing and doctors planned to amputate one of his legs
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“This was a very dangerous and violent outburst directed at police officers,” Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Ed Stemler said in court,
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/man-shooting-spree-says-officers-are-bad-shots/nhnpr/
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Hansen is held without bail and likely will be hit with assault and other charges stemming from the drive-by shooting. He’s due next in court Oct. 27.
