Richard Moreau shot 4 people in Vail. He killed one of them.

[skeptik]

I can't find the mug. Still looking. Got these, though.

VAIL, Colo. (AP) - Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded, police said. A 63-year-old suspect was quickly arrested.

Police said the shooting began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Sandbar Sports Grill, a popular bar that can hold more than 200 people.

There were about a dozen customers in the bar when a man started acting "irate" and was bothering customers, Steve Corr of Gypsum told the Vail Daily newspaper.

He said employees were escorting the man out of the bar when the man pulled out of gun just as he was out of the bar's door.

"I saw a gun, and he fired it off," Corr said. "It looked like he hit at least one. Everybody scattered, pretty much."

Other witnesses said he then re-entered and fired several more shots, about 10 in all.

Authorities identified the suspect as Richard Moreau, 63. He was being held in the town jail.

Moreau, a longtime Vail resident, told the Vail Daily in a 2006 interview that he has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since 1979 after serving two tours of duty in Vietnam in the late '60s. He said he is a New Hampshire native, moved to Vail in 1970 and skis more than 150 days a year.

The dead man was from Carbondale, police said. Injured were three men from Vail, ages 25, 29 and 63. All were taken to Vail Valley Medical Center. Two were in surgery late Saturday, and one was treated and released.

John Aloe told The Denver Post that he was sitting in the bar watching a televised football game when said he heard sounds that he thought "was fireworks."

Then people starting rushing toward the back door and Aloe said from the look on their faces, he knew something serious was happening.

Witnesses had gathered Saturday night at a nearby restaurant where they were being interviewed by two victims advocates.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5570746.shtml

[Pene784]

Why does it always seem like when you have one mass shooting several more follow within the next few days? Did these people snap or did they like what the first guy did and follow suit?

[drkeegee]

Why does it always seem like when you have one mass shooting several more follow within the next few days? Did these people snap or did they like what the first guy did and follow suit?

It seems that way doesn't it. It may be that the 24 hr cable-news cycles tends to exacerbate the situation for folks who are already 'on the edge' ...

And I'm so sure the PTSD defense is going to be used. I don't know enough about psychology to call that defense in this case a sham but I have my doubts.

And even if he legitimately suffered from PTSD it wouldn't forgive his taking of a life. Let him sign up for therapy in prison.

[Hellsbells]

VAIL — Murder suspect Richard “Rossi” Moreau threatened to kill patrons at La Cantina in Vail in 2002, according to a witness in a police report from the incident.

That report was among about 200 pages of Moreau's criminal justice records released Wednesday by Vail Police.In the 2002 La Cantina incident, Moreau ordered chicken enchiladas and a Mexican martini and then began staring at a group of four, middle-aged white males sitting at nearby table, the waiter told police, according to the report. The waiter heard Moreau yell to the group, “You're terrorists” and “I'm gonna kill you terrorists,” the waiter told police.

Moreau was asked to leave the bar and restaurant, but said he couldn't because the men were “going to jump me,” the waiter said, according to the report.

The waiter convinced Moreau to leave, escorting him to the transportation center upstairs, according to the report. When the waiter returned to the restaurant, he was told by one of the men in the group of four patrons that Moreau had said, “I'm gonna kill you. I have a .45 in my bag,” the waiter told police. Mug shot pict after the jump.http://www.vaildaily.com/article/200...ntProfile=1062