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These just keep coming one right after the other. A rented gun and a woman with a mental disorder. I can see Pelozi smiling.
CASSELBERRY, Fla. — A central Florida woman who fatally shot her son then
killed herself at a shooting range wrote in suicide notes to her boyfriend
that she was trying to save her son.
"I'm so sorry," Marie Moore wrote several times. "I had to send my son to
heaven and myself to Hell."
She signed two of the notes "Failed Queen."
Authorities said Wednesday they still had no motive for the murder-suicide
that shocked fellow customers and employees at the Shoot Straight range in
Casselberry, about 10 miles north of Orlando, on Sunday.
"We have no clue. I don't even want to begin to speculate," said Deputy
Chief Bill McNeil of the Casselberry Police Department.
The gun range's security video shows 20-year-old Mitchell Moore taking aim
at a target in a booth when his mother, 44, walks up behind him and points a
gun at the back of his head. In the next frame, the son is seen falling to
the ground and a nearby patron appears to alert others as he points to the
unseen carnage.
The gun used was rented at the range. <== Zoinks!!!
According to a police report, earlier footage from the surveillance video
shows the mother and son taking turns shooting and talking with other
customers in the adjacent lane. "They seem to be getting along fine," one of
the responding officers said.
The son died at the scene. Marie Moore was still alive when officers arrived
at the range but later died at a hospital.
Mitchell's father, Charles Moore, told police that Marie Moore had a history
of mental illness and had previously attempted suicide and been
involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in 2002 under the state's Baker
Act.
Larry Anderson, a manager at Shoot Straight, said it's unclear whether the
Moores had been to the range before, but they weren't regular customers. The
range requires that customers fill out a form with a series of questions,
including whether they have ever been convicted of a felony or been declared
mentally unstable. But it has no way to verify the information.
Anderson defended the range's policies, saying: "If someone acts right, we
have to assume they are right."
Based on the writings and audio recordings that he's seen in the media,
Anderson said, it's clear that Marie Moore was "bent on doing it."
"Sometimes, like what happens Sunday, you have no control," Anderson said.
"There's nothing you can do to prevent it."
CASSELBERRY, Fla. — A central Florida woman who fatally shot her son then
killed herself at a shooting range wrote in suicide notes to her boyfriend
that she was trying to save her son.
"I'm so sorry," Marie Moore wrote several times. "I had to send my son to
heaven and myself to Hell."
She signed two of the notes "Failed Queen."
Authorities said Wednesday they still had no motive for the murder-suicide
that shocked fellow customers and employees at the Shoot Straight range in
Casselberry, about 10 miles north of Orlando, on Sunday.
"We have no clue. I don't even want to begin to speculate," said Deputy
Chief Bill McNeil of the Casselberry Police Department.
The gun range's security video shows 20-year-old Mitchell Moore taking aim
at a target in a booth when his mother, 44, walks up behind him and points a
gun at the back of his head. In the next frame, the son is seen falling to
the ground and a nearby patron appears to alert others as he points to the
unseen carnage.
The gun used was rented at the range. <== Zoinks!!!
According to a police report, earlier footage from the surveillance video
shows the mother and son taking turns shooting and talking with other
customers in the adjacent lane. "They seem to be getting along fine," one of
the responding officers said.
The son died at the scene. Marie Moore was still alive when officers arrived
at the range but later died at a hospital.
Mitchell's father, Charles Moore, told police that Marie Moore had a history
of mental illness and had previously attempted suicide and been
involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in 2002 under the state's Baker
Act.
Larry Anderson, a manager at Shoot Straight, said it's unclear whether the
Moores had been to the range before, but they weren't regular customers. The
range requires that customers fill out a form with a series of questions,
including whether they have ever been convicted of a felony or been declared
mentally unstable. But it has no way to verify the information.
Anderson defended the range's policies, saying: "If someone acts right, we
have to assume they are right."
Based on the writings and audio recordings that he's seen in the media,
Anderson said, it's clear that Marie Moore was "bent on doing it."
"Sometimes, like what happens Sunday, you have no control," Anderson said.
"There's nothing you can do to prevent it."
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