Houston gunman had 2 weapons, thousands of rounds at scene

HOUSTON (AP) — A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said.

Nine people were injured during Monday morning's shootings on the street in front of a condo complex; six were shot and three had eye injuries from flying glass. One person was in critical condition and another in serious condition, officials said.

Houston Homicide Capt. Dwayne Ready and Interim Police Chief Martha Montalvo did not identify the man and did not have information about a motive. A bomb-squad robot examined a Porsche that police said belonged to the gunman; Texas motor vehicle records in a commercially available database showed the car is licensed to Nathan DeSai at an address in the condo complex.

The property manager of the condo complex also confirmed that police were going through DeSai's residence, where Ready said vintage military items dating to the Civil War and other guns were found in the man's apartment.

Authorities first received reports of the shootings about 6:30 a.m., and the man began firing at officers when they arrived. The man had two legally purchased guns — a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a semi-automatic rifle commonly known as a Tommy gun —and an unsheathed knife, Ready said. He also noted that there were 75 spent casings at the scene, which were from officers and the gunman.

Ready said nine officers — five with the Houston Police Department and four with two other local agencies — "engaged the suspect who was shooting randomly at passersby as well as anybody he could put his sights on."

During the shootout, one driver was shot and one of the officers "left cover to take that citizen to safety while the other officers engaged the subject," he said.

Mayor Sylvester Turner told KTRK-TV in Houston that DeSai was a lawyer who was "disgruntled" and was "either fired or had a bad relationship with this law firm." But DeSai's former law partner, Kenneth McDaniel, disputed that assertion, saying they jointly closed their 12-year-old law firm in February due to economic conditions related to Houston's energy industry downturn.

McDaniel also said he hadn't had contact with DeSai lately and that police called him Monday morning to check on his safety, though they didn't explain why.

nicko wrote:Whats a"bread"   nutter?     does he steal bread,     fcuk loaves?

Ben Reilly wrote:Oh, it's always a mental health issue, or it's only a few, or Christianity is a religion of peace. Stop appeasing these barbarians, because the truth is always simple.

sassy wrote:You aren't?

The Christian Identity movement specifically combines white supremacist ideology with Christianist terrorism, arguing that violence against non-WASPs is ordained by God and that white Anglo Saxon Protestants are God’s chosen people. The modern Christian Identity movement in the U.S. has been greatly influenced by the Ku Klux Klan—an organization that has committed numerous acts of terrorism over the years—and in the 1970s, new Christian Identity groups like the Aryan Nations and the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) emerged. Another Christian Identity group of recent decades has been the Phineas Priesthood, whose members have been involved in violent activities ranging from abortion clinic bombings to bank robberies (mainly in the Pacific Northwest). On November 28, 2014, Phineas Priesthood member Larry Steven McQuilliams went on a violent rampage in Austin, Texas—where he fired over 100 rounds at various targets (including a federal courthouse, the local Mexican Consulate building and a police station) before being shot and killed by police.

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/6_modern_day_christian_terrorist_groups_our_media_conveniently_ignores_partner/

Ben Reilly wrote:

HOUSTON (AP) — A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said.

Nine people were injured during Monday morning's shootings on the street in front of a condo complex; six were shot and three had eye injuries from flying glass. One person was in critical condition and another in serious condition, officials said.

Houston Homicide Capt. Dwayne Ready and Interim Police Chief Martha Montalvo did not identify the man and did not have information about a motive. A bomb-squad robot examined a Porsche that police said belonged to the gunman; Texas motor vehicle records in a commercially available database showed the car is licensed to Nathan DeSai at an address in the condo complex.

The property manager of the condo complex also confirmed that police were going through DeSai's residence, where Ready said vintage military items dating to the Civil War and other guns were found in the man's apartment.

Authorities first received reports of the shootings about 6:30 a.m., and the man began firing at officers when they arrived. The man had two legally purchased guns — a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a semi-automatic rifle commonly known as a Tommy gun —and an unsheathed knife, Ready said. He also noted that there were 75 spent casings at the scene, which were from officers and the gunman.

Ready said nine officers — five with the Houston Police Department and four with two other local agencies — "engaged the suspect who was shooting randomly at passersby as well as anybody he could put his sights on."

During the shootout, one driver was shot and one of the officers "left cover to take that citizen to safety while the other officers engaged the subject," he said.

Mayor Sylvester Turner told KTRK-TV in Houston that DeSai was a lawyer who was "disgruntled" and was "either fired or had a bad relationship with this law firm." But DeSai's former law partner, Kenneth McDaniel, disputed that assertion, saying they jointly closed their 12-year-old law firm in February due to economic conditions related to Houston's energy industry downturn.

McDaniel also said he hadn't had contact with DeSai lately and that police called him Monday morning to check on his safety, though they didn't explain why.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-shoot-active-shooter-strip-mall-houston-125005467.html



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The Devil, You Know wrote:

sassy wrote:You aren't?

The Christian Identity movement specifically combines white supremacist ideology with Christianist terrorism, arguing that violence against non-WASPs is ordained by God and that white Anglo Saxon Protestants are God’s chosen people. The modern Christian Identity movement in the U.S. has been greatly influenced by the Ku Klux Klan—an organization that has committed numerous acts of terrorism over the years—and in the 1970s, new Christian Identity groups like the Aryan Nations and the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) emerged. Another Christian Identity group of recent decades has been the Phineas Priesthood, whose members have been involved in violent activities ranging from abortion clinic bombings to bank robberies (mainly in the Pacific Northwest). On November 28, 2014, Phineas Priesthood member Larry Steven McQuilliams went on a violent rampage in Austin, Texas—where he fired over 100 rounds at various targets (including a federal courthouse, the local Mexican Consulate building and a police station) before being shot and killed by police.

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/6_modern_day_christian_terrorist_groups_our_media_conveniently_ignores_partner/

can you show where he pledged allegiance to any of those groups?

Huffington Post wrote:We don’t hate people because of their race, I mean, we’re a Christian organization,” Frank Ancona, the group’s Imperial Wizard, told Virginia’s NBC 12 on Thursday.

Original Quill wrote:America's first terrorist group, the ku klux klan, was a Christian group:

Huffington Post wrote:We don’t hate people because of their race, I mean, we’re a Christian organization,” Frank Ancona, the group’s Imperial Wizard, told Virginia’s NBC 12 on Thursday.

eddie wrote:From what I've seen and read, white Christian groups in the USA (not so over here) are very aggressive.

Isn't the Ayran brotherhood, a Christian group?  

The Devil, You Know wrote:

Original Quill wrote:America's first terrorist group, the ku klux klan, was a Christian group:

and a democrat one

Lee Atwater wrote:You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

The Devil, You Know wrote:
he may or may not have said that but it would not have been out of character to utter it.

one LBJ rumour is  where he fucked kennedy in the head after he had been shot.
that one was doing the rounds way back in the 60's

eddie wrote:He fucked him in the head? Literally?

Of all of our presidents, his Administration is outstanding. Whereas one president might boast of one piece of legislation, or another president might boast as our beloved Dwight Eisenhower did, of the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. Well, the 1957 Civil Rights Bill compared to 1964 Civil Rights Bill was merely a sliver and yet Mr. Johnson created, or helped Kennedy to create and saw to the enactment of the 1964 Act. And it was Mr. Johnson who conceived the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, with its attendant business about juries and selections and so forth. Mr. Johnson’s emphasis on the right of an American to vote and his acceptance of the idea that federal registrars ought to be sent into counties which have demonstrated since Reconstruction days as they had practically—they had done everything to discourage Negroes from registering to vote.

eddie wrote:Have they discovered he wasn't white/Christian/nutjob or all three?
I'll correct it if needs be. I hadn't checked.

Tommy Monk wrote:This man was of Indian origin... and his name 'Desai' is a common hindu name...


There is nothing in the op article, or any other articles i have seen, that says he was white, or Christian, or any reference to Jesus being his motivation...


And I'm still waiting for someone to provide any evidence of the claim that he was wearing any 'Nazi emblem/insignia' on his jacket...?



But it is a handy bit of bullshit to divert attention away from the recent spate of terrorist attacks by the Muslims...

eddie wrote:Have they discovered he wasn't white/Christian/nutjob or all three?
I'll correct it if needs be. I hadn't checked.

eddie wrote:I've changed the title of the thread to the heading that's given in the link.

Tommy Monk wrote:
Why do some on here behave so weirdly/angrily/hostile towards others here for talking about terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims in the name of their religious beliefs...!?


But they never seem to be angry at the Muslims who carried out the attacks...?


In fact... they always seem to be trying their hardest to put up denialis/deflections/excuses around every single one of the attacks instead...!


They never seem to show any concern for the victims of any of the attacks either... unless they are able to find a story about how a Muslim was slightly injured/inconvenienced in some way... and only then will they make a big point of making a point out of any of it at all... they usually just try to tell us about how Muslims are the real victims by what the negative press is doing to their 'reputation/image'...!

Raggamuffin wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:This man was of Indian origin... and his name 'Desai' is a common hindu name...

There is nothing in the op article, or any other articles i have seen, that says he was white, or Christian, or any reference to Jesus being his motivation...

And I'm still waiting for someone to provide any evidence of the claim that he was wearing any 'Nazi emblem/insignia' on his jacket...?

But it is a handy bit of bullshit to divert attention away from the recent spate of terrorist attacks by the Muslims...

It's just "revenge" for the threads about Muslims. However, there's no need for Ben for pick on another religion in order to defend another, or to lie about an incident.

eddie wrote:Major you really chat shit.

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

It's just "revenge" for the threads about Muslims. However, there's no need for Ben for pick on another religion in order to defend another, or to lie about an incident.

I think it's a legitimate point.  It's called analogy.  You analogize by juxtaposing another (in this case) religion, and see if the same values appertain.  Good argument form, I say, because it teaches us to think rationally and abstractly, rather than just considering whose ox is being gored.