A man accused of killing at least 6 people in Kalamazoo was an Uber driver who picked up fares between shootings, reports CNN. The rampage continued for seven hours, according to their source, and Jason Brian Dalton was still looking for fares after he was done. One even joked with him: “you’re not the shooter, are you?
“For all intents and purposes, he was your average Joe. This was random,” said Hadley.
Getting appeared to struggle at times for the right words, if there were any, at Sunday’s news conference.
“There is this sense of loss, anger (and) fear,” he said. “On top of that, how do you tell the families of these victims that they were not targeted for any other reason than they were a target?”
Reading stories about this guy, (taken alive, obviously) I’m struck by how obvious and shopworn the “lone white gunman” stock story is getting. Lots of mental health speculation, he-was-a-good-boy, what could possibly happened with this guy, “Average Joe”, etc.