Jason Dalton, the 45-year-old Kalamazoo, Michigan Uber driver accused of killing six people and
wounding two others in a rampage on Feb. 20, dropped an apparent
reference to Donald Trump's presidential campaign mid-rampage, according
to a recently released police report in the Kalamazoo Gazette.
In
the report, Dalton says he asked 62-year-old Baroda woman Mary Lou Nye
whether she could help him "make America great again" before killing her
and three others in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel
restaurant. Abigail Kopf, 14, was present there when she was shot in the
head, but survived.
"Make America Great Again" is the Trump presidential campaign's official slogan.
"Jason
advised he walked up to the lady and asked her if she could spare a
dollar to make America great again," the paper quotes the report as
saying. "The woman advised she didn't have the dollar to spend. Jason
stated he shot the woman at this time ... Jason advised he was going to
run away, but then he heard people scream."
"Jason
advised he shot the people in the car and he said it was like it was
telling him where to shoot," the excerpt continues. "Jason stated he
remembers shooting a small person in the head."
However,
it's not clear the shootings were directly connected to the alleged
perpetrator's political views. In the rest of the excerpt, Dalton
describes slipping out of, and then back into "reality" on the night of
the multi-hour rampage, as well as believing he was under the control of
the Uber app.
"There is no connection between any of them, this all appears to be random," Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas said of the victims during the hunt for Dalton. "This is the worst-case scenario that any community can have."
No comments:
Post a Comment