47-year-old Scott ostrem, a resident of the suburb of Denver, opened fire in a local Walmart, can be sentenced to life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
This was stated by the judge at the first hearing.
We will remind, in the evening of 1 November in the city of Thornton, Colorado, åström started shooting at the supermarket on the people. After the incident, he fled by car, but police arrested him the next morning.
Two men — 66-year-old Carlos Moreno from Thornton and 26-year-old Victor Vazquez from Denver – were killed on the spot. 52-year-old Pamela Marquez, a resident of Denver, died in the hospital.
Neighbors described the suspect as «a loner who often carried a gun».
«Looks like he was nobody,» he told the Associated Press Teresa Muniz. «Most residents we communicate with each other, but the University never responded to greetings. Always evil – so it could be called». The woman added that on several occasions saw a man with a shotgun and a bow and arrows.
Investigators also learned that Scott Åström was financial problems, he filed for bankruptcy in 2015. A few times he was detained by the police for minor offences, but it was in the 1990s.
The last two years he worked in the workshop for the manufacture of metal roofs. In the day of the shooting ostrem left the workplace without explanation.
«To be honest, we’re all confused,» said his boss David Heydt.
