Baldilocks has a story up this morning about a McGuire AFB loadmaster who was killed shot over the weekend. Seems some guy drove to the 22yr old airman’s home on Wed evening (umm, that would be July 4), and shot him in the chest, then killed himself.
The airman, Jonathan Schrieken, is in critical condition at Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
He and his family need your prayers and good thoughts. For that matter, so does the family of the killer shooter.
Authorities have no idea what prompted the shooting admit the killer shooter left 2 suicide notes, but the AP articles doesn’t mention that. Authorities do not know whether the two 22-yr olds even knew each other.
UPDATE: I should have followed the links in Juliette’s post before I posted this. She got the news from LGF. LGF posted an email from a reader who knew knows the airman, and has lots more details about the killer’s shooter’s motivation, which the AP chose to leave out of their article.
[The airman] had been on leave here in Ohio and got back to his home off base and was unpacking stuff from his car when this 22 year old guy walked up to him and asked him if he lived in the house. When Jon said yes, the guy said “not any more” and shot him point blank in the chest. He tried to shoot him again, but his gun jammed. Jonathan made it into the house. The guy then shot himself. Turns out the guy left a couple of suicide notes stating how much he hated the military and he wanted to go out making a statement, so he chose to make his statement on Independence Day trying to kill a soldier.
UPDATE 2: I should never write posts before coffee. The airman is ALIVE, not dead. So the creep is a creep, not a killer.
Did the guy die last night? Last I looked he was in critical but stable condition.
Comment by baldilocks — 20070709 @ 0948
No, he’s alive. I don’t know why I keep calling the creep a killer. Must be the “shot in the heart” part. I think it’s a miracle the airman is alive at all, let alone that he was able to get in his house after the idiot’s gun jammed.
Comment by AProudVeteran — 20070709 @ 1116
The creep is a killer by intent, which is what really matters.
(Since, being dead, he’s out of the law’s way, and we’re only left with the ethical side of things, where intent holds sway over outcome - especially when the outcome is sheer luck.)
Comment by Sigivald — 20070709 @ 1134