New York Daily News – by NINA GOLGOWSKI and JOE KEMP
The married couple accused of fatally shooting two Las Vegas cops and an innocent bystander before killing themselves left a swastika-stamped manifesto on a slain officer’s body and warned neighbors of their planned attack days before, it was reported Monday.
A neighbor of suspected killer Jerad Miller claims the 31-year-old openly spoke of his plans to carry out a “Columbine” attack against police before police say he and his 22-year-old wife Amanda armed themselves with “hundreds of rounds of ammunition” and killed three people.
“They were handing out white-power propaganda and were talking about doing the next Columbine,” Brandon Moore told The Las Vegas Sun of Jerad Miller’s alleged forewarning.
In addition to openly sharing plans to kill, Jerad Miller allegedly boasted of his gun collection and having recently attended the armed standoff between cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management which put militia members and federal agents precipitously head-to-head.
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LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT VIA GETTY IMAGESEnlargeOn Facebook Jerad allegedly wrote that “one of the reasons why he was kicked out of the Bundy ranch was because of his criminal history and background,” according to Asst. Sheriff Kevin McMahill at a press conference. That criminal history, said McMahill, was a vehicle theft offense in Washington State.
McMahill said they are now looking into the Miller’s connection to that standoff and whether Jerad Miller “told a neighbor that they were going to go out and kill police officers.”
The suspects had some kind of ideology of “anti-police and anti-government,” said McMahill.
Amanda Miller seen in a photo posted to her Facebook page.“We don’t necessarily believe that they were White Supremacists,” he said. Instead, “they believed that law enforcement is the oppressor” — like Nazis.
After fatally shooting Officers Lyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, while they were eating at CiCi’s Pizza on their lunch break, their bodies were pulled from their booth and onto the ground, said McMahill.
Each was then covered with their own yellow Gadsden flag, which features a coiled snake and the words, “Don’t Tread on Me” — a symbol most recently adopted by the Tea Party Movement in 2009.
LVMPDOfficers Lyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, were fatally shot while eating at CiCi’s Pizza in Las Vegas.McMahill said Jerad Miller also placed a note featuring a swastika on Soldo’s body, “that basically said that this is the beginning of a revolution.”
It spoke about “tyrants” and “suicide,” a law enforcement source told The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Armed with “hundreds of rounds of ammunition” in one backpack alone, police said the twisted couple then marched across the street to a Walmart as though “ready for a lengthy gun battle.”
Jerad and Amanda Miller sans make-up. The couple are believed to be responsible for the deadly shooting of three people in Las Vegas, including two police officers.There Jerad “told people to get out and that this is a revolution and that the police are on the way,” said McMahill.
That’s when 31-year-old customer, Joseph Wilcox, who was standing near the checkout area with a friend, pulled out his legally registered pistol and “told his friend he was going to confront the suspect,” said McMahill.
“He immediately and heroically moved into a position,” McMahill described. Unfortunately, he didn’t realize Amanda was with him.
“Amanda shot him in the ribs area where he immediately collapsed,” said McMahill. Wilcox didn’t fire off any shots at either of the suspects.
The couple then went deeper into the megastore, where one witness recalled a frightening encounter with the gunman.
The witness, Hector Garcia, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he was shopping in an arts and crafts aisle when a man dressed in camouflage and carrying a duffle bag suddenly pointed a gun at him.
FACEBOOKA posting found on Jerad Miller’s Facebook page dated prior to Sunday’s deadly shooting.“Don’t run,” the gunman calmly told Garcia before walking to the back of the store.
Garcia fled the store with several other shoppers who were inside during the rampage. Meanwhile police said they were just paces behind the suspects whom on several occasions they conversed with while exchanging gunfire.
Once the suspects made their way to the back of the store, with Jerad Miller carrying various items from the store with him, “the sergeant at the scene made the determination that they had the suspects contained,” said McMahill.
The shooters reportedly covered the officers’ bodies with a Gasden flag. Officers surrounded the couple who had built a kind of “tactical” fortress around themselves with store items. Amada Miller, who had suffered a gunshot wound at some point, was protectively moved behind her husband, said police.
But the spree ended a short time later when police say Amanda Miller “fired several rounds into Jerad” before turning the gun on herself.
Police said she was still breathing when they got to them. She was transported to the University Medical Center for treatment, but died from her self-inflicted wound.
The couple recently moved to the area from Indiana, but neighbors said they were too spooked to get to know them.
Jerad was often spotted outside the couple’s Bruce Street apartment wearing camouflage when he wasn’t dressed as Peter Pan to go to work as a street performer and typically ranted about conspiracy theories.
He and his wife also dressed as the comic book villians Joker and Harley Quinn, neighbors said.
Brandon Monroe, 22 — who also moved to the complex in the past few weeks — told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he avoided the couple, who were in their late 20s, because they usually appeared to be high on methamphetamine.
Krista Koch told the paper that the couple talked about a plan to kill police officers and “going underground” until the time to attack. But she never took their remarks seriously.
After the shooting spree, police raided the apartment and found swastika symbols amongst other white supremacist paraphernalia.
“We can hope for peace,” reads a June 2 message on what appears to be Jerad’s Facebook page. “We must, however, prepare for war.”
With News Wire Services
Here’s another version (the details keep changing):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/06/09/las-vegas-shooters-had-expressed-anti-government-views-prepared-for-lengthy-gun-battle/
How convenient he happened to be at the Bundy ranch, happened to get caught on video there, then happened to do a mass shooting.
Each was then covered with their own yellow Gadsden flag, which features a coiled snake and the words, “Don’t Tread on Me” — a symbol most recently adopted by the Tea Party Movement in 2009.
McMahill said Jerad Miller also placed a note featuring a swastika on Soldo’s body, “that basically said that this is the beginning of a revolution.”
This did not happen, so don’t believe this crap.