Headline Crime
12-29-2021
, 01:05 PM
Denver gunman, 47, who killed five wrote novel using pseudonym about tattoo parlor rampage and ranted online about masculine supremacy: Police release footage of him on spree and say he 'targeted' victims
- Lyndon McLeod, 47, shot and killed five people on Monday night across Denver in what police said was a targeted killing spree
- Four of the five victims have been named; three of them were killed in tattoo parlors and McLeod appears to have been connected to them
- One man was shot in his home, and the fifth victim was a clerk at a hotel he was linked to, police said
- McLeod had self-published a series of fantasy books, and ranted online about the emasculation of men and the need to 'dominate', quoting Donald Trump
- In one of the books a character with his name shoots and kills people at a tattoo parlor
- His social media feeds showed him living in a shipping container up a mountain, where he said he was surrounded by 'books, guns and meat'
- McLeod died on Monday evening after he was shot by a police officer, who was also shot but is expected to survive
The Denver gunman who shot and killed five people on Monday night, several of them connected to the tattoo industry, had self-published a novel in which a character with his name murders people at tattoo parlors as an act of revenge against the world.
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From 2018 to 2020 he self-published a series of novels online, under the pseudonym Roman McClay.
In the story, McLeod the character goes on a six-month killing rampage, killing 46 people who had wronged him throughout his life.
One of his stories also featured a character who carried out a murder at an apartment complex - similar to the site of one of the shootings.
His Instagram and Twitter accounts show he harbored misogynistic hatred, and reveled in alt-right conspiracy theories.
McLeod quoted characters and lines from his books to comment on current events, such as a COVID misinformation meme on Twitter featuring Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates discussing 'an injectable nanoworm'.
Lyndon McLeod is seen in a YouTube video from 2020, discussing the books he wrote under the pseudonym Roman McClay. An online reviewer said the self-published books 'give full vent to their sexism, racism, and every other -ism kept out of mainstream discourse'
McLeod can be seen to the left of the screen walking into the Lucky 13 tattoo parlor and carrying a rifle. He leaves less than 10 seconds later, having killed Danny Scofield
He first killed two women working in a tattoo parlor, then shot dead a man in a home. He went to the site of his former business in downtown Denver, Flat Black Ink Corp - which is listed as the publisher of his novels - and opened fire, but no one was injured.
...Finally he went to the Hyatt House hotel and killed a clerk, before being shot dead by police.
McLeod, who lived in a shipping container up a mountain, glorifying in a life free of women and full of 'books, guns and meat', had Flat Black Ink declared bankrupt in 2017.
McLeod added: 'I consider myself an artist first, and then a man interested in ideas and culture second.'
McLeod, in 2020, ranted on Twitter about emasculated men, and praised boxer Mike Tyson as a role model.
He also quoted Donald Trump as saying: 'You have to dominate. If you don't dominate, you're wasting your time.'
McLeod said: 'Our entire society is made up of sh**** little f**** who insult badasses & get away with it because law enforcement & social norms protect the WEAK from the STRONG,' he tweeted.
'I'm over it.
'The weak better buckle up... s*** is about to get real.' ...
McLeod was shot and killed by police shortly after he killed Steck.
McLeod shot a female officer in the abdomen, but she returned fire and killed him.
She was wearing body armor and is expected to make a full recovery, ...
- Lyndon McLeod, 47, shot and killed five people on Monday night across Denver in what police said was a targeted killing spree
- Four of the five victims have been named; three of them were killed in tattoo parlors and McLeod appears to have been connected to them
- One man was shot in his home, and the fifth victim was a clerk at a hotel he was linked to, police said
- McLeod had self-published a series of fantasy books, and ranted online about the emasculation of men and the need to 'dominate', quoting Donald Trump
- In one of the books a character with his name shoots and kills people at a tattoo parlor
- His social media feeds showed him living in a shipping container up a mountain, where he said he was surrounded by 'books, guns and meat'
- McLeod died on Monday evening after he was shot by a police officer, who was also shot but is expected to survive
The Denver gunman who shot and killed five people on Monday night, several of them connected to the tattoo industry, had self-published a novel in which a character with his name murders people at tattoo parlors as an act of revenge against the world.
...
From 2018 to 2020 he self-published a series of novels online, under the pseudonym Roman McClay.
In the story, McLeod the character goes on a six-month killing rampage, killing 46 people who had wronged him throughout his life.
One of his stories also featured a character who carried out a murder at an apartment complex - similar to the site of one of the shootings.
His Instagram and Twitter accounts show he harbored misogynistic hatred, and reveled in alt-right conspiracy theories.
McLeod quoted characters and lines from his books to comment on current events, such as a COVID misinformation meme on Twitter featuring Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates discussing 'an injectable nanoworm'.
Lyndon McLeod is seen in a YouTube video from 2020, discussing the books he wrote under the pseudonym Roman McClay. An online reviewer said the self-published books 'give full vent to their sexism, racism, and every other -ism kept out of mainstream discourse'
McLeod can be seen to the left of the screen walking into the Lucky 13 tattoo parlor and carrying a rifle. He leaves less than 10 seconds later, having killed Danny Scofield
He first killed two women working in a tattoo parlor, then shot dead a man in a home. He went to the site of his former business in downtown Denver, Flat Black Ink Corp - which is listed as the publisher of his novels - and opened fire, but no one was injured.
...Finally he went to the Hyatt House hotel and killed a clerk, before being shot dead by police.
McLeod, who lived in a shipping container up a mountain, glorifying in a life free of women and full of 'books, guns and meat', had Flat Black Ink declared bankrupt in 2017.
McLeod added: 'I consider myself an artist first, and then a man interested in ideas and culture second.'
McLeod, in 2020, ranted on Twitter about emasculated men, and praised boxer Mike Tyson as a role model.
He also quoted Donald Trump as saying: 'You have to dominate. If you don't dominate, you're wasting your time.'
McLeod said: 'Our entire society is made up of sh**** little f**** who insult badasses & get away with it because law enforcement & social norms protect the WEAK from the STRONG,' he tweeted.
'I'm over it.
'The weak better buckle up... s*** is about to get real.' ...
McLeod was shot and killed by police shortly after he killed Steck.
McLeod shot a female officer in the abdomen, but she returned fire and killed him.
She was wearing body armor and is expected to make a full recovery, ...
