spin: The shooter wasn't sitting around the bar for a couple of hours getting plastered before he ran amok. He just walked in, blew up and started shooting.
news report: Police reportedly are investigating whether a {black} gunman was motivated by prejudice when he opened fire at an Arlington {Texas} bar, killing an employee before he was fatally shot by a customer. Although details about James Jones' racist shouting have not been released, police are considering whether they indicate a hate crime was committed at the Zona Caliente Sports Bar, Customers have said it was not clear whom the 48-year-old Grand Prairie man, who was black, was yelling at.
... they are considering whether trauma from Jones' Army service during Desert Storm may have contributed to any psychological problems.
There's been a crisis in this community from a lot of veterans coming back that have to deal with issues and stuff like that," police Lt. .. "We're looking to see if there were any mental health issues going on."
Perez, the slain manager, had been trying to calm the gunman when he was killed. Another person was injured by flying glass while escaping the bar. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlington/2017/05/06/possible-hate-crime-investigated-arlington-bar-shooting-armed-customer-stopped-gunman
krispos: How many lives were potentially saved by this and other incidents like it? The lesser of the number of people in the bar or the number of rounds of ammo carried by the late Mr. Jones.
A bit of a stretch to label this a mass murder nipped in the bud, kris.
Authorities later found two loaded guns and two knives on Jones,.. "We do believe he had the capacity to do much greater harm," Cook said.
Of course he had the 'capacity' to do much greater harm, with even the two knives, but with just 2 loaded guns, presumably handguns, doesn't look like this was a premeditated mass murder plan. Just a suddenly deranged man temporarily losing his mind.
oneshooter: By Texas Law this was not a "bar" it is a restaurant.
Jackson: Legally, it wasn't a bar...
news report: whether .. a hate crime was committed at the Zona Caliente Sports Bar,
Caliente means 'hot', zona = zone, so 'hot zone sports bar' evidently.
https://www.zonacalientearlington.com/
But, proceed to milk it for you can, eh?
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