Carlsbad Elementary Gunman: “Kill Obama and kill all the little fags!”

By Jim Burroway-

A lone gunman burst onto the playground at Kelly Elementary school in Carlsbad, California last Friday. Two girls were shot, but fortunately neither were seriously injured. Brendan Liam O’Rourke, 41, was restrained by witnesses as he fumbled to reload his pistol. He was arrested and charged with six counts of attempted murder.

The San Diego CBS affiliate covered the schools’ back-to-school rally today to begin the healing process for the shaken students, including the two girls who were wounded. CBS8 also interviewed Stephanie Durkee, a campus monitor who was instrumental in restraining O’Rourke. She told CBS8 what O’Rourke said as he entered the playground:

When he first came over the fence and was shooting the kids, he was screaming, “Kill Obama and kill all the little fags! Death to them!” That’s what he was saying as he was in amongst the kids shooting.

Vickie Rowe Mitchell lives just below O'Rourke's apartment. She says over the past six months he had become increasingly agitated, including stomping on the floor and yelling obscenities and racial epithets. "I felt it in my soul that man was going to do something, I felt it," she said.

Inside O'Rourke's bedroom are the words "Christians" and "To destroy". Vickie says she knows what the message means. "'Christians Unite to Destroy'… as soon as you said that I was like, oh my God, he used to say that too. I really feel like it could have been avoided. I feel like something could have been done more," Mitchell said.

Neighbors say O'Rourke was angry because he had just received an eviction notice with a December move-out date. Also, authorities say he recently applied for a security guard's job and was denied. Records show O'Rourke has a valid license to hold that type of job.

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