By Chuck Hustmyre
February 16, 2007
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Crime Library) — He was a lone shooter who went on a killing rampage. No one disputes that.
In just six minutes, armed with a pair of low-tech firearms—a pump-action shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver, technology from two centuries ago—Sulejmen Talovic, an 18-year-old Muslim refugee from war-torn Bosnia, shot nine people, killing five and wounding four, at a crowded downtown shopping mall Monday night before dying under a hail of police bullets.
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| Sulejmen Talovic |
The question is, why? Was it insanity or jihad?
FBI Special Agent Patrick Kiernan, a supervisor in the FBI's Salt Lake City office, has said repeatedly since Monday that Talovic's murderous shooting spree inside the Trolley Square mall was not connected to terrorism. "There is nothing that is throwing up red flags," Kiernan told Crime Library.
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| Trolley Square mall |
In an often repeated comment, Kiernan told reporters: "It's just unexplainable. He was just walking around and shooting everybody he saw."
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