Killer of 6 Threatened Violence but Wasn’t Believed, Police Say
A man who killed six people in a weekend shooting spree and then killed himself had threatened violence, but friends didn’t believe him because he was such a “nut,” authorities said Monday.
The killer also left a suicide note in which he wrote, “Damn the American family to hell.”
None of the verbal threats by Lynwood C. Drake, 48, were reported, said San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s Sgt. Greg Beuer. The latest came Saturday, the day of the killings.
Drake wrote the suicide note after killing a former landlord who had evicted him, a man who testified against him during eviction proceedings and another man. A fourth man was wounded.
Drake next showed up 40 miles away at a card room in Paso Robles, where he fatally wounded two dealers and a customer.
The gunman had tried to obtain credit at the card parlor and believed employees were against him, authorities said.
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