A Deadly Fury at a Wanton World

“Don’t kill yourself moron,” says the obscenity-laced and sex-obsessed handwritten note, perhaps scrawled by Aaron Kyle Huff, the man who killed six young people here March 25 before taking his own life.

“Thats the last thing I would want to happen,” continued the note addressed “To Kane From Kyle” -- Huff lived with his identical twin, Kane, in Seattle, where they worked intermittently as pizza deliverymen. The note was released by the Seattle police Tuesday.

“As long as your alive,” the writer continued, ungrammatically, “so is part of me. Ya know, I hate leaving you by yourself, but this is something I feel I have to do. My life would always feel incomplete otherwise.”

Police cautioned that they had not authenticated the note, which was found nearly a month after the shooting, crumpled near a trash bin a mile from the 28-year-old brothers’ apartment. It was released under a freedom-of-information request by a local television station.

Some relatives of the Huffs have told police they do not believe it is genuine.

An investigator consulted by the Seattle Times told the newspaper that the handwriting did appear to match examples of Kyle Huff’s writing. And a weekly alternative newspaper here, the Stranger, posted the handwritten note on its website along with an application for a delivery job Huff once filled out, allowing those interested to draw their own conclusions.

If the one-page letter is authentic, it provides one possible motivation for why Huff opened fire at an all-night post-rave dance party in a house in Seattle’s well-to-do Capitol Hill neighborhood, going from room to room to kill people.

“I hate this world of sex that they are striving to make,” said the note.

“I will always see it as hell. The things they say ‘and do’ ” -- above this line is squeezed in the phrase “they’re rapeing us” -- “are just too disturbing to me to just ignore and try to live my life with, I know this is a short letter and might sound stupid but It would take a book to properly explain this to you.”

Sean Whitcomb, a Seattle Police Department spokesman, said the state’s crime lab would issue its conclusion on the letter’s authenticity in a few weeks.

Asked why the police had released the letter, Whitcomb said the television station, KING-TV Channel 5, “had made a compelling enough argument under the state’s public disclosure laws that when our legal advisor looked at it, he said we should release it.”

The writer of the note referred to people having sex “next to us when were really high to make us freak out.” He said “its just a question of if were willing to be OK” with what he called such “hippie” stuff. “And obviously I’m not,” he said.

“This is a revolution brother. The most important thing to happen since man began,” the letter said at another point. “To let it die out would be a crime.”

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Times staff writer Lynn Marshall contributed to this report.