Sheriff: Denver shooter spoke of flying plane into building
Source: Associated Press
Sheriff: Denver shooter spoke of flying plane into building
Sadie Gurman, Associated Press
Updated 9:15 pm, Wednesday, June 29, 2016
DENVER (AP) — A man who killed his estranged wife and himself at a busy downtown Denver office building had become increasingly mentally unstable and was banned from a local airport after he threatened to fly a plane into a building, authorities said Wednesday.
The woman, the former mayor of the small resort town of Buena Vista, filed for divorce in April, and her husband had spoken about the possibility of violence against her, Denver police Cmdr. Ron Saunier said.
The Tuesday afternoon shooting sent panicked office workers scrambling to escape the Alliance Center, a building that houses several environmental organizations and provides shared workspaces. Other downtown buildings were locked down, and people were warned to stay away from the area, which is steps from a pedestrian mall in the trendy LoDo neighborhood near a major transit hub and about four blocks from Coors Field.
The gunman, identified Wednesday as 58-year-old Mickey Russell, shot himself and was dead before police arrived.
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