A deranged man who fatally shot two people at a McDonald's, then killed himself, left a videotape in his car in which he warned that revenge was at hand for the wrongs the world had done him, police said.
He had recently lost or left his job and his girlfriend had left him, police said Wednesday.Dressed in military fatigues and armed with a .44-caliber pistol, 26-year-old Dion Terres stormed the restaurant around noon Tuesday. He fired several shots as the 20 to 30 people inside dove for cover, then yelled for everyone to leave or get down, and shot those who didn't move fast enough, Lt. Steve Pataska.
The rambling 40-minute tape, apparently made Monday, began with the camera focused on the pistol and an assault rifle, but Terres - lucid one moment, incoherent the next - didn't say anything about shooting anyone, Pataska said.
"He makes reference the world has screwed with him for some time and now it's payback time," Pataska said.
Pataska did not specify the nature of Terres' grievances.
On the video, Terres also claimed to hear voices, expressed admiration for serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, and said he had dug up Abraham Lincoln's body and put the corpse in his bathtub, Pataska said.
Terres was terminated in March from his job with Motorola Inc. and his girlfriend recently left him because she feared him, police Capt. Bob Young said at a news conference today.