Trainwreck Shooter May Have Been Targeting Feminist Film
The Hollywood Reporter ran a piece on John “Rusty” Houser, the Lafayette, Louisiana shooter who opened fire at a screening of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck. THR examines the possibility that Houser specifically targeted the female-driven comedy for his rampage, which left two people dead and nine injured, before he took his own life.
Houser had scoped out the screening room at the Grand Theater before the shooting. Police said he could have chosen one of the larger screening rooms, but did not, opting for the Trainwreck screening that holds a smaller audience.
The shooter also had an issue with women’s rights. “He was opposed to women having a say in anything,” said Calvin Floyd, who worked with Houser on a Georgia talk show in the 1990s. A survivor of the attacks said that Houser began shooting immediately after one of the sexually explicit moments in the film.
Yesterday, police also revealed that Houser had written down the location, time, date, and movie title for the Trainwreck screening in his notes.
Houser was not targeting women in the theater, but seemed to be shooting more randomly into the audience. Of the eleven people injured, six were men and five were women.
Read more at TheHollywoodReporter.
