Man who killed 2 outside Iowa church faced harassment case

[The Revolution]

Man who killed 2 outside Iowa church faced harassment case

A man who fatally shot two women before killing himself in the parking lot of an Iowa church had been romantically involved with one of the women and faced a court hearing next week on a charge of harassing her, investigators said Friday.

Whitlatch — who had a long history with law enforcement involving women — was arrested May 31 on counts of harassment and impersonating a police officer.

A search of Whitlatch’s truck following the shooting turned up ammunition and a receipt showing he bought the ammunition an hour before the shooting, Fitzgerald said. A search warrant executed at Whitlatch’s home also turned up an AR-15-style rifle, which was not used in the shooting.

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-ames-shootings-religion-805fe095cfb04d5716b9d755849f82d2

I know this wasn't a "mass" shooting, but we really can't do anything about this? If you get arrested for assault, harassment, stalking, etc, you should go on a list that prevents you from buying guns or ammo. And a condition of the release should be that the police confiscate all your registered guns and search for any that aren't, and if they find any, back to jail you go. If you try to buy guns or ammo, back to jail you go. Conviction of these types of crimes or other violent crimes gets you barred from gun ownership for life.

[JI7]

1. ban men from getting guns.

[NCLefty]

4. So realistic. You should run on this!

[Archae]

9. Bullshit!

This is a really dumb thing to say.

[dalton99a]

2. The piece of shit had an AR-15 at home

Johnathan Lee Whitlatch and Eden Montang (Facebook)

Man arrested for putting hands down woman's pants at Cedar Falls bar
Jeff Reinitz Nov 1, 2021 Updated Dec 22, 2021

CEDAR FALLS – A Boone man has been arrested for allegedly sticking his hand down a woman’s pants at a Cedar Falls bar in October.

Johnathan Lee Whitlatch, 32, was arrested Monday for assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. He has been released from jail pending trial.

Authorities allege Whitlatch forcefully placed his right hand down the pants of a woman twice while they were at Deringer’s Public Parlor on Main Street on Oct. 21. The woman later went to police, and investigators found the incident was captured on a security camera, according to court records.

https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-arrested-for-putting-hands-down-womans-pants-at-cedar-falls-bar/article_2243f10b-a4f0-5e89-818d-503928fe6eb7.html

[The Revolution]

3. Yeah at this point even owning an AR-15

Should be a huge red flag.

[Phoenix61]

5. That's what red flag laws are for. I don't understand why they are controversial. nt

[The Revolution]

6. I don't understand it either

Why the GOP/NRA want to protect these people's ability to own a gun, I don't know. Maybe they think any kind of gun law will be a slippery slope toward repealing the second ammendment?

[Demobrat]

7. Any law that prevents the sale of a gun

costs somebody a sale. It’s always about money.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. According to the Gun Violence Archive ...

Snip...the Gun Violence Archive define mass shootings as involving "four or more shot (injured or killed) in a single incident, at the same general time and location, not including the shooter".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/2319447

Source

https://www.kcrg.com/2022/06/03/live-story-county-sheriff-holds-press-conference-shooting-outside-ames-church/

Archive main page

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

❤ pants