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Laffy Kat

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8. Didn't he have a brain tumor?

Reply to Blue_In_AK (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 06:52 PM

Oct 2015

I'm fuzzy on the incident but remember it. The shooter knew something terrible was wrong with him and had been trying to get help. He left a note (I think) pleading for an autopsy. Turns out he had a tumor. ???

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