Family Blames Gun-Seller for Murderous Rampage [View all]

[The Straight Story]

Family Blames Gun-Seller for Murderous Rampage

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - A pawn shop sold a handgun to a schizophrenic man who used it 2 weeks later to shoot to death a Peruvian exchange student, the girl's family says.

Erik Ayala, 24, killed 17-year-old Martha Paz de Noboa Delgado and another person outside The Zone nightclub, wounded seven - mostly exchange students - then shot himself in the head in January 2009.

Ayala bought the 9mm pistol on Jan. 9, 2009, and went on his shooting rampage on Jan. 24, according to the complaint in Multnomah County Court.

Noboa's family says 99 Pawn & Guns, which sold Ayala the gun, should have known that he had a history of mental illness and was a danger to himself and others.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/10/42908.htm

Here is the filing, they are saying the gun shop should have trained their people to recognize depression...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/10/PawnShop.pdf