Man planned Super Bowl gunfire, feds say
Angry restaurateur armed with 200 rounds changed his mind in parking lot
updated 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
PHOENIX - A restaurateur angry at being denied a liquor license threatened to shoot people at the Super Bowl and drove to within sight of the stadium with a rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition before changing his mind, federal authorities said.
Kurt William Havelock said in a manifesto mailed Sunday to media outlets that he would “shed the blood of the innocent,” according to court documents.
The documents say he was armed with an AR-15 assault-style rifle when he reached a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, where pre-game activities were happening.
“He waited about a minute and decided he couldn’t do this,” FBI agent Philip Thorlin testified at a detention hearing for Havelock on Tuesday.
Havelock’s father testified that his son then called his fiancee and met his parents at his Tempe condominium.
“He was very upset, he was sobbing hysterically,” Frank Havelock said. “He said, ’I’ve done something terribly, terribly wrong.”’
Kurt Havelock, 35, turned himself in and was charged Monday with mailing threatening communications. He is being held without bail. It was unclear whether he had a lawyer, and additional hearings have yet to be scheduled.
Federal authorities say Havelock was upset because his establishment was recently denied a liquor license by the city of Tempe, like Glendale a Phoenix suburb.
In the eight-page manifesto, Havelock said that the original site of the planned massacre was Phoenix’s Desert Ridge Marketplace near Scottsdale, but that “scum and villainy” are in Scottsdale and that instead he would “shed the blood of the innocent.”
“How many dollars will you lose? And all because you took my right to own a business from me,” the manifesto said.
I find this story astounding. It seems that at the last minute sanity and decency prevailed. Hopefully this guy will get the psych help he obviously needs.
I wonder how often things like this happen.
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This just proves that if terrorists really wanted to strike in the United States it would be extremely difficult to prevent them from doing so. The fact that stuff like this doesn't happen is just more proof that the terrorist threat is grossly exaggerated.
We all knew that, of course.
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The scary question is: How often do close calls like this happen that we *don't* know about? Hope he gets the help he obviously needs.
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Man, all because they wouldn't let him sell booze? Still, at least he changed his mind and turned himself in. Here's hoping he gets help.
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HemlockGrey wrote:This just proves that if terrorists really wanted to strike in the United States it would be extremely difficult to prevent them from doing so. The fact that stuff like this doesn't happen is just more proof that the terrorist threat is grossly exaggerated.
Alternatively, security is just working, and you're not hearing about it because nobody's going to tell you anything unless it fails?
Alternatively, security is just working, and you're not hearing about it because nobody's going to tell you anything unless it fails?
You really think the Bush Administration wouldn't flog a story like that for all its worth? These are the guys who make hay out of catching a guy who wanted to cut down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch.
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Alternatively, security is just working, and you're not hearing about it because nobody's going to tell you anything unless it fails?
You really think the Bush Administration wouldn't flog a story like that for all its worth? These are the guys who make hay out of catching a guy who wanted to cut down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch.
Sure, but I wouldn't expect them to make a big deal out of something like the 30th annual case of "suspicious man caught with box-cutter at airport", for lack of a better example. (and yes, that number is culled directly from my anus)
At least your story was blatantly targeting a landmark.
