Posted on 02/07/2008 8:47:18 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
PHOENIX (Feb. 7) - 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.
University of Phoenix Stadium Gene Puskar, AP
Fans walk outside Phoenix Stadium on Sunday, where the Super Bowl was played. Kurt William Havelock, who was angry at being denied a liquor license, mailed an eight-page manifesto to media outlets stating that he would "shed the blood of the innocent." He drove to the stadium with a rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition, but "waited about a minute and decided he couldn't do this," an FBI agent said.
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 thought that the scum and villany place was that town on Tatooine where Obi Wan and Luke met up with Han Solo.
Sounds like there was a good reason to not grant him a liquor license.
“you’ll have to sell your speeder”......
"He was very upset, he was sobbing hysterically," Frank Havelock said. "He said, 'I've done something terribly, terribly wrong.'"
That takes alot of inner strength to come out from the Darkness where he was at. I'll pray that he may find Peace in the light of our Lord.
I’d like to meet reporter Gene Puskar. My last company commander, 50-some years ago was Capt. Puskar. Worst jerk who ever wore the uniform. This is the only other time I have ever seen that name.
Can you imagine if he had gone through with it? There would have been a thread about 15,000 replies long deciding which country he sneaked over the border from.
We have our own lunatics here...Thank God he came to his senses though. With 200 rounds he could have done some serious damage but methinks the place had so many cops there that he would have gotten picked off after 30 seconds.
Yep, your thinking of Mos Eisley spaceport - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy according to old Ben Kenobi.
Still holding grudges are we? ;) lolol
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