Gunman, victims identified in Clackamas mall shooting(OR)

kptv.com ^ | 12 December, 2012 | Staff

[marktwain]

CLACKAMAS, OR (KPTV) -

A 22-year-old man from southeast Portland parked his car outside Macy's, rushed into the Clackamas Town Center mall food court and opened fire, killing two people Tuesday, investigators said.

Jacob Roberts' AR-15 rifle then jammed, but he was able to get the gun working again. He shot and killed himself, sheriff's deputies said.

Steve Forsyth, of West Linn, and Cindy Yuille, of northeast Portland, were killed by Roberts, authorities said. A third shooting victim, Kristina Shevchenko, survived and is being treated at Oregon Health & Science University hospital.

Deputies said Roberts stole the rifle used in the shooting from someone he knew. During the shooting rampage, he wore a hockey-style facemask, a load-bearing vest and carried several fully-loaded magazines.

Investigators have since served a search warrant at Roberts' home on Southeast 84th Avenue, and on his car, a 1996 Volkswagen Jetta found in the mall parking lot, but they have not released details about what they found.

One neighbor told FOX 12 she saw Roberts leave his house quickly while carrying a guitar case around 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Dispatchers started receiving 911 calls about the shooting around 3:30 p.m. Roberts parked his car in the mall's south lot near Macy's, then went through Macy's toward the food court, deputies said.

[MtnMan101]

Hell NO !

[Ymani Cricket]

shooting oneself with an AR-15 is a bit of a feat.

[Domangart]

Don't drop the mag. Make sure the rounds are in the back and not creeping forward. Keep the bolt clean. Look at the rings. The space where they meet should not be a straight line. Carbon build up is not good. Do this and you can fire 10,000 rounds without a problem.

[trailboss800]

Or you can just buy a new Sig556 that is as accurate as a good AR and as reliable as a good AK. Unlike the AR, it doesn’t dump waste into the chamber by design.

[JT Hatter]

Thanks everyone. I’m going to print this out.

I better check the ammo. I bought about 5,000 rounds from different places off the net.

[Alaska Wolf]

What if it were diesel?

At $4.10/gal., foreign and hard starting in cold weather? Why bother?

[piasa]

During the shooting rampage, he wore a hockey-style facemask

Interesting wording. Hockey-style? It's either a hockey facemask or it's something else.

Hmm,mmm,mmm... wonder what it could be, that the press wouldn't want to say?

[BO Stinkss]

1. drives a Volkswagen Jetta
2. carrying a guitar case
3. double earrings
4. effeminate looking

I suspect he’s a self loathing sodomite

[jim_trent]

> an AR-15 that jammed? Is this a problem with the rifle?

I noticed the same thing. My experience has been that most magazine fed semi-autos work better with one or two rounds less than what they claim (say 13 rounds in a 14 round magazine or 28 rounds in a 30 round magazine). My bet is that they loaded them up fully (and maybe even one or two rounds extra) without trying them for function.