Lyndon James McLeod, 47, knew most of the people he shot in several locations around the metro area, through business or personal relationships, police have said.
Mourners gather outside the door of a tattoo parlor along South Broadway, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021 in Denver, one of the scenes of a shooting spree that left six people dead—including the suspected shooter Monday evening—and left two more people wounded. The spree spread from the core of Denver to the western suburb of Lakewood where the suspect was shot and killed by police near a busy intersection in a bustling shopping district.
In the first novel, written under a pen name of Roman McClay, a character named Lyndon stalks a poker party held by a character named “Michael Swinyard” and gains access to a building near Cheesman Park by posing as a police officer. He then fatally shoots everyone at the party and robs them before fleeing with his dog in a van.
Cardenas, a 44-year-old tattoo artist, was among his first victims in Monday’s rampage. She was killed at her tattoo shop, along with another woman, Alyssa Gunn, 35, on Monday. A man who was also wounded there is expected to survive, police said. He was identified by friends and customers as Gunn’s husband, James Maldonado, a piercer there.
Cardenas, whose daughter is 12 years old, described herself as a “proud Indigenous artist” who also painted murals. Steck graduated this year from Metropolitan State University with a bachelor’s degree of fine art in communication design. She was known among her co-workers at the hotel, where she also worked while in school, for her infectious laugh and love of kittens, art and music, The Denver Post reported.
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