Skinhead Who Allegedly Killed Three In Shooting Rampage Still At Large
Credit: Oregon Live
July 17, 2016

This is your weekly reminder that guns should not be in the hands of wildly violent lunatics with extremist views.

OregonLive reports that Brent W. Luyster (pictured above) went on a shooting rampage Friday, killing three people and injuring a fourth.

He was known to police, and had been arrested in May on charges that he pistol-whipped his ex-girlfriend. Other reports of past violence indicate Luyster "has a long criminal record sheet that includes several allegedly racially motivated attacks on black men."

Police said Luyster knew all of his victims somehow. One of the victims, a woman, drove herself from the shooting scene to an AM/PM convenience store. She was suffering from a gunshot wound to the face, according to deputies on the scene.

KOIN reports this prior incident from 2013:

In 2013, Luyster, his brother Robert and a man named Donald McElfish were arrested for an alleged racial attack at the QuarterDeck Bar in Vancouver.

All 3 have with ties to a white supremacy group and were charged at that time with 2nd-degree felony assault and racially motivated malicious harassment for the incident.

The men arrived at the tavern, saw a black man sitting with a white woman at the bar. Court documents at that time said Brent Luyster made a racially pointed remark about it. Robert Luyster shouted a threat, got a gun from his car, put a bullet into the chamber, stepped outside and pointed the gun at 3 people standing there, documents said.

Yet he still had a gun yesterday and chose to kill three people with it.

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