Authorities said Alexander Tilghman, 28, and a legal gun owner, opened fire at Louie’s On The Lake during dinner service. Troy Stevenson, director of the LGBT rights group Freedom Oklahoma, said Tilghman was the same man who distributed flyers across Oklahoma City earlier this year, warning of demons taking over people’s bodies. The LGBT publication The Gayly interviewed Tilghman, who said he was “trying to find real people out there. A 39-year-old woman and two girls were shot and wounded and a man broke his arm while trying to escape. In April in Nashville, Tennessee, unarmed restaurant patron James Shaw Jr wrestled an assault-style rifle away from a gunman at a Waffle House restaurant.

Source: The Guardian May 26, 2018 17:53 UTC