NEW: Police identify Lyndon McLeod as the shooter who killed five people in Denver and Lakewood yesterday. Denver Police say McLeod was "on the radar of law enforcement" but charges were not filed after 2020 and 2021 investigations.
Police say McLeod was shot and killed by a Lakewood Police Agent after he shot her. She is expected to survive her injuries. Denver and Lakewood Police say McLeod exchanged fire with officers twice earlier and escaped both encounters.
Business records indicate the shooting spree suspect, Lyndon McLeod, once had a business, Flat Black Ink Corp, at the address of what's now World Tattoo in Denver. Police say McLeod fired shots near there yesterday. Three of the five people were killed were in other tattoo shops.
McLeod's business, Flat Black Ink Corp, has been in delinquent status with state regulators since 2017. Police described a "personal or business" relationship with some of the victims.
The shooting spree suspect's business, Flat Black Ink Corp, published a novel in which a man, also named Lyndon, shoots and kills people at a tattoo shop on 6th Avenue.
The shooting spree suspect's business published a three-book series of what could be described as alpha male sci fi, published from 2018-2020, celebrating brutal violence against the characters' perceived enemies and graphic sexual assaults.
Three of the five people killed by McLeod were women. His writings are full of alt-right misogyny. In the scene describing murders at a Denver tattoo shop, he names an actual business and two artists there. Denver Police say that block was the scene of his second shooting.
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