Worst wannabe active shooter ever (thankfully).

[Wakko]

This dude tried to start an active shooter incident and seemed to be somewhat prepared for it (body armor and lots of magazines). Despite some infantry training, he didn't manage to kill anyone, but got himself kilt straight away. No boogaloo for him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/su ... g-n1018251

A rifle-toting gunman wearing tactical gear and carrying multiple magazines was fatally shot Monday after exchanging fire with federal officers outside a downtown Dallas court building, police said.

The gunman, identified as Brian Isaack Clyde, 22, was seen on video near the doors to the Earle Cabell Federal Building at about 8:50 a.m. before running across the street and into a parking lot, where he falls down.

He was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Matt DeSarno, special agent in charge of the FBI's Dallas Field Office, said. No one else was injured during the incident, police said.

Clyde entered the U.S. Army at age 18 and left two years later, according to public records obtained by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.

Dallas police said a bomb squad was inspecting the suspect's vehicle, and later conducted a controlled explosion of it. They said hours after the shooting that the vehicle had been rendered safe, but told people to still avoid the area.

Monday's shooting happened around the corner from where five Dallas officers were gunned down in a 2016 ambush.

Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox, who was at the courthouse, took of a picture of Clyde in which he is seen wearing a ski mask, a vest and a utility belt. Fox said the man shot at the door of the building.

Witnesses told NBCDFW that they heard between 15 to 20 shots.

Clyde’s Facebook page features posts over the last week where he lays out his collection of ammunition and swords.

In one picture posted Saturday, 10 magazines are laid out on the floor. In the caption, Clyde said he is no longer going to dress up for the local yearly anime conference in Dallas because he “decided to finish getting all of my mags.”

In a post from a day before the attempted shooting, Clyde posted a picture of a sword, saying that he was a “gladius” about to “defend the modern Republic.” His last post before the shooting featured a picture of his bare legs.

Clyde’s Facebook page is otherwise filled with vague warnings of an upcoming attack, conspiracy theories about the U.S. government, memes from far-right internet subcultures like 4chan, and misogynist memes.

In a video posted June 9, he warned that “the storm is coming,” a phrase frequently used by anti-government internet conspiracy theorists, and said he didn’t know how much time he had left. The video ends with Clyde saying he’s “ready,” and holding up a long gun.

References to incels, or the “involuntary celibate” internet community that is prominent on extreme misogynist message boards, are frequently posted in memes on Clyde’s page.

Clyde posted a picture of a swastika on a green flag, calling it a “solution” on April 29. He also often posted anti-U.S. government conspiracy theories, including posts about secret pedophile rings and CIA experiments.

In non-political posts, Clyde consistently extolled his appreciation for several of his hobbies, including anime, comic book movies, and guns. “God i love gun shows,” he wrote on April 27.

Texas State Rep. Eric Johnson was sworn in as the new mayor of Dallas on Monday about a mile from where the violence unfolded.

[GunsandHoses]

Sounds like suicide by cop to me!

[Chigger]

Sounds more like a terminal case of dumb ass.

[S&W collector]

Is it just me or does it seem like most of these shooters are former military.

[lakelandman]

[lakelandman]

Masked Dallas shooter only served in the Army two years, had trouble as a soldier.
https://popularmilitary.com/masked-dall ... our%20Life

[photohause]

I call this a Pulitzer winner right now.

The Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Fox took a real chance getting this.

Very poor headline once again by The AP

https://treasurecoast-fl.newsmemory.com ... ubscriber&

Photographer shot, ran for cover
Images from Dallas offer rare glimpse of shooting
Jake Bleiberg
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS – Waiting outside a federal courthouse Monday, photographer Tom Fox took in Dallas’ 8 a.m. bustle. Workers got out of cars. A homeless man danced on a street pole.
But when what initially sounded like a truck backfiring clarified into gunshots, the routine assignment for a veteran journalist morphed in a moment.
As shots echoed off the tall buildings, an armed officer dashed past The Dallas Morning News photographer. A man came around the corner half a block away and Fox, 51, pulled out his long lens – focusing in on green military-style garb, a mask and a belt full of ammunition. The gun barrel swung around. Fox squeezed off a last frame. And he ran for cover behind a column in the building’s facade.
“I was just praying in that corner that he wasn’t going to pass me,” Fox said. “I was just afraid he was going to be running with a gun. He was going to pass me, see me, identify me with the camera and shoot me.”
Fox’s photos offer a rare in-the-moment glimpse of an event most Americans only see after the fact. In capturing the gunman approaching the doors of the federal building, Fox said he acted on instinct reinforced by his colleagues’ experiences a few years earlier.
Brian Isaack Clyde’s assault on the Earle Cabell Federal Building marks downtown Dallas’ second high-profile shooting by a U.S. Army veteran in less than three years. In July 20 16, Micah Johnson shot and killed five law enforcement officers and wounded nine others before police killed him. But Clyde was the only fatality Monday.
“I don’t think, if it wasn’t for the July 7th shootings, that I would have known how to react,” said Fox. “It was just instinctual.”
Officials have praised the training and courage of the Federal Protective Service officers who confronted Clyde, saying their actions likely prevented many more deaths. But little has emerged on what motivated the attack.
On what appeared to be his Facebook page, Clyde posted frequently about weapons.
He captioned a video posted June 9 – the day a severe storm hit Dallas: “This storm is about to pay for kicking me off my porch.” In that video Clyde talks to the camera in a candle-lit room. He says, “I don’t know how much longer I have, but the … storm is coming. However, I’m not without defense.” He then lifts a long gun, saying he’s “ready” and “Let’s do it.”
Federal authorities have not confirmed the authenticity of the Facebook page, which was taken down after the shooting. Fox said the man pictured in it is the person he saw at the courthouse.
After graduating from high school in Austin in 2015, Clyde went into the U.S. Army. He served as an infantryman from August 2015 to February 2017 and achieved the rank of private first class,
according to the Army.
Clyde graduated last month from Del Mar College, a community college in Corpus Christi. He was recognized as an outstanding student at a ceremony in April, according to a statement from Del Mar College.
Crouched in his corner, Fox listened to the sounds of gunfire and shattering glass. A video shows bullets strike the wall above him.
Fox began recording video, but said the shots were louder in person than they ever are on the screen.
“It was very intense, and it seemed like it wasn’t going to stop,” he said. “I just waited and waited and waited for almost an eternity.”
When an officer eventually appeared across the street, Fox said he was determined to find the gunman and “crept along” with police through a nearby parking lot.
Fox didn’t see Clyde get shot. “The last I saw him was in my camera lens down the street, and I’m thankful that I never saw him until I saw him lying face down in the parking lot,” he said.
As officers in blue surgical gloves cared for Clyde, Fox told his editor that there’d been a shooting and texted in a smartphone photo.
Fox said police told him to stay on the scene. But before he went in for an FBI interview, the 29-year Dallas Morning News veteran said he met a colleague on a corner and handed off his cameras’ memory cards.
“My photos were already being worked up before I got back to the paper,” he said.