Meadows Tower Shooting

Thursday march 23th 2010

A man, later identified as Gerald Dainer (32), placed several disturbing messages on popular internet sites. He claimed to do a Sera style shooting. With Sera he meant Luis Sera. Two days later, Gerald arms himself with a Light Machine Gun and several hundreds of rounds of ammunition. He fired his gun in front of the Meadows Tower at the pedestrians. He reloads, shoots more people and walks inside the towers lobby, where he fires an additional 100 rounds. Dainer reloads again and goes outside again, where he opens fire once more. Four are declared dead on the scene, and 65 people suffer injuries from minor to severe. Gerald Dainer attempts to commits suicide when the LCPD arrives. One of the critically wounded dies from her injuries in the hospital. Dainer shot himself in the head and initially survived, but died of his injuries two days after the shooting.

Until today, no clue about his motive is revealed.