EverCurious
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Article I read said the guy was from Mesquite, Texas, (he was born/raised in CA,) not Florida. The police talked to his "almost" neighbor in Mesquite, Nevada; he'd bought one of the two houses next door and was trying to buy the second one for his mother, then abruptly said he was moving back to Vegas. It's sounding like he bought guns on the way north from Texas; he had also bought a number of guns at the gun shop in Mesquite, NV. (Father is a volunteer police officer there, Mother said he was helping the police gather the evidence from that store today, but I suspect he won't have much info's past the guy having passed background checks and bought guns there legally. I think she said the store was called "Guns and Guitars" or something like that.)
Mesquite is a small golf resort town, not quite an "everyone knows everyone else" but it's close. My folks moved there with all their buddies... I suppose four... maybe as much as six years ago (hard to pin down as my folks snowbird'ed from Alaska for many, many years and don't recall when they bought "Casa del colibri") There's a casino, beautiful and challenging golf courses, and... a shit ton of retired Alaska officers and generals. (Enough Alaskan's to require their get-together's to be held at the casino's banquet hall... Well over 100 of them my mother guesses.) That said, they'd never met nor seen the guy there.
Mesquite is a small golf resort town, not quite an "everyone knows everyone else" but it's close. My folks moved there with all their buddies... I suppose four... maybe as much as six years ago (hard to pin down as my folks snowbird'ed from Alaska for many, many years and don't recall when they bought "Casa del colibri") There's a casino, beautiful and challenging golf courses, and... a shit ton of retired Alaska officers and generals. (Enough Alaskan's to require their get-together's to be held at the casino's banquet hall... Well over 100 of them my mother guesses.) That said, they'd never met nor seen the guy there.