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Nursing student justifies massacre in suicide note
Tucson(Arizona), Oct 31: A disgruntled US war veteran who gunned down three of his nursing school professors before killing himself has sent a message from the grave justifying the massacre as a `settling of accounts.`
Tucson(Arizona), Oct 31: A disgruntled US war veteran
who gunned down three of his nursing school professors before
killing himself has sent a message from the grave justifying
the massacre as a "settling of accounts."
A day after Monday's murders, a local newspaper received a rambling 22-page letter from the 41-year-old University of Arizona nursing student Robert Flores that started with the chilling words: "Greetings from the Dead."
"You have received this letter after a rather horrendous event," began the impassioned suicide note of the student who was, failing his course ,sent to the Arizona Star and published in its Tuesday edition.
"I understand that I have committed homicide and that I have broken the laws of our society," he wrote. "I will save the taxpayers money and take care of the problem."
"I understand that I have committed homicide and that I have broken the laws of our society," he wrote. "I will save the taxpayers money and take care of the problem."
Along with the letter, Flores sent the paper's publisher a package of documents including his nursing certificate, a portrait of the gunman with his children, his US army testimonials and two birthday cards.
Flores marched into his nursing college early Monday and shot one of his professors in her office before going upstairs and killing two female professors in front of a class of his fellow students who were taking an exam.
University officials said he was failing the course, while police said he had earlier threatened to blow up the college.
After the shooting the building was sealed off for nearly 12 hours after explosive-sniffing dogs raised the alarm near a backpack he had with him and in his car. No explosives were found on the premises, police said.
Bureau Report
A day after Monday's murders, a local newspaper received a rambling 22-page letter from the 41-year-old University of Arizona nursing student Robert Flores that started with the chilling words: "Greetings from the Dead."
"You have received this letter after a rather horrendous event," began the impassioned suicide note of the student who was, failing his course ,sent to the Arizona Star and published in its Tuesday edition.
"I understand that I have committed homicide and that I have broken the laws of our society," he wrote. "I will save the taxpayers money and take care of the problem."
"I understand that I have committed homicide and that I have broken the laws of our society," he wrote. "I will save the taxpayers money and take care of the problem."
Along with the letter, Flores sent the paper's publisher a package of documents including his nursing certificate, a portrait of the gunman with his children, his US army testimonials and two birthday cards.
Flores marched into his nursing college early Monday and shot one of his professors in her office before going upstairs and killing two female professors in front of a class of his fellow students who were taking an exam.
University officials said he was failing the course, while police said he had earlier threatened to blow up the college.
After the shooting the building was sealed off for nearly 12 hours after explosive-sniffing dogs raised the alarm near a backpack he had with him and in his car. No explosives were found on the premises, police said.
Bureau Report