Police: Shooter planned to ’cause havoc’

USA Today: Police: Shooter planned to 'cause havoc'

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Target employee who was turned down for a private security license and planned to "cause havoc" was identified Monday as the man suspected of killing two people in a crowded mall parking lot before he was shot by police.

David W. Logsdon, 51, had been stopped by police while driving the car of his next-door neighbor, who police had found dead in her home hours earlier. Police did not say how Patricia Ann Reed, 67, died or if Logsdon was a suspect in her death, but they believed the events were connected.

"David Logsdon had a plan," police chief James Corwin said. "And that plan was that he had been an employee of that Target store and had been turned down for a private security license. His objective was to go to the mall and cause havoc."…

The story I am hearing now is that it was the quick and determined response of the police that kept this tragedy from becoming worse than it was. The firing back from the wounded officer at the Valero store injured the gunman, and the fact that the police grabbed their weapons and rushed the mall upon arrival to stop the shooter kept fatalities to two. The speculation here is that had the police not taken such aggressive action, this could have been much much worse.