phorsenuf
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I'm in Florida this week and I was checking the news back home (they're getting a snowstorm) and I saw this on the homepage. I go to the restaurant he was heading to a lot. Thank goodness he was caught!!
Man Planned Shootings In Concord Restaurants, Police Say
CONCORD, N.H. -- A Wentworth man is facing charges after police said he stole a car and planned to shoot patrons in Concord restaurants and then kill himself in the street.
Police said on Monday David McLaughlin, 24, stole his parents' car and drove to Concord, where he parked it in the middle of North State Street and went in to the Barley House. Police said he ordered food and drinks and got up to leave without paying the bill. When staff said they would call police on him, McLaughlin said, "go ahead" and left through the back door.
Barley House staff then called police, who later found McLaughlin on Depot Street. When an officer got out of his cruiser, McLaughlin reached into his pocket and told the officer he had a gun, according to police. The officer ordered him to stop and was able to remove the 9mm with a round in the chamber and 14 more rounds in the weapon.
When the officer asked McLaughlin what he was doing, he told him that he had planned on shooting as many people as possible in the Barley House before taking his own life in the street. He told the officer that the layout wasn't right in the Barley House so he headed to Margaritas.
McLaughlin told police that he planned to kill as many people as he could at Margaritas, take an employee hostage and drink enough alcohol to gain the courage to kill himself.
McLaughlin was charged with receiving stolen property and being a felon in possession of a weapon. He was held on $500,000 cash bail. At arraignment Tuesday, prosecutors called him dangerous and asked a judge to keep him in jail because the state hospital wasn't secure enough.
Police said McLaughlin was in both the Army and the Marines.
Man Planned Shootings In Concord Restaurants, Police Say
CONCORD, N.H. -- A Wentworth man is facing charges after police said he stole a car and planned to shoot patrons in Concord restaurants and then kill himself in the street.
Police said on Monday David McLaughlin, 24, stole his parents' car and drove to Concord, where he parked it in the middle of North State Street and went in to the Barley House. Police said he ordered food and drinks and got up to leave without paying the bill. When staff said they would call police on him, McLaughlin said, "go ahead" and left through the back door.
Barley House staff then called police, who later found McLaughlin on Depot Street. When an officer got out of his cruiser, McLaughlin reached into his pocket and told the officer he had a gun, according to police. The officer ordered him to stop and was able to remove the 9mm with a round in the chamber and 14 more rounds in the weapon.
When the officer asked McLaughlin what he was doing, he told him that he had planned on shooting as many people as possible in the Barley House before taking his own life in the street. He told the officer that the layout wasn't right in the Barley House so he headed to Margaritas.
McLaughlin told police that he planned to kill as many people as he could at Margaritas, take an employee hostage and drink enough alcohol to gain the courage to kill himself.
McLaughlin was charged with receiving stolen property and being a felon in possession of a weapon. He was held on $500,000 cash bail. At arraignment Tuesday, prosecutors called him dangerous and asked a judge to keep him in jail because the state hospital wasn't secure enough.
Police said McLaughlin was in both the Army and the Marines.
good grief...what a plan. 
