Sunday, September 01, 2019

Midland and Odessa Perp Seth Ator: 5 Fast Facts

By A Texas Reader
Sun, Sep 1, 2019 3:17 p.m.

Midland Perp: Seth Ator: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

OK. The man lost his job just a few hours earlier. Truck driver. That area of Odessa-Midland is a huge industrial area with all sorts of heavy truck traffic all over the place.

Monday, September 2, 2019 at 2:33:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

ATOR WAS FIRED FROM HIS JOB DAY OF THE SHOOTING
(dailybeast)
In a tweet Monday, Texas governor Greg Abbott wrote that Ator not only had “a criminal history...he also previously failed a gun purchase background check in Texas...& he didn’t go thru a background check for the gun he used in Odessa. We must keep guns out of criminals’ hands.”

Ator, who was killed in a shootout with police, has an arrest record that includes a 2001 bust on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and resisting arrest and a 2014 charge of public intoxication. The disposition of those cases was not immediately clear.
(GRA:That's not much of a record--Abbott has probably been in more trouble...lol).

Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said Ator was fired Saturday from Journey Oilfield Services. FBI special agent Christopher Combs told reporters Ator went to work that day “in trouble.” Officials said they do not believe Ator’s firing was the direct cause of the shooting spree, as he had been on a “long sprial down,” Combs said.


The company called 911 after firing Ator, but he was gone by the time police arrived.


Officials said Ator also called authorities, making “rambling statements” about the “atrocities he felt he had gone through” about 15 minutes before being stopped by state troopers when he opened fire.

The FBI said they were executing a federal search warrant at a home linked to Ator. Agents were later seen searching Ator’s house, located about 20 minutes west of Odessa. The home, set half a mile back from the main road, more closely resembles a shack, with what appears to be a makeshift tower placed on top. The area is surrounded by oil wells that easily outnumber the nearby trailers.

A neighbor of the property told the television station NewsWest9 the man who lived there would shoot off guns at night and one time came to her door with a rifle.
(GRA:He may have been on "a spiral down,"but you cannot underestimate the job termination as the kicker to set him off).
--GRA

Monday, September 2, 2019 at 6:30:00 PM EDT

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