5 wounded in shooting at Hattiesburg restaurant

[dipsydoodle]

HATTIESBURG -- Investigators said Monday night they still were piecing together what motivated a man to open fire at a Hattiesburg restaurant on Monday afternoon, wounding five customers and employees.

“We don’t have anything that we can release right now,” Hattiesburg Police Department spokesman Lt. Eric Proulx said.

Suspect Scott Tyner, 44, of Hattiesburg, was apprehended by Hattiesburg Police officers a short distance from the restaurant. Tyner lived nearby on South 21st Avenue.

The shooting came suddenly, seemingly without provocation, for the employees and patrons inside Cucos, a Mexican restaurant on a frontage road facing U.S. 49.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Good morning, dipsy, thanks for finding this.

Be intersting to find what set him off.

"According to the Hattiesburg American archives, Tyner was a member of the Forrest County Democratic Executive Committee as late as 2006, an Iraq War protester and an avid letter writer on political topics.

But while Tyner called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and decried tax policies that favored the rich, he also opposed amnesty policies for illegal immigrants."

[dipsydoodle]

2. Generally hard to tell what trips some over the edge.

Could've just been a bad hair day and he took something bad which happened elsewhere in his life out on others to vent his anger.