Police found three assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, ammunition and a five-gallon bucket with chemicals capable of forming an improvised explosive device, said police spokesman Saul Rodriguez said. Uncertainty over Howell’s intentions and motives deepened when a friend, Joseph Greeson, 18, told the Los Angeles Times that Howell was bisexual and bore no ill will toward gays or lesbians. Santa Monica’s police chief, Jacqueline Seabrooks, initially said that Howell had told an officer that he intended to harm people at the event.īut she later issued a correction via Twitter stating that his intention had just been to go to the event, without giving any more information about why he was heavily armed. ![]() Officers arrested James Howell with a carload of weapons hours before the annual LGBT parade in West Hollywood on Sunday.Īuthorities said there appeared to be no connection with the massacre at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando but mobilised scores of law enforcement officers to protect the parade.
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