The police had a press conference earlier – which you can see here – but now they have officially identified the shooter.
The name of the Midland-Odessa shooting suspect has been released as Seth Aaron Ator pic.twitter.com/GQcHV2wfHi
— Beau Berman | Journalism to Marketing (@BeauReports) September 1, 2019
You can bet all the online sleuths are scouring the internets right now for any sliver of info on this guy. Also, there are conspiracies galore out there.
“I do not think in this time that white male killers get the privilege of anonymity,” says @juliettekayyem in response to the Odessa Police chief refusing to publicly name the West Texas mass shooter. “I think it’s important that we get the name out." https://t.co/iiVytfm2Dp pic.twitter.com/vwSqySwvyL
— CNN (@CNN) September 1, 2019
Seth Aaron Ator has been identified as the #OdessaShooter
— James DeSarno (@j_desarno) September 1, 2019
36 year old White male. Previous convictions for trespassing and evading police.
https://t.co/Tj1jTs3OAb
UPDATE: Heavy.com has many of the details available right now on this guy.
Seth Ator has been identified as the accused gunman who was shot and killed by police after a rampage in Odessa and Midland, Texas, according to the Odessa Police Department. Police said the shooter was taken down by officers at the Cinergy movie complex in Odessa. The incident began around 3:15 p.m. local time on Saturday, August 31, as an attempted traffic stop along Interstate 20.
He did have a criminal record, which means he probably didn’t possess any firearm legally:
According to a statewide criminal history search on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s website, Seth Ator was charged with “Criminal Trespass” on August 3, 2001, in McLennan County, Texas. It was a Class B Misdemeanor.
He was then charged with a second offense for Evading Arrest. The record shows that Ator issued a guilty plea in February of 2002 and received a sentence of 24 months on probation. The site does not provide further details as to what prompted the arrest.
The case was listed as a “deferred adjudication.” In the state of Texas, it’s a type of probation in which the conviction is kept off the defendant’s criminal record.
There’s not much else right now.
UPDATE: I added the photos that are available online, as a thumbnail pic. It is being reported that his social media has been wiped, but that’s not official. And I’m not sure how you can know that, to be honest.
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I’ll update as necessary.