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Killer: 'Plenty for everyone'

05:36 PM PST on Tuesday, March 28, 2006

KING5.com

AP

Aaron Kyle Huff is show in this November 2000 booking photo released by the Flathead County Sheriff's Office in Montana.

SEATTLE - Some of the victims who survived a deadly shooting rampage that killed six Saturday say the gunman had something to say at the time of the shooting: There's plenty for everyone.

Aaron Kyle Huff, 28, walked into a home where he had attended a party overnight Friday armed with a shutgun, handgun and two bandoliers early Saturday morning and began shooting.

Police say he had 300 rounds of ammunition.

"Several of the victims have said that Hoff said something to the affect that 'there’s plenty for everyone',” said Deputy Seattle Police Chief Clark Kimerer.

Beyond that Police say they don't know much about what motivated Huff.

"We may be asking these questions over the next year or two," Kimerer told a news conference. "Hopefully we will find some answers."

On Monday afternoon, police confirmed the names of those killed. They are:

  • 26-year-old Jeremy Robert Martin
  • 15-year-old Suzanne Thorne
  • 32-year-old Jason Travers
  • 22-year-old Justin Schwartz
  • 14-year-old Melissa Lynn Moore
  • 21-year-old Christopher Williamson

Huff met many of the victims at an electronic-music dance rave called "Better Off Undead" Friday night, and they invited him to an after-party at a home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood Saturday morning, Kimerer said. He left the party at about 7 a.m. and returned in a few minutes with a 12-gauge pistol-grip shotgun and a handgun.

At the news conference, detectives displayed a Bushmaster rifle, baseball bat and machete seized from the shooter's black pickup truck. They said they seized additional weaponry from the apartment, but did not describe it.

Kimerer also said Huff's twin brother had no idea Kyle was planning a killing spree and that there's nothing to implicate Huff's twin, but he may be instrumental in trying to understand the motive.

"There’s nothing to tell you that suggest that there was some predicate event to this rampage," said Kimerer, who nevertheless told the Seattle City Council earlier that the attack was a "premeditated campaign of homicide."

Kimerer said that the quick arrival of a police officer prevented more killings. When confronted, Huff took his own life.

While the woman who rented an apartment to Huff and his twin brother described him as respectful and helpful, one man who knew Huff had a different view.

"He was just the type who was always angry. He was a very angry person," said James Winn. "He was a very odd person, the type of person you'd walk up to, look at him and he'd just give you this weird look and walk away."

Nicole Loerke was at the rave that Huff had attended before the shootings.

"I saw him standing against the wall. He looked like something was wrong," she said.

In Whitefish, Montana, where Huff was raised, he and his twin brother were voted "least spirited" in the Whitefish High School class of 1996.

Community events planned:

Prayer service - The Church Council of Greater Seattle will hold an interfaith prayer service at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the site of the slayings, 2112 E. Republican St., Seattle. Local religious and civic leaders will join together for prayer, reflection and remembrance of the victims and the gunman.

Community meeting - The shootings will be the subject of a Miller Park Neighborhood Association community meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave. E., Seattle.

KING

Police seized 300 rounds of ammunition and several guns when they searched the truck belonging to Aaron Kyle Huff, who killed six people at a house party on Saturday.

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