LPD: Shooter didn’t know victims in fatal Lafayette laundromat attack
Police piecing together why 73-year-old Nebraska man stepped into Lafayette Laundry, started shooting. Plus, West Side accepts city’s $750K offer on tennis court repaving, with a pickleball catch.
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LPD: SHOOTER DIDN’T KNOW VICTIMS IN FATAL LAUNDROMAT ATTACK
Lafayette police said Monday that detectives were trying to piece together what brought Louis McGlothlin, 73, of Lincoln, Nebraska, to the Lafayette Laundry on South Street and why he shot and killed one Lafayette man and wounded two other people there Thursday night.
Police said Monday that McGlothlin didn’t know Keith Ford, a 35-year-old Lafayette man, or the other two victims – Renee Martin, 32, of Lafayette, and Salvador Antonio De La Cruz Reyes, 30, of Lafayette – who were in the laundromat at 3100 South St.
After shooting three in the laundromat, McGlothlin shot himself while in the parking lot. McGlothlin died Saturday at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.
“At this time Investigators don’t believe there was any connection between the suspect and the victims,” Sgt. Shawn Verma of Lafayette Police Department said Monday. “Investigators are still looking into why he picked this location. Detectives do not believe he has any connections to that business.”
Verma said McGlothlin used a handgun in the attack.
Tippecanoe County Coroner Carrie Costello said Monday that Ford died Thursday of multiple gunshot wounds.
How many shots McGlothlin fired is one thing investigators trying to confirm. Verma said police also were trying to determine where McGlothlin got the gun.
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Correction: An initial version of this story attributed concerns about noise from pickleball courts to West Lafayette school board member Yue Yin. Those concerns were addressed by others Monday. The following account has been corrected.
WEST SIDE ACCEPTS CITY’S $750K HELP ON TENNIS COMPLEX REPAVING, WITH A PICKLEBALL CATCH
The West Lafayette school board on Monday accepted an offer of $750,000 from the city’s redevelopment commission to help a repaving and lighting project at the district’s 10 tennis courts on the West Lafayette Elementary campus on Cumberland Avenue.
A city stipulation that the partnership needed to include room for four pickleball courts in a project that had become a potential sticking point in the deal, with tennis fans pushing back in the past two months on the potential for pickleball players edging their way onto the courts.
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