Editing Lyndon McLeod (section)

== Before the shootings ==
Lyndon McLeod was born sometime in 1974, into a military family. He spent much of his younger years overseas, before living across multiple states in the U.S.A. After graduating from high school in Ohio, he moved to Texas. In his mid-20s, he found himself in a cult due to his obsession with his girlfriend at the time, who eventually left him for another man. In the late 90s, Lyndon grew a love for rock music, the great outdoors and motorcycles. One day, while he was riding his motorcycle, he was involved in a road collision, causing him to receive an injury to his neck, which left him in hospital for weeks, which also led him to become addicted to opioids during his recovery and afterwards too. In 2004, Lyndon moved to Denver, Colorado, where he took up work in the medicinal cannabis industry on North Holly Street, where he earned a lot of money. However, in 2013, he lost managerial position after he threatened his employees with a gun. Around this time, he met a man named "Jeremy Costello". Jeremy was a tattoo artist, and while adding a tattoo to Lyndon's skin, the two began to talk. Lyndon was obsessed with tattoos and had many of them all over his body. However, he was not an artist himself, and had no idea how to successfully run a tattoo shop. Despite this, he invested all his money into a new tattoo business with Jeremy. However, it ended up bad for both of them, as Lyndon had a terrible relationship with his employees and was aggressive, uncompassionate and [[Sexism|sexist]] towards his female colleagues, as he was an open misogynist and he believed women were useless and should have no say in important decisions. Most of his relationships would crumble within months, and, despite his own brash personality, he was also extremely sensitive and held grudges for a long time. He also had no idea how to manage fiances. In 2015, he was forced to close his shop, which ended his relationship with Jeremy.
=== Lyndon's novels ===
With the change in his financial situation, Lyndon retreated from the city and moved to a tiny house up in the mountains of western, outside Denver. Being a fan of the tiny house movement, and not having much money to spare, he made own tiny house out of shipping containers, and posted about it on Social Media. Lyndon was already on a selfish and self-righteous path. He had already ruined his relationships with former friends and colleagues, but after losing all his money and becoming isolated in the mountains, his behaviour, thoughts and opinions would get even worse. His misogynistic views also got much worse. It was around this that he decided to become an author. He adopted the name "Roman McClay" as an online alias and began to write his own novels. One of these novels was a three-part series called "Sanction". The main character of the novel is Lyndon himself, who is "an extraordinary gifted boy born into an average family". He describes himself as a supreme sigma with high mortality and culture. Advanced AI select him as the perfect being and duplicates his DNA into 1.6 million other men to accelerate mankind's development. He also rambles about alpha males versus beta males, and also describes women as promiscuous people who only think with their heads in the clouds. Lyndon's character also has the same history as Lyndon himself, from birth, to the cannabis farm, to being screwed over by Jeremy Costello. His character then goes on a six month murder spree, killing 46 people, and all of those people had wronged him in the past. Lyndon's books then further talk about taking action to start a war on American soil, and meanwhile, in the real world, Lyndon referred to himself as an outlaw and vouched for the book to one day become reality.
=== New small fame ===
Because to these books, Lyndon grew small fame in the [[Manosphere]], a collection of websites and forums that promote masculinity and misogyny and oppose feminism. Lyndon would go on to meet many people in the Manosphere, where he expressed his frustrations at those who have "betrayed him in the past". Through podcasts, interviews and hanging out, he would allude to, and even recognize his own problematic behaviour.

=== Red flags ===
Aside from Lyndon's novels' disturbing content, there where many red flags for those around Lyndon to notice what he would in the future. Both local and federal police knew of Lyndon, and authorities had been called to his home 11 times through 2012 and 
2016 over allegations of domestic violence. Lyndon has also made a series of death threats, which were so violent that the FBI once visited his home, and former friends of Lyndon that were still following him online noticed him slowly slipping into more and more extreme behaviour. In a podcast in 2020, Lyndon described himself as:
{{Quote|My personality is so extreme that I'm like the oily rags in the garage next to a flame source. I'm just asking for it, you know?|Lyndon McLeod describing himself in the podcast}}
{{Quote|I'm either a beast or a philosopher. I don't live alike in this normal human world.|Lyndon McLeod describing himself in the podcast yet again}}
He would also continue with his aggression online, spreading his belief that law enforcement and social norms protect the weak from the strong.
=== 2021 ===
By the year 2021, nothing had changed. Lyndon was becoming more demanding, agitated and reckless. He moved to live with two fans, but was kicked out for becoming "unhinged". Alongside his new partner, Anne, the two of them began to film clips for his next new project, a self-protagonist film called "Warhorse". However, as the two grew accustomed to each other, Lyndon began to show his ugly side to Anne. After striking her across the face, the two decided to take a break from each other. So while Anne headed back home to Salt Lake City, Lyndon was given $20,000, along with Anne's van and motorcycle to continue recording. But after parting ways, Lyndon fell silent and tried to contact Anne's boyfriend over and over again, but he never replied. Anne's suspicion grew, and, just days later, she realized that Lyndon had stolen $37,000 from her through crypto payments. After this discovery, a few of those close to Lyndon had also learned that he'd been grooming multiple underage girls online and that he'd been stealing money from other ex-friends too. Lyndon's addiction to opioids was never fully overcome, but this addiction would peak throughout the years, and by Winter of 2021, shortly before the shootings, he started heavily abusing the drugs again.