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| “ | The weak better buckle up... shit is about to get real. | „ |
| ~ Lyndon McLeod in a Twitter post |
Lyndon McLeod (1974 - December 27th, 2021) was an American man who, on December 27th, 2021, went on a shooting spree in Denver and Lakewood in Colorado, United States, in which he killed 5 people and injured 2 others, before being shot and killed by a police officer. Before the shootings, he was a self-described "alpha male" and a narcissistic misogynist, openly hating women and showing no respect towards female wellbeing.
Before the shootings edit
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 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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
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:
| “ | 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 |
| “ | 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 edit
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.
The shootings edit
On Monday the 27th of December, shortly before 5:25pm, Lyndon drove his car to a tattoo shop located on Broadway, where he entered the shop with a gun and shot and killed 2 people and injured 1 other. He then drove to West 6th Avenue, near Bannock Street, where the house of Jeremy Costello was located. Dressed as a delivery driver, he knocked on the family's front door, only to be greeted by Jeremy's wife. Lyndon asked for Jeremy, but Jeremy's wife found it strange that the driver had turned up at this time of day, and to a door rarely used by public personnel. She told Lyndon that Jeremy was not home, but in reality, Jeremy was eating dinner in the next room. Lyndon walked away, and 10 minutes later, returned with a sledgehammer. As the family fled, Lyndon fired through several doors of the house, several of the bullets flying past the baby's crib. Moments later, the family's truck was set on fire. At 5:45pm, Lyndon arrived at a condo next to Cheesman Park, near East 12th Avenue, where a man named Michael Swinyard, a man who was killed in one Lyndon's books, lived. Lyndon breached Michael's home, before shooting and killing Michael. 12 minutes later, at 5:57pm, Lyndon arrived at a tattoo shop near West Colfax Avenue, where he entered the shop and shot and killed a man named Danny Schofield, a person who supposedly wronged Lyndon in the past. Lyndon then walked into a restaurant, where he went behind the counter and poured himself a drink. When confronted, he pulled out a gun on the bartender, before walking out. At 6:04pm, officers had located Lyndon at the Wells Fargo Banks, found in the Belmar shopping area. They tried to contact him, but he instead fired his gun at them. The officers fired back, but Lyndon was able to escape the shootout. He made his way into the Hyatt House Hotel, and shot and killed the front desk worker.
Lyndon's death edit
After killing the front desk worker, Lyndon walked to the intersection of South Vance Street and West Alaska Drive, where he encountered police agent Ashley Farris. She ordered Lyndon to drop his weapon, but he instead shot Ashley in the abdomen. Ashley then returned fire, killing Lyndon.
Aftermath edit
After the shootings, Denver and the local communities banded together to show their love and support for the victims and the victims' families. Despite being temporarily paralyzed, Ashley Farris recovered and was able to walk again. Jimmy Maldonado, a person who was shot and injured in one the tattoo shops, fully recovered, but sadly, his wife, Alyssa Maldonado, was killed.
On the day of the shootings, Lyndon's friend, Anne, received a package. Inside it where the rights to all three of his books and his 47-minute long movie "Warhorse". The film was completed days before the shootings. After Lyndon's death, officers arrived at his former home, where they were greeted the home's new owner, who claimed that after he bought the house off of Lyndon, he found multiple animal skulls scattered throughout the property and multiple gun safes hidden behind walls.
Victims edit
- Alicia Cardenas
- Alyssa Maldonado
- Michael Swinyard
- Danny Schofield
- Sarah Steck