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Lafayette movie theater shooter identified

Louisiana officials identified the gunman responsible for at least two deaths after opening fire in a Lafayette movie theater as 59-year-old John Russel Houser. Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft described Houser as "kind of a drifter" who was from Alabama and had been staying at a local hotel in Lafayette since early July.
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