Where is Colorado Springs?

Caption + the trunk window of a Colorado Springs Police car is shattered by gun fire while watching Wendy's restaurant on Wahsatch Avenue in Colorado Springs as authorities investigate the main one associated with moments from a shooting rampage that left three sufferers dead Saturday early morning, Oct. 31, 2015, in Colorado Springs. The shooting began on Prospect Street near Platte Avenue and finished at Wahsatch and Platte avenues where authorities exchanged weapon fire, killing the suspected shooter. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)

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The guy whom neighbors state shot three people in Colorado Springs on Saturday made a rambling post to a brand-new blog two days earlier on that railed against his parent, religion and government.

"Thank you for visiting mind control, " Harpham penned.

In Colorado Springs, Harpham, 33, lived modestly in some apartments and worked in insurance coverage.

From the online dating site eHarmony.com, Harpham described himself as a recovering alcoholic and a Christian.

The 6-foot-5 Harpham called himself "a big friendly giant."

Harpham's struggles with drug abuse had been recorded by their mommy, Heather Kopp, in her own book "Sober mercies: exactly how love swept up with a Christian Drunk."

Whenever the girl boy quit drinking and desired help through Alcoholics Anonymous in 2007, his mother thought "It's rather possible there is magic afoot."

Kopp didn't return telephone calls Sunday.

Next-door neighbors say Harpham existed quietly at 230 N. Prospect St.

An authorized insurance professional, his just recorded brush with the law was a 2003 speeding violation in Oregon.

The lone tenant within the Prospect Street house, he'd resided here for a few months, and prior to that lived in a property down the street with his gf, the master of the property stated. The landlord don't wish his title used.

"hit me personally over with a feather - that guy ended up being just a pleasant man. We liked him, " the landlord stated. "i possibly couldn't imagine for an extra which he would even have a weapon. Exactly what do i understand."

Around, he recalled witnessing cases of mineral liquid - but no alcohol or signs and symptoms of medicine use.

Saturday morning, next-door neighbors say they saw Harpham go fully into the square-framed building with a military-style rifle and a will of gas.

Harpham returned away with a rifle and a pistol, next-door neighbor Matt Abshire stated. He gunned along the first individual he encountered, Abshire said: a bicyclist on Prospect Street whom passed away on a curb where blossoms now lay.

On Thursday, Harpham started their weblog and published a cryptic 1-minute video clip to YouTube. Pacing his apartment and speaking, Harpham states he delivered their parent, Thomas Harpham, a critique of a sermon by Redding, Calif. non-denominational Christan pastor Bill Johnson, whoever 8, 000-member Bethel Church shows congregants to think in "supernatural revival."

Harpham seems to be agitated that his dad, which he stated had been a follower of Johnson's teachings, hadn't responded. "i have been waiting, waiting and waiting, " the pacing Harpham claims in to the camera.

Harpham's Thursday article is entitled "Is my Dad in a Cult, plus worse will it be Satanic?"

In the 2013 profile regarding dating internet site, Harpham additionally covers his libertarian views.

"I'm not conceited or aloof, " he published. "I'm only shy around new-people in large team options."

The shooting internet sites Saturday ended up being a property possessed by the Alano Recovery plan, that will help people recover from drug abuse.