MAN DRESSED UP AT WIZARD WITH GUN SERIAL

He shot them all.'įour hours later police were called to the property in Sylmar, where they found a body, guns and a red tank similar to the one used in Covina.

He had with him two women, who were crying, and a man who was saying into his mobile phone: 'They're all dead. Tom Minter, who lives a few doors from the Ortega family, told the LA Times a Swat team member had rushed into his house and turned the lights off. After the attack he drove to his brother's house in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles, where he was said to have shot himself. He had reached a divorce settlement with his wife, Sylvia, just days before. Instead, he drove a rented car to Covina to the home of his former parents-in-law, Joseph and Alicia Ortega. Pardo had been booked as an usher at a service at the Holy Redeemer, but had not shown up. Police found three bodies in the living room and a further five later in other areas of the house. It took 80 firefighters almost two hours to control. He is understood to have made the device himself - police specialising in arson had never seen anything like it. Afterwards Pardo sprayed a canister containing highly flammable liquid around the house and used it to start a blaze. It is not clear how long the shooting lasted. Amid the pandemonium, a 20-year-old woman jumped from a first-floor window, breaking her ankle. The girl survived and managed to escape, as did a 16-year-old girl hit in the back. As an eight-year-old girl answered, he opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun. Always a pleasure to talk to, always a big smile.'īut shortly before 11.30pm on Christmas Eve, Pardo knocked on the door of the house in Covina. Vigilantes would dress in womens clothing and patrol the areas he was known to operate. He would wait for an unaccompanied woman, grab her, lift her dress and slap her buttocks whiles shouting 'Spanko' before fleeing.

MAN DRESSED UP AT WIZARD WITH GUN SERIAL

Jan Detanna, head usher at the Holy Redeemer Catholic church in Montrose, told the Los Angeles Times: 'He was the nicest guy you could imagine. TIL about Whipping Tom of 1681, a nickname given to a serial spanker in London. Residents in his home town of Montrose, Los Angeles, said he had been a quiet and pleasant neighbour who was often seen walking his dog or tending the lawn. Pardo's former wife and her parents were understood to be among his victims.

The carnage in the normally tranquil community left residents stunned. He had airline tickets to Canada and $17,000 in cash on his body. Kim Raney, the police chief in Covina, about 25 miles east of Los Angeles, said last night that the man had apparently intended to flee the United States, but the blaze he created at the home of his former in-laws severely burned his arms and melted his red costume on to his body.īruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, a laid-off aerospace worker, turned up during a party at the house in Covina with four guns and a fuel-spraying device after a costly divorce finalised last week, Raney said.

Man dressed up at wizard with gun