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A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with three apparently random shooting deaths in a New Orleans suburb, and ballistics evidence connects him to a fourth death inside the city limits, a Louisiana sheriff said Wednesday.

Sean Barrette of Metairie was arrested late Tuesday and faces charges including second-degree murder in connection with a shooting death late Monday at a Metairie intersection, and two counts of first-degree murder in two fatal shootings Tuesday afternoon near another Metairie intersection. He is also linked by ballistic evidence to a June 6 shooting death in eastern New Orleans and another shooting on June 5 in New Orleans in which nobody was injured, Lopinto said.

"We've not been able to identify any connection between the victims and the suspect," Lopinto said at a news conference. "I believe that he was actually picking his targets at random, shooting them in the vehicle."

A cellphone found at the scene of Monday's shooting was eventually traced to Barrette, said Lopinto. He added that Barrette has had "a history of mental problems," including two commitments to treatment facilities, in December and April.

The victim in Monday's shooting was identified as Isai Cadalzo, 22. Killed Tuesday were Manuel Caronia 45, and Nicky Roseau, 57.

Lopinto had little information about the New Orleans slaying, but New Orleans media report the only shooting death reported June 6 was that of 61-year-old Bruce Reed, found fatally wounded in a grassy area next to a major eastern New Orleans street.

 
Barrette was committed to a hospital for mental health treatment on an emergency basis twice in recent months.

The first time was Dec. 5. Authorities said he went to the emergency room and reported that he had accidentally shot himself in the hand with a 9mm pistol while sleeping.

The second time was in April, when the aunt called the Coroner’s Office. She told authorities that Barrette had again obtained a gun four days earlier, but his father took it away, according to the incident report. This time, Barrette — who was having trouble sleeping — had a scapular in his mouth, a cross atop his head, and was rocking while using a strange voice to call himself “the devil,” his aunt said. First responders arrived to take Barrette to the hospital.

Medical privacy laws make it difficult to know how long either commitment lasted.

But both commitments came after he allegedly bombarded a former high school football teammate with bizarre messages on social media, in which Barrette accused the teammate of trying to kill him and threatened to launch a pre-emptive attack.

 
So, the media has yet to even attempt to get some answers on the big elephant in the story, but i suppose ill ask....

how'd he get the guns.

How lax are Lousianna gun laws? Can certifiable folks get them? Do cops have the authority to confiscate guns from people exhibiting such troubling and violent behavior? Why did no one intervene in any signficant manner?

Or was there an attempt to safeguard the individual and the public amidst is increasingly worrisome behavior but he had some hidden away tthat everygbody failed to locate/confiscate/whatnot.

Impossible not to make this one a gun control issue. The dude was at best so unsafe and irresponsible with his gun that he shot himself in the leg. Anyone who does that should lose their firearms and ability to buy one and hold one. At worst, he was so batshit that he intentionally shot himself, which makes him a dangerous nutter and he should have had gun rights revoked for that.
 
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