A Colorado accountant was arrested after he allegedly opened fire at parkgoers with no real motive on Sunday.
Ryan Egelston, 28, first shot at a man who had asked to sit next to him on a park bench, later telling detectives “he thought the man was a pedophile.”
The suspect then fired at another man from behind without provocation seriously injuring him.
Egelston told police his victims “were somehow involved in psy-ops.”
After the shooting, Egelston fled the scene in a red vehicle but was stopped when officers used a PIT maneuver.
Egelston described himself as a “certified joy enthusiast” on his website adding that he had a “deep passion to preach and teach the Word of God.”
Last March, he appeared on the Christian Kingdom Crossroads podcast and suggested that artificial intelligence would bring the end of times.
“His views were to the extreme, I guess you could say,” host Robert Thibodeau said.
“But at the same time, they were his views, and I was asking questions.”
