Mom of Baton Rouge shooter: He’d ‘lose it’ over shootings
The mother of the Iraq war veteran who shot and killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge said Thursday that she believes her son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and that he once said he thought the CIA was following him.
Gavin Long’s mother, Corine Woodley, told PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley that her son would “pretty much lose it” and become furious every time he heard about a black man being shot by police in what he considered an unlawful manner.
Police gunned down Long, a 29-year-old black man from Kansas City, Missouri, after he shot and killed three officers and wounded three others during a shootout Sunday.
Woodley described how her son rented a car several times and drove to the locations where other black men had been shot by police and would tell her: “Somebody has to do something.”