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“I have a
Problem. I don’t love my mother.”
Delgado
served the USA Air Force, apparently with some distinction,
before returning to his homeland of Bogata, Colombia. In
1986 he was 52 years old and he was living with his mother
and working as an electronics engineer.
Apparently he didn’t really get along with other people that
much because he was a very bossy person. He always addressed
people as if they were members of his squadron. I guess all
that army training in dehumanising our fellow humans paid
off for Delgado.
I’m not really sure why, but on December 4, 1986, Delgado
snapped. He told one of his few friends that he didn’t like
his mother, then went home and killed her. To get rid of the
problem of a bothersome body he rolled her up in newspaper
and set her alight. Now I know that Delgado wasn’t the
brightest of chaps, but I would have thought that setting a
fire inside ones home isn’t very smart, practically or
tactically, and that even the tiniest of minds could figure
that out. But there was method in his madness.
I guess that the fire got out of control because Delgado had
to leave the apartment. He went next door and knocked on the
door. He shot the guy that answered, then went on to knock
on a couple more doors. The people in the building can’t
have been much smarter that Delgado because they kept
answering, despite the sounds of gunshots. By the time Campo
Delgado left the building six of his neighbours were dead.
Campo decided that it was time to relax a little following
the initial massacre, so he went to a nice restaurant, a
very expensive one by all accounts, and had a lovely meal.
He paid the bill, then ordered two drinks from a waiter. He
paid the bill for the drinks then, as the waiter described
it, “He stood up and began shooting in all directions.”
Twenty-one diners were killed in the ensuing violence. The
police showed up quickly, and the shoot out lasted for
nearly thirty minutes. Throughout the shootout Delgado kept
picking off 'innocents'. Also during this time Delgado went
through five boxes of ammunition.
The violence came to an end when a police bullet found it
way into Delgado’s head. He was killed instantly.
A witness later claimed that Delgado had been very patient
when picking off his victims. They said that he aimed very
directly at the head, and made sure that he had killed each
intended victim.
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