Dallas, TX – Military service changed the Dallas gunman from an extrovert into a hermit, his parents said in an excerpt of an interview published Monday.
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Micah Johnson’s mother, Delphine Johnson, told The Blaze website (http://bit.ly/29y8V5u ) in an interview published Monday that her son wanted to be a police officer as a child and that his six years in the Army Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan, were “not what Micah thought it would be … what he thought the military represented, it just didn’t live up to his expectations.”
His father, James Johnson said haltingly and through tears: “I don’t know what to say to anybody to make anything better. I didn’t see it coming.”
Micah Johnson, a black 25-year-old, fatally shot five officers in Thursday’s attack, which happened while hundreds of people were gathered in downtown Dallas to protest recent fatal police shootings, and wounded at least nine officers and two civilians. Authorities have said he had plans for a larger assault, possessed enough explosive material to inflict far greater harm and kept a journal of combat tactics.
He should have never stopped taking his meds. It’s scary think that these types of people are in our military.