By Jim Suhr Anchorage Daily News via Associated Press
ST. LOUIS – An Army veteran remained jailed Wednesday after he was arrested with a loaded handgun outside an Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital where he warned a nurse he was armed and was "going to fill that place with lead," court documents show.
Mark Harmon, 29, of Shawneetown, Ill., told a nurse by telephone late last Thursday that he was headed to her workplace at the VA hospital in the southern Illinois town of Marion, according to an affidavit filed in court by Roy Thompson, acting chief of the site’s police force.
Mark Harmon, 29, of Shawneetown, Ill., told a nurse by telephone late last Thursday that he was headed to her workplace at the VA hospital in the southern Illinois town of Marion, according to an affidavit filed in court by Roy Thompson, acting chief of the site’s police force.
"I have a glock, and I’m going to fill that place with lead," he told the nurse, according to the affidavit.
Within hours, Harmon was arrested after he went to the VA property and tried to bypass awaiting police with his pickup truck, in which authorities found a loaded Glock 23 semiautomatic handgun, a magazine filled with 13 bullets, and 13 loose rounds of ammunition, Thompson wrote.
Court papers do not detail what grievance Harmon may have had with the VA hospital.
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