Suspect in Ky. HOA shooting: ‘I had to kill them’

Published October 18, 2012 8:20pm ET



LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — As he prepared for a homeowners’ association meeting last month, Dr. Mahmoud Yousef Hindi packed a loaded revolver and six spare bullets in his briefcase, told his family to have dinner without him and walked down the street to a community center.

Once there, Hindi told Louisville police detectives, his frustrations over several battles with the association erupted. Within 30 minutes of the on Sept. 6 meeting’s start, 73-year-old David Merritt and 69-year-old Marvin Fisher lay dead on the floor. Hindi shot the men, then told onlookers to call the police, he wasn’t going to hurt anyone else and wasn’t going to leave.

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