'This is my hell. If I make it through this, I go to heaven': Agony of parents who turned their mentally-ill son into police to prevent Aurora-style massacre - after finding receipt for assault rifle in his pocket
- Blaec Lammers followed a male clerk for more than two hours with a knife in his hand when he was 18
- Hearing his name called over the PA system and seeing his father at the store made Lammers stand down
- Lammers said he was inspired by recent reports of mass shootings
- 'Loner' arrested when his mother reported his strange behavior to police
- Charged with assault and terrorist plot after confessing to deadly plan
- Bought an assault rifle in the same store where he threatened employee with a knife.
Whatever the outcome was going to be, they were sure to lose their son. So the Lammars decided to do what was for the greater good - they turned him over to police.
Last year, Tricia Lammers found a receipt for an $865 shotgun in her mentally-ill son's pocket. Blaec Lammars was able to buy the shotgun from the same Missouri Walmart where he was picked up by police a year earlier holding a butcher knife and a Halloween mask.
He later told his parents he had picked out an employee who he was going to follow into the back of the store and kill after watching Halloween, because the character Michael Myers 'got him to thinking'.
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Parents: Whatever the outcome was going to be, the Lammars were sure to lose their son, so they decided to do what was for the greater good - they turned him over to police His father Bill said: 'What he told us was he had picked out someone. He was going to watch them go into the back room, follow them back there, and hopefully the police would get him and shoot him first before he did anything.'
Yet Blaec was able to buy the assault rifle despite being in and out of mental hospitals throughout his life - one time for threatening to put a pipe bomb under his teacher's car.
On turning her own son in to the police, Tricia said: 'My first thought was, "What have I done? I just destroyed my son's life." And people would come up to me and say, "No, you saved our lives".
'This is my hell. This is my hell. If I make it through this, I go to heaven.'
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