The couple accused of killing three people in a Las Vegas, NV shooting rampage Sunday leave behind a chilling trail on social media littered with anti-government rhetoric and red flag posts that possibly alluded to the attack.
On Sunday, husband and wife Jerad Miller, 31, and Amanda Miller, 22, shot and killed two police officers while the policemen were eating lunch in a Las Vegas, NV CiCi's Pizza restaurant in a what police described as an ambush-style attack.
Onlookers told police that Jerad proclaimed "this is the start of a revolution" as he shot the officers, Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31. The couple then took the officers' guns and ammunition into a nearby Walmart and fatally shot a bystander, Joseph Wilcox, in the store before Amanda shot and killed her husband then turned the gun on herself.
According to police, after killing the cops, Jerad covered each of the slain officers with the Gadsen flag, a yellow banner featuring a coiled snake and the words “Don’t tread on Me,” and placed swastikas on the officers' bodies.
Police said Monday they cannot say for sure if the Millers were engaging in actions linked to white supremacy ideals or if the swastikas represent the couple equating law enforcement personnel with Nazis and Fascism.
Police said the attackers pinned a note on one of the officers stating this was the beginning of the revolution.
Jerad Miller, a self-identifying "Patriot" and revolutionary, may have alluded to Sunday's attack in several of his Facebook posts leading up to the day of the shooting.
Jerad frequently railed against the government, gun control, immigration reform, and the police.
His Facebook "likes" include The Patriot Party, NRA, U.S. conservative politicians Rand and Ron Paul, and Operation "American Spring," which is described as an event that was staged for May 2014 with the aim to "restore our Ninth and Tenth Amendment laws to FULL FORCE and AFFECT to return all of the Federal usurpation of powers and spending back to the States and the people."
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