Former Girlfriend Of Crazed “Allahu Akbar” Hollywood Shooter: Recent Break-Up Was A Factor
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The former girlfriend of a gunman shot dead by police after he went on a shooting rampage along a Hollywood street has described how she woke to 14 text messages informing her of his death.
Alicia Alligood, 24, had broken up with her boyfriend of four-and-a-half years Tyler Brehm, 26, just days before he went on the spree that left one man in critical condition and two injured.
But she was unaware of his involvement in the shooting until she woke at 7 a.m. the following day to 14 text messages – some from the shooter himself.
Brehm, who neighbours said struggled to get over the December 1 breakup, sent messages minutes before he stood on the Hollywood intersection and shot at passing vehicles.
He had also left Alligood a voicemail hours earlier, telling her he loved her.
But Alligood described her former boyfriend as a ‘humanitarian’, and someone who was ‘extremely motivated to change the world for the better’, even managing a non-profit organisation for a friend.
Speaking to KTLA, she added he had been ‘really stressed out lately’.
He had met a woman he thought was a pharmaceutical saleswoman who had given him some kind of pills, Alligood said.
He began taking the pills, which Alligood found alarming as he had never taken ‘hard’ drugs before.
After the breakup, he had moved to his own apartment half a mile from the scene of the shooting, she said.
Neighbours said Brehm had been struggling to overcome the separation.
‘He wasn’t a bad guy, he just got fed up,’ friend Christina Mesropian told KNBC. ‘He was like “Ah, I’m over it, I’m over it,” but I could tell he wasn’t over it.’
Ramon Hernandez, who lived in the apartment next door to Brehm, said the couple had recently moved out. He told KABC-TV he had heard them arguing.
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