Aug 24, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Headline photo: Jeffrey Johnson shortly after police had made him unavailable for mugshot
The first attempted massacrerer being the Chick-fil-A FRC guy…
Amount of ammunition indicates Johnson was looking to kill a lot more people than just his boss
Excerpted from Queerty: …when we heard that the man who walked up and killed his ex-boss in cold blood this morning worked in fashion—and the papers didn’t mention a wife—our mind went to a whole different place: What if the gunman was gay?
There hasn’t been any concrete evidence Jeffrey Johnson, 58, was a homosexual—no lover, friends or bartender have stepped forward. But when you grew up, like we did, seeing gay people reduced to short-hand stereotypes—fiftysomething, unmarried, designed women’s accessories—your thoughts just drift in a certain direction.
And, well, he owned a cat. (We told you this wasn’t going to be politically correct.)
Chatting with our best girlfriend, who lives a stone’s throw from the ESB on 30th and Park, we found he had the same thought: “People will think it’s the start of a gay shooting-spree epidemic!”
Of course, it’s not really about whether Johnson was gay or not—is certainly doesn’t matter to the family of his victim, Steve Ercolino. It’s about how, if he was, his sexuality will be used to drive the narrative. If Johnson was indeed a fiend of Dorothy, will that give fuel to the FRC and their ilk, who can now brand us as violent in addition to crazy and evil? Or might it make them think twice about pissing off an angry queen?
Johnson ex-boss and shooting victim Steven Ercolino (left) and unknown friend
