Saturday's shooting during the White House Correspondents' Dinner recalls a tragic episode at the Colorado Capitol Building.
A state trooper shot and killed a gunman dressed in a rented tuxedo yelling "I am the emperor and I'm here to take over state government" outside Governor Bill Ritter's office on July 16, 2007.
The gunman's name was Aaron Snyder. He was armed with a loaded .357. Snyder was 32.
He had been under a psychiatrist's care for delusional thinking, the Denver Post reported. No one else was hurt. Snyder, of Thornton, told a woman at the tuxedo shop it was "the day of the emperor’s reign,” the Post said.
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