01x06 - Control, Alt, Delete

[bunniefuu]

What her job had to say was,
everybody was welcome here.

They all took care
of each other.

She recognized how important
social media could be
and would be.

Energy clear.

[Emily]
But people can connect online
in the exact same way.

That evil can propagate.

Hello, Denver.

In the tattoo industry,
there is just

so much competition.

[Jimmy]
There's people who just
didn't want to see us succeed.

Then the echo chamber
getting louder and louder,

and louder
and driving me crazy

until you... [snaps fingers]
snap.

[Jimmy]
It was the manifestation
of the devil himself.

[Jimmy] Do you want me
to show 'em to you?

[producer] Yes. What is it
that you have there?

So, this right here,
what I'm looking at is

one of the first
business cards
of Twisted Sol.

It has a picture of Alicia.

Yeah, this is the...

It's really good for me
to hold onto this.

Just remembering
where it all started.

One day, I just needed a job.
I was probably, like,
17 I think,

and stumbled across
a tattoo shop.

And the owner,
they gave me a job
working the counter.

Being that young
in that industry,

it was really cool.

And that's when
I met Alicia.

She was a piercer there.

She had this bright, red hair,
bright red eyebrows

and you know,
she definitely stood out
wherever she went.

Her energy, the way
that she carried herself.

She was a magical human.

We were like
brother and sister.

We would joke
and we would be like,

if I was a guy,
I would be you

and if you were a girl,
you'd be me.

At that time,
it was very rare to see

people of color,
couple of indigenous people
in the business.

The tattoo industry was run
by like Hell's Angels,
by biker gangs.

And so, you just had to
really make yourself small,

kind of look the other way

with a lot of
the conversations
that were going on.

There was a lot of sexism
and r*cist talk.

At times, like the odds
were definitely against us.

But none of that was
gonna stop us.

Alicia just had
a great vision.

We can be something different
and something better,

and it doesn't
have to be like this.

And so, she opened up
her first shop.

This is Alicia and I
at Twisted Sol.

I was there
from the beginning.

I started piercing right away.

What her shop had to say was,
everybody was welcome here.

Alicia and I first
encountered each other

when I was hosting Cafe Nuba,
"But it's hot and it's black".

That was a once a month
poetry venue.

We both happened to be
young people

who were coming up
in the scene

and kind of,
just forging our way.

Alicia represented her
Chicana and Chicano culture.

And that's what really
attracted me to her.

I had been around her shop
and she wanted to be

very blatantly clear,
we are not tolerating

classism, racism,
misogyny, misogynoir.

So I knew that
that was gonna be
a safe space for me.

Word just got out,
like, crazy.

That we were doing
something different.

People were very impressed.

They definitely
told their friends.

We got busy, and then
it just never stopped.

But there's people
who just didn't want
to see us succeed.

Someone threw this rock
through this big window
of ours.

It was a threat.

Like, watch your back,

or we're watching you,
or just, you know.

It didn't make you
feel good, for sure.

[Ladyspeech] The backlash was
because of all the diversity.

It is heartbreaking,
but don't tell us
we can't do something

because we're not
the right color.

Because then we're gonna
proceed to prove you wrong.

[chuckles]

After a couple of years
into it, you know,
we just started

to figure out our flow.

And it just got to a point
where people were just there
to come see us.

One day, someone
comes into the shop,

he got some work done.

His name was Lyndon McLeod.

He would talk to people,
he would talk to Alicia.

After a while,
they became friends.

[Ladyspeech]
They just started
seeing each other

as romantic partners.

He was charismatic.

Everyone that she's dated
is charismatic to some degree.

[Jimmy] You know,
if you're here to come

and share space with us,
then just come with respect.

But if you were the type
to not be that way,

you would very quickly
find out that

that place was not for you.

It soon became apparent
that he was toxic.

Like, why isn't nobody
laughing at my r*cist joke
that I just said?

She would definitely be like,
look, man,

you can't act this way.

Like, you can't
say these things here.

You can't behave this way.

She gave him chances.

There were opportunities
for him to improve.

But he wasn't willing
to change or grow.

Alicia had
a conversation with him

and told him that he's not
welcome there anymore.

She learned and she let go.

He was gone.

We're done then, right?

And that was that.

And we didn't
see him for forever

and he just kind of
disappeared after that.

Twisted Sol ran
till about 2010.

And then it became
Sol Tribe.

Little bit of a bigger space.

Over the years, Alicia's words
and her personality

and her attitude
continued to just, like,

spread like wildfire.

She was really,
really respected.

Everybody just knew
who she was.

She was building
a good community

and good friendships.

Hi, y'all.

[Ladyspeech] Alicia got
Sol Tribe on Facebook.

Hello, Denver.

She recognized how important
social media could be
and would be.

She used social media
to honor the skills

of the artists
that she respected,

to get them out there,
to publicize.

[Jimmy]
Sometimes, I would see
the amount of people

that liked her posts
or what she was saying

and I was like,
wow, okay,

people like us. [chuckles]

People wanna
get work done here.

If it wasn't her
doing her social media thing,

probably a lot of other people
might've taken a lot longer

to find our place.

[Ladyspeech]
It really blasted forward.

In business,
you do need people
liking your stuff.

You do need people
sharing your stuff

that is important.

But she was very much
trying to lead by example,

trying to say,
let's speak out
against these things.

She a respected voice.

So people definitely
did listen to her.

[Ryane] Sol Tribe was
insanely different.

You don't see someone BIPOC,

you don't see a woman,

and then you don't see
someone so calmly

navigating these choppy waters
of this industry.

So after my apprenticeship,

the first place
I beelined it to
was Sol Tribe.

I sat down with Alicia
and it was probably
the kindest let down.

It was essentially, like,
you know,

I want you to have
more experience.

I was like, okay.

Message received.
Like, I'm gonna do that

and then I'm gonna
circle back.

There was a posting for
All Heart Industries.

There was the opportunity
to actually run this studio.

I've never heard of it before,
but I was still kind of new

to the Denver tattoo scene.

So I was like
super interested.

I remember showing up
a little nervous.

This man introduced himself
as Lyndon.

He was just like
super relaxed

and kind of, like,
the cool uncle you wanna
hang out with.

You know, I shook his hand.

I said I wanna
work at the shop for you.

And he was like, okay.

And just like,
really built me up.

Like, positive,
words of affirmation,

just like, really supportive.

And he goes, so,
both our names are gonna be
on the business license.

And that way
we're in it together.

And I loved that.
I felt like he was
investing in me.

So I was sold.
I was in.

I showed up on Monday

and no one was there
to let me in.

Didn't see him
for weeks after that.

There was no one there
to support me.

I was all on my own.

I had a lot of questions.
I've never run a shop before.

The lack of communication
or contact was starting to

become a little concerning.

Then I started
discovering things

in the back
of the tattoo shop.

There was a partition
where Lyndon's
tattoo station was.

And it was full of
melted candles

and different animal bones,
like, specimen parts.

I don't think I had
one client that didn't say,

"Is he around still?"

Like, a little uncomfortable
back there. [chuckles]

So I remember
the first time

since I had
that interview with him,

him showing up.

He was just stone face.
He was like,

"Just coming in
to make sure
everything's okay.

I heard there's questions."

Uh, yes, there are questions
and I was just wondering
about your station.

Maybe I can just clean it
a little better.

He like, whipped
and locked eyes with me,

and he was like,
"No, don't look at my [bleep]
don't touch my [bleep]."

The ferocity
of that was incredible.

He had this

[bleep] smile
where he just loved it.

He just became this
very aggressive person.

And when I said "became,"

he actually just started
to show who he was.

[phone ringing]

[Ryane] Lyndon started
calling me all the time,

being like, hey,
I'm just calling.

I'm just checking in,
what's going on?

Can you give me a report?

What's going on over there?

[phone ringing]

He would call
my personal cellphone.

And then he would
start calling the shop phone.

And then there was a day
where he actually

alternated between phones.

So it's just
constantly ringing

and being disruptive
while I'm tattooing.

He definitely be really
aggravated that I didn't
answer his call.

"When I call you, answer.
We're in this together.

This is our business,
together.

I don't know why you would
disrespect me like that."

It absolutely felt like
he had to be in control
of everything

and you could definitely
feel the vice grips.

It was getting harder
and harder to work there.

I started to ask
more questions.

Is this just me?

He never brought up
his relationship
with Sol Tribe.

And he never brought up
his relationship

with any of the artists
that worked at

All Heart Industry
before me.

I really just
wanted some advice.

But in the tattoo industry,

there's so much competition
that no one's speaking
to each other.

And Lyndon knew that
no one's gonna wanna
talk to me,

especially once
I hitch my wagon
to his horse.

But I knew
I had to get out.

And then we had
our annual check in

from the health department.

They did a check
and there wasn't a license.

He let it lapse.

I knew I had a legal out
with Lyndon

and he came unglued.

The boom of his voice
on the phone was incredible.

It was just like,
how dare you [bleep]
give up on me,

we're in this together,
how dare you forget

both our names are
on that business license?

And he's finally like,

if you [bleep] leave,
I'm gonna destroy you.

And I was like,
you know what, Lyndon?

I just can't stay.

They shut it down.

[Adrian] Ryane had
no way of knowing
that this had happened

to those working
at the stop before.

All Heart Industry,
had been there
for a couple of years.

Lyndon had earned himself
a rather negative reputation
around the community.

His very aggressive
and divisive,

and judgmental behavior
scared a lot of the staff.

As a result, there was
quite a high turn around

in All Heart Industry
and many people cut ties
with Lyndon.

And instead of taking
accountability for that,

he blamed others instead.

He felt that
he'd been betrayed

and usurped by those
in the tattoo community.

After he'd lost his business,
his friends, his reputation,

he decided to move up
into the mountains.

Lyndon built a tiny home
out of shipping containers

and ostracized himself
from everyone around him.

He had no
geographical community.

Instead, he built one online.

And it's at that time
that he found
the manosphere.

The manosphere is
a set of forums

and websites that actively
discuss feminism

and how apparently
detrimental it is to men.

He would post
pictures and videos of himself

in a hot tub smoking cigars.

Using his as*ault r*fles
and his firearms on trees.

A lot of the comments,
remarks he made

highlighted a very aggressive
and unequal perspective

between men and women.

Many people who
looked in at his life

would see a man that was
self-sufficient, strong,

very masculine.

And that influenced
other people

to follow his ethos
and his philosophy.

With all of this support
around him,

that's where his mindsets
and views started
to perpetuate and worsen.

[Jimmy]
I'd been expressing to Alicia

that I kind of wanted to
do my own thing

and I kind of
wanted my own shop.

So we came across this space.

It was previously
another shop.

And it got closed down.

I didn't know that
Lyndon had

something to do with
the previous shop.

It's been like over ten years.

So he'd fallen off my radar.

I'd completely
forgotten about him.

The expansion of Sol Tribe
really came from the fact that

she knew and she wanted Jimmy
to have his own space.

Our Aztec dance group came
and we danced and prayed,

and did a good cleansing
of that shop

before we opened our doors.

It's when I first met Alyssa.

Alyssa and Alicia
were friends.

Alyssa, who had asked
Alicia about me

and from what I understand,
she kinda had a crush on me
for a little bit

and then I think, like,
after a few times

of her being tattooed there,

she just finally
worked up the courage

to come and try
to start hitting on me.

[chuckles]

I'm sure she knew that
I wasn't gonna say no.

She knew what she was doing.

This is for a piercing
that I did on Alyssa.

Says, "Cute philtrum piercing
performed by me

"on this beautiful soul.

Do yourself a favor
and take one of
this girl's classes."

She's the b*mb. [chuckles]

Really, all of yoga
and most of life

is a play between
doing and being,

movement and stillness.

[Jimmy]
I went to one of her classes
and it was just amazing, like,

her voice, the things
that she talked about,

just the poses, all of it.

It's so strange because
when that's your sister,

right, you know, like,
you know how nerdy she was
when she was little.

But then you would
step into this space

where she really
came into her own.

She was proud of herself
for doing this work.

She wanted people
to see that, too.

People were
connecting with her,

being impacted by the stuff
that she was posting.

I'd be at one of her classes

and it was like
she was like
a little celebrity.

She loved it
and she had a following.

She was a wonderful
yoga instructor.

She was goofy,
she was funny,
she was loving.

-[man laughing]
-Why are you laughing?

[chuckles] And I think
people were just drawn to her.

And of course, you know,
I'm gonna say that 'cause

[chuckles] I'm her mom,
her proud mom.

Gently on your throat.

Back to your heart.

Shake it out.

Let it all go.

Energy clear.

[Jimmy] She grew up
in the suburbs.

There was not very many people
who look like her

where she was raised.

I would always tell her,
you know,

even if you have this much
Mexica blood in you,

you should honor that.

You're still that, like,
that's the blood that still
runs through your veins.

[Nancy] It was wonderful
that she found that
through Jimmy.

Spirituality and wanting
to know more

about her heritage
and feeling like

she was part of
the Indigenous community.

[Jimmy]
The more that I started
to hang out with her,

I started to realize
how passionate she was

about social justice.

[Emily]
She might have been posting
on social media.

She might've been protesting
at different events.

But she was also doing things
every single day

to help alleviate
those injustices
in her community.

[Jimmy]
Alyssa and Alicia would use
their social media platform

to let people know
their opinions
on these things.

Some people really liked
what we said,

but there was also
a lot of people

that really
did not like our views.

I just remember, you know,
we were sitting around one day

and someone
comes into the shop.

Once I realized who it was,
I was shocked.

It just was not
the same person

who'd come into the shop
many, many years ago.

Something was off with him.

He got bigger,
cut his hair,

had this whole other
militant look.

Everything about Lyndon
just changed.

[Jimmy] When Lyndon
walked in there,

you can just tell he was
a mad person, like...

Like a very aggro person.

That's how I found out
that it had previously been
his shop,

but up until
that interaction with him,
I didn't know.

He was trying to
get re-involved
in our business.

I don't know
what he was expecting

or what his ideas were,

and the role
that he was gonna play

in our shop
and in our business,

but he was using his size
and his muscle

to try to get
what he wanted.

I was just like, no,
you know, like,

I quickly shot that idea down
and he did not like that.

So, he left.

Alyssa, she was
really good for me.

We had a great relationship.

We laughed.
We laughed a lot.

She asked to marry me
and I just thought
that was very beautiful.

I wanted to spend
the rest of my life with her.

We decided that we were
gonna go get married
in Teotihuacan,

which is in Mexico.

And then, we were like,
who's gonna marry us,
you know?

Then right away,
she was like, "Alicia."

[chuckles]

She was enjoying
a relationship
that was really real.

Them against the world
in lots of ways.

The pandemic
shut everything down,

especially Alyssa's
line of work.

All the yoga studios
and stuff like that.

They didn't know
when they were gonna open.

Alicia really wanted to
support Alyssa.

So she just, pretty much,
created a job for Alyssa

so she can come
and work with us.

[Emily] She moved into
becoming the jewelry manager
at Sol Tribe.

They kind of all took care
of each other.

It was, sort of, like,
we got this.

We're together.
We're gonna get through it.

We're more concerned about
our health and safety

than we ever have been before,
which means that

you're also gonna be
looked after.

Um, but we aren't gonna be

in full speed
for quite a while.

[man]
My guest on the podcast today
is author Roman McClay.

Roman is known for
his new book series
called Sanction.

[Adrian] A book started to
make dark waves through
the corners of the manosphere.

[man] ...currently
blowing up Twitter,

making a whole
lot of noise online.

Roman McClay.

[Adrian] Essentially what
the book was about

is that due to
the rise in feminism

and the collapse
of masculinity,

society was doomed
to collapse.

The book was very
unapologetically violent.

It supported the ideas
of racism and misogyny.

The author, Roman McClay
had a very strong belief

in violence against those
that had wronged you
in the past.

Why don't you explain to us
a little bit about

what the book is all about?

[Adrian] In the book,
the main character

was called Lyndon.

People began to realize

that Roman McClay
was Lyndon McLeod.

I put it inside a story
for a very specific reason.

Lyndon described Lyndon
as an extraordinarily
gifted boy who was

born into an ordinary family.

Advanced AI decided that
he was the perfect being

to have his DNA duplicated
into 1,600,000 other men

to essentially
accelerate mankind

into a better version
of what it currently was.

You know, I say this
with no pretention,

but just as a descriptor.

I consider myself an artist.
So, I...

[Adrian] Lyndon's narcissism
was definitely projected
into that book.

And so, like I got
my first reader

and he sent me
a DM on Twitter.

"I've never read
anything like this.

This is the greatest book
I've ever read."

[Adrian]
But a lot of his sentences
didn't make much sense.

There were many holes
to his story.

While Lyndon was
posting online

under his pseudo name
Roman McClay,

his following grew
quite exponentially.

Although there was
a large element of

fiction and make believe,
and imagination,

the terrifying thing is that
a lot of those names he used,

a lot of those characters
in the book

were actually
named after people

that he thought
had hurt him in the past.

He included real names,

real people's
personal details.

[Lyndon] We are not machines.
We're men.

And eventually,
people will lose it.

Eventually, someone is
going to snap.

[people shouting indistinctly]

In 2020,
when the Black Lives Matter

movement was coming to a head
and really bursting,

Alicia took on a lot of
personal education
of her clients.

But you gotta meet us halfway
with the mask thing...

Also, other business owners,
especially them being white,

employing them
to get involved.

A very good friend of mine
pressed upon me

how important it was
that those of us

with lighter skin
speak to our communities

directly and clearly

about the anti-Blackness
that's happening around us.

The Alicia who's online
is who she was in person.

She never posted it
from a place of being trendy.

She spoke about it
in a way that was personal.

And those things land.
Those types of things stick.

It was just really important
for all of us

just to go and show
our support.

[man speaking]

[crowd speaking]

Alyssa was interested
in identifying injustices
and fixing them.

She was willing to
go down to the capital

and post about it,
and speak to her experience

as a woman of color.

I was proud of Alyssa,
proud of her strength

and her bravery,
and her ability to speak
who she was.

It was actually
a very vulnerable thing to do,

to expose yourself, to...

A, the support
and also the backlash
that could occur.

[Jimmy] People would
write me messages at the shop.

We were not gonna change
what we were putting on

our social medias
and things like that,

just 'cause others
weren't happy with what
we were putting on there.

[man] We must love each other
and support each other.

[crowd]
We must love each other
and support each other.

[Adrian] In the manosphere
and in his book,

Lyndon talked about
purging the ills to make
a better society,

to cleanse mankind,
to have a stronger
human race.

Some people bought
the book on Amazon.

This review says,
"This book is packed
full of rants on diversity,

women and globalization.

There were fantasies
of k*lling people involved
in the BLM movement.

This book fetishizes violence
as the great equalizer."

So he did meet disagreements.

He was always
very aggressive

against those voices.

These tweets
are all for one person that
simply disagreed with him.

He's threatening someone
with their life there.

Not just their own life,
but their family's as well.

At that point,
some of his followers

began to double take
on him and his beliefs.

One of his followers
started to see increasingly

aggressive, violent
and erratic messages

and social media posts.

And that's
what raised suspicion enough

for him to create a report
against Lyndon.

This report was sent
to the Denver police
and the FBI.

It specifically said
that Lyndon has
a considerable motive

to take t*rror1st action
on American soil.

Although the book is not
political per se,

it could be read as
an extreme right-wing
manifesto

and a t*rror1st prophecy.

The Denver police department
confirmed receiving the report

but never actually
followed up with that.

There were rumors
that allegedly,
Lyndon was trying to get

people to do
ill*gal activities with him.

He had now
taken things too far.

And so, there was
a general decline

in his community.

It began to fall apart.

And so, by 2021,
he'd pretty much cut off

all ties to his friends,
to his community,
to his fans.

He seems to be hiding
and regressing into himself.

♪ Too much credit
Ain't enough credit ♪

Sol Tribe was never
the end goal for Alyssa.

It was a transitionary period.

Alyssa was talking to me
a lot about having children.

Really desiring that for
herself and for her family.

She really wanted to
have a baby.

[Jimmy] We were saving money
to buy a house.

You know, we were just
trying to prepare
for our future.

But there was this time,
I had this feeling.

Just this something
that I could not shake.

A very awkward,
not good feeling

of not being safe there
and I just remembered

telling her, like, we gotta
get out of this shop.
We gotta leave.

But I knew that
we gotta work

and we gotta stick this out
until we put ourselves

in a position
that we need to be.

Sol Tribe was open
after Christmas

and Jimmy and Alyssa
gifted me new earrings.

Jimmy said, yeah,
come in to the shop

and I'll put them in.

I left Jimmy a tip
on the bench,

and as I was leaving, I said,
"Did you get your money?"

And he goes, "No."
And Alyssa said, "I have it."

And Jimmy said,
"Oh, Alyssa, you take my heart
and my soul

and now you're
taking my money?"

Just teasing...

[crying]

You know.

Being so cute and I
hugged them both and left.

That was the last time
I saw her.

I was in the back in my room.

Alyssa and Alicia were
in the front.

I heard a noise.

I thought
something had fallen.

And then I heard shots.

But when I saw him,
I remember the feeling
of pure evil.

Like, no soul, no nothing.

A hollow shell.

A manifestation
of the devil himself.

He came in
and then shot me.

I woke up pretty early.

And I had a text
from my dad and it said,

"Call me when you wake up.

It's really bad."

I called him.

And I could hear Nancy
in the background, crying.

Not crying, wailing.

He said,
"It's Alyssa and Jimmy.

They were working
and there was a sh**ting.

And she didn't make it."

I couldn't even...

comprehend it
or process it.

I just screamed,

and screamed,
and screamed.

[Jimmy]
Once I got out of surgery,

I was like, where's my wife?

How's my wife?
Where is she?

It was a detective
or an FBI agent, said,
they're gone.

I-I just...
I could not believe it.

The man had k*lled
my wife and Alicia...

Just could not believe it.

Alyssa and Alicia
had been m*rder*d

in this crime spree.

I knew that I couldn't let...

us be broken. [sobs]

I hope it's going to
help you and ignite you

to do more work and change
throughout our communities.

I couldn't stop
what happened.

But I could help us
get past it.

And I knew that's
what she wanted me to do.

[sniffles]

I knew that's
what she wanted me to do.

So, um... [kisses]

[speaking foreign language]

[in English]
I miss you so much.

All the way to the hospital,

praying that it wasn't true.

My baby. [sniffles]

With so much to give
and to do with her life still.

So much.

[reporter] We start with
breaking news tonight.

Four people are dead
and three others are hurt,

including a Lakewood
police agent,

after a sh**ting
and crime spree

that started in Denver
and ended in Lakewood.

[Jimmy]
The detectives are like,

do you know
a Lyndon McLeod?

So much time had passed,
but I knew who he was,

and I just, I didn't, like,
I didn't understand why.

And that's just what made it
really confusing for me

because it was somebody
who we shared space with.

I think it just hits
a little different when
it's somebody you knew of.

[reporter]
The sh**ter k*lled people
in one tattoo shop

after another that night.

It appears he was targeting
the heart of Denver's
creative community.

[Ryane] Following days,
when we got home,

the FBI barge into
our studio

and they're asking me,
why were you on
the phone with him

on the day of the 27th?

Lyndon called multiple times
to our shop phone.

I felt immediately sick
to my stomach

because he was calling to see
if I was working,

to come into
the shop that day.

So if my wife didn't have me
go on vacation,

my wife and I probably
would be dead.

Not probably. We'd be dead.

A lot of people are like,
what did you do
to make him mad?

Like, that mad
seven years later?

Well, I don't know
if it's because I was

a woman, q*eer,
non-binary,

or he just never let it go
that I left him.

Or that, maybe,
I was thriving

with my own studio
that made him mad?

I don't know.

[Adrian] Three people
k*lled that night

had previously worked
at Lyndon or knew him

in the tattoo community.

After leaving Sol Tribe,

he traveled to
Jeremy Costilow's home.

He had briefly partnered
with Lyndon at
All Heart Industry.

He was one of many people
that experienced Lyndon's

aggressive and toxic behavior,

and as a result,
cut ties with All Heart
Industry years before.

Jeremy Costilow was attacked,
but survived.

Lyndon then drove to
another ex-colleague's house.

Michael Swinyard's,
who used to work with him.

And shot him.

He then travelled to
Lucky 13,

where he'd shot and k*lled
Danny Scofield.

Danny was an exceptionally
talented artist.

He was one of Lyndon's
first workers.

But the personal grudge
that Lyndon had against him

was when he left
All Heart Industry.

Lyndon then travelled
to the Hyatt hotel,

where he'd walked up
to the receptionist

at the time, Sarah Steck.

Sarah was
an aspiring artist,

known to be a very caring,
compassionate person.

She was a stranger to him.

And still, he m*rder*d her
in cold blood.

[reporter] By the time
this man walked up
to agent Ashley Ferris,

police say he had shot
multiple people already.

Then he shot her
in the stomach.

[g*nshots]

Although wounded
on the ground

and losing feeling in her leg,

agent Ashley Ferris fires back
and kills the sh**ter.

[Ryane] I'm sure
in a million lifetimes,

he never thought
it would be a woman
to end his.

So, Agent Ashley, like,
thank you so much

for what you did.

Let me re-emphasize
or restate that

this individual was
known to law enforcement.

He was on our radar.

[reporter speaking]

[officer speaking]
We are sharing
that we knew

of this individual,
but there was...

[Adrian]
The police were aware
of various issues.

Prior to his time
at All Heart Industry,

Lyndon had plead guilty
to threatening

previous employees
with a firearm.

Yet, two years later,
he was able to

regain a firearm.

They were also
aware of the death threats
that were given online.

They were aware of
the report that was sent
a year prior,

but they never actually
followed up

to discover that
the names and details

of the victims who were
actually in those books.

[Ryane]
He described it to the T
what he was gonna do.

He didn't even
change our names.

[Jimmy] Alicia's name
was mentioned and others.

He wrote it out exactly
how he carried it out.

[Ladyspeech] He had been
targeting Alicia for a while.

This had been planned.

What probably
accelerated this process

was the social media.

I'm sure he was stalking her.

She was living her dream.
She had her shop.

She had the community
he needed.

She had the community
he wanted.

[people chanting]

It's so disgusting
to hear these people, like,

"We had no idea.
We had no idea."

Y'all never went deep
and asked him,

"Why are you so hateful?"

He wrote books.
Y'all didn't know about this?

He went into an echo chamber.

That's the most
dangerous place.

There was no home,
there was no warmth.

There was only an affirmation
of his hatred.

[Adrian] A couple of weeks
after the attack,

the US representatives
of Congress

asked the Department
of Justice

to look at
their previous encounters

with Lyndon McLeod
and open up an investigation.

This investigation
is still ongoing,

despite it now being
more than two years later.

So this is my favorite message
that Alyssa sent.

She wrote to me,
"I love you so much.

You bring my heart
so much joy.

I had the best time
naming our babies

and listening to music
and loving you

forever, and ever, and ever."

This is a letter
that one of Alyssa's
closest friends wrote to her.

"Lyss, with your memory,
give me the courage

to transmute anger
into action,

then action into peace.

Even though your body is gone,

I feel you in the color blue,

in small acts of kindness.

Together, we were invincible.

And we would
take on anything.

All the darkness
in the world

cannot extinguish the light
of a single candle."

Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado,

and Alicia Cardenas,

their legacy
will live forever.

They will not be forgotten.

And they will continue.

Clear.

-[woman] Now take
a shot of tequila.
-Tequila. [laughs]

[both laughing]