A man whose toddler was among eight people killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary.

“I think that was a front for him,” Julius Windham said as he stood at a memorial to victims of Friday’s shooting, including his 1-year-old daughter Amarianna, her pregnant mother and the woman’s 5-year-old son and unborn baby.

“Him every day, him smiling and being just — you would think of nothing like that would happen,” Windham said.

The 45-year-old gunman took his own life. Authorities have not released his name, but Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said he was related to seven of the victims. The eighth was a friend of the pregnant woman, he said. Police have not made their names public, either.

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Honestly I feel like this is part of why everybody is so fussed about Lindsay Clancy. They finally have a woman to talk about. Just send her to prison like you do with any man who lived through it. You can go NGRI if you really want I'm sure some men do too. But like. It's a thing that happens the only difference is it's usually men so now we have all this very public discourse about whether or not it was postpartum psychosis or not and it's fucking up the juries just getting her safely removed from the public in a clean and orderly fashion. My honest take it that it could have been PPP, I've definitely had PPP patients where the husband is constantly pressuring the treatment team to bring the woman home to take care of the kids for him while she's still plainly psychotic. I also wasn't there and she wasn't anyone I knew or one of my patients so maybe it's also just none of my business? I could go either way on whether she spends the rest of her life in a prison or psych ward but it shouldn't take half the country to pick.

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