The Trib is reporting that the gunman in last night’s madness at Trolley Square was an 18-year-old kid. He had no accomplice, as some early rumors suggested, but he was stopped by an off-duty Ogden police officer with the help of several Salt Lake officers. So I guess there was something to that Die Hard story I mocked in last night’s entry. No motive has been discovered.
Police are still withholding the names of the dead, but we’ve got their ages and genders: two 28-year-old women, a 52-year-old man, a 24-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. Three of them died in a card store, one in Pottery Barn Kids, and another outside of Bath and Body Works. I can’t think of anything more sad, more miserably mundane, than to be shot in front of freaking Bath and Body Works, with a bottle of pearberry shampoo in your hand. God…

There’s a press conference scheduled for noon Salt Lake time, at which the authorities are promising names and more details…