Lyndon McLeod was a serial killer that was killed by the Denver Police Department (Colorado) on December 29, 2021.^[3]

Paul Pazen, chief of Denver Police, has stated that McLeod was investigated in the middle of 2020 and again in early 2021, but did not give specifics.

McLeod owned a tattoo parlor, Flat Black Ink Corp, in downtown Denver.

However, he shut down his tattoo business in 2017, sold off his home and mysteriously disappeared.

McLeod reportedly McLeod, who lived in a shipping container up a mountain, glorifying in a life free of women and full of "books, guns and meat", after having declared Flat Black Ink bankrupt in 2017.

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McCleod published three books via Amazon.com entitled ‘Sanction’, ‘Sanction II’ and ‘Sanction III’. He wrote about a successful businessman based in Colorado who shared his real name, Lyndon McLeod. In the book, he wrote about that character one day snapping and going on a shooting spree through Denver, attacking people who were former business partners and friends who he felt betrayed him.^[5]

Lyndon McCleod, the apparent shooter in a killing spree in Denver and Lakewood Colorado left behind books, videos, podcasts and social media posts that provide insight into the kind of life he lived and foretold the tragic crime spree. Alyssa Gunn Maldonado, 35, was killed in the shooting, along with four other people: tattoo artists Alicia Cardenas, 44, and Danny Schofield, 38; hotel clerk Sarah Steck, 28; and Michael Swinyard, 67.

The books authored by the suspected gunman in the shootings in Denver and Lakewood have been removed from Amazon.com, after having remained on the site for at least two days after the attacks.^[2]