‘$705,000 cash in an AMMO box’ : the twin obsessions of mass killer Gabriel Wortman : guns & money

Gabe’s twin obsessions : GUNS & MONEY

As a poet, lyricist, headline writer or as copy writer, one always looks for those phrases that say the most with the fewest words.

So the news that mass killer Gabriel Wortman kept a small fortune in cash, $705,000, in an ammo box was like a Godsend to me.

It seemed to accurately describe the complicated life-long arc of this complicated killer in as few words as possibly.

Even as a kid, friends remember him as obsessed with guns. His criminal career to make money also began as a kid : stealing building supplies.

It only broke down on the night of April 18th 2020 : when he left all that money in his home he was burning down, before proceeding out with a 1000 rounds and his guns, to lay waste to as much of the world as possible before suiciding-by-cop....