VAIL, Colo. - A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a bar has been arrested in what authorities say was an apparently random shooting.
Richard Moreau of Vail is accused of firing several shots outside and in the Sandbar Sports Grill in the mountain ski resort town. Police say he was arrested Saturday at the scene on suspicion of first-degree homicide.
Police said Moreau is a New Hampshire native who moved to Vail in 1970.
He told the Vail Daily in a 2006 interview that he has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since 1979 after serving two tours of duty in Vietnam in the late 1960s
Police said Gary Bruce Kitching, 70, of Carbondale, was fatally shot.
The other victims, whose names have not been released, are from Vail and they include a 29-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his arm and 25-year-old man who was treated for injuries to his leg and released.
Another man was flown to a Denver hospital, authorities said. His condition wasn’t released. Moreau was being held in Eagle County jail and was scheduled to appear in court Monday.
Vail Police Chief Dwight Henninger said yesterday that the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was helping investigate the shooting scene. He said the town about 100 miles west of Denver hasn’t had any homicides since the early 1980s.
Police don’t believe that Moreau knew the people who were shot.
The shootings were reported about 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
