A QAnon Trumper driven insane by Trump’s 2020 election defeat shot his wife and daughters, then shot the family dog, too.
Igor Lanis, 53, of Walled Lake, Michigan (a Detroit suburb), was killed by police when he shot at them, too.
His wife, Tina Lanis, 56, died at the scene from multiple handgun wounds; his daughter Rachel, 25, was hospitalized with “super traumatic” shotgun wounds to her back and legs.
Rebecca Lanis, who was away at a friend’s house, said “after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, her father started falling deeper into ‘crazy ideas’ online, including QAnon conspiracy theories about Trump and vaccines,” the Detroit News reported on Monday, September 12, 2022, a day after the shootings (read story here).
She described her family life as normal and “happy” until her father, who didn’t have a criminal history, lost his mind to far-right extremism.
“It’s really so shocking but it really can happen to anybody,” Lanis told the Detroit News. “Right-wing extremism is not funny, and people need to watch their relatives and if they have guns, they need to hide them or report them or something because this is out of control.”
