Gay Bar Attacker Shot and Killed

A teenager suspected in attacking 3 people at a Massachusetts gay bar with a hatchet and a gun, died Sunday morning in a Missouri hospital after having been shot twice by the police.

Jacob D. Robida, 18, was injured after he shot and killed a small-town police officer in Gassville on Saturday.

Robida, a high school dropout who friends said glorified Naziism, was shot twice in the head in a shootout with police Saturday after he fatally shot a Gassville police officer and a woman in his car, authorities said.

A bartender at Puzzle Lounge told The Associated Press that the young man, dressed all in black, ordered a drink and asked if Puzzles was a gay bar.

After finishing his drink, the man walked to the back of the bar where two men were playing pool, shoved one to the ground, then pulled a hatchet from his sweat shirt and began swinging at the man’s head, cutting him, the bartender said.

Other patrons tackled the man, sending the hatchet sliding across the floor, the bartender said. That’s when the man pulled out a handgun, he said. The gunman shot both pool players and also fired at a patron who was leaving the bathroom, hitting him in the chest.

The attacker also shoved him before running out, Phillip said. He said police found the hatchet and a machete in the bar.