The shooting prompted Shoot Straight gun range to ban firearm rentals until Florida provided access to mental health background check records.
Key Facts
- Date of incident
- April 5, 2009
- Location
- Shoot Straight gun range, Casselberry, Florida
- Perpetrator
- Marie Moore (mother of victim)
- Victim
- Mitchell Lee Moore
- Subsequent suicide at same venue
- 26-year-old man, three weeks later
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Marie Moore had a documented history of mental illness, including a prior suicide attempt and hospitalization at a mental health facility, which had resulted in a ban on her accessing firearms. Despite this, she was allowed entry to the Shoot Straight gun range in Casselberry, Florida.
On April 5, 2009, Marie Moore shot her son Mitchell Lee Moore in the back of the head at the Shoot Straight gun range in Casselberry, Florida. She then turned the weapon on herself and committed suicide. Investigators considered mental illness a likely factor in the killing.
Mitchell's father filed a lawsuit against Shoot Straight for permitting Marie access to the range despite her firearms ban. After a second suicide occurred at the same venue three weeks later, Shoot Straight suspended all firearm rentals until the state of Florida granted shooting ranges access to mental health records as part of background checks.