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– The gunman who killed two people near the Texas A&M campus before he was fatally shot by police yesterday was a gun fanatic who was battling mental illness. Thomas Caffall's stepdad called the gunman a "ticking time bomb." He was "crazy as hell," Richard Weaver told local TV station KPRC. Caffall, whose deadly rampage was triggered as he was about to be evicted from his College Park home, posted several photos of sophisticated weapons on his Facebook page. "It's not an AK-47. It's a Czech vz. 58. Just picked it up today. Can't wait to try it out on the range," he wrote in June. In another post spotted by Fox 19, he notes: "I just got a new toy. It's a Russian Mosin Nagant that looks like it might not have been fired in 80 years, but was extremely well preserved. I'll be at the gun range as much as I can." Caffall, 35, also lists snipers as "inspirational people," and notes: “I am pulling a cross between Forrest Gump and Jack Kerouac (without the drugs). I'm on the road, permanently.” Caffall was suffering from increasingly serious mental issues, his mother, Linda Weaver, told the Huffington Post. "The minute I saw the TV I knew it was him," said Weaver. "I've been that worried about him." Weaver said she had been estranged from her son for months. "We are just devastated," she said. "He's been very deeply troubled. If you are going to commit suicide, why take all these other people with you?"


assistant: Caffall showed off gun collection on Facebook Posted: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:11 PM EST Updated: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:27 PM EST 
  
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 (RNN) - Thomas Caffall's Facebook page paints him as an avid gun collector. 
  
 Caffall posted several photographs of his weapons collection, including antique guns and semi-automatic weapons. 
  
 A post from June 2011 read "No, it's not an AK. It's a Czech vz. 58. Just picked it up today. Can't wait to try it out on the range," he wrote. 
  
 Another post reads "I just got a new toy. It's a Russian Mosin Nagant that looks like it might not have been fired in 80 years, but was extremely well preserved … I'll be at the gun range as much as I can." ||||| HOUSTON - 
  
 A man who killed a constable serving an eviction notice, a civilian and wounded two others was described by relatives Monday as a "ticking time bomb." 
  
 Police named 35-year-old Thomas Caffall as the man who shot and killed a constable, another man and wounded several others during a 30 minute gun battle. 
  
 Caffall opened fire in the 200 block of Fidelity in College Station shortly before 12:30 p.m., just as Brazos County Precinct 1 Constable Brian Bachmann was serving an eviction notice. 
  
 After Bachmann was shot, College Station police officers responded to the scene and one of them was shot. Two other officers were hurt while responding to the scene, but they were not shot, police said. 
  
 Two civilians were also shot. One of them, 43-year-old Chris Northcliff, was killed. A 55-year-old woman, who sources identified as Barbara Holdsworth, was in critical condition after undergoing surgery. 
  
 KPRC Local 2 investigative reporter Robert Arnold tracked down Caffall's family on Monday afternoon, and Richard Weaver, his stepfather, said he was not shocked that Caffall was involved. 
  
 "We are devastated for the families that this SOB killed," said Weaver. "He was a ticking time bomb." 
  
 Arnold asked Weaver if he had any indication that something like this was coming. 
  
 "He was crazy as hell," Weaver said. "At one point, we were afraid that he was going to come up here and do something to his mother and me." 
  
 "We were hoping he'd kill himself before doing something like this," said Weaver. "We are just devastated for the families this SOB killed." 
  
 Weaver could not elaborate on exactly what pushed Caffall to this point, but did say he was aware of the eviction. Weaver said Caffall had not spoken to his mother in several months. 
  
 Weaver said Caffall quit his job about nine months ago and proclaimed he would never work for anybody again. 
  
 On Caffall's Facebook page there were several photos of rifles, but no direct mention that something like Monday's event was brewing in his life. 
  
 Caffall was divorced. 
  
 Caffall was killed during the shootout with College Station police. |||||