PHILADELPHIA — He was estranged from family, tenuously employed, and posting online about how to identify “evil spirits.” He started wearing body armor and guns around the house. God, he believed, was telling him to purge his community of violence with violence.
A troubled portrait has come into focus of Kimbrady Carriker, the 40-year-old man who on Monday night allegedly committed one of the deadliest mass shootings in Philadelphia history, fatally shooting five people, including a 15-year-old, while injuring four more.
Police records, interviews and now-deleted social media posts reviewed by The Inquirer depict Carriker as a “biblical extremist” who had become increasingly agitated in the days before he walked out his Southwest Philadelphia rowhouse with an AR-15-style rifle and opened fire upon his neighbors and passersby at random.
