EUGENE, Ore., June 28 (UPI) -- An Oregon man who allegedly shot a co-worker may have been angry about teasing over his belief the world was to have ended in May, the victim's mother says.
Robin O'Brien said her son, Jerry Andrews, told her the accused shooter, Dale O'Callaghan, was a follower of Howard Camping, the California televangelist who had predicted the Rapture would occur May 21. After the date passed, she said, O'Callaghan got some teasing from co-workers at LHM Hydraulics in Eugene, The (Eugene) Register-Guard reported Tuesday.
"He'd been getting some ribbing from the guys in the shop, and I guess he simmered over that," O'Brien said Monday.
Eugene Police Detective Ben Hall said in an affidavit Andrews told investigators O'Callaghan referred to him as "one of those Satanic people."
O'Callaghan was being held in the Lane County Jail on a charge of assault. Andrews was wounded with a .357 magnum at LHM Hydraulics Friday.
