Former FBI profiler shares insight into gunman’s motive

After a career breaking down some of the most devious criminal minds, former FBI profiler and author, Pete Klismet can still be shaken.

“You can’t help but be shocked,” Klismet said Monday during an interview at his home.

While its early in the investigation of Noah Harpham, he said he sees some similarities to other mass shooters, such as his race, age, loner status and anger.

“Once police get done executing the search warrant at his place and they have searched his computer files, they will find a rambling discourse of some of his grievances,” Klismet said.

He aired some of those grievances just days before Saturdays shooting in the form of a video blog.

“There’s certainly some theme in there about his dad’s church. He seems to have a problem with the pastor and the church itself,” Klismet said.

Klismet said it’s obvious to him that Saturday’s shooting – as it is with other mass shootings – was a result of a build-up of anger.

He said Harpham didn’t snap.

“That’s almost to say they woke up that morning, they had a cup of coffee, they read the paper, checked their emails and said, ‘I think I’m going to snap today and go out and start killing people and nothing could be farther from the truth,” Klismet said.

And, this criminal profiler said it would surprise him if police didn’t find a playbook of some sort at Harpham’s apartment. “Most of these people that do these acts – even as unthinkable and as unpardonable and difficult to understand as they may be – are not mentally ill.”

But Klismet said the warnings signs that something could happen – were likely there.