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Joshua Cummings, a former soldier from Texas, is accused of fatally shooting RTD security guard Scott Von Lanken. Shooter charged with first-degree murder, asks for Quran | Feb 3, 2017
Army records show Cummings, whose last station was Schweinfurt, Germany, was an infantryman and was not deployed. His last rank was sergeant.
Cummings apparently came to Denver from Pampa, Texas, a small town northeast of Amarillo, where he ran Pampa Jiu-Jitsu Academy. Troy Schwiegerath, who also runs a martial arts studio in Pampa, said Cummings briefly trained at his studio before breaking off to open his own dojo.
Soon after, Schwiegerath says Cummings began bad-mouthing him. Cummings then began posting Islamic teachings at his academy and on Facebook, according to Schwiegerath, eventually going around to the churches in town and saying they should be teaching from the Koran.
Mosque members wrote to an undisclosed person at the Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 24 about a man named “Joshua,” who claimed to be from Pampa, Texas. The email warned authorities that “Joshua” had said that it was OK to “fight ... here to establish the rule of Islam.”