Alabama Shooter

Officials blame a man for the worst massacre in Alabama history was depressed and angry with his inability to become a Marine or a police officer. Authorities say 28-year-old Michael McLendon killed five family members and five other people before fatally shooting himself Tuesday. Barry Tucker with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation says McLendon had told a confidant in the days before the shootings that he was depressed and unfulfilled. He would have been a Marine briefly. He wasn't a marine because he was discharged for falsifying information. He also tried and failed to become a police officer. Authorities also say he left a letter saying he had killed his mother and planned to kill himself. He also mentioned a family dispute over a legal issue but authorities say he didn't reveal plans to kill any one else. Investigators found dozens of soot-covered DVDs on how to commit acts of violence in the charred Alabama home where a man killed his mother at the start of the worst massacre in state history a county official said Thursday. Authorities say Michael McLendon set his mother's body on fire Tuesday afternoon. He later killed nine more people. Four of them were family members. The he shoots himself.