Reply #8: Yep, just a random nutso trying to impress Jodie Foster.

[tanyev]

Funny how that became the story instead of what a bizarre coincidence it was that a son of the vice-president was scheduled to have the shooter's brother over to his house for dinner the next evening.

Good collection of contemporaneous newspaper articles in an old Free Republic thread, oddly enough.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38432f49307d.htm