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WEBVTT THAT HOME AT THE TIME AND IN THE LINE OF FIRE. BOB: THAT ACCUSED SHOOTER IS HERE AT THE ORANGE COUNTY JAIL. THE ATTACK HAPPENED ON THE SAME NIGHT THE COMMENT WAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK. INVESTIGATORS SAY THIS MAN WAS SO ANGRY ABOUT NEGATIVE PUBLICITY FOR THE DINER, HE DECIDED TO SHOOT UP THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK. >> THIS WAS THE FIRST SHOT. HE HIT THE GROUND. BOB: MONICA WALLEY’S FATHER WAS SITTING ON THIS COUCH IN FRONT OF THE WINDOW LAST MONDAY WHEN BULLETS CRASHED THROUGH HIS WINDOW. >> SO IT MISSED HIM BY ABOUT FOUR INCHES OR SO. BOB: IT WAS A DISTURBING BY ITSELF BUT WHAT MADE THIS ATTACK , SO MUCH MORE BIZARRE IS THAT INVESTIGATORS SAY THE MAN NOW ACCUSED OF THE SHOOTING, NORMAN AUVIL, WAS MOTIVATED BY A SOCIAL MEDIA POST BY WALLEY ABOUT A LOCAL DINER. WALLEYS MOTHER, WHO IS DISABLED, CAME TO THE DINER TO GET AN OMELETTE ON HER BIRTHDAY. BUT SHE CLAIMS THE DINER WOULDN’T SERVE HER INSIDE BECAUSE OF HER DISABILITY. IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST OF HER OWN, THE DINER’S OWNER DISPUTES THAT CLAIM. MONICA FELT HER MOM WAS MISTREATED. SHE POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND IT TOOK OFF. >> PEOPLE WERE SHARING MY STORY. THEY WERE COMMENTING ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE. THEY WERE CALLING UP THE PLACE. TELLING THEM -- AND I DIDN’T TELL ANYBODY TO DO ANY OF THAT STUFF. BOB: BUT ACCORDING TO A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S INVESTIGATORS SAY THAT WORRIED THE DINER’S OWNER WHO BELIEVED HER BUSINESS WAS RUINED AS A RESULT OF THE NEGATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN. THE COMPLAINT SAYS HER SON, A FRIEND, AND THIS MAN, NORM AUVIL, DRANK BEERS, THEN DECID TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. THEY DROVE TO THE VICTIM’S RESIDENCE WITH THE INTENT TO HARM SOMEONE OR TO CAUSE PROPERTY DAMAGE. INSTEAD, AS THEY DROVE UP, INVESTIGATORS SAY AUVIL, A U.S. ARMY VETERAN, PULLED OUT A GUN, AND FIRED THREE SHOTS IN TO THE WALLEY’S HOUSE. >> I GUESS I NEVER THOUGHT THAT SOCIAL MEDIA WOULD LEAD TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. NOW I KNOW GOING FORWARD MAYBE PUMP THE BRAKES. [LAUGHTER] BUT AT THE SAME TIME I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE ABLE TO STAND UP FOR MY MOTHER. AND I FEEL LIKE ANYBODY IN MY SHOES WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME. BOB: AUVIL IS CHARGED WITH SHOOTING INTO A DWELLING, SHOOTING FROM A VEHICLE, AND ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY. HIS BOND IS SET JUST OVER $4000. REPORTING AT THE ORANGE COUNTY JAIL, BOB HAZEN, WESH 2

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