GREGORY PAUL ULRICH | Buffalo, Minnesota clinic attack, February 12, 2021 | Mass shooting, bombing | 1 dead, 4 injured | Dissatisfaction with treatment/Retaliation against clinic staff | ALS

Gregory Ulrich. Autographed Letter, Signed. Handwritten, Commercial #10 (4.125 × 9.5 envelope). Saint Paul, MN. Pmk: October 28, 2023. Content unknown. SEALED.

In June 2019, a court services agent wrote that he had just learned that Ulrich had applied for a "permit to purchase" a gun and had yet to be approved. The agent said that he "highly recommended" that Ulrich be not allowed to acquire a firearm as a condition of his probation for previous criminal offenses. Despite Ulrich having a restraining order, and an arrest for violation of it, the Buffalo Police Department granted him a permit for the purchase of a handgun. Ulrich used the permit to purchase the 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun that he would later discharge at the Buffalo clinic in 2021.

On February 9, 2021, a mass shooting and bombing occurred at a medical clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota, United States. Just before 11:00 a.m. CST, Gregory Paul Ulrich, a 67-year-old man, shot five people at Allina Health's Buffalo Crossroads facility. One victim, Lindsay Overbay, died, and three others were critically injured from gunshot wounds. All of the victims were medical clinic staff. During the attack, Ulrich discharged three improvised explosive devices, one of which failed to detonate. He surrendered to police who were dispatched to the clinic, and he was taken into custody. He admitted to authorities that he fired on people inside the clinic and set off bombs.

Ulrich faced several charges before the Wright County District Court: first-degree premeditated murder, four counts of first-degree attempted premeditated murder, and discharge of an explosive or incendiary device. Police investigators and prosecutors believed Ulrich's motive for the attack was in retaliation for his dissatisfaction with treatment at the clinic, and at the doctors that had stopped prescribing opioid painkiller medication for him. Several warning signs about Ulrich's past behavior and possible motives were not sufficient to prevent the attack from being carried out. Controversially, the Buffalo police department issued Ulrich a permit for the gun he used to carry out the shooting, despite Ulrich having a restraining order against him for past threats at the clinic and his previous criminal offenses.

At his trial in 2022, Ulrich admitted that he purchased the gun, assembled pipe bombs, and carried out the attack as retaliation against clinic staff. A jury convicted him on all charges and a judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

• VIDEO: One dead following shooting at Buffalo Allina Clinic | https://youtu.be/Bzfarsy9sCI

• VIDEO: Raw video: Gregory Ulrich speaks prior to being sentenced to life in prison | https://youtu.be/CFE7QrvPadE

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