Exclusive | California library shooters dad reveals accused killers final hours before rampage and his chilling alibi lie
The dad of alleged Chico library shooter Bradley Sayer has revealed the teen’s movements in the hours before the deadly rampage.David Sayer, 66, said he was last with his autistic son shortly after 3pm on June 22, roughly two hours and 15 minutes before two men were killed with weapons that had been left in a bedroom closet at his four-bedroom, $680,000 home.The retired insurance salesman said Bradley, 18, is now on suicide watch in a Butte County jail and described the day’s events prior to the heinous attack as “just a normal Monday.”Sayer told The Post: “That morning, I had a couple of errands for Brad to run.And so he went to the post office, picked up some stamps for me.“Then he was off to donate blood at the local blood bank here in town but they rejected him because his blood pressure was 95 over 65, and they said it was too low.“He came home around 2.30pm in the afternoon, and he gives me the stamps from his front pocket, and they’re all wet, which was kind of weird.”Sayer said a trip was planned to the mountain town of Chester, 65 miles northeast of Chico, to celebrate the 40th birthday of his fiancee’s daughter.He asked his son if he wanted to join the trio on the outing leaving at 3pm and returning six hours later.“I gave him the option of going with us, staying home, or going over to his mother’s house, who lives about 300 yards away from my home,” said Sayer.
“And he decided to stay home.”Bradley told his dad he intended to head to the Alibi Pub & Grill on Floral Avenue for a meal and then would go for an evening swim at In Motion Fitness.“He said, don’t worry, I’m going to be swimming from nine to 10,” explained Sayer.“While we’re at the birthday party, we hear that there’s a shooting in Chico.We go, oh, s**t, that’s bad news.”Sayer returned home at 9.15pm and found it in disarray.
“Someone had ransacked my whole bedroom,” he added.“All the drawers were open, the medicine cabinet, everything ...