DeLemus recollection of Las Vegas shooting suspects differs from contemporaneous account
Jerry DeLemus’ retelling of his encounter with Las Vegas shooting suspects Amanda and Jerad Miller is at odds with a contemporaneous account of the meeting.
DeLemus has confirmed that the couple approached him to join the Bundy ranch militia under his command during the confrontation with federal officials. Yesterday, he told Business Insider it was clear Jerad Miller was “a little sketchy,” neurotic, and “unsettling to be around.”
The Rochester 9/12 leader said he turned them away because he “was concerned about someone coming in and trying to incite trouble. That would’ve been the worst thing for everyone, and especially for us,” DeLemus explained. “We weren’t there to start a war. The concern was that some nutcase would come in and just go nuts.”
Patriot movement leader Mike Vanderboegh described the meeting with the alleged cop killers differently in a May 1 blog entry. DeLemus “was inclined” to let the pair join the militia, he wrote then, until Vanderboegh “explained the ramifications of accepting a self-admitted, armed felon into camp.”
DeLemus and Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes “were impressed by the man’s ‘honesty and sincerity,’ in admitting up-front that he was a felon,” Vanderboegh wrote.