Man with Joker-inspired rifle fires gun, runs into traffic near Trump golf course, deputies say

Deputies successful Los Angeles person arrested a 36-year-old Arizona antheral they accidental was moving done postulation adjacent the Trump National Golf Course successful Rancho Palos Verdes, California — portion carrying a loaded firearm painted to look similar a artifact inspired by The Joker quality from "Batman" and wearing a heavy-duty ballistic vest.

Witnesses reported seeing the man, identified arsenic Sean Steiner of Glendale, Arizona, hiking successful the country with a duffel bag, a measurement stool and a rifle, earlier helium allegedly ran into postulation connected Palos Verdes Drive South astir 5 p.m. connected March 29.

Deputies arrived to find the firearm painted greenish and purple and emblazoned with the words "HA HA HA HA" and the enactment made celebrated by the precocious Heath Ledger, "Why truthful serious?"

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Sean Steiner, right, is accused of aggregate firearm-related felonies aft Los Angeles deputies accidental they arrested him adjacent a Trump-owned play people with a semiautomatic firearm painted to look similar a toy. He is besides accused of firing a handgun successful the brushwood adjacent earlier moving into traffic. (Lomita Sheriff's Station)

The extremity had besides been painted orange, "resembling a artifact gun," according to authorities.

"Not lone was the firearm loaded with a circular successful the enclosure and a afloat mag inserted…he admitted helium had conscionable fired 1 of the pistols adjacent the landslide country to 'get immoderate choler out,'" according to a connection from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Lomita Station.

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The Los Angeles Sheriff Department's Lomita Station released this representation showing a antheral identified arsenic 36-year-old Arizonan Sean Steiner walking with a Joker-inspired firearm and assemblage armor adjacent a Trump-owned play people successful California. (Lomita Sheriff's Station)

Steiner's vest was susceptible of stopping firearm rounds, according to authorities.

They besides said they recovered 2 loaded handguns, high-capacity magazines and other ammo.

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"Let that descend in," authorities wrote. "An equipped individual, firing a weapon, walking done postulation and trails… successful a populated area."

The sheriff's section credited witnesses who called successful the sighting earlier anyone was wounded and reminded the nationalist of the phrase, "if you spot something, accidental something."

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Steiner faces aggregate felony firearm charges, authorities said. Jail records amusement helium was booked connected March 29 and released connected enslaved connected April 1.

A hunt of Steiner's sanction and day of commencement successful Arizona tribunal records showed lone a 2021 speeding summons for which helium was ordered to instrumentality a defence driving class.

View of Trump National Golf Club connected March 18, 2018 successful Los Angeles, California. (RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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Public records amusement helium besides lived successful Wisconsin previously, wherever a antheral with his aforesaid sanction and day of commencement was recovered blameworthy of a misdemeanor drunken driving complaint successful 2008.

Steiner could not instantly beryllium reached for remark Wednesday morning.