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<p>DALLAS &#8212; The sole survivor of Thursday&#8217;s supermarket shootings said alleged gunman Randy Robert Stair glared at her at one point during his rampage, but for some reason decided to spare her, court records show.</p><p>Kristin Newell told troopers Stair chose to walk away instead of shoot her.</p><p>Meanwhile, an actress who voiced a cartoon character created by Stair said he revealed his plans to her in an email he sent less than an hour before the killings.</p><p>Laura Faverty, however, didn&#8217;t see that email until hours later because her phone wasn&#8217;t charged, the Associated Press reports. She found out what happened later while watching news reports.</p><p>Before Stair, 24, turned the gun on himself, police say he killed co-workers Terry Sterling, 63, of South Montrose; Victoria Brong, 25, of Factoryville; and Brian Hayes, 47, of Springville.</p><p>A search warrant obtained for the shooter&#8217;s Dallas-area residence was made public Friday, and it shed more light on the triple murder-suicide at Weis Market near Tunkhannock.</p><p>The warrant includes Newell&#8217;s account of the shootings.</p><p>She contacted Wyoming County 911 at 12:44 a.m. Thursday to report her friend was shot by Stair.</p><p>When troopers arrived, they found the bodies of Sterling, Brong and Hayes.</p><p>Stair was found dead in the store with a shotgun and spent ammunition near his body.</p><p>During an interview with troopers, Newell said she was labeling products inside the store with headphones on when she heard gunshots ring out. She recalled seeing Stair shoot Brong while she was lying on the floor.</p><p>Newell said Stair then looked at her, but walked away from her and down the next aisle. She also reported seeing Sterling dead on the floor.</p><p>Newell hid in an aisle as Stair walked to the bakery section and fired off more shots, court papers say. As she fled the store &#8212; closed to customers at the time &#8212; she saw Stair&#8217;s vehicle in the parking lot and his red work shirt on the ground next to it.</p><p>Troopers were advised David Waugh, of Richmond, Va., received a text message from Stair hours before the shooting. In that message, Stair reportedly told Waugh &#8220;he was going to be dead.&#8221; Waugh then contacted Wilkes-Barre City Police Department and reported the messages, court papers say.</p><p>City police did not return a message seeking comment on reports the department had received a tip about Stair.</p><p>The seemingly troubled man left behind plenty of information about himself via social media and other online postings, including hints about what he had planned at the store and his state of mind before the shootings.</p><p>In one posting that featured 17 hours of spoken testimonial, Stair said he wanted the shooting to end in aisle 1 &#8220;because it reminds him of Columbine.&#8221; There are also references to his boss, who is &#8220;miserable&#8221; and &#8220;better off dead.&#8221;</p><p>Troopers said Stair texted his mother at 12:37 a.m. Thursday, discussing journals he kept and how he wanted his remains disposed. Stair also reportedly told his mother to remove internal hard drives from his computer before selling them.</p><p>During the search of his house, authorities said they removed numerous 12-gauge shotgun cartridges, notebooks, drawings, hard drives, and DVDs.</p><p><strong>&#8216;Breaks my heart&#8217;</strong></p><p>Faverty, the actress from Dallas, Texas, told WILK radio the man she knew by the pseudonym Andrew Blaze thanked her for her work and told her by the time she read the email he would be dead.</p><p>She said the email started like a suicide note but got darker as Stair outlined &#8220;the true purpose&#8221; of his online videos, the last of which was a 42-minute animated film depicting a massacre at a high school.</p><p>&#8220;It really shocked me,&#8221; Faverty said. &#8220;I never would have suspected anything like this.&#8221;</p><p>Faverty said Stair was always polite in their email interactions.</p><p>&#8220;It breaks my heart. I feel so bad for the families; I feel bad for everything,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He was just very selfish, bringing everyone into this. It&#8217;s really sick.&#8221;</p><p>She said Stair contacted her through her web page in September; he had seen a demo reel of hers online. He told her he was working on &#8220;darker content,&#8221; but she said that isn&#8217;t uncommon with voice work and it didn&#8217;t raise any red flags.</p><p>&#8220;It was just another paid job for me,&#8221; she said.</p><p>She said he was pressuring her to finish up the most recent job by Wednesday.</p><p><ins><strong><em>Check back to timesleader.com for updates.</em></strong></ins></p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Shown is the Stair family home on Ransom Road in Franklin Township, near Dallas. Alleged supermarket shooter Randy Stair, 24, reportedly lived at the residence with his parents. Stair shot to death three co-workers Thursday at Weis Market near Tunkhannock before taking his own life, police say. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/web1_StairHome-4.jpg</photo1><caption1>Shown is the Stair family home on Ransom Road in Franklin Township, near Dallas. Alleged supermarket shooter Randy Stair, 24, reportedly lived at the residence with his parents. Stair shot to death three co-workers Thursday at Weis Market near Tunkhannock before taking his own life, police say. </caption1><photoCredit1></photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Co-worker, actress tell stories</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Travis Kellar</p><p>tkellar@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Travis Kellar at 570-991-6389 or on Twitter @TLNews</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Survivor’s account of supermarket shooting detailed in search warrant