Open Carry Activist Charged With Shooting Death Of Husband, Stepdaughter
A member of Open Carry Tarrant County and Open Carry Texas, is facing capital murder charges after two people were discovered shot dead in her home. Veronica Dunnachie, 35, was arrested by police as she drove herself to a nearby mental hospital following the shooting.
Veronica Dunnachie, 35, is in custody and bail had not yet been set, according to the police.
According to Tarrant County records, the residence is owned by Russell Dunnachie, a house where Veronica reportedly lived with her husband, their three young children and his adult daughter from a previous relationship.
However, relatives of Veronica Dunnachie said she was no longer living at the home and court records indicated she filed for divorce in October.
The bodies of her alleged victims were discovered after police were called to perform a welfare check at the house.
A nearby Elementary School was briefly placed on lockdown. The lockdown was lifted shortly after Dunnachie was taken into custody.
According to a cousin, Elizabeth Rojas, Dunnachie had distanced herself from their family in recent years, and they had not seen her in nearly three weeks.
She said her cousin was an avid gun user and regularly posted about her gun use on Facebook. Those pictures were circulated by Open Carry groups.
Dunnachie has been actively involved in open carry rallies that have been staged at businesses like Target.
In the following image, Dunnachie is on the left, the wife of Kory Watkins, leader of Open Carry Tarrant County is on the right at an open carry rally in Target’s parking lot.
Fortunately, Target responded to a call from Moms Demand Action to end open carry of guns in stores and parking lots, and now asks customers to leave their guns at home. Unfortunately, Kroger has not agreed to ending this practice in their stores, even after sustained pressure from Moms, leaving their customers at risk.
C.J. Grisham, leader of Open Carry Texas, will surely deny that she was a member of his extremist group of gun toting miscreants, but there are screen shots which have circulated which will counter any denials by him and I’ll be happy to tweet them out, because I’m nice like that.
His response to the deaths in which he’s intentionally vague:
Travis Raymond Kuenstler asks CJ Grisham on Facebook to “Please delete your post and encourage others to do the same, privately.”
She ‘likes’ him, too.
Bobby is not surprised.
Amy is a gun nut and testifies at everything in support of expanding gun rights. Today, she has the sads.
“Mama didn’t raise no victim,” writes Open Carry Tarrant County.
Here she is posing with a group of armed men and women on a city park full of families and children in Ft. Worth, Texas:
Here Dunnachie is at another Texas business with Open Carry activists. The man to her left is Guy Potter, he was part of the group that menaced Moms Demand Action members last November in Arlington, TX:
Here she is looking like every other Open Carry activist. Size matters, amirite?
Veronica, just like her colleagues with the aforementioned gun groups, objects to a ban on open carrying firearms in Kroger. You see, they are all law-abiding citizens, that is, until one of them opens fire.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America are asking Kroger to end the practice of open carry in its stores for exactly this reason. This woman is a close associate of at least two of the folks that have been photographed carrying fully loaded high capacity weapons inside Kroger grocery store locations. Kory and Janie Watkins (both with extensive arrest records of their own) are pictured with Dunnachie in the image above.
Kory and Janie Watkin’s mugshots:
Janie Watkins at a Dallas area Kroger store.
I’ve said this countless times: We don’t know who these Open Carriers are so how are we to determine which one is a “good guy with a gun” because obviously, Veronica isn’t.
Watch:
Big thanks to my source whose anonymity will be respected here. Also, thanks to CoCo, a gun owner with gun sense.
All images obtained via social media, thereby making them fair use.
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Anomaly100
arc99 December 11th, 2014 at 13:16
Should we judge all OpenCarry advocates by the actions of this one person?
Well, we judged ACORN according to that standard.
Sauce for the goose.
Foundryman December 11th, 2014 at 13:20
Of course we should. Walking around carrying loaded guns in grocery stores makes all of them nuts.
tracey marie December 11th, 2014 at 18:32
I went to the local kroger headquarters and gave them a piece of my mind. I am considered(theirwords/rating) an Elite customer for over 12 years. I gave the names of 7 other elite customers. They agreed to let the individual stores make the decision. 3 in my area will no longer allow gun in the stores
Anomaly 100 December 11th, 2014 at 19:14
Do they have a sign out front? If so, please take a picture of it and send it to me. Thanks!
tracey marie December 11th, 2014 at 19:24
Not that I noticed, I will ask them for verification
Steve Harmon December 13th, 2014 at 09:46
Good news for the criminals, “Gun free zone” “Woo hoo!!!!!!!”.
Aun Awn December 12th, 2014 at 11:35
A little surprised to see this question asked, thank you for posing it.
Of course we should NOT, and nor should we judge ACORN by the actions of any one individual associated with them.
arc99 December 11th, 2014 at 14:16
Should we judge all OpenCarry advocates by the actions of this one person?
Well, we judged ACORN according to that standard.
Sauce for the goose.
Foundryman December 11th, 2014 at 14:20
Of course we should. Walking around carrying loaded guns in grocery stores makes all of them nuts.
tracey marie December 11th, 2014 at 19:32
I went to the local kroger headquarters and gave them a piece of my mind. I am considered(theirwords/rating) an Elite customer for over 12 years. I gave the names of 7 other elite customers. They agreed to let the individual stores make the decision. 3 in my area will no longer allow gun in the stores
Anomaly 100 December 11th, 2014 at 20:14
Do they have a sign out front? If so, please take a picture of it and send it to me. Thanks!
tracey marie December 11th, 2014 at 20:24
Not that I noticed, I will ask them for verification
Steve Harmon December 13th, 2014 at 10:46
Good news for the criminals, “Gun free zone” “Woo hoo!!!!!!!”.
Aun Awn December 12th, 2014 at 12:35
A little surprised to see this question asked, thank you for posing it.
Of course we should NOT, and nor should we judge ACORN by the actions of any one individual associated with them.
Foundryman December 11th, 2014 at 13:19
A call in or letter writing campaign to remind Kroger of how unstable these people are should begin…
https://www.kroger.com/topic/contact-us
edmeyer_able December 11th, 2014 at 13:25
They have been bombarded with tweets concerning this for months now but any pressure on them to change their policy would be welcomed.
Pilotshark December 11th, 2014 at 13:19
“Veronica Dunnachie, 35, was arrested by police as she drove herself to a nearby mental hospital following the shooting.”
When asked why, she responded with, I thought it was another Rally and i was meeting my friends and associates, you know who all think like me.
Foundryman December 11th, 2014 at 14:19
A call in or letter writing campaign to remind Kroger of how unstable these people are should begin…
https://www.kroger.com/topic/contact-us
edmeyer_able December 11th, 2014 at 14:25
They have been bombarded with tweets concerning this for months now but any pressure on them to change their policy would be welcomed.
Pilotshark December 11th, 2014 at 14:19
“Veronica Dunnachie, 35, was arrested by police as she drove herself to a nearby mental hospital following the shooting.”
When asked why, she responded with, I thought it was another Rally and i was meeting my friends and associates, you know who all think like me.
Bunya December 11th, 2014 at 13:50
That’s why every household should be required to have a loaded firearm handy. It’s a very effective way of saying, “this argument’s over”.
Bunya December 11th, 2014 at 14:50
That’s why every household should be required to have a loaded firearm handy. It’s a very effective way of saying, “this argument’s over”.
ExPFCWintergreen December 11th, 2014 at 14:07
I guess the husband wasn’t a Good Guy With A Gun.
Aun Awn December 12th, 2014 at 11:37
Lol now there’s a twisted comment.
ExPFCWintergreen December 11th, 2014 at 15:07
I guess the husband wasn’t a Good Guy With A Gun.
Aun Awn December 12th, 2014 at 12:37
Lol now there’s a twisted comment.
Tillmann Puschka December 11th, 2014 at 14:13
hmmm- will be interesting to see if Texas seeks the death penalty for her- she’s not a black female, but she sure did commit murder. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
The comments on this random act of violence by other open carry advocates tell us all we need to know about the people who support this nonsense. Very dangerous, impulsive, stupid people.
smarterboy13 December 11th, 2014 at 14:15
“Mama didn’t raise no victim,” writes Open Carry Tarrant County. No, but mama did raise a cold-blooded nut job killer, didn’t she?
smarterboy14 December 11th, 2014 at 15:15
“Mama didn’t raise no victim,” writes Open Carry Tarrant County. No, but mama did raise a cold-blooded nut job killer, didn’t she?
Red Eye Robot December 11th, 2014 at 14:49
2 solid years of non stop droning on about it, countless plastic banana studies and you guys lost ground in public opinion. http://www.people-press.org/2014/12/10/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights/ A whopping 9 point shift in public opinion in 2 years! Gun control is dead
Anomaly 100 December 11th, 2014 at 15:15
You forgot to address the topic.
allison1050 December 11th, 2014 at 15:19
details details lol.
trenaherringtonchapman December 11th, 2014 at 15:25
So is this man and his daughter. Not that innocent deaths mean anything to gun hugging idiots.
arc99 December 11th, 2014 at 16:03
I don’t dispute the results of the poll.
I just think it is so typical of right wing hypocrisy that you accept as immutable laws of physics, any poll which supports your opinions.
But when the same organization conducts a poll on some issue which completely contradicts your opinion, some of you claim the poll is biased and worthless.
Incidentally, I am a gun-owner, AND support gun control. So put that into your cognitive dissonance backpack.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/roe-v-wade-at-40/
Roe v. Wade at 40: Most Oppose Overturning Abortion Decision
As the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision approaches, the public remains opposed to completely overturning the historic ruling on abortion. More than six-in-ten (63%) say they would not like to see the court completely overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, which established a woman’s constitutional right to abortion at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Only about three-in-ten (29%) would like to see the ruling overturned. These opinions are little changed from surveys conducted 10 and 20 years ago.
Shades December 11th, 2014 at 17:25
A man and his daughter were murdered and you’re posting about polls? What kind of ______ are you?
fahvel December 11th, 2014 at 21:05
filling in the blank- one evil mofo without a shred of goodness in his cold heart, er, rectum.
rational_thinking_one December 11th, 2014 at 17:44
Unfortunately, gun control is not the only thing dying. Countless lives are taken each and everyday because it’s too damn easy to kill someone with the cute little plastic handguns and “them ones that make you look like Rambo.” Until the gun nuts of this country concede on handguns and assault rifles, they all share a little drop of blood for every victim that is killed. And at this point, all those little drops are really adding up.
fahvel December 11th, 2014 at 21:05
you are an ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
William December 11th, 2014 at 23:47
and here I was wondering just what sort of asshole would step in and trumpet some sort of NRA victory rhetoric in the face of the murder of two people, one being a child.
Congratulations.
Red Eye Robot December 11th, 2014 at 15:49
2 solid years of non stop droning on about it, countless plastic banana studies and you guys lost ground in public opinion. http://www.people-press.org/2014/12/10/growing-public-support-for-gun-rights/ A whopping 9 point shift in public opinion in 2 years! Gun control is dead
Anomaly 100 December 11th, 2014 at 16:15
You forgot to address the topic.
allison1050 December 11th, 2014 at 16:19
details details lol.
trenaherringtonchapman December 11th, 2014 at 16:25
So is this man and his daughter. Not that innocent deaths mean anything to gun hugging idiots.
arc99 December 11th, 2014 at 17:03
I don’t dispute the results of the poll.
I just think it is so typical of right wing hypocrisy that you accept as immutable laws of physics, any poll which supports your opinions.
But when the same organization conducts a poll on some issue which completely contradicts your opinion, some of you claim the poll is biased and worthless.
Incidentally, I am a gun-owner, AND support gun control. So put that into your cognitive dissonance backpack.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/roe-v-wade-at-40/
Roe v. Wade at 40: Most Oppose Overturning Abortion Decision
As the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision approaches, the public remains opposed to completely overturning the historic ruling on abortion. More than six-in-ten (63%) say they would not like to see the court completely overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, which established a woman’s constitutional right to abortion at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Only about three-in-ten (29%) would like to see the ruling overturned. These opinions are little changed from surveys conducted 10 and 20 years ago.
Shades December 11th, 2014 at 18:25
A man and his daughter were murdered and you’re posting about polls? What kind of ______ are you?
fahvel December 11th, 2014 at 22:05
filling in the blank- one evil mofo without a shred of goodness in his cold heart, er, rectum.
rational_thinking_one December 11th, 2014 at 18:44
Unfortunately, gun control is not the only thing dying. Countless lives are taken each and everyday because it’s too damn easy to kill someone with the cute little plastic handguns and “them ones that make you look like Rambo.” Until the gun nuts of this country concede on handguns and assault rifles, they all share a little drop of blood for every victim that is killed. And at this point, all those little drops are really adding up.
fahvel December 11th, 2014 at 22:05
you are an ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
William December 12th, 2014 at 00:47
and here I was wondering just what sort of asshole would step in and trumpet some sort of NRA victory rhetoric in the face of the murder of two people, one being a child.
Congratulations.
whatthe46 December 11th, 2014 at 15:03
typical. a white woman kills her family and she will be given the benefit of being mental. i’m sure she called her attorney first and he instructed her to drive there. there’s your defense.
MIAtheistGal December 11th, 2014 at 18:39
And they somehow managed to bring her in without killing her. Funny how that works.
Carol Saia December 11th, 2014 at 22:07
Why did she kill them? need to know the true story first before judging. What if the husband was abusing the kids? cheated on her…we don’t know yet. why kill the other kid?
Morel Ardell Carr December 11th, 2014 at 22:50
Her and her children weren’t even living there anymore, Carol. The other victim was her estranged husband’s daughter, not her own.
William December 11th, 2014 at 23:44
“Why did she kill them?”.
Because she’s a gun toting asshole.
” What if the husband was abusing the kids? cheated on her”.
Oh yeah…I forgot about THAT possibility.
I mean it’s not like she could call..um..I dunno? The police? Child protective services? A divorce lawyer?
whatthe46 December 12th, 2014 at 00:16
i made the statement earlier, that her going straight to the damn hospital (mental) was a setup for a mental justification. and here’s this carol.
William December 12th, 2014 at 09:04
It’s astounding. A white open carry redneck, murders two people in cold blood, and the mouth breathers circle the wagon. A man is strangled to death on camera, and they put the dead guy on trial.
whatthe46 December 11th, 2014 at 23:51
are you by any chance related to this woman? no, coward? each of your post reflects to abuse of some kind, thereby exusing her for murder. and you don’t go killing your ex/spouse and their daughter over an affair. that’s simply called a motive, not an excuse. true story… she’s a nut case like the rest of the gun nuts, who shouldn’t own guns and she murdered two people, how’s that? and you’re likely some gun nut as well, because you’re definitely not addressing the article and the irony of it all. abused my a$$!
Carol Saia December 13th, 2014 at 01:31
honey, I don’t own a gun. I am against them, generally. Look up statistics and educate yourself about child abuse and crime, child abuse and personality disorders. I looked up the article, she looks like a wacko from her pictures, I agree with you, that background checks must be mandatory, but some people are real good at hiding their true selves. Check out the book, Malignant Self Love, Narcissism Revisited, by Sam Vaknin or “Abused Boys “, by ?
gun and knife enthusiasts are usually abused child/adults. Some are just warrior types. Past Life issues…maybe they were murdered or their family was in a previous life. See the book, Many Lives, Many Masters, by DR. Brian Weiss, or the new book called “Soul Survivor”. Life and death is Grander that we think. “Saved by the Light”, Dannion Brinkeley, Vietnam Vet.
Johnny_H December 12th, 2014 at 13:34
You are correct that all of the facts are not out there. But one piece of information that is out, according to media reports such as the coverage of this incident in the NY Daily News, is that the judge handling the divorce case had ordered Veronica to move out of the house.
If one of the possibilities you suggest were to be the case, I presume that it is more likely that her husband would have been the one ordered out. Could be totally off base on that but at least the notion is supported by the details reported so far and not complete speculation as is this idea that there may have been some abuse that you keep putting forward.
whatthe46 December 11th, 2014 at 16:03
typical. a white woman kills her family and she will be given the benefit of being mental. i’m sure she called her attorney first and he instructed her to drive there. there’s your defense.
MIAtheistGal December 11th, 2014 at 19:39
And they somehow managed to bring her in without killing her. Funny how that works.
Carol Saia December 11th, 2014 at 23:07
Why did she kill them? need to know the true story first before judging. What if the husband was abusing the kids? cheated on her…we don’t know yet. why kill the other kid?
Annie Ardell Carr December 11th, 2014 at 23:50
Her and her children weren’t even living there anymore, Carol. The other victim was her estranged husband’s daughter, not her own.
William December 12th, 2014 at 00:44
“Why did she kill them?”.
Because she’s a gun toting asshole.
” What if the husband was abusing the kids? cheated on her”.
Oh yeah…I forgot about THAT possibility.
I mean it’s not like she could call..um..I dunno? The police? Child protective services? A divorce lawyer?
whatthe46 December 12th, 2014 at 01:16
i made the statement earlier, that her going straight to the damn hospital (mental) was a setup for a mental justification. and here’s this carol.
William December 12th, 2014 at 10:04
It’s astounding. A white open carry redneck, murders two people in cold blood, and the mouth breathers circle the wagon. A man is strangled to death on camera, and they put the dead guy on trial.
whatthe46 December 12th, 2014 at 00:51
are you by any chance related to this woman? no, coward? each of your post reflects to abuse of some kind, thereby exusing her for murder. and you don’t go killing your ex/spouse and their daughter over an affair. that’s simply called a motive, not an excuse. true story… she’s a nut case like the rest of the gun nuts, who shouldn’t own guns and she murdered two people, how’s that? and you’re likely some gun nut as well, because you’re definitely not addressing the article and the irony of it all. abused my a$$!
Carol Saia December 13th, 2014 at 02:31
honey, I don’t own a gun. I am against them, generally. Look up statistics and educate yourself about child abuse and crime, child abuse and personality disorders. I looked up the article, she looks like a wacko from her pictures, I agree with you, that background checks must be mandatory, but some people are real good at hiding their true selves. Check out the book, Malignant Self Love, Narcissism Revisited, by Sam Vaknin or “Abused Boys “, by ?
gun and knife enthusiasts are usually abused child/adults. Some are just warrior types. Past Life issues…maybe they were murdered or their family was in a previous life. See the book, Many Lives, Many Masters, by DR. Brian Weiss, or the new book called “Soul Survivor”. Life and death is Grander that we think. “Saved by the Light”, Dannion Brinkeley, Vietnam Vet.
Johnny_H December 12th, 2014 at 14:34
You are correct that all of the facts are not out there. But one piece of information that is out, according to media reports such as the coverage of this incident in the NY Daily News, is that the judge handling the divorce case had ordered Veronica to move out of the house.
If one of the possibilities you suggest were to be the case, I presume that it is more likely that her husband would have been the one ordered out. Could be totally off base on that but at least the notion is supported by the details reported so far and not complete speculation as is this idea that there may have been some abuse that you keep putting forward.
whatthe46 December 11th, 2014 at 15:06
but, tamir was the dangerous one.
whatthe46 December 11th, 2014 at 16:06
but, tamir was the dangerous one.
Arakiba December 11th, 2014 at 15:07
If you’re too scared to leave your house without openly carrying a gun, stay the hell home, you cowards.
Steve Harmon December 12th, 2014 at 11:24
Get over your fears. Do you want law enforcement disarmed as well? Does the sight of that bunch of metal parts scare you that much? Maybe you should be the one to avoid this big bad scary world.
Aun Awn December 12th, 2014 at 11:29
It does sound like he’s a little offended by open carries, doesn’t it? I don’t need a gun to leave my house nor am I afraid of or offended by those who carry them openly.
Should look up how many people have actually been shot at open-carry rallies, my guess is not many.
Steve Harmon December 12th, 2014 at 11:41
Actually the number is zero, same as gun shows.
amongoose December 16th, 2014 at 09:16
And no buildings were burned or looted.