Former Scientologist Storms Celebrity Center With Swords, Killed By Church Guards
This past Sunday, former Scientologist and mental patient, Mario Majorski, stormed the Scientology Celebrity Center complex in Hollywood, wielding two swords threatening those at the center before being fatally shot by armed Scientology guards. Majorski, who was a member in good standing of the Church as of '93, was named in a suit brought by Scientology's attorney, Ken Moxon against UCLA and a professor at the university.
Majorski, who maintained residence in both LA and Oregon, had a history of making threats against the Church for some time, and was known by the CoS and local law enforcement. He also had had non-CoS related police run-ins in the last decade.
Here's more detail on the incident from the LATimes:
A church spokesman said the 48-year-old had not participated in Scientology activities for more than a decade, but in recent years he had made a series of threatening phone calls to church offices in Los Angeles and Oregon, where he had been living."There were over a dozen threats at various points since 2005," said spokesman Tommy Davis.
The church alerted police to the calls, which Davis described as ranging from veiled statements that "something bad" would happen to the church to direct threats of violence.
Although Majorski's name was known to church security, Davis said, guards, including the former police officer who shot him Sunday afternoon, did not know him by sight.
"It was only after it happened that we realized, 'Oh, it's that guy,' " he said.
The Times report also said that law enforcement believed Majorski hadn't had regular employment for a while, but had previously worked with his now-deceased father's real estate
business. Majorski's mother also passed away in the last year, and there were some incidents related to his mother at the facility where she was staying before she died:
In 2006, the administrator at Country Villa Broadway, the San Gabriel medical facility where his mother was a patient, sought a restraining order against him. In court papers, the administrator wrote that Majorski's visits from Oregon were unwelcome. Continued on the next page
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