On Wednesday, authorities released a journal belonging to John Houser, who killed two people and wounded nine last summer in a shooting at a Louisiana movie theater. On the last page, the Associated Press reports, Houser wrote, shortly before the shooting, that he was leaving the journal “in hopes of truth, my death all but assured.”

Authorities announced Friday that John Houser, despite a history of mental illness and having been denied a concealed-carry permit seven years earlier, was able to legally acquire, in 2014, the 40-caliber handgun with which he killed three people and injured nine others at a Louisiana movie theater this week.