Editor's note: Attorneys for convicted killer Jared Lee Loughner notified the court that Loughner didn't file or authorize the lawsuit, Cosme Lopez a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office District of Arizona said Thursday.
Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner sued Gabrielle Giffords and the Federal Bureau of Prisons in federal court saying she should pay him $25 million for emotional distress.
Loughner is serving a life sentence for the Jan. 8, Β 2011Β fatal shooting of six people and wounding of 13 others, including former congresswoman Giffords, who was hosting a political event outside a northwest side grocery store.
In the two-page complaint filed March 18 in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Loughner says he is innocent and asks for his immediate release from prison. He also makes an assortment of bizarre claims about Giffords.
It appears Loughner filed the lawsuit himself. No lawyer is listed in the document that's riddled with spelling and grammatical errors.
Loughner said his head is βfull of chips and this evil empire govt is controlling me.β He said he was a "victim of project mk-ultra" and Giffords is part of the Illuminati.
Loughner alleges Giffords was never shot. Instead, she studied Ronald Reagan movies and is pretending to be a gunshot victim.
The lawsuit also claims Giffords' husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, is planting equipment in the sky to spy on Americans for the NSA.
Loughner claims Giffords played a role in the recent standoff at a wildlife refuge in Oregon, sprayed chemtrails into the sky that are making him delusional and financed the December shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Loughner says he is not getting proper food in the Minnesota federal prison facility where he is serving his term and that his medications were taken away, He also claims to be water boarded daily by federal agents.
A stamp on the lawsuit says the document was filed incorrectly and is subject to rejection by the court.
