Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - This Crazy Man Shot Up a Walmart - The Jerad Miller and Amanda Miller Story

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

Jerad and Amanda Miller were a married couple from Indiana who embraced extreme anti-government and anti-law enforcement views, often posting conspiracy-laden, anti-police rhetoric online. After moving to Las Vegas in 2014, the pair’s hostility toward authority escalated into violence on June 8 of that year, when they ambushed two Las Vegas police officers while the officers were eating lunch, killing them both. The Millers fled to a nearby Walmart, where they shot and killed a civilian who tried to intervene

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rated PG-13 So this guy's gonna try and start a revolution By shooting up a Walmart Now the guy's name is Jared And Jared is 30 years old the story starts living in Indiana, and this dude, he's pretty much a turd. He's been in and out of jail a bunch of times for guns and assault and all kinds of stuff. Here's a mugshot if you want to see. But here's the thing about Jared. He really hates the police. And one day in 2013, he decides to let

the world know exactly how he feels. So he makes a YouTube video about his local police department where he complains about how horrible they treated him during his most recent arrest. arrest. While another one, he legally detained my wife there in the living room would not let her leave the house. Now, Jared apparently likes to post things on Facebook, bashing the police, making himself sound like some kind of freedom fighter, but in reality, he's just a guy who can't stay out of jail. And he and his wife, this woman, Amanda, Jared and Amanda, they're actually white supremacist. Which just by looking at these two, I can tell you they aren't supreme anything. Fucking Taco Supreme. Anyway, with all of Jared's arrests in Indiana

and the fact that their landlord is affecting them, in 2014, Jared and Amanda decide to move from Indiana all the way to Las Vegas, Nevada. And there, I guess to make some money, on the Vegas strip, Jared dresses up as Batman, and Amanda dresses up as Harley Quinn,

and they take pictures with tourists. Sometimes Jared dresses up like the Joker, I guess. And here's another picture of him. And sometimes he'll even upload YouTube videos of himself doing anti-government rants dressed as the Joker. Year after year, I've watched you Americans. My fellow citizens vote for tyranny. But then, that same year, Jared finally gets his shot to stand up to the government that he hates so much. Because in Southeast Nevada, there's a small group of people. Some might even

call them a militia. But they happen to be in a standoff with the U.S. government over this local rancher allowing his cows to graze on government land. And you can look up the case if you want, but at one point, the government sues this rancher and he loses, and this feud escalates into a standoff, and other state militias show up to help him, and it eventually becomes an armed standoff over this rancher's cows grazing on government land that he doesn't own. Well, anyway, Jared finds out about this armed standoff against the government, and he's like, woohoo, now's my chance.

And he sells everything he can, and he takes Amanda out. to this ranch in southeastern Nevada to join this movement. So now finally Jared has found his people. People who love guns and paranoia and just general anti-government outrage. But then I guess he's there with Amanda and all these militia people and he starts spouting off his beliefs to all of them. Which I assume would include a lot of his like white power nonsense. And this apparently starts freaking out the other militia members. Those militia members are like, yo, this guy is nuts. And so literally, this group of anti-government gravy seals thinks Jared and Amanda are just too extreme for them. And after only a few days there, they kicked them out of the movement. And from there, I guess they move all the way back to Las Vegas.

And of course, Jared is all pissed off about this. I mean, this was his chance to face off against the government. In fact, he gets so mad that later he's like leaving comments on YouTube videos about the incident trying to explain his side. I was out there, but they told me and my wife to leave because I'm a felon. They don't seem to understand that they're all felons now for intimidating law enforcement with deadly weapons. Anyway, Jared is not going to give up quite yet. He still hates the police.

He still hates those in power. And so he starts kicking around ideas to cause chaos. And he's coming up with a bunch of crazy plans, like taking over the courthouse, taking out a public official, or doing some sort of. of grand shootout that starts a revolution, but you know, for now, these are all just ideas. Like, he's not really going to do them. Until... Until one day he actually decides to put one of these ideas into motion.

He plans to start a shootout with some police officers, because he apparently believes that this is somehow going to start some kind of revolution. I'm not sure if he thinks other citizens are suddenly going to join in and take their side. I don't know. I'm not really following his logic here. Regardless, he and Amanda start getting together all the stuff they're going to need for this, like food and water and guns and armor-piercing bullets and, like, adult diapers so that they don't have to use the actual bathroom during this shootout.

And the day before it's about to go down, Jared posts one last cryptic status update on his Facebook page. The dawn of a new day, may all of our coming sacrifices be worth it. The next morning, they get up around. around 4.30 a.m. And they put on their tactical vests and their adult diapers. And they fill these big duffel bags with all their guns and ammo and shit. Then they leave and they wander around Las Vegas on foot and I guess they're looking for random police officers to shoot. Several hours later, Jared finally sees a couple of officers eating lunch at this pizza place, Cece's pizza. And so to scope this place out, Jared walks in for a second. And he can see two officers

sitting there at a table. They're on their lunch break eating. A few minutes later, he and Amanda walk back in, and Jared walks up to the officers, he pulls out a pistol, and suddenly, blam, he shoots one of them. Then the other officer tries to draw his weapon, but blam, Jared shoots him too. Then they both open fire on the officers until they're both unaligned. Then Jared drapes a yachtsy flag and a don't tread on me flag over one of the officers. And on the other officer, they leave a note. The beginning of the revolution. After that, Jared and Amanda walk across the street to Walmart. And you can see here, there's surveillance footage of them walking, and you can see they got their bags and weapons and diapers. And so they walk inside the store. And Jared suddenly

yells, get out! This is a revolution. Police are on their way. And blam, he fires a warning shot into the ceiling. And so, of course, the customers, they start freaking out, and they're all trying to run away or hide. And I think Jared and Amanda's goal here is to cause a scene, so that they can lure a bunch of police officers to the Walmart so that they can then have a shootout with them and I don't know how that's going to start a revolution. I don't know. These guys are weird. Now, there's one customer in the store

who has a concealed pistol on him and he's going to try to take these two out. And so he pulls out his pistol and he goes after Jared. But he thinks Jared is alone. He doesn't notice that Amanda is with him. And so he rushes past her with his pistol aimed at Jared. And suddenly, Blam, Amanda shoots the guy.

And this, unfortunately, unalives him. Meanwhile, police, they're already at the location of the first shooting, C.C.'s Pizza. And they get alerted about this new incident at Walmart. And so now they have to go there. And one officer arrives and he enters the store and he sees Amanda and blam, blam, they start shooting at each other. And then Jared joins in. And then blam, Amanda gets shot in the back near her shoulder and she's hurt.

But the revolution, I guess, must continue. So she lies down on the floor between the aisles while Jared is still shooting. And more officers have arrived. And at one point, Jared sees one of them and blam, he fires. And blam, the officer shoots back. And they hit Jared in the chest and he falls to the ground. And so at this point, they've been in this shootout for 24 minutes. And Jared, he actually dies from being shot in the chest.

And Amanda, she must know that there's no way out of this. And so she starts shooting at Jared to make sure that he. He's dead. And then she unalives herself.