According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, Moore pointed a loaded .38 caliber revolver at a group of employees playing cards and said: "Don't mess with my family."
His intent, according to the court papers, was "to hold the ex-co-workers at gun point while he punched them with his right hand."
One of the card players lunged at Moore, who fired three rounds. One of those rounds hit Burnside, one of the card players, in the lower leg.
Burnside was treated at Miami Valley Hospital.
Moore went to the VA, where he worked for 27 years, with the gun to confront former co-workers who he believed were engaged in inappropriate relationships with his wife and daughter, both of whom are VA employees, according to the affidavit.
VA spokesman Ted Froats has said it was possible Moore and Burnside know each other. Burnside began working at the center Feb. 1, 1998.
Moore remains in the Montgomery County Jail.
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