Residents Terrified Over Idea Of Deadly Weapon On Streets

[Wedge]

Obligatory:

Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho

 

[thorn726]

when i saw the title i thought this was about all those cars that are always trying to kill me

 

[Eric F]

Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho

LOL YES!

 

[dcal]

connection?

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/east_orange_teen_set_to_be_arr.html

An East Orange teenager will be arraigned today on charges he fired a machine gun at a moving vehicle in Newark this fall, critically wounding a three -year-old boy who was a passenger in the back seat.

Taron Johnson, 18, is charged with firing the shots that left bullet fragments in the skull of Abdul-Quadir Hutchins, who later had part of his skull removed and was placed in a medically induced coma. He will appear in Essex County Superior Court at 9 a.m.

The 22-count indictment against Johnson includes charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault, possession of a machine gun and other crimes. He faces up to 60 years in prison.

He is accused of firing nine rounds from a machine gun at a silver Toyota Camry Solara on Sept. 7 as it was U-turning on Orchard Street in Newark's East Ward at about 4 p.m.

Prosecutors said they believe Johnson was aiming for the car's driver, Shaquan Murphy, who was not wounded.

Murphy was dating Abdul-Quadir's sister, Latasha Barnes, who was in the front passenger seat and escaped injury, although authorities said one of the shots tore though her purse.

Besides the shot that struck the little boy, another round grazed a 76-year-old woman who was a block away at the corner of Orchard and Pennington Street, police said.

Accompanied by his former lawyer, Shaka Taylor, Johnson turned himself into authorities five days after the shooting. He is held on $1 million bail.

 

[dcal]

For those of you not familiar with NJ. Blue pins are relevant locations.

Map link

 

[keeleon]

If only there were laws against opening fire on innocent people. MOAR LAWS I SAY!

Prosecutors said they believe Johnson was aiming for the car's driver, Shaquan Murphy, who was not wounded.

This is why FA is silly, in my opinion. You lose so much accuracy, that it's better to just fire it in semi if you actually want to hit something. Seems to me if FA guns were easy and legal to obtain, there would be nothing to be afraid of, since it wouldn't be anything special.

Of course this is pretty scary, no type of guns should be in the hands of people that would do things like this, but it's not any scarier than if he would have stolen an officer's Glock and done this. He might have hit the guy too, of course he might not have hit the kid. It's the equivilant of $10,000 in coke missing from the evidence locker. No matter who has it, it is scary that they don't know where it is.