Shooting at McDonalds

[Sportcat]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/06/13/mcdonalds.shooting.ap/index.html

Pregnant woman wounded in McDonald's shooting
Sunday, June 13, 2004 Posted: 4:56 PM EDT (2056 GMT)


SELMA, Alabama (AP) -- Police arrested a man they say fired shots during his son's birthday party at a McDonald's, wounding his girlfriend's pregnant sister and sending customers scrambling for cover.

Witnesses told police Lorenzo Walker had argued with the victim, Latoya Powell, before the shooting Saturday. Six bullets struck two cars parked nearby, Selma police said.

"He was shooting sideways," John Green told The Selma Times-Journal in Sunday editions. "He wasn't aiming, he was just shooting."

Brian Sharpe and his family had just sat down to eat when they heard the shots.

"The glass behind us shattered and this girl came up from the back and said she'd been shot," Sharpe said. "We just tried to get the kids out."

Powell, who was shot in the neck and upper body, was taken to a hospital in fair condition. A hospital supervisor declined to update her condition Sunday.

Walker, 22, was being held without bond on charges of attempted murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied building.

A woman working at the restaurant Sunday said the owner, James Walls, was not immediately available for comment.

 

[P95Carry]

Indeed .. what to say? about covers it.

 

[Josey]

I wonder how long McDonalds will take to post NO WEAPONS signs?

 

[Peter Gun]

I'd be willing to bet this guy has a domestic violence conviction or some other backround that keeps him from legally owning a gun, or this gun turns out to be illegal in some other way, but that will never be mentioned in follow up reports. Grabbers will decide a new law will keep this from happening.

 

[Third_Rail]

As much as I hate things like this happening, I just LOVE to hear when a criminal doesn't aim.

Makes me feel safer.

The quote from someone there to the effect that he didn't aim is surprising though, most citizens don't understand that you have to aim a gun thanks to movies.

 

[DMK]

This guy was definately a gangbanger or at least a wannabe. I kinda doubt he had a CCW permit.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Police arrested a man they say fired shots during his son's birthday party...

Some people really know how to make a day special for a kid.

 

[gryphon]

Too bad there was not a law biding CCW holder there to cleanse the gene pool.

 

[joe sixpack]

http://www.birdman.org/images/hnsbig.jpg

Truly sad incident, just thank (whatever deity, non-diety) that the perps gun was not equipped with the product in the link above, coulda been a lot worse.

cheers, ab

 

[HowardC]

Sorta looks to me as if...........

............we oughta outlaw McDonalds!!!

 

[BHPshooter]

[tinfoilhat]Kind of interesting that shootings like this are on the rise just as the antis are trying to renew the AWB.[/tinfoilhat] Now I've got to get back to reading "Enemies Foreign and Domestic."

Seriously though, I'm glad the doofi don't seem to know how to aim. I'll feel that much safer when I get my CCW.

Wes

 

[Sydwaiz]

I knew eating at McDonald's was bad for your health, but geez!

 

[thumbtack]

Would it be against the law to choke this person to death, if you were at this party and tyring to subdue him?

 

[middy]

Would it be against the law to choke this person to death, if you were at this party and tyring to subdue him?

In Alabama?! The cops would probably shake your hand... sounds like his relatives might, too.