Posted on 05/04/2015 1:36:16 PM PDT by seacapn
LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) -- A tourist in town for the Kentucky Derby was shot and killed near his hotel Saturday night. Police have charged three people in connection to 49-year-old Toronto resident Scott Hunter's murder.
Friends of Scott Hunter describe him as a great guy and a lively character, he was a bartender in downtown Toronto for nine years.
"We're trying to get our heads around it and trying to comprehend how something like this could happen," said Beau Opperman, Hunter's boss at House on Parliament and.
Opperman says Hunter was in Louisville with a friend to go to the Derby.
"He was down there to watch the race and was having a good time and last we heard he had texted or called his girlfriend and was having a great time and then his family contacted me Sunday morning and I can only imagine what they're going through,” he told WDRB by phone Monday.
Police say Hunter was killed when he and his friend were headed back to their hotel after Kentucky Derby.
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Two Mohammadans and a partridge in a pear tree.
Wow! Just amazing! How do y'all do that?
It's gotta be the climate. There is no other explanation I can think of.
Thanks - very interesting. I’m surprised our rate is that low.
So, what would be the difference, say, between Utah at 1.7 and New Mexico at 6? Oklahoma also surprises me at 5.1, and what’s going on in Lousianna?! And D.C. is almost up there with Mexico!
Phillips Lane—I stay there all the time when I’m in Louisville.
Many hotels right next to the airport and the fairgrounds. I’m sure they’re just tickled to death about this.
Multicultural little group.
That doesn’t explain Michigan. We’re still high. Detroit and Flint mess with the averages.
Diversity is our... something.
Could you give the URL to the pic? (my device doesn’t tell me) Thanks.
But which hotel was he staying in?
Climate change. It's impacting MI ahead of the other states.
No that would have been the crowd at the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.
Article didn’t say.
No, that’s been the crowd at the Derby for at least 40 years.
I am all for having multiple mobile judges out with the squads and doing quick trials right there, and administering sentences, right there. For capital crimes where the perps are caught dead to rights. Not really have a big problem with that. Beats years of trials, shyster defenses, sitting on death row for decades, with possibility of never being executed.
Warming up to this. In the old days justice was quick. Trials were quick. Sentencing was carried out quick. One to two weeks max. Nobody cared if the murderer “suffered” during dying.
Ditto that. I live at the border between Ontario and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Never any rhubarbs regarding the differences. So dern nice to drive over the International Bridge and know people like you, if you act decently. I will concede that the CBC and sometimes the CTV make these politely guarded put downs of the USA. I wince when I hear and see the smugness of it all.
I remember when following a kidnapping of a person in the USA, some of the main Canadian media took a stance that "it could not happen here". Seems like ages ago when poor Laporte was kidnapped and murdered in Quebec. Then we had the FLQ terrorists. We are all vulnerable as human beings to thugs. Thugs who know no borders.(Excuse the sermon).
I didn’t even have to bother looking at the pictures and I knew. Figuring out who is committing the most murder and mayhem in this country is easier than shooting fish in a barrel.
As interesting and informative as the map shows rates of crime, there is a difference. Definitely the two cities mentioned really distort the overall picture. I went to the statistics of our American sister city, Sault Ste. Michigan. Zero homicides in 2014 and as far as I know, none in this year. Somehow that massive bridge over the Mackinac Straights brings one to another world. In fairness, the lower peninsula below the bridge seems very, very crime free.
Sometimes statistics are not always the whole picture.(Excuse the ramble).
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