Posted on 11/16/2009 3:45:36 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was an Internet romance and it led to an attempted murder and a suicide in Orlando. Police say a woman, scorned by a man she thought was her online lover, showed up at his Middlebrook Pines Apartment (see map) late Sunday night with a handgun.
The man survived the shooting, but then the shooter killed herself.
Paula Harris, 30, drove all the way from the Atlanta, Georgia area, according to investigators, and checked into the Holiday Inn at Universal Boulevard and Sand Lake Road (see map), just over four miles from 44-year-old Andre Barboza's Orlando apartment.
What Harris allegedly did next was a total surprise to everyone, even the friends she convinced to drive her over there from the hotel. Orlando police say Harris waited for Barboza to come home and ambushed him. Bullet holes riddled the outside wall of Barboza's apartment and a bullet hole was left in his fence.
“I heard, like, five, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,” said Lynda Vaughn, the victim's neighbor.
That was followed by screaming and then more shots, witnesses said.
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They believe the Georgia woman was aiming her handgun at his groin.
She wasn’t a diaper wearing astronaut, was she?
If all the information we are given is correct, we have been saved from a crazy psychotic by her own doing.
Hope the guy recovers.
Now let the government introduce more crazy laws to try to further police the internet because of an online “romance” that went bad.
LOL! I heard that the astronut got off with time served the other day, btw.
She didn't have to kill herself. If she had simply yelled, "Allah Akhbar!!" while shooting the guy they would have blamed her minor outburst on the guy for not being sensitive and let her go with a stern talking to.
Unbelievable, huh.
FAIL
On the Internet everyone hsa either a Miss Universe figure or a striking resemblence to John Holmes. This is what happens when you leave the Matrix.
what is it with Orlando and crazy people?
Caution, the "solid defense" does NOT work for white christian males.
Holy crap ! She was just a couple inches taller than my former fiancee... and could've made FOUR of her. That was one angry f'ing hippo.
The “It’s A Small World” Disney ride. It drives everyone insane.
He is lucky she wasn’t from Texas. Gals from Texas can shoot.
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