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Man Fatally Shoots 3 Ex-Bandmates, Himself in NYC
AP ^ | November 11, 2013

Posted on 11/11/2013 9:22:27 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

A man kicked out of his indie rock band shot three of his bandmates to death in their Brooklyn apartment early Monday and wounded a fourth before killing himself on the roof, police said.

The band members were all from Iran but had come the United States in the past few years seeking more musical freedom. It wasn't immediately clear why the ex-member snapped, police said.

The shooting happened shortly after midnight in a row house in East Williamsburg, an industrial neighborhood home to mostly warehouses where artists can rent cheaper space than in trendier parts of the city.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; iran; music; newyork; nyc; shooting; suicide
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No Big Gulps for him!
1 posted on 11/11/2013 9:22:27 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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I’m starting to believe it has to be genetic...


2 posted on 11/11/2013 9:25:37 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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WTH? A gun in brooklyn/nyc? Did he get it the same place the ice rink shooter got his? Heavy metal music? I got booted out of a band about 4 years ago and the satisfaction I got was that everybody I talked to “post me” said the band had started to suck after I left. Ah ha. Vindicated. LOL!


3 posted on 11/11/2013 9:26:23 AM PST by rktman (Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
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A man kicked out of his indie rock band

Could it be he didn't like washing dishes?

4 posted on 11/11/2013 9:26:44 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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I wonder if they covered “Up on the Roof” by the Drifters.


5 posted on 11/11/2013 9:27:02 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Was the band’s name “Sudden Jihad Syndrome”?


6 posted on 11/11/2013 9:28:57 AM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Pete Best took it better.


7 posted on 11/11/2013 9:29:05 AM PST by MUDDOG
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What,no suicide belt? I guess none of them will get their “virgins”.
8 posted on 11/11/2013 9:29:58 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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(: Funny.


9 posted on 11/11/2013 9:30:51 AM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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And we will never know if this indy Iranian band would become the Beatles of this generation.


10 posted on 11/11/2013 9:31:20 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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I wonder if the tour will be canceled?
11 posted on 11/11/2013 9:32:05 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: Gay State Conservative

Hey. If the shooter had a fatwa on the issue, he’s covered. Come to think of it “Fatwa” would be a good band name.


12 posted on 11/11/2013 9:33:02 AM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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The band members were all from Iran but had come the United States in the past few years seeking more musical freedom. It wasn't immediately clear why the ex-member snapped, police said.

Q: What's the difference between a professional musician, and a 16-inch cheese pizza?

A: The 16-inch cheese pizza can feed a family of four.

13 posted on 11/11/2013 9:34:15 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: ConservativeStatement

14 posted on 11/11/2013 9:34:51 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: ConservativeStatement; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; Daffynition
The band members were all from Iran but had come the United States in the past few years seeking more musical freedom. It wasn't immediately clear why the ex-member snapped, police said.

Too tightly wound is my guess.

15 posted on 11/11/2013 9:35:07 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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Absolutely impossible impossible impossible because guns are illegal in NYC.


16 posted on 11/11/2013 9:36:34 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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This must be from The Onion. Guns are not allowed in NYC.


17 posted on 11/11/2013 9:36:57 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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My spidy-senses are tingling over this one . . .


18 posted on 11/11/2013 9:37:00 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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Iranian? What were some of their hits? “Kill the Jew”? “Fatwah on Rushdie?” “My wife was raped so she must be stoned to death for seducing men”?


19 posted on 11/11/2013 9:38:02 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m not sure, but this may have been the Yellow Dogs band.

See Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Dogs_Band


20 posted on 11/11/2013 9:38:49 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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