Yes.
Had no idea.
I thought maybe it was this.
Posted on 03/17/2018 4:52:22 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
A woman who fatally shot a man on a shoulder of Interstate 5 during a road-rage incident last month will not be charged, the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday.
The 23-year-old woman acted in self defense, prosecutors said. The News Tribune has chosen not to publish her name because she was never arrested or charged with a crime.
Witnesses said the man, 60-year-old Bruce W. Jones, was upset with how the woman was driving her motorcycle Feb. 8 on the southbound freeway near the King-Pierce County line in Milton. He tried to box the woman in with his 2016 GMC Terrain, then got out of his vehicle and “aggressively approached her on the shoulder of Interstate 5,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release.
Jones started a fight with the woman and at some point she head-butted him. Jones then slammed the woman’s head into a jersey barrier and took her to the ground. As Jones tried to climb on top of her, she shot him in the chest with a handgun. He died at the scene.
The motorcyclist, who had a concealed pistol license, called 911 and waited for investigators. She was detained and then released while prosecutors made a charging decision.
Jones’ wife was a passenger in the GMC and was not injured.
“This is another reminder to everyone to keep a cool head on our roads,” Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said. “Nothing good is going to come from physically confronting another driver.”
The investigation of the shooting caused significant backups on the freeway, as police closed two lanes of I-5 for about four hours.
Yes.
Had no idea.
I thought maybe it was this.
The above is from the subject article. Where did you get "shoulder"?
Washington State. When I first read of this awhile ago, it sounded pretty clear that the shooting was justified. I showed my daughter the article. “The guy did this with his wife in the car!?”
I ended with “That motorcycle gal might be dead if she hadn’t had a gun.”
She got roughed up and was still able to shoot him which is pretty impressive. If he were half his age it may have turned out different for her. I wonder how dumb he was at 30?
I showed it to a young lady here, too. Good for them to know about some cases.
Vendome: Re “not if yer shot in a jersey”.
Nobody gives a damn if you are shot in New Jersey. Just another typical day in the Crime State.
A Jersey barrier, or Jersey wall, is a modular concrete or plastic barrier employed to separate lanes of traffic
So there is still an a$$hole biker riding around who thinks they own the road.
I know what a Jersey Barrier is but I was making fun of the stupidly worded sentence.
Sounded like he was shot in a shirt. Jersey Barrier is a proper name for an item and should have been either spelled out or put in with Caps.
I hate piss-poor writing. I’m editing several chapters of a book I’m helping with and will make some corrections/additions for clarity that she missed. I will also provide the “context” for those changes, which to the untrained eye may seem minor, but to the legal eye and scholars eye, are major changes.
A friend of mine, who should have known better (he didn’t consult me), ended up getting sued by a very nasty attorney for defamation (the attorney, who I knew, was a crazy leftist but he picked up on one set of mistransposed words and he created legal hell for my friend) and reportedly cost him about $10,000 to settle the lawsuit.
Here at FR we can screw around with words, but you still have to make your meaning clear. “shot in a jersey” means absolutely nothing to me. It may be a local expression but I’m not a “local” of where the event took place.
Guess we were both making fun of grammar...
Sieg Heil ...
Witty but totally lost on some on this very thread
” Jersey Barrier is a proper name for an item and should have been either spelled out or put in with Caps.”
Should be Jeyser barrier, instead of Jeyser Barrier or jeyser barrier, methink.
Good grief about crappy writings though.
He was in a huge suv with his wife; she was a 23 year old on a motorcycle............he sounds like a huge enraged crazed bully, she is lucky she had a gun.
Wife probably gave a lot of the details......
If it just went through the deltoid muscle, then no issues, although those muscles are a very small target on most people. If it goes through what is conventionally defined as "the shoulder", if you look carefully at those wounds in the movies, you will note that it's actually more like the upper chest. Those wounds can be bad news.
Marshal Dillon gets one most every day.
I’m on her side. Personally I carried a hammer in my decades of highway riding. When somebody got dangerously-to-me aggressive I dented his fender. The sudden sound caused the drivers to swerve the other way. I did not do it if the traffic was sparse because then I could not cut away from through traffic and use other cars for my shield. It used to be a jungle out there for motorcycles especially in the seventies and into the first of the eighties. More han one deliberately tried to push me off the road or into oncoming traffic. I was not a show-off with my riding because I was travelling. I rode even and steady.
Same phenomenon. Given it was coastal Washington, were the driver black and she a man she would have been charged and there would have been a spectacular MSM and jury trial.
More often the good guy wins in these things, I think, because the bad guy is totally surprised that the victim is armed. Store clerks dying in shootouts do make little headlines occasionally.
It is those trapezoidal sectioned concrete barriers that are placed with forklifts.
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