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Posted on 11/27/2006 1:53:04 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina
A South Carolina Gamecocks fan fatally shot a friend over a $20 bet on a weekend football game, authorities said.
James Walter Quick watched the South Carolina-Clemson game Saturday at his friend's house in Lexington, S.C., about 100 miles south of Charlotte. The Gamecocks came from behind and won, 31-28.
Quick celebrated.
But his friend, Clemson fan Richard Allen Johnson, said the Tigers shouldn't have lost and refused to pay, authorities said. So Quick left the house and retrieved a high-powered rifle from his Chevrolet Corsica.
"He went back in and told Richard, `I want my money or I'm going to shoot you,' " said Lexington County Sheriff James Metts, adding that both had been drinking beer.
Metts said Johnson's wife and several friends told police that Johnson then said: "You can't shoot me, I'm invisible."
And Quick replied, "No you're not."
Johnson, 43, was shot once in the chest, and deputies charged Quick, 42, with murder and possessing a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. He was leaning against his Corsica, with arms crossed, when police arrived, Metts said.
The men had gone deer hunting together the morning of the shooting, police said, and they were dressed in camouflage as they watched the game with friends.
Quick and Johnson met a couple years ago after their wives became good friends and soon they were inviting each other for cookouts and to watch games, Quick's mother and sister told the Observer.
"It's always been football and NASCAR," said Quick's sister, Ann Marie Quick.
Quick didn't attend USC but always supported the team, said Quick's mother, who declined to give her name.
"You just hear so much commotion about the Gamecocks," she said. "It's state loyalty."
Quick usually watched games on TV but sometimes went to the stadium, she said. He also enjoyed playing football with his children, ages 14 and 7, she added. What happened is "totally out of his nature," Anne Marie Quick said.
His friend, Johnson, left behind children and a wife, Lynn, who didn't return calls for comment.
Johnson was a laid-back man known for teaching children how to do things, said his next-door neighbor Martha Johnson, who is not related.
"My nephew was with him every day," she said. "He always talked about how Rick showed him how to skin 'coons and deer."
Adam Branhan, 16, said he met Johnson at the beginning of the summer, when Johnson let him swim in his pond and hunt on his property.
"He cared about me," Branhan said. "He was there when I needed him."
And you gotta add a little for showing the neighbor kid how to skin "coons and deer" and stuff.
I thought that excuse was irrefutable.
I'm confused. I always thought that if your team lost, but they shouldn't have lost, you can ignore the result and you don't have to pay.
Pity he didn't drink a few more beers so he could've been bulletproof, too.
As has been said on this forum countless times before; we all know whose fault it really is!
A human is incapable of consuming enough beer to make him drunk enough to be that stupid. He had to have been ingesting something more potent than beer.
Were his initials JCR?
I know. It's the fault of the NFL and the NRA.
LOL! Hey Mean, What Texas town do you reside in, Cut and Shoot?
Picture taken while dressed in white during a blizzard, right?
Yes, did you "look it up." I have a special feeling in my heart for him and his 3 bothers. It was a great night because I found out from my "victim" that the other three got busted in a raid by the feds. for gun charges. Early Xmas present for me.
Ditto!
I looked it up. Was curious if it someone we had on a recent bulletin since the charges sounded similar for past stuff. Different guy
Yeah, oxygen!
"Two guys (with three names each),"
I beleive people with three names are probably the majority in this country. I seriously doubt everybody in the article went by their full names.
Still though, reminds me of all the trailer inhabitants here with 8th grade educations and MSU stickers all over their 87 F150s.
Never underestimate the power of SEC Football.
Damn. That's a more intense rivalry than I thought.
I guess you can't get much more rabid for your team than that.......
well let's see here....
Riots one year...
Friends killing each other over the game two years after that...
Pretty intense if you ask me :)
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