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Cops investigate deadly shooting at 'Obama Food Mart'
myfoxtampabay.com ^ | Feb. 17, 2015 | Steve Nichols

Posted on 02/18/2015 8:11:18 AM PST by PROCON

ST. PETERSBURG (FOX 13) - Police are investigating a shooting at a local food mart Tuesday morning.

Investigators with the St. Petersburg Police Department said it happened outside the Obama Express Food Mart at 1400 18th Ave. South around 3 a.m. when a man, identified as 23-year-old Jhai-quel Rai-Tez Black entered the store after an argument outside.

Security guards asked Black to leave, but said he refused and pulled out a gun.

The guards fired theirs first, shooting and killing Black at the scene.

Detectives are reviewing the store's surveillance footage and will forward their findings to the State Attorney's Office to determine if any charges should be filed.

"I haven't seen the video," St. Petersburg police spokesman Michael Puetz said. "But the information I have at this point is that the gun itself was out, displayed, in his hand, but not pointed at any given specific direction, just being kind of waved across the perimeter of the store."

Puetz was describing the early morning shooting death by two armed security guards of Jhai'quel Rai-Tez Black, who just turned 23 Friday. Black was allegedly arguing with another man outside, then inside, the Obama Express convenience store on 18th Avenue South at about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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To: Noumenon
Make it up? I defy anyone to correctly pronounce that name (other than Black, that is).
21 posted on 02/18/2015 9:47:36 AM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Texas Eagle

The irony is that elitist snobs Barry and Mooch wouldn’t be caught dead eating anything that could be purchased in the Obama Food Market.


22 posted on 02/18/2015 9:54:00 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: PROCON
Jhai-quel Rai-Tez Black

The last name is unnecessary. We figured that out from the first two.

23 posted on 02/18/2015 9:56:36 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Blue Jays
Can we please show just a bit of decorum here?
We just learned a 23 y.o. armed Black was killed!

24 posted on 02/18/2015 10:04:34 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: PROCON
Jhai-quel Rai-Tez?

Does Guiness know about this?

25 posted on 02/18/2015 11:48:24 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: PROCON

If cops ask you to leave and you pull out a gun, you are going to be dead. So, we have one dead gun puller, and two alive cops and alive customers who might have been inside the store. That’s the way it should work.


26 posted on 02/18/2015 11:57:01 AM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: PROCON

Just redistributing lead in the interest of social justice


27 posted on 02/18/2015 1:22:44 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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