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Kentucky Derby-goer from Canada murdered when returning to hotel after race
WDRB 41 Louisville ^ | May 04, 2015 12:11 PM PST By Emily Mieure Connect | Emily Mieure

Posted on 05/04/2015 1:36:16 PM PDT by seacapn

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) -- A tourist in town for the Kentucky Derby was shot and killed near his hotel Saturday night. Police have charged three people in connection to 49-year-old Toronto resident Scott Hunter's murder.

Friends of Scott Hunter describe him as a great guy and a lively character, he was a bartender in downtown Toronto for nine years.

"We're trying to get our heads around it and trying to comprehend how something like this could happen," said Beau Opperman, Hunter's boss at House on Parliament and.

Opperman says Hunter was in Louisville with a friend to go to the Derby.

"He was down there to watch the race and was having a good time and last we heard he had texted or called his girlfriend and was having a great time and then his family contacted me Sunday morning and I can only imagine what they're going through,” he told WDRB by phone Monday.

Police say Hunter was killed when he and his friend were headed back to their hotel after Kentucky Derby.

(Excerpt) Read more at wdrb.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: diversity; kentuckyderby; louisville; murder; toronto
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Shameful. A disgraceful embarrassment. Our urban ferals murder another tourist, make the country look bad, and continue to drag us down as a culture and a society. The question is, how much longer will this state of affairs be tolerated?
1 posted on 05/04/2015 1:36:16 PM PDT by seacapn
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To: seacapn

Just a guess...


2 posted on 05/04/2015 1:38:39 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: seacapn

Mhmm.

3 posted on 05/04/2015 1:41:29 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: seacapn

Canadians adore stories about the racist, uneducated, self-centered drug-addled trigger-happy loonies to the South. Nothing pleases them more than a good “Loving Family-Oriented Canadian Med School Student killed by Illiterate American” story. Critical to leave out the par about the drug buy gone awry, etc. (cue infuriated Canadian replies.)


4 posted on 05/04/2015 1:43:21 PM PDT by golux
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To: Steely Tom

How sad. The brother and sister seem to be arabs. This seems unusual for run-of-the-mill street thugs.


5 posted on 05/04/2015 1:43:27 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: golux

No Canadian I know of thinks this way. It’s a sad story. Perhaps it wasn’t a drug deal, but a robbery, as is reported.

FWIW, we have our fair share of street thugs - there are many areas in the cities where you don’t dare venture.


6 posted on 05/04/2015 1:45:45 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: chris37

I’d hit the switch, pull the lever, push the button or pull the trigger on all of them, myself - eagerly. It depends on how they do it in Kentucky when you get the death penalty.


7 posted on 05/04/2015 1:46:28 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: seacapn

A record-setting crowd of over 170,000 spectators. Highest TV ratings since 1992. Yet, once again, something is tainted and scarred because of democrats: a vile and violent species.


8 posted on 05/04/2015 1:47:08 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: seacapn

Well the Derby is decadent and depraved. The fancy clothes make it seem pretty, but really it’s a lot of people getting really drunk.


9 posted on 05/04/2015 1:48:25 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: golux

I wouldn’t say they “adore” stories like this at all. I might think that some there might be thankful their problem isn’t as bad as here, but it isn’t the same. [BTW, I’m not Canadian]


10 posted on 05/04/2015 1:49:13 PM PDT by Gaffer
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There’s this mentality these days that those who have, are the enemy. And they don’t have to exhibit they actually have that much.

“I want what you have, so your life isn’t worth dirt to me.” That’s what this is all about.

I’m sure the Black could very well have been thinking, these Whities deserve to pay for slavery, but as it turns out the victim as a Canadian.

“Eh who cares? He was White!”


11 posted on 05/04/2015 1:49:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: seacapn

Scott Hunter

12 posted on 05/04/2015 1:49:29 PM PDT by Ken H
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Fahed and Fatima Abu-Diab are charged with murder.

Thomas is charged with complicity to murder.

All three are facing nearly a dozen robbery charges and Fatima Abu-Diab is also facing a possession of a controlled substance charge.

13 posted on 05/04/2015 1:54:00 PM PDT by yoe (God Bless America!)
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"We're trying to get our heads around it and trying to comprehend how something like this could happen," said Beau Opperman, Hunter's boss at House on Parliament and.

Obviously he's not been watching the news. America is not a safe place. Period.

14 posted on 05/04/2015 1:54:23 PM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: golux

Hope he at least enjoyed the race.


15 posted on 05/04/2015 1:54:24 PM PDT by dp0622 (Frankie Five Angels: Look, let's get 'em all -- let's get 'em all now, while we got the muscle.)
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To: Ken H

Innocense lost.

That shirt is an old-school Vancouver Canucks’ hockey T-shirt. He likely was a sports fan and wanted to see a great event.


16 posted on 05/04/2015 1:54:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: JudyinCanada
To an extent, but it does seem to be a smaller share:


17 posted on 05/04/2015 1:54:36 PM PDT by seacapn
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To: Gaffer

Victim murdered during the commission of a robbery.

That’s capital murder.

Put ‘em in the ground.


18 posted on 05/04/2015 1:54:42 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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Police worked on the case all weekend and arrested Fahed Abu-Diab, Fatima Abu-Diab and Tyrone Thomas Jr.

"Two are brother and sister and the third is the boyfriend of the sister,” explained Kessinger.

Police say they'd been committing robberies all weekend.

Tyrone Thomas Jr., Fatima Abu-Diab, and Fahed Abu-Diab


19 posted on 05/04/2015 1:56:21 PM PDT by Bratch
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Can you guess??

Fahed Abu-Diab, Fatima Abu-Diab and Tyrone Thomas Jr.

Fahed and Fatima Abu-Diab are charged with murder.

Thomas is charged with complicity to murder.


20 posted on 05/04/2015 1:56:35 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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