Posted on 02/02/2016 8:04:44 AM PST by rktman
Based on the initial investigation, detectives learned that a group of individuals were driving ATVs and had arrived at the location to get gas. At that time, a man driving a white Volvo, later identified as Macklin, pulled up to the gas station where he and the group began to argue. Macklin then pulled out a weapon and fired several shots at the group, striking three males ages 30, 31 and 32. One of the victims then pulled out a weapon and returned fire, striking Macklin in the head.
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Nice shooting,especially since he was already hit himself.
Hey. We have a white Volvo. Maybe I better check myself for a head wound. :>) It does seem unlikely for atvs to be used in the area so you may be correct.
We need some clarification on “mass shooting”. 4 people including the shooter, apparently result of a chance meeting and spontaneous altercation, is not what we colloquially term “mass shooting”.
Wish we could somehow either clarify, or find another term, that it’s referring to a premeditated action with the deliberate intention to slaughter a maximum number of people, practically complete strangers, not acting legally in unison*.
* - to wit, a gang/mob where criminal acts by one are shared by the whole group. Ex.: a gang of bikers harassing/threatening a guy at a gas station.
Wheel gun?
That don’t look like a Volvo to me so the story gets more suspicious. LOL!
NOT ENOUGH INFO.
how can i cheer or jeer with such little info.
Try here for some more info and check the comments. Maybe things will be somewhat clearer.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/02/multiple_arrests_made_in_espla.html
It looks like an undercover LEO shot back at some dude.
Nothing to see here, just your average, garden variety, chimpout. Reading the comments on the local site it looks like all involved are Sons of Obama. Apparently this is nothing new and I’d bet that the ATVs are probably stolen.
That does seem likely. I wasn’t aware of this problem in New Orleans. The ATVs buzzing through traffic have a devolving third-world, Mad Max sort of vibe to them. Sadly appropriate.
Sounds like the guy in the Volvo wasn’t the worst of the lot involved. Thinking the gun defenders may be on the wrong side of this one.
You’ve been on FR longer than I have and you think that it’s “NRA propaganda” that people use firearms to defend themselves?
LOL! Of course not MeganC but that’s how the antis would portray any defensive gun use. Of course looking further into the incident, my first thought of there’s more to it below the surface seems to be more right than wrong. Here is a link to more local take on it and some of the comments seem to portray the atv group in a bad light.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/02/multiple_arrests_made_in_espla.html
Thank you for the explanation. Forgive me for misreading that.
Megan
NRA Endowment Life Member
No problem.
I wouldn't call it "clarification" but we are informed by the likes of the Violence Policy Center that the definition has changed to any shooting in which two or more people are wounded. That's why the statistics they love to spout make it look like the problem is increasing rather than declining as it actually is.
I used to live right down the street from there off Dauphine St... if it’s the same gas station I’m thinking at that intersection, I once saw a man shot dead laid out in the parking lot. There were also plenty of feral youth always begging for money.
From further reports, the atv riders had been riding all over the area. Hardly 4 wheelin’ territory so my guess is they were assclowns and got confronted by an irate resident.
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