Posted on 07/10/2023 5:50:41 PM PDT by simpson96
A 7-year-old boy has been killed and his grandfather wounded after a shooting which police say stemmed from an argument over jet skis.
The Fourth of July incident took place near a boat ramp just after 8:30 p.m. at the Courtney Campbell Causeway west of Ben T. Davis Beach in Florida, Tampa Police Deputy Chief of Investigations and Support Calvin Johnson said at a news conference on Wednesday.
When gunfire erupted, the grandfather grabbed the boy and “pulled him” into a truck, police said. But when they were inside the vehicle, a round of stray gunshots went through the car, hitting the grandfather in the finger and the boy in the head. Police believe it was the same bullet that struck both.
“I’m sure the young child wasn’t the intended target, but when folks are careless with their firearms and they let that anger take over, now we see what occurs,” Johnson said, adding the grandfather was unaware of the argument over jet skis nearby.
The boy was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
Johnson said witnesses told police that two groups were arguing over jet skis, claiming one group was mad because “the second group was riding their jet skis too close to the shore where the kids were playing in the water.”
An argument ensued, and group members drew weapons and began shooting.
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Despite it being in/around water, everything else I read in the story, I’m gonna go with either black people, or florida white trash.
They want help from the public, yet provide no information on who to look for.
I’ll take a wild guess...
Lack of impulse control. Drugs and/or alcohol also likely involved.
Is every police chief of every city in the country a minority? Or does it just seem that way?
Hmmm
Is there any doubt?
All over using Jet Skis? Wow.
If one group was moving too close to a group of children, that is something of urgency, but seeing as how territorial people can get over anything, a parking spot, a theater seat, a laundry dryer, a tiny area on a huge beach, sometimes it’s best to back off, and wait until the weak-ego barbarians have left.
>> Is every police chief of every city in the country a minority? Or does it just seem that way?
It seems that way because they’re the ones with the poorly managed jurisdictions that make the news with incidents like this.
Most of the folks on jet skis are in one of those two categories you mentioned (adjust the latter for the state), based on what I’ve seen.
The article mentioned that it was unknown if the jet skis were owned or rented. I’m going to say rented and Sons of Obama.
Well its iffy with blacks, being as its in water. But all the other horrible manmerisms line up,to say, Dezerius and Laquintsha.
The article mentions a previous incident, where a 14 y/o girl was playing hide and seek, then got shot to death.
That particular incident, I still think the girl was trying to find some way to break into somebody’s house.
What 14 year old girl you know would be ‘playing Hide & Seek’
at 6.30AM Sunday Morning, and in an area she didn’t live?
Most teenagers want nothing to do with “Baby Games” like that.
Even if she had been playing with younger children, what child is going to be up to that activity that early on a weekend morning, before they’ve had their Fruit Loops?
"Juan Carlos Hernandez said he took his grandson, Yitzian Torres Garcia, to an area about two miles west of Ben T. Davis Beach to celebrate the Fourth of July by watching fireworks."
20/20 hindsight.
If you find yourself in a situation like that and they aren’t shooting at you, do not run. Lay flat on the ground.
The “white guilt” azhos always show up in force to elect an African as their police chief. Mostly because “most of their best friends are black.”
There’s another large group that you left out.
Yeah, that is true, now that I think about it. Could be them too. They aren’t much for water either though.
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