Posted on 01/12/2025 7:53:22 AM PST by BenLurkin
The sheriff’s office said deputies responded to the 6300 block of Stoney River Drive on Friday following a report that a man was shooting at a family of six playing outside in the snow.
Preliminary information from the scene showed that the parents and their four children walked down the street to go sledding down a hill in their neighborhood, deputies said.
But at around 11:30 a.m., the family said they heard gunshots coming from the direction of a house down the hill near the 10400 block of Birchwood Pike.
The parents immediately looked in the direction of where the shots were coming from and yelled at a man, later identified as Cook, to stop shooting.
The man claimed the family was on his property, but the family responded that they were not on his property.
The family then gathered their belongings and went home...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
yelled at a man, later identified as Cook, to stop shooting.
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Frank Drebbin: I can’t hear you. Don’t shoot the gun while you’re talking.
Assuming there’s not more to the story*, this guy needs his charges upgraded to Attempted Murder, and to spend a LONG TIME thinking about what he did.
...and, obviously, that applies whether they were on his property of not.
*it’s hard to trust ANYTHING from the Western Media at this point
“Get off my lawn!”
So they were sledding in snow, you say? Versus sledding on dirt I guess?
They were not on his property
Even if so, shooting a 1 yr old is bad form
Yeah, there’s no sport in it, you don’t even have to lead them, they can’t walk yet.
Sorry, I’ll let myself out. And yeah, imprison this jerk for a *long* time, if the story is as reported.
Well ‘new yuk post’ so I’m sure they have ALL the facts. Otherwise why report it? 😊👍
Even if they were on his property I don’t think shooting at them would have been legal, unless the land were fenced and/or posted no trespassing. Even if it were it’s still a poor first resort.
He was just gonna wing ‘em…
"Easy...ya just don't lead 'em so much!"
Was this the HOA guy who previously went psycho or another idiot?
Mr. Cook may be headed to a place where defending one’s space could be extremely problematic. And I’m talking way personal space...
It won’t be snowing in his prison cell.
Wow, even people here don’t approve of it. This is mountainous east Tennessee, in a rural part of the county with Chatanooga. Another article said it wasn’t his property.
“The family thought it was ok because they saw and heard other children sledding there. Upon further investigation, they found that it was just plastic mannequins and Cook shouting “Wheee” through a megaphone”.
Ok, that part wasn’t in the article.
Hamilton County isn’t too far from Roane. This is disturbing.
Stupid red neck SOB. Needs to be strung up for attempted murder. What is wrong with these idiots?
This article is no different.
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