Posted on 12/06/2008 7:09:10 AM PST by BBell
A St. Bernard Parish teenager has been booked with murder after authorities say he shot two men after being denied a drink at a bar in the Poydras community because he was underage.
Anthony Hookfin Jr., 18, of 2304 River Queen Drive, Violet, was booked Friday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths Thursday evening of Michael Whitehead, 51, of Kenilworth and David Ward, 41, of Oklahoma.
Hookfin was captured at about 4 a.m. at his girlfriend's house and is being held without bond.
Hookfin allegedly shot Ward and Whitehead outside of Barracuda's Lounge at 7907 E. St. Bernard Highway shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, said Steve Cannizaro, a spokesman for the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office. Initially investigators suspected that two men were involved in the killings but that was a mistake.
Hookfin entered the bar and attempted to buy a drink but was challenged by Ward, who accused Hookfin of being underage. Cannizaro said Ward, who was working as contractor in St. Bernard Parish, was a regular at the establishment and served as an unofficial bouncer although he wasn't employed by the bar.
When Hookfin could not produce any identification, he was told to leave, and he did. A short while later, he returned to the bar and was again challenged by Ward, Cannizaro said. Hookfin told Ward that he had his identification outside, and Ward and Whitehead followed him out of the bar. Once outside, authorities said, Hookfin opened fire. Ward and Whitehead staggered back into the bar, Cannizaro said. Ward died at the scene and Whitehead died later at a New Orleans hospital.
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FWIW, there are a lot more of them because there are a lot more of us.
That is true. I also think that the electronic media and 24 hour news makes it appear worse. If you didn’t live down here you would probably never even hear about this unless the National News picked it up, which is unlikely. Now we know about everything, as it happens.
Maybe he felt ‘empowered’ by Obama’s win. A black man in the white house, to him probably meant he suddenly had “the power”.
In the Civil war, and WW1, it was noticed that soldiers were being killed without ever firing a shot. After review, they changed the training targets from bulls-eyes to human silhouettes. With this training change, the kill ratio went up markedly for the newly trained troops. They simply had to be "conditioned" to be able to shoot at a human target.
I have not been involved with (and won't take part in) these types of video games (I have bigger fish to fry). However, the pervasiveness of these games in the younger generation now is astounding. If I did, I would be doing one of the "Flight Simulator" games, just for the aviation training. Heck, it seems there is a market for drone pilots, and it's only going to get bigger...
Oh good, after 8 years of it’s all Bush’s fault, now we can play the same stupid game with Obama.
You’re damn Skippy! Turnabout is fair play. I will give their president the same respect and credit they gave mine.
There is something to be said about how callous kids as a whole are getting. I bought the original ‘Night of the Living Dead’ for a buck at the dollar tree. My two young kids (about 7 and 10 at the time)wanted to see it even though I warned them it was scary. They watched it without batting an eye. I was about 16 the first time I saw it and it scared me good. Gave me lots of nightmares.
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So why would you let them watch it? Why have it in your house? Now they are a little more callous than they were before.
There is something to be said about how callous kids as a whole are getting. I bought the original ‘Night of the Living Dead’ for a buck at the dollar tree. My two young kids (about 7 and 10 at the time)wanted to see it even though I warned them it was scary. They watched it without batting an eye. I was about 16 the first time I saw it and it scared me good. Gave me lots of nightmares.
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So why would you let them watch it? Why have it in your house? Now they are a little more callous than they were before.
Video games have nothing to do with this. I’ve played probably the most violent video games as soon as they came out and watched the most horrific movies even when I was in elementary school and I’ve not so much as started a fight in my life.
Blaming video games just takes the blame away from bad parents.
I stand by my statements and the studies that have gone before me...
And I stand by my statement and all the studies that have been done on it as well.
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