Posted on 05/25/2020 6:20:31 AM PDT by marktwain
On 1 May, 2020, Attorney Craig Heidemann filed a lawsuit against Academy Sports, contending they contributed to the unlawful death of Aaron “Josh” Hampton, who was one of the roommates of Luis Perez. Perez is an illegal immigrant accused of murdering three people including Hampton, another “roommate” and a woman, Sabrina Starr.
Starr is said to have supplied Perez with the gun, while another woman, Nyadia Burden, is accused of purchasing the ammunition for Perez. From AP via kmbc.com:
The lawsuit alleges a worker at Academy Sports in Springfield should have realized the woman who bought the bullets, Nyadia Burden, intended to give them to Luiz Perez. The 24-year-old Perez couldn't buy ammunition because he was in the country illegally, had no driver's license and was facing felony charges, according to police. The lawsuit also names Burden.
Perez is facing the death penalty in the Oct. 31, 2018, deaths of his ex-roommates, 38-year-old Steven Marler and 23-year-old Aaron “Josh” Hampton, and the wounding of two others. Prosecutors allege he fatally shot Sabrina Starr, 21, the next day. She had provided him with the gun he used, police said.
Perez is reported as having been kicked out by the other roommates. Revenge may have been a motive.
Perez should have been deported in 2018 but was released by New Jersey's sanctuary city rules:
“Perez should have faced deportation proceedings after a previous arrest in Middlesex County, New Jersey, but he was released because the Immigration and Customs Enforcement request didn't meet the county's required criteria.”
It is reported there were multiple warrants for Perez arrest:
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Yes, the person who committed the murders was not allowed, legally to have firearms or ammunition.
The question is: should the clerk have, as a reasonable person, assumed that to be true?
“shot Sabrina Starr, 21, the next day. She had provided him with the gun he used, police said.”
How stupid can you get ?
Easy : Coercion and Extortion, and abuse of power.
Need a recent example of Coercion and Extortion ?
Look what happened to Director of National Security, Michael Flynn.
I.D. isn’t required to buy ammunition in MO. They may check to see if you are over 21 if you are buying handgun ammo. There is no way that a clerk could or should have known that Luis Perez was a prohibited person. To even suspect such would be ‘racism’ on the clerk’s part.
Yes, exactly.
To make myself clear, I believe requiring an ID to buy ammunition is bad policy, and is unconstituitional. It is clearly an infringement on the Second Amendment.
According to the article, Luis wasn’t the one who bought the ammo, some woman did. So the clerk had to be psychic to know that.
More to the point, it presumes the clerk could deny an ammunition purchase and NOT get the store sued for discrimination.
Many lawyers will say that the scariest thing in law is a jury of your peers.
Illegal immigrant or illegal alien?
“To even suspect such would be ‘racism’ on the clerk’s part.”
I suspect some anti-gun attorneys file these kinds of lawsuits in the hope that the legislature will respond by clamping down on legal buyers
So now, as a retail clerk in a store that sells ammo you need to read minds.
Skimming the article and comprehension errors are required at FR. I never shirk my skimming duties!
Well presumably, at Walmart they acted in a way that tipped off the clerk, and he refused the sale. Either by chance or by having learned their lesson at Walmart, they managed not to tip off the clerk at Academy Sports and he completed the sale. The plaintiff acknowledges this was a straw purchase by someone legally allowed to buy, but claims the Academy clerk should have known that.
A lawsuit and a story by and for morons.
Absolutely ridiculous.
But it does show the level of desperation of the lawyers to try a tactic like that.
Picking out the box and handing it over to Burden I would
think is not enough unless there is further information not revealed here that it was known to the employee that Perez was the buyer, speculation on my part.
Academy Sports certainly has a capable legal department and
most definitely a capable insurance company.
Utterly frivolous. Make the plaintiffs pay the court costs and legal fees and charge the lawyer with barratry.
I’ve never been asked for ID when buying ammo at Academy.
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