Posted on 07/26/2021 11:27:35 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A suspected gunman in a deadly Fort Worth, Texas, shooting has been stoned to death, according to local reports.
What are the details? The unnamed suspect reportedly opened fire on a group of partygoers in the early hours of Monday morning, killing one and injuring at least three others, KDFW-TV reported.
Following the shooting, the crowd reportedly chased down the suspect and began throwing gardening stones and landscaping bricks, fatally injuring the suspect.
The Sun reported that a local reporter quoting the Fort Worth Police Department said that "the crowd defended themselves with gardening stones, killing the gunman."
A news release obtained by KIRO-TV noted, "A small gathering was taking place in the backyard of a residence when one of the attendees became upset and left the gathering."
Authorities said that the unnamed partygoer later returned to the party and reportedly engaged several other people in an argument, prompting the attendee to open fire on the group.
"The other attendees of the party then gave chase to the shooter," authorities said in the release. "The shooter turned and fired at other people; a group picked up concrete landscaping bricks and started 'throwing them' at the shooter."
Investigators said that the group eventually overwhelmed the suspect as the suspect fell to the ground.
"A victim was pronounced dead at the scene and another victim was transported to an area hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot injury," investigators said. "The shooter was struck multiple times with at least one landscaping brick and was pronounced dead at the scene."
A spokesperson for the Fort Worth Police Department told the Washington Examiner that one victim was in critical condition as of Monday, and two suffered non-life-threatening injuries. All three are expected to survive.
"An altercation occurred during a party at this location resulting in two subjects deceased, one victim in critical condition, and two victims' injuries were non-life-threatening," the spokesperson said. "Homicide detectives were notified."
The Sun noted that a neighbor who lives near the home where the incident reportedly took place said that those at the home "play music really loud" on the weekends.
"One of my neighbors had to go down there and tell them to turn it down," the unnamed resident said.
It is not clear at the time of this reporting what led up to the shooting other than what police referred to as a "disturbance."
Authorities say they are investigating the deaths.
More stone violence. Well they tried banning them back in the Stone Age, but it only lead to bronze.
USUALLY it’s not wise to take gardening stones to a gunfight.
There’s an exception to prove every rule -— if there are enough of you and you are VERY lucky.
LOL
A website quotes a tv station that quotes a paper that seems to have few facts to speak of. That’s our news media today - rewriting rewrites of rewrites. Nobody lifts a phone to check if any of this is true.
In the olden days, they'd send a reporter with a camera and a notepad down there to ask people questions.
Hey Chad! You and Muffy take a camera crew down there to 1313 Trayvon Martin Blvd. and see if you can get an interview from those nice folks who chased down and stoned a dude to death! Do it now and we can run it on the 10:00 PM news broadcast!
Old school justice.
hahaha
Forget garden stones...
Ban the gardens.
Are we devolving?
I think Mao did exactly that— ban gardens. And have all the gardeners in China rounded up and executed just to make sure. He somehow felt that gardens were uncommunistic, or something. Funny how enforcing leftist utopian ideals always involve the mass murder of millions of innocent people.
Yes, “devolving” is a good word. We seem to have opined here that this “justice” is permissible in this case, on a guy opening fire into a crowd like that. But what if it’s just some Trump supporter that a mob doesn’t like? Or if someone is involved in a traffic accident and the mob thinks that person was somehow at fault?
If we had an honest justice system, it would mete out the appropriate remedy for crimes committed. But while it no longer does so, this is not the appropriate remedy.
I was recently reflecting that my birth occurred at the beginning of the Cold War, and, as I near the end of my life, I am living through a neo-Marxist political revolution inside the USA.
There is something oddly appealing about the promise of an earthly utopia to those on the Left, apparently. And they’re willing to place god-like power in the hands of public officials in order to get it, like a child taking candy from a stranger. And even though it turns out catastrophic every time, they’re always eager to give it another go. You know how Einstein described insanity…
We have always been the same deep down.
So the guy took a gnome to the dome?
Close the stone show loophole! 😋
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