Posted on 04/15/2023 7:21:28 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
SEATTLE -- Prosecutors in Washington state charged former NBA star Shawn Kemp on Friday with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting last month over a stolen cellphone, saying that a text message Kemp sent just before the shooting showed his intent to confront and shoot the person who had allegedly stolen from him.
Kemp was arrested after the shooting outside the Tacoma Mall on March 8. No one was injured, and Kemp's lawyers have insisted he returned fire in self defense after tracking and trying to retrieve a cellphone that had been stolen from him earlier that day.
A probable cause statement by Tacoma police, filed in Pierce County Superior Court on Friday, did not indicate Kemp was shot at. It said some of his statements were not corroborated by surveillance video, and that the text message sent just 13 minutes before he arrived at the mall showed his intent.
The document said Kemp told police that after being shot at he went back to his own vehicle, parked several spots away, to get his own gun. But the video showed that he was armed with the weapon when he approached the parked Toyota 4Runner where he had tracked his phone.
According to the statement, Kemp tracked his phone to a Toyota 4Runner sport utility vehicle that was parked near a JCPenney department store. He parked his own car, a Porsche, several spots away, grabbed a handgun out of a backpack and approached the 4Runner, the statement said.
The statement said he fired three times into the Toyota and then threw his gun into some bushes.
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Long criminal record for this dude, like others in the NBA. He had fathered 7 children from 6 women by the year 2012, and probably 10 more children from 10 other sluts since then. Emblematic of a certain sub-culture.
Now he’s messed up his life.
This never would have happened if he’d stuck to producing illegitimate chilrens.
I’ll bet Sir Charles (Barkley) can come up with some pithy commentary!
Weird. Always thought he was gay.
Makes me wonder if charges will be dropped given the politics there and our 'new' two-tiered justice system.
Just another gangsta’ thug from the hood.
I’d say he owes it all to the company he keeps.
When you surround yourself with good people, you don’t do things like this.
Never heard of the guy before reading the excerpt, b but let me guess; he’s a NEEEEGRO!
If they’d just increase the minimum wage, this guy wouldn’t have to resort to crime.
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