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Gov. Tim Walz says son Gus witnessed shooting at St. Paul rec center during VP debate
CBS News ^ | October 2, 2024 | By Aki Nace

Posted on 10/02/2024 5:28:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

ST. PAUL, Minn. β€” Gov. Tim Walz during the Vice Presidential debate on Tuesday night revealed that his teenage son Gus had witnessed a shooting at a community center in St. Paul last year.

"Look I got a 17-year-old and he witnessed a shooting at a community center playing volleyball. Those things don't leave you," Tim Walz said.

He was referencing a shooting that happened in January of 2023 at the Jimmy Lee Rec Center, when an employee shot a 16-year-old boy in the head. Gus Walz was one of roughly 100 young people who were at the community center when the shooting happened, according to a Facebook post by his coach, David Albornoz.

Albornoz wrote the post soon after Gus Walz's viral moment of cheering on his father at the Democratic National Convention. In it, Albornoz writes about the teenager's contagious love for volleyball, and how he was "keeping everyone safe and calm, looking after the kids in the gym with us as I rushed out," after the shooting.

The rec center employee β€” Exavir Dwayne Binford Jr. β€” pleaded guilty to first degree assault for the shooting of the 16-year-old and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Tim Walz mentioned the rec center shooting during a line of questioning about gun violence in the United States.

"I didn't know that your 17-year-old witnessed the shooting. And I'm sorry about that. And I hope, Christ, have mercy. It is awful," Sen. JD Vance said to Tim Walz afterward.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: election2024; tampon; timwalz
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Fishy.
1 posted on 10/02/2024 5:28:23 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That clown wants to become Biden II. Lies, lies, and a total lack of demonstrable intelligence.
Anyone looked into his bank accounts (especially the Swiss ones) lately?


2 posted on 10/02/2024 5:33:46 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This guy has lied about so much, I don’t believe anything he says.


3 posted on 10/02/2024 5:35:03 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was it near Tiananmen Square? πŸ€”


4 posted on 10/02/2024 5:36:14 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: Jamestown1630

witnessed a shooting at a community center playing volleyball
= = =

Someone shooting a basketball nearby?


5 posted on 10/02/2024 5:36:44 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Walz thinks making it harder for you to buy a gun would have stopped this animal.
I guarantee you that this rastarific he did not buy his gun from a licensed gun dealer.


6 posted on 10/02/2024 5:41:50 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. -- Psalm 106)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

news to me. a lifelong resident of Minnesota. If true it’s the best kept secret in Minnesota politics. (no, we all knew he was gay)


7 posted on 10/02/2024 5:42:11 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You would not believe how many shootings I have witnessed since getting on the internet.


8 posted on 10/02/2024 5:42:41 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is this the son he was yanking around at the convention?


9 posted on 10/02/2024 5:45:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: All

1. Who was the Governor?

2 Who wanted to defund Police?

3. Who enjoyed the smells of businesses, cars, and the Police station burning?


10 posted on 10/02/2024 5:45:29 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: Jamestown1630; All

“This guy has lied about so much, I don’t believe anything he says.”


Wise attitude.

https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1841501987189281190


11 posted on 10/02/2024 5:47:14 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

LOL!


12 posted on 10/02/2024 5:48:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wait a minute Tiny, don’t tell me. Chelsea Clintoon was jogging nearby also. Am I right?


13 posted on 10/02/2024 5:49:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

boatloads of 17/18 yr olds in the sixties saw many shootings. What made this one special?


14 posted on 10/02/2024 5:52:45 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did Tim Walz say he knows the shooter, are they friends?


15 posted on 10/02/2024 5:53:22 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Jamestown1630

I’m pretty much at that point. It’s even stranger that someone under a microscope would lie.


16 posted on 10/02/2024 5:53:58 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have the fart checkers checked this claim yet?


17 posted on 10/02/2024 5:56:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Is that the shooter or the shootee. Cause that dude kind of looks like he needed to be shot.


18 posted on 10/02/2024 5:58:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s true. The shooter was Kamala Harris. She was either hunting or defending herself from an attacker; I forget which.


19 posted on 10/02/2024 6:04:00 PM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, he saw it on television the same week. Knucklehead close enough.


20 posted on 10/02/2024 6:08:52 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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