Posted on 04/26/2007 1:16:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
LEWISTON, Maine -- A Lewiston man who rolled a pig's head into a local mosque last summer, touching off tensions in minority communities in the city and beyond, shot and killed himself in a parking lot after a brief standoff with police, authorities said.
According to Lewiston police Sgt. Michael Whalen, 34-year-old Brent Matthews committed suicide after police tried to persuade him to put down a semiautomatic handgun, the Maine Sunday Telegram reported.
The shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. Saturday off Main Street.
Matthews had been charged with a misdemeanor count of desecrating a place of worship and pleaded not guilty. State prosecutors obtained a court order to keep him away from the mosque.
The Sun Journal of Lewiston reported that Matthews phoned 911 in distress at 8:14 a.m., according to police and that when officers arrived Matthews was outside his car and alone.
They tried speaking with him, but Matthews never responded. After just a few minutes, he raised a handgun to his head and fired once, the Lewiston newspaper reported.
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He woulda blown up without any prompting.
I would suspect that he would have been the sort that would have suicide bombed the mosque, bomb vest and all.
Me too ... an outlandish or oddball manner of dress makes it easier to know the enemy.
Still, it's all a little scarey ... "they" have conclaves all around America's perimeter and enough border skirmishes to occupy the minds of the sheeple while dangerously clever tactitions perform to destroy the united states of America.
I’m falling in Love with Lou Dobbs, just from what I’ve read of him over the past couple months. Have to start DVRing his shows. CNN, ehhh?
Another subliminal attack on guns?
By the way, Maine used to be “The Way Life Should Be”. Not anymore with this diversity crap.
Minnesota is on the same road.
Carolyn
Lewiston was the site of the Muhammed Ali - Sonny Liston fight in 1965, Ali’s first fight after his conversion to the Nation of Islam was widely known.
A Ham Sandwich walks into a bar and the bartender says...
Correct. I wish people would read (and comprehend) before posting.
May God have mercy on his poor tormented soul...
I like the comment about the Jew and the Priest
Bill Clinton is what is going on. He rewarded the Somali people for Black Hawk Down by brining 90,000 of those savages into America free and clear. They went to Lewiston, Maine, Minneapolis, MN (heard of the Muslim cabbies there?) and other select places to rabble-rouse and otherwise sow conflict.
That’s right, now I remember. At the time, many thought that was a really dumb thing Clinton did again, time’s proving them right.
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