California security guard charged with murder after shooting customer who didn’t wear a mask

Fox News ^ | July 9, 2020 | Vandana Rambaran

[george76]

The guard shot the customer as he was walking away..

A California security guard was charged with murder Wednesday after prosecutors say he shot a 50-year-old man at a supermarket because he was not wearing a mask.

The incident occurred at the Gardena market in South California on Sunday, when the customer, Jerry Lewis, reportedly entered the store without a mask and got into an argument with the guard, Umeir Hawkins.

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Hawkins and his wife Sabrina Carter were each charged with one count of possession of a handgun by a felon, stemming from a prior conviction in 2013 for assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, according to a press release by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

[Songcraft]

Deserves death penalty!

[the_daug]

Black lives only matter when a policeman does it.

[Jane Long]

😉

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not wearing a mask should not be a capital offense, to paraphrase BLM’s “stealing should not be a capital offense.”

[Responsibility2nd]

Another COVID-19 related death. No doubt.

[Responsibility2nd]

So which one of those two guys is Umeir?

[Fungi]

Newsome, you bastard with blood on your head.

[BenLurkin]

[Fido969]

I avoid getting into fights with the social distancing Nazis. I figure they’re crazy to start with.

[lightman]

I avoid getting into fights with the social distancing Nazis. I figure they’re crazy to start with.

Karenovirus infected.

[arthurus]

A security guard with a previous felony record. Not good. Carrying and using a pistol as a felon not permitted to possess such - double plus ungood. this guy is a bad bargain and the store that hired him is facing some high dollar lawsuitery. His record suggests he is prone to violent solutions.

[dforest]

Those two look like real bad apples.😡

[arthurus]

̣I was a security guard at a grocery store in a smallish town for a couple of months. I never shot anybody, though.

[arthurus]

Umeir, is that Somali for One-Eyed?

[GLDNGUN]

Hope they can produce some compensation.

[GLDNGUN]

Is a rent-a-cop close enough?

[rexthecat]

Security guard at a supermarket? Never seen such a thing. Glad I live in a small town.

It's pretty common in California, in bad neighborhoods.

[Irish Eyes]

Not good

[jacknhoo]

Quadruple guilty.

[AmericanMermaid]

That’s not new. Big, fat guy years ago, a rent-a-cop security guard picked a fight with my husband in front of me and the kids. Luckily, we were in our car, because my husband would have probably run him over. He behaved like a thug who was no stranger to prison.