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Beloved dad shot dead by neighbor after daughter ‘touched the mulch’ while on family walk: report
The New York Post ^ | 08/14/2024 | Isabel Keane

Posted on 08/14/2024 10:40:31 AM PDT by thegagline

A father of two young girls was allegedly shot dead by a neighbor who angrily confronted him after his daughter “touched the mulch” in his yard while the family was on a walk in their suburban Michigan neighborhood.

Nathan Morris, 35, was on a walk with his wife and daughters, ages 2 and 5, near their home in Canton just before noon Saturday when police say their neighbor Deveraux Christopher Johnson, 47, confronted him and the two got into an argument, Fox 2 Detroit reported.

Johnson was reportedly upset that Morris’ daughter “touched the mulch” on his property, the Michigan GOP wrote about Morris, a party member involved in local politics.

The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family,” the post alleged.

Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and [defuse] the situation, but instead was shot and killed.”

Johnson fired multiple times, killing Morris, who was unarmed, prosecutors said.

When Canton police officers arrived, they discovered Morris with a gunshot wound in the street while the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home.

Morris was taken to a hospital, where he later died, police said.

After several orders to surrender, Johnson came out of his house repeatedly saying, “Praise to God Almighty” and was taken into custody. He was charged with first-degree murder and other felonies.

Morris, who worked at Ford as an engineer, recently got into politics and was affiliated with the Michigan GOP in Wayne. ***

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To: nickcarraway

It looks like there WERE previous ‘issues’. He should have been locked up or at least institutionalized; but I guess we don’t do that anymore...


41 posted on 08/14/2024 11:02:33 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: woodbutcher1963

I’m not a lawyer - and I don’t play one on TV - but I think manslaughter is a lesser included offense of murder, and referred to as 2nd degree. Then again, his state might classify it as you showed.


42 posted on 08/14/2024 11:03:30 AM PDT by DPMD (.)
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To: thegagline

Best to say, “I’m sorry” and keep moving.

Hopefully, the only mulch the perp ever has to worry about is his own body’s.


43 posted on 08/14/2024 11:04:08 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: NorthMountain

As a perp, he found God a little earlier than those who make it to prison. This ought to play well with his lawyer’s defense.


44 posted on 08/14/2024 11:04:18 AM PDT by DPMD (.)
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To: hole_n_one

“He should have already been locked up and the key thrown away.”

Shortly after I moved to Tallahassee a neighbor phoned 911 and told them he was cutting his leg off and to send an ambulance. He tied a torniquet, poured rubbing alcohol on the blade of a new chainsaw and cut his leg off. The sheriff knew all about this guy and the family had begged them to arrest and Baker act him dozens of times. The sheriff said, “We rarely use the Baker act because if we bring him in, then his treatment comes out of my budget. That’s an open-ended commitment and comes down to a choice. Do you want deputies on the road, or do you want this one individual in a mental ward?”

The reason so many dangerous people who could be in prison aren’t, is simply budget. Cops try very hard not to arrest because the budget won’t support holding them, prosecuting them and incarcerating them.

Of course, this is before you get into the woke politics of letting rioters’ riot because the Democrats want chaos.


45 posted on 08/14/2024 11:04:58 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Vigilanteman

Even if he rides the needle before November.


46 posted on 08/14/2024 11:05:10 AM PDT by DPMD (.)
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To: thegagline
Deveraux Christopher Johnson was previously convicted in Nevada of forced criminal sexual assault of a 19-year-old in Clark County, Nevada in 2005 when he was 27 years old. He registered as a sex offender when he moved to Canton, Michigan.

I doubt that Nathan Morris knew any of this or he wouldn't have been walking his two and five year old daughters in front of Johnson's house.

-PJ

47 posted on 08/14/2024 11:05:39 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: pas

Or the Seine.


48 posted on 08/14/2024 11:05:39 AM PDT by DPMD (.)
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The poo-perp did indeed shout, "Praise to God Almighty", in the Fox2Detroit video. He'll never cop insanity given the exactitude with which he finally followed the police instructions.

You're going away, biotch, and a white man will buy your house and throw away your biznatch in a 1-800-Dumpster.

49 posted on 08/14/2024 11:05:43 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
“Any questions?’’

None. Three years ago I had some ahole tailgate me into my hospitals parking lot.

Guy claimed I was tailgating HIM! and yours truly here did a dumb thing.

Instead of stopping at the main entrance and alerting security(1st bad move) I pulled over in the parking, (second bad move) and then I got out of my car and walked over to his(3rd bad move) and said "Hey pal, what's the problem?'' and he gets out of his car, a late model silver BMW and starts swinging and shoving me around.

Now I was 63 at the time, I'm no ‘’big tough guy’’type but I did have plenty of martial arts training and I didn't listen to what I was taught, just as you said, if you can walk away do it.

I ended up having the guy arrested and charged with aggravated assault. He lost his drivers license for six months and got six months probation and had to go ‘’anger management’’.

Again, you right. If you can walk instead of talk(confront) do so.

50 posted on 08/14/2024 11:06:12 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: NorthMountain

Ah. I too was in the dark but you have given the light.


51 posted on 08/14/2024 11:07:09 AM PDT by DPMD (.)
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To: thegagline

52 posted on 08/14/2024 11:07:12 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: thegagline

No he did not shoot him because he stepped on his mulch.

that is a cunning lie to mitigate his punishment.

He shot him because he had an enormous amount of hate for his neighbor and the step caused him to explode and lose his control.


54 posted on 08/14/2024 11:08:08 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: All; y'all; no one in particular

I hope the daughter who touched the mulch never finds out what triggered the wackadoodle to whack her dad.


55 posted on 08/14/2024 11:08:44 AM PDT by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Jane Long

He’s not a sicko looney toon. He’s a murderer that should have been on death row.


56 posted on 08/14/2024 11:12:40 AM PDT by abbastanza
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To: central_va

It’s one of those Freeper Lexicon thingies.


57 posted on 08/14/2024 11:13:02 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Political Junkie Too

Heck no they try to keep it hidden. We live in NYS and I can tell you that all these leftard law organizations who are comprised almost exclusively of lesbians and cat ladies believe that the justice system is racist toward browns and blacks. They are now insisting that private landlords don’t screen their applicants whatsoever. Not for criminal background, credit, former landlord references, evictions, nothing. Cuomo and Peekaboo have sealed eviction records in NYS.

We will soon be ordered by law to rent to anyone who can fog up a mirror. Just had a member of a protected class try to fake her credit score by showing me a screenshot of her grandmother’s credit (not much better) who happened to have the same name!


58 posted on 08/14/2024 11:16:14 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: thegagline

What the heck, was is this related to the story?

“””Morris, who worked at Ford as an engineer, recently got into politics and was affiliated with the Michigan GOP in Wayne. ***”””

I HATE THE MEDIA!!!


59 posted on 08/14/2024 11:16:22 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: VastRWCon

You don’t hate them enough. We all don’t.


60 posted on 08/14/2024 11:19:28 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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