The gunfire, it seems, never stops. And in many cases, kids are pulling the triggers. In South Carolina, a drive-by shooting at a park wounded 9 young people, ages 16 to 20, in the wee hours of Saturday, April 29, 2023. Police found “dozens of shell casings from several different weapons,̶[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
April 28th, 2023 - 1:58 pm § in Law and Courts
She probably won’t marry this guy
Erick Aguirre (mugshot, right), 29, met his date at a Houston restaurant called Rodeo Goat, which I guess is a Texas thing (see menu and goat pictures here). They arrived in their own cars, and a guy in the parking lot told them he was the parking attendant, and they had to pay $20 to […][...]
April 28th, 2023 - 1:41 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Another Mississippi lynching
Before being murdered last fall, Rasheem Carter, 25, went to the police in Taylorsville, Mississippi. He’d told his mother that “three truckloads of white guys [were] trying to kill him,” so she told him to seek police protection. When, in February 2023, his dismembered remains wer[...]
April 27th, 2023 - 2:08 pm § in Law and Courts
Armed weak-minded fool wanted to “cull weak-minded” people
It sounds like something out of Nazi ideology. The suspected leaker of Pentagon secrets, Jack Teixeira, 21, “wrote on social media … that he wanted to ‘kill a ton of people’ because it would be ‘culling the weak minded,'” Raw Story reported on Thursday, April 27,[...]
April 25th, 2023 - 7:43 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
“Trump made me do it”
“A lawyer for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio of Florida said Donald Trump is to blame for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and federal authorities are using Tarrio as a scapegoat for the former president’s actions,” the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, Ap[...]
April 21st, 2023 - 9:32 pm § in Law and Courts
If you threaten a sheriff this happens
“And just like the first two men arrested, this one also is living with his mother.” Not anymore, he isn’t. Read more details here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Electing a new D.A. led to “Unite the Right” charges
The now-infamous “United the Right” rally brought together neo-Nazis and white supremacists for a tiki-torch march across the University of Virginia campus on Friday night, August 11, 2017 (photo, right). The rally culminated in the car-attack murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer by[...]
April 18th, 2023 - 12:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Reasonable fear or trigger happy?
That’s what a jury may have to decide after a D.A. charged Andrew Lester (photo, left), 84, for shooting a teenager (see story here). Lester was at home on Thursday, April 13, 2023, when the doorbell rang at 9:45 p.m. He went to his door with gun in hand, a .32 pistol. Opening the wood [&helli[...]
April 16th, 2023 - 10:25 pm § in Law and Courts
Two black teens, two doorbells, and gunfire
A black teenager was shot in Kansas City on March 21, 2023, for not answering a doorbell. His mother says “a man came to her house looking for a cousin who he thought lived there,” and when the teen wouldn’t let him in — there were young children there — the man opened [...]
Blame irresponsible voters for this
Citizenship has rights, but also responsibilities. For example, citizens have a right to vote, but should vote responsibly, although that’s as unenforceable as anything gets. On Sunday, April 16, 2023, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “terribly irresponsible” f[...]