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Homeless man, 23, 'hacked another vagrant with a machete, stomped on his head then.......
dailymail.uk ^ | January 9, 2017 | Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

Posted on 01/09/2017 12:08:14 PM PST by Morgana

FULL TITLE: Homeless man, 23, 'hacked another vagrant with a machete, stomped on his head then threw him into frigid river in snowball fight gone wrong'

A homeless man from West Virginia has been charged in a brutal machete attack on another vagrant man, who was then hurled into a ice-cold river.

The violent altercation occurred Sunday morning in the Kanawha City section of Charleston.

Charleston police Lt. Steve Cooper says 23-year-old Brandon Thompson was charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding.

According to Cooper, the victim, identified as 19-year-old Brandon Robinson, hasn't been located as of Monday morning and was presumed dead.

A police diver search was suspended in the afternoon due to cold temperatures but was expected to resume on Wednesday.

Police say witnesses reported Thompson allegedly repeatedly hacked Robinson with a machete, stomped on his head, then dragged him and threw him in the Kanawha River.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: charleston; homeless; machete; westvirginia
For real, I have to read the Dail Mail UK to learn about stuff that happened in my own back yard!!!
1 posted on 01/09/2017 12:08:14 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

I’ve noticed that for quite a while. It’s my wife’s favorite news source.

They are destroying that old MSM axiom, “If we don’t report it, it didn’t happen.”


2 posted on 01/09/2017 12:10:46 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Morgana

Machete Kills, dont let Machete kill again.


3 posted on 01/09/2017 12:12:49 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Morgana
That's one way to reduce the homeless problem...

Seriously, we need to re-open the mental hospitals for these people. Get them off the streets. Get them some help.

4 posted on 01/09/2017 12:13:17 PM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: Morgana

Is Machete a new piece of Russian siftware?


5 posted on 01/09/2017 12:13:38 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Morgana
Police say witnesses...

not sure what I would do in this situation, but this seems sad.
6 posted on 01/09/2017 12:15:44 PM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: Cowboy Bob

19 years old...could be someone’s mentally screwed up kid.


7 posted on 01/09/2017 12:17:12 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (I support a woman's right to lose.)
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To: Morgana

Can’t find him so they’re saying it’s just “attempted murder and malicious wounding.” Hmm, until he pops out of the freezing water and says he’s alive and well, I’m going with murder.


8 posted on 01/09/2017 12:20:01 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Morgana

Don’t bring a snowball to a machete fight.


9 posted on 01/09/2017 12:21:25 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: A CA Guy

if I had a dollar for everytime a snowball fight led to me hacking someone up, then stopping on them followed by throwing them in the water, I’d be rich.


10 posted on 01/09/2017 12:22:34 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: A CA Guy; Morgana; Mr. Douglas
“If we don’t report it, it didn’t happen.”

Maybe the local press is protecting the run of "Top Chef: Charleston"?

OTOH, I seem to recall a TC season with a Haitian chef running around looking for a machete. (To open a coconut, not necessarily to up the ante in a fight...)

But I'm sure the LSM was simply waiting to see if the victim was indeed dead, so they wouldn't have to update the story from "...attempted murder and malicious wounding" to "...murder and malicious wounding".

Newsrooms are under constant pressure to streamline, you understand.

11 posted on 01/09/2017 12:24:29 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: dp0622

You, too?
This happened all the time in my neighborhood when we were kids.

12 posted on 01/09/2017 12:25:37 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: PLMerite

“Don’t bring a snowball to a machete fight.”

Quote of the day!


13 posted on 01/09/2017 12:31:03 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: dp0622

We run into that stuff all the time in CA. We are mostly in south Beverly Hills and people be crazy!
They run stop lights, stop signs and jaywalking is legal.

My wife had finals, that week an unhappy student at CSULA was in the parking lot at night with long knives cutting cars and tires in three parking lots. He was arrested by campus police and in his car he also had a hatchet, a loaded gun and three extra clips.

Some of our neighbors freak out while smoking mushrooms when they walk down the block and think they saw Larry King at a bagel shop.
Fun part is that was Larry, he owns the place.


14 posted on 01/09/2017 12:33:02 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Blue Jays

It’s a rite of passage :)


15 posted on 01/09/2017 12:33:22 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Calvin Locke

So much happens you like the example I gave above. Never made the news either.


16 posted on 01/09/2017 12:35:15 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

ROFL!


17 posted on 01/09/2017 2:20:37 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Morgana

Two Brandons. Stands to reason. Charleston isn’t big enough for two Brandons.


18 posted on 01/09/2017 2:27:42 PM PST by sphinx
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To: A CA Guy

Wait: you can smoke mushrooms?

I feel like such a noob. Turns out I was doing it wromg the whole time.


19 posted on 01/09/2017 8:31:00 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Merry Christmas and God Bless!)
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To: T-Bone Texan
Consume, smoke, inject probably.
20 posted on 01/09/2017 11:10:07 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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