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UPDATE: Police say downtown shooting was self-inflicted
South Bend Tribune ^
| 16 Jan 2012
| Jeff Harrell
Posted on 01/17/2012 11:27:49 AM PST by smokingfrog
SOUTH BEND -- A daylong celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ended when a South Bend teenager allegedly shot himself fleeing police.
The 16-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was seen lying on the ground next to the Knute Rockne statue in front of the College Football Hall of Fame when police and emergency medical units arrived Monday following the days MLK events at the Century Center.
South Bend Police Division Chief Gary Horvath said the teen suffered a very superficial gunshot wound to the left arm.
The incident occurred at about 5:30 p.m. as a large crowd exited the Century Center following the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: banglist; martinlutherking; shooting
To: smokingfrog
Historical reenactment gone horribly wrong?
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posted on
01/17/2012 11:32:07 AM PST
by
WayneS
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To: smokingfrog
A pearl-handled handgun believed to be the firearm witnesses saw brandished earlier by the victim was recovered by police from a snowbank near the Century Center about 20 minutes after the teen was hauled away to an area hospital.
"Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whore house would carry a pearl-handled revolver."
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posted on
01/17/2012 11:40:04 AM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: smokingfrog
Since that crap newspaper had no comments after the article I may assume that the idiot was Amish or a yute. But NO we cannot ask our “betters” what culture exactly are we talking about that makes our cities so dystopic.
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posted on
01/17/2012 11:54:03 AM PST
by
junta
("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
To: smokingfrog
This gives new meaning to “gun control” — perp shoots himself with his own gun while fleeing the cops? How cool is that?
To: smokingfrog
By next sunday’s editorial page it will have become an ‘urban assault weapon’ this poor unfortunate youth was forced to carry to defend himself against roving tea partiers.
Shot himself while turning his life around and lost his balance.
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01/17/2012 12:55:04 PM PST
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01/17/2012 12:57:33 PM PST
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01/17/2012 2:09:54 PM PST
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