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Neighbors: Suspect in poop shooting an emotional land mine
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | February 16, 2012 | Dana DiFilippo

Posted on 02/18/2012 6:08:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

TYRIRK HARRIS and his girlfriend were well-known on their bustling Tacony block as lousy neighbors.

They hogged parking spaces. They took their time in silencing their frequently tripped car alarms. They let their two dogs run outside unleashed, biting and barking at passers-by and leaving piles of poo polka-dotting neighbors' yards.

The couple's hot temper was even more notorious.

Harris, 27, ended an argument over a snowy parking space last winter by placing his hand on his holstered gun, neighbors said. His girlfriend once posted a sign on her car, parked curbside, warning passers-by that she would shoot anyone who messed with it, neighbors said.

But Franklin Manuel Santana was new to the block. He, his wife and their newborn daughter moved from Miami to their first-floor apartment on Torresdale Avenue near Magee just a month ago.

So when Santana knocked on Harris' door late Tuesday afternoon to talk about the poo problem, he went unarmed - and unsuspecting.

Frances Fogarty, walking to the ShopRite to get T-bone steaks for Valentine's Day dinner, witnessed what happened next.

"Frank was calm, polite," Fogarty, 45, said yesterday. "He said: 'I'm just asking you, please keep your dog off my lawn. If I have to come back here, there's gonna be a problem.'

"Tyrirk said, 'Oh, is that a threat?' And then Tyrirk just pulled out the gun and shot him in the face. Then he stood over him and let out all the rest of the rounds, maybe nine or 10 more."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: banglist; dogdoo; dogs; shooting; tyrirkharris
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The moral of the story here is, if it wasn’t for those ‘evil guns’, this never would have happened.


21 posted on 02/18/2012 7:17:53 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
JAF0V...
22 posted on 02/18/2012 7:17:53 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Candor7

Well folks, when BHO gets elected for a 2nd term, and I’m afraid that he will, then you can kiss your 2nd amend. rights goodbye. You had better stock up on your guns and ammo now. BHO will get to appoint one and possibly two more SCJ’s and when that happens your guns/ammo are history. Prepare now ‘cause it’s gonna happen.

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23 posted on 02/18/2012 7:28:54 AM PST by flatfish
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To: AnTiw1

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”


24 posted on 02/18/2012 7:44:30 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

makes me wonder if every neighborhood needs a sniper


25 posted on 02/18/2012 7:44:42 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Harris, 27, ended an argument over a snowy parking space last winter by placing his hand on his holstered gun, neighbors said.

So the City of Brotherly Love has granted open-carry privileges to Eric Holder's people?

26 posted on 02/18/2012 7:45:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So these AMISH folk are now adopting names like TYRIRK to disguise who they are. Damn Amish!


27 posted on 02/18/2012 7:51:13 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
He lost his life over taking pride in his lawn.

No, he lost his life because a piece of poo for brains unloaded his gun into him for no reason other than hatred and entitlement.

28 posted on 02/18/2012 8:19:18 AM PST by bgill (Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

My theory has been that they name their kids what was in a spoonful of alphabet soup.


29 posted on 02/18/2012 8:22:51 AM PST by bgill (Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
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30 posted on 02/18/2012 8:37:51 AM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Lazamataz
How the hell this guy has stayed out of prison up until now, befuddles me.

He was turning his life around and was an aspiring rap artist with a bright future. You can't put someone like that in prison! Besides, his mother said he was good boy who was hanging out with the wrong crowd. /S

31 posted on 02/18/2012 8:58:18 AM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: Candor7
They are legion. And they are armed.

They're also undisciplined and prone to in-fighting. Those are good traits for a riot, but counter-productive in a prolonged battle.

32 posted on 02/18/2012 9:00:10 AM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: nerdwithagun
Do not confront shizzy neighbors! My dad went over to confront a guy about his loud music which could be heard all up and down the street.

I've got "shizzy" neighbors. Drug addicts, welfare mom, etc. she would pump up the volume full blast in the mornings, with two little kids in the house. My walls would vibrate from the boom-boom of the bass. Complaints from neighbors did little. (Cops have been there many times, she's been arrested a couple times for other reasons.)

I got fed up. So every time I'd hear the loud music, I would stand by my fence and point an air-horn (the type for sporting events) towards her open window a couple feet away and let loose some loud blasts. The loud music stopped after a few more times. Fight fire with fire.

33 posted on 02/18/2012 9:49:30 AM PST by roadcat
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To: Candor7

Please add me to your little ping list, whatever the topic. I really like your comments.


34 posted on 02/18/2012 10:29:44 AM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: roadcat
If she gets in trouble for somebody “snitching” on her for general public stupidity she is going to think of you first and it could boil over and end badly.

I'm glad it went the right way for you, but a ding-bat like that might have her latest baby daddy come over and worse case take a shot at you like in the story.

35 posted on 02/18/2012 11:30:03 AM PST by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: nerdwithagun
I'm glad it went the right way for you, but a ding-bat like that might have her latest baby daddy come over and worse case take a shot at you like in the story.

Her black baby daddy and I have an understanding. I have no beef with him if he keeps his distance. The NRA stickers on my truck and home let him know I mean business. My video security cameras pointed their way let them know that if they start anything it's recorded.

36 posted on 02/18/2012 12:29:52 PM PST by roadcat
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To: bgill

Black Liberation Theology tells the followers not to use Northern European names. Unintended consequence is now you can read a paper when race is missing and know anyway.


37 posted on 02/18/2012 1:10:06 PM PST by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He had more than open-carry privileges...

"That same year, Harris got a job as a school police officer, working on a per-diem basis. He lost the job last June, when the school district laid off hundreds of employees to save money, a school spokeswoman said. Neighbors believe he has been unemployed since."

"Harris had a concealed-carry permit, but it was revoked last January, police said, declining to specify the reason."

WTF?

38 posted on 02/18/2012 3:07:03 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye
He had more than open-carry privileges...

Not for a while.

39 posted on 02/18/2012 5:11:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The point was that this psychotic nutball ever had a ccw at all and he was a “school police officer” to boot. Just what the kiddies need is an armed psycho with a badge patrolling school grounds.


40 posted on 02/18/2012 5:39:08 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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