Posted on 07/07/2012 9:22:39 AM PDT by kevcol
A group of diners angry that their food was taking too long shot and killed a cook in southern California in what police are calling “a random dispute that went tragically wrong.”
The cook, 38-year-old Raul Lopez, was working one of his two jobs he has to support his wife and five children. The killing took place at Hoagies & Wings on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and followed a dispute with racial undertones, reported a local news station.
Lopez was fatally shot in his chest when he tried to ward off five black men who were causing a disturbance in the restaurant. The men were angry about how long they had been waiting for their food and allegedly began using racial slurs at employees, causing other customers to leave, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Homicide detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department said Lopez then stepped in to defend the employees and get the men to leave. As the argument escalated he picked up a chair and led them out, but once outside he set the chair down and one of the men pulled out a semi-automatic weapon, shooting Lopez in the chest.
The men fled in a dark-colored Cadillac Escalade and Lopez was taken to a hospital, where he died a short time later. Police said the suspects are African-American men in their 30s and have the build of football players—several are between 6-foot-2 and 6-foot-4 and weight more than 300 pounds.
Police have released surveillance footage of the shooting in the hope that someone with information can come forward. Lopez’s wife and children also appealed to the public for help finding the suspects.
“He was a very responsible man. He loved his family,” said 16-year-old Melesio Lopez, the oldest of Lopez’s children, at a press conference. “I just want justice.”
Is this the first time a MSM group had identified killers as 'black'? Is it a mistake or a rare burst of integrity?
Were they paying with EBT Cards - maybe felt ‘entitled’ to better service?
Jesse Jackson will be ALL OVER this one, right?
It's gotten out of hand, and it's way past time to take some corrective action...
Yeah, but the just us brothers, the media, and the members of the lynch Zimmerman mob are going to see that Zimmerman pays dearly. See what happens to Holder's people that killed the poor guy. My guess is nothing. Just like obama's sons that tortured, raped and killed the poor WWII vet and his wife. Posting HTML
Excellent observation.
But Zimmeron goes on trial for defending his life!
That won't stop criminals from having guns.
In those cities, you can’t get a permit to carry. They use permitting to infringe our Constitutional rights. So, are you agreeing that there should be No-2nd Amendment zones in our country?
They are Holder’s people and Obama’s sons, if he had had any.
I’m not sure what I would want. But something has to be done. I’m not sure what the answer is but the police aren’t handling the problems in our cities. The only other option is the National Guard to go in and do a sweep and attempt to clean them out.
It's a rental. Gang bangers and ghetto drug lords like to rent high-end SUVs to do their business---if they get damaged or seized, then no personal loss, and they're harder to trace since they can be turned in and replaced at other rental places after crimes are committed in them.
nobody saw a license plate?
There, fixed it.
That part of the state is race war territory between hispanics and blacks.
The Hispanic gangs already have dedicated themselves to eradicating blacks in southern California as part of reconquista.
How about we allow the law-abiding citizens to defend themselves? Isn’t that at least worth a shot?
Maybe they don’t know the sign refers to PHYSICALLY handicapped-—not MENTALLY handicapped.
Glad you called the cops...hope they fined ‘em.
And they sure seem to be violently attacking all across the country. What to do?
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