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Bloody rampage sparked by disrespect at Miami-Dade wake
Miami Herald ^ | March 31, 2012 | Monique O. Madan, David Ovalle and Patricia Mazzei

Posted on 04/01/2012 6:21:23 AM PDT by Zakeet

The mass shooting that killed two people and wounded 12 others near North Miami began with a perceived sign of disrespect at the wake of a man who had jumped to his death from a shopping mall parking garage.

The act of reaching into the casket to touch the body of 21-year-old Morvin Andre escalated into a deadly conflict among gang members who opened fire into a gathering of mourners.

They had gone to the Funeraria Latina funeral home Friday night to grieve for Andre, who had died March 16 after jumping from a parking garage at Aventura Mall. The remembrance of his death turned into one of the bloodiest public shootings in recent South Florida history.

The end of Andre’s life was traumatic, but in a different way.

He had tried to use a stolen platinum American Express card to buy something — possibly a belt — at Bloomingdale’s, according to Aventura police. Store employees suspected credit-card fraud.

Andre took off, running into the mall’s parking garage and then up a stairwell to the fourth floor. From the floor below, employees called out that they just wanted to ask him some questions.

Instead, Andre jumped. It was a 22-and-a-half-foot drop.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; gangviolence; shooting
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To: B.Lyle

Consider this an RSVP.


41 posted on 04/01/2012 7:47:46 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: Zakeet

Question is: was he being chased by Black, White, or Hispanic people. It’ll depend whether Sharpton or Jackson want to get involved.


42 posted on 04/01/2012 7:50:20 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse)
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To: Zakeet
But he was going to college, don't ya know.

“Andre — “Better known as Money Marv,” according to the program — graduated from North Miami Beach Senior High School in 2009 and was studying at Broward College.”

Morvin, not to be confused with that “cracker” name Marvin.

We have to be different. We have to be “special”. We are “unique” ( you na cue).

43 posted on 04/01/2012 7:52:21 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Zakeet

“Sunrise . . . Sunset”. There is a flat marble marker, with similar inscription, name and and dates, on a woods trail a mile up the road from my place in North Louisiana where a gang-banger from Shreveport was executed by his gang brothers about 8 years ago. Took local law enforcement about a week to get an ID on him. As far as I know, no one has ever been arrested. I guess he dissed his brothers.


44 posted on 04/01/2012 7:53:30 AM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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To: Zakeet

I should have known that they were my cousins! That’s just what we do....face palm


45 posted on 04/01/2012 7:56:11 AM PDT by ForAmerica (Conservative Christian Black Man!)
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To: GladesGuru
Guru, jump in the boat and start looking for an island nation populated by violent cannibals. The drums say, "We need more DIVERSITY!"

BTW, I wonder if the shooters had valid CCW permits?

46 posted on 04/01/2012 7:56:48 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: Graybeard58
Falling 22.5 feet won't kill you.

I agree, it's the sudden stop that's a problem.
47 posted on 04/01/2012 7:59:37 AM PDT by ForAmerica (Conservative Christian Black Man!)
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To: B.Lyle

What’s with this whole concept of ghetto people being pissed off and feeling disrespected or “dissed” all the time?

This isn’t the first time someone was killed because of being “dissed”, according to the ghetto code of behavior.

To most of us normal people, we feel “dissed” everyday by the way some people treat us, and by some people’s behavior, however, it doesn’t prompt us to go shoot somebody. What is it about the ghetto code of conduct, which prompts them to settle all slights, real and imagined, with violence????


48 posted on 04/01/2012 8:00:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: kcvl
mugshot (from a previous arrest) shows him much darker than the program for his funeral.

Where the heck have you been, computerwise? That's Photoshop's Latest Feature:

The Posthumous Melanin Adjuster PMA

Treyvon's partisans have obviously also purchased Photoshop's PAA i.e., The Posthumous Age Adjuster.

49 posted on 04/01/2012 8:02:49 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: Zakeet
Bloody rampage sparked by .. rabid barbarians wanting capture and execution.

I started to type 'animals', but animals are better than that.

50 posted on 04/01/2012 8:03:31 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: nonliberal

Celebrate diversity PUNK AZZ Cracker!


51 posted on 04/01/2012 8:06:17 AM PDT by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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To: Graybeard58

“Now, when you hit the ground, that’s another thing entirely!”

Those concrete parking gagages built to hold thousnda of tons of live weight are way to hard. His family should sue the architect, the builders, sub-contractors, owners and especially Bloomingdale’s for forcing him to jump by falsely accussing ‘Money Marv” of something.


52 posted on 04/01/2012 8:09:11 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Assuming your question wasn't merely rhetorical >> generationally reinforced sociopathy

/.02

53 posted on 04/01/2012 8:09:25 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Zakeet
Better known as Money Marv....

LOL.. Other people's money.

What a Morvin


54 posted on 04/01/2012 8:16:34 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Graybeard58
22 feet. Low enough thta you think you can. High enough that maybe you can't
55 posted on 04/01/2012 8:26:42 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Racism’s rage, hatred and scapegoating is soul poison. Those who embrace it, embrace their own distruction.

The Left has built a ‘diversity” culture around racist poison for blacks. Hopefully, hispanics will rescue their children from it.


56 posted on 04/01/2012 8:32:49 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Gotta keep the anger going....no matter what. Jesse J says so.


57 posted on 04/01/2012 8:36:14 AM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: Kenny Bunk

“Guru, jump in the boat and start looking for an island nation populated by violent cannibals. The drums say, “We need more DIVERSITY!”

I will NOT move to DC!

“BTW, I wonder if the shooters had valid CCW permits?”

Based on the number of rounds fired and the number killed, I say the shooters were having problems reading the instructions on their HoMeBoy sights.


58 posted on 04/01/2012 9:14:33 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: GladesGuru
PrImitive Baptists are "almost apostolic' which means you obey a set of rules administered by a church hierarchy of deacons and elders, only they don't believe in bishops and so forth.

There are variations on this theme that set them apart from the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church (first borns), or the older Church of the First Born (which also follows the Scandinavian Lutheran order of worship).

Related groups are Disciples of Christ, Christian Church (Independent) and Church of Christ (non-instrumental), as well as several Primitive Baptist associations (which are not African-American).

They strive to recreate the First Century Church and prohibit practices not mentioned in the New Testament ~ that includes the use of musical instruments.

The Disciples of Christ, the best known of the type, tried the First-Century idea but found problems so they shot for the Second-Century.

To a far greater degree than most of the members of these groups know their actual church practices are very much in line with traditional Eastern Orthodoxy (sans the hierarchy of bishops). Theologically they are not in dispute with the RCs except on questions of church structure and hierarchy. They should almost always come down in the same place with the Catholics when it comes to moral positions.

59 posted on 04/01/2012 9:29:48 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SkyDancer
Just looking over the names it has the look and feel of HAITI ~ and that business of someone reaching into the casket may have much more to do with Voodoo than Santaria or Christianity or "respect".

There is a large Haitian community near Miami ~ they have a reputation for voting Republican!

60 posted on 04/01/2012 9:30:00 AM PDT by muawiyah
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