Five shot at Hattiesburg restaurant, suspect in custody

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[TigerClaws]

Several people were injured after a shooting at a Hattiesburg restaurant along Hwy 49 on Monday.

A single man walked into Cuco's restaurant around 3 p.m. and shot five people. A suspect is in custody. The injured were transported to a local hospital where three are listed in critical condition.

[Hardraade]

Well, if he’s an Arab white guy no one will ever know...

[wardaddy]

Or Crechales

[MestaMachine]

“According to staff reports, a white male walked into Cuco’s around 3:30 p.m. and, without saying a word, began firing. “

Where did you get that quote from? I have read umpteen reports and none of them say that. They all say a single man. Suspect in custody. And they have not identified him or his motive as of 6:59 PM.

[wardaddy]

Thank God it was a white guy...praise the lord

I don’t know about y’all but the guilt and shame I have been enduring with these negatives waves filling me day in day out in the aftemath of the Travon Martin holocaust have been too heavy a cross to bear

[wardaddy]

Thank God it was a white guy...praise the lord

I don’t know about y’all but the guilt and shame I have been enduring with these negatives waves filling me day in day out in the aftemath of the Travon Martin holocaust have been too heavy a cross to bear

[UCANSEE2]

Wasn’t there a multiple shooting earlier today or yesterday somewhere else in the USA?

A Korean Kids school. The shooter was a 'former' student.

[righttackle44]

Site of California shooting is Korean Christian college

[April 2, 2012]

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor

(CNN) - A California college where authorities say that seven people were shot dead on Monday is a religious school that caters to the burgeoning Korean American Christian community.

The number-one objective of Oikos University, in Oakland, California, is "to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the Bible and an understanding of Christian doctrine," according to the school's website. Its number-two objective: "To develop an appreciation for the Korean and Korean-American church denomination heritage."

[randog]

Maybe an African America white guy?

This guy?

[dragnet2]

You’re probably correct.

[dragnet2]

Is Mississippi a gun free zone?

[BfloGuy]

It would really be helpful if the poster told us why this is important and why we should care. Without that, he might as well have posted a picture of his garden.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Over half of U.S. murders are of Eric Holder's people, and 90% of them are committed by other Eric Holder's people.

But let's pretend Whitey is the one who kills them all.

[Mr. Wright]

Perhaps an NRA member? What do you think?

[Mr. Wright]

. . .or perhaps a “white” Hispanic?

[RedMDer]

Click

[dragnet2]

Maybe a local Hispanic redneck who actually had a brown neck?

Don’t know at this point.

Is Mississippi a blue state?

[Yosemitest]

More info here.

[mylife]

It was a white guy.

[SaraJohnson]

Based on crime stats, his victims are probably whites...but given what is going on with black on white hate crime, I wonder...

[Yosemitest]

Just guessing, but it sounds like Scott Tyner is a liberal.

Voter fraud concerns raised
Hattiesburg American - Aug. 1 2006, By Reuben Mees

With a special election less than a month away that could shift the balance of Hattiesburg's power structure, representatives of candidates and political interests are trying to make sure the potential for voter fraud is minimized.

Scott Tyner and Clint Martin, Hattiesburg residents who worked as poll watchers for Mayor Johnny DuPree in the 2005 election, spoke to the Hattiesburg Election Commission Monday and asked what would be done to address claims Tyner made following the June 7, 2005, municipal election. Tyner was a poll watcher at the Woodley precinct.

Tyner, whose complaint will be heard next week, has alleged that white poll workers at Woodley allowed a few white residents to vote more than once while steps were taken to prevent a few black residents from voting there.

"I take issue to certain people being denied their inalienable rights," Martin said.

Election commission chairwoman Karlynn Courtney said that with the Aug. 29 election confined to one precinct, it should be easier for the commission to respond to any reported incidents.

"If a poll worker sees something they need to call one of the election commissioners immediately or City Hall, and we will do our best to respond and resolve it," she said.

Tyner said he would like the commission to have a more diverse group of poll workers in this and future elections.

Tyner made his initial Woodley complaint Aug. 5, 2005, but it was not addressed at the time because the election commission disbands after a municipal election.

Meanwhile, new appointees to the election commission were caught up in the department head standoff at City Hall. The appointees were not approved until two weeks ago.

Republican mayoral candidate Betsy Rowell, who also complained shortly after the 2005 election regarding practices at the Rowan precinct and the handling of a ballot box, said she believes such problems need to be addressed at the state level.

She did not file a formal complaint.

"We need voter ID," Rowell said. "That solves a lot of issues, but that's a stretch."

But she also said getting nonbiased people working the polls is a critical issue as well.

"What is important is to have people who conduct those elections be people who are neutral. These are people who are appointed by the mayor. That is part of the process that needs looked at," she said.

Sue Bush, who was at the meeting representing candidate Dave Ware, said it will be important to analyze recent voter registrations as well as get good poll workers to reduce any possibility of fraud.

"There is potential for it (voter fraud) to be there, and we are going to try to keep it from happening," Bush said.

As of Monday morning, 474 people in Ward 4 had registered for the special election, Forrest County Deputy Circuit Clerk Carolyn Nelson said. About 170 of those were new voters while the remainder were change of addresses, she said.

During the 2005 election, there were just under 5,000 registered voters in Ward 4, City Clerk Eddie Myers said.

Registrations postmarked on or before July 30 still are arriving and will be added to the voter rolls.

Nelson said the voter registration bank is purged on a monthly basis as the circuit clerk's office receives information from the city or other voting jurisdictions that voters have moved or died.

Paper ballots will be used in the special election, and that decision has caused some criticism.

Myers said the election commission selected paper ballots because they are cheaper to produce and the city does not have to rent optical scan machines or use electronic machines election officials have not been trained on.

"If someone comes in to vote under a different name, they can do that just as easily whether it's a paper ballot or a machine," he said.

Paper ballots are typically counted at the precinct immediately after the polls close and then sent to City Hall for certification later in the evening.

Election results, however, are not official until the election commission rules on all provisional or affidavit votes cast on the day of the election, Ward 4 election commissioner George DeCoux said. That could take two or more days depending on voter turnout.

I'm also guessing that Scott Tyner is a Democrat political operative.

Here's another item from Scott Tyner of Hattiesburg.

[Letters] No. 39, December 5

December 5, 2007

Selective Justice
The Department of Justice case against Ike Brown and the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee definitively shows racism, but it's quite unlike what has been reported by The Clarion-Ledger and Sid Salter.

In 2000, the Republican Party of Florida generated a list of felons to be purged from the voter rolls. But the criteria to be purged were based on skin color, not whether or not the person had been a felon. Thousands of African Americans were denied the right to vote for being black. The Department of Justice did not launch a grand jury investigation.

In 2004, operating under orders from Ken Blackwell, the black Republican secretary of state of Ohio, elections staffs reduced the number of computerized voting machines allocated to large black voting districts. The effect was that black people had to wait hours to vote and many left in frustration without voting. The Department of Justice did not launch a grand jury investigation.

Another anomaly in Ohio was large, predominately Democratic districts where purportedly thousands of people voted for Bush. The culprit appears to be electronic vote switching that cannot be tracked without a paper trail, which Ohio did not mandate in their voting machines. Again, the Department of Justice did not launch a grand jury investigation.

But down here in Mississippi in little Noxubee County with a population of 12,500, Mr. Brown's case has garnered national attention as the first case of black voter discrimination against whites.

Yes, there is prejudice involved in this matter. But the bias is that the Department of Justice has twiddled its thumbs and whistled "Dixie" while larger, more onerous cases of voter discrimination have occurred.

Scott Tyner
Hattiesburg