Posted on 08/18/2016 5:41:55 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse man who felt his roommate was using an inappropriate slang term was shot to death after complaining, a prosecutor said today.
Jashua Williams, 32, was found guilty today of murder in the July 2015 shooting of his housemate, A'Nickalus Hill, at 320 Maple St. Another man, Harry Shelton, is also accused of participating in the killing.
Williams, the murderer, had been repeatedly using the phrase "deez nuts" in the days before the fatal shooting....
Williams said he heard the term on the Internet ...and a trial witness said the term was all over the Internet....
Around that time, Internet meme "Deez Nuts" was making headlines as an independent presidential candidate. Deez Nuts, the would-be candidate, was in fact a 15-year-old Iowa farm boy, according to media accounts. But the name made noises in a voter poll....
Hill, the victim, didn't think it was appropriate for Williams to use the phrase repeatedly, McGunnigle said. The 3-year-old child of the killer's girlfriend had picked it up.
Williams became increasingly angry at Hill for complaining about "deez nuts,"....
After a confrontation in the living room, Hill was shot to death....The victim's three children were in another room when their father was shot to death
Williams was found guilty today after a three-day trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
Upstate bump
I’ve never heard anyone over the age 20 use that term....
We don’t have any of deez nuts in my neighborhood.
Upstate? Dat be me too!
Nutzlivesmatter
Such stupidity gives legal gun owners a bad name.
Dem Amish sure have a lot of guns up there, according to the sidebarred news stories.
Need to build a wall between NY and the rest of the country to keep them out.
Jashua Williams failed at rap and succeeded at murder. Got a life full of bars to rhyme to now.
No. Just around the cities.
The rest of us are normal, gun loving people, and yes, here in Upstate NY.
Don’t judge the whole state on NYC and the city mentality.
Even in Syracuse, fatal shootings aren’t nearly as common as elsewhere.
Another thing, there is a push among area churches to do something about cleaning up the city. There’s a concerted unified effort among the different denominations.
There is a planned worship even for Sept that will be making the news locally when the plans are more set.
I will likely post something about it as the even draws near for area FReepers who wish to attend.
Did he say something like Deez nuts is making me thirsty?
I have been misunderstanding this whole Deez Nuts thing from the outset. I am an avid cyclist. Former American professional racer David Zembrowski has developed and markets a fairly popular cycling shorts lubricating cream. It is DZ Nuts! I couldn’t understand why this became a commonly used phrase outside the cycling world. I guess I still don’t.
Ethnic cleansing can work to reduce conflict.
“cycling shorts lubricating cream...”
That’s funnier than this story. Cyclists live in their own little weird world, don’t they...?
WTF is going on? Syracuse drinking water must be full of lead.
I’m from upstate NY! Binghamton, Candor, Owego and Ithaca! My mom still lives there!
“Deez Nutz” is something my 16 year old & his friends have been joking about for the past 2 years; for them it’s a “gotcha!” game where they’ll set up/trick the other person into asking a question just so they can answer, “Deez Nutz!”
Just a teenage boy thing (likely spread on social media).
Beautiful area down that way. I’m a bit further north. Still very pretty but not quite like that area.
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