Keyser_Soze Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 Quote 7-year-old girl was shot to death and her mother was wounded as they left a Walmart in Texas on Monday. Now police are searching for the suspect. Jazmine Barnes and her mother, 30-year-old LaPorsha Washington, were shot as they left the store where they had shopped for juice for their breakfast, KTRK reported. Deputies said the suspect pulled up next to the family's car and opened fire. One of Jasmine's siblings made the discovery that her sister had been shot. "She said, 'Momma, Jazmine's not moving. She's not talking.' I turned around and my 7-year-old was shot in the head," Washington told KTRK The suspect is described as a white male in his 40s with a beard, KTRK reported. The vehicle was described as a red pickup truck. Thre is no information available on a license plate, or make and model of the truck. https://www.wthr.com/article/manhunt-continues-suspect-who-fatally-shot-7-year-old-walmart-parking-lot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I really do suspect this is a racially-motivated attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I saw this headline yesterday but didn't read it and took it to be a gang thing. This is fucking disgusting and exactly the type of thing people were afraid would happen in this climate of legitimizing racism and xenophobia. Dark times ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 The real question here is whether Texas still has the death penalty available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 2, 2019 Author Share Posted January 2, 2019 26 minutes ago, Bloodporne said: The real question here is whether Texas still has the death penalty available? Oh you bet they do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 30 minutes ago, Bloodporne said: The real question here is whether Texas still has the death penalty available? That's not the real question. The real question is whether Texas still performs actual trials or if they skip right to the capital punishment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 7 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said: That's not the real question. The real question is whether Texas still performs actual trials or if they skip right to the capital punishment. They should bring back public hanging just this once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 2, 2019 Author Share Posted January 2, 2019 48 minutes ago, Bloodporne said: They should bring back public hanging just this once. According to Wikipedia in 1996 Billy Bailey chose to be executed by hanging in Delaware. Otherwise we are 4 years off the 100 year anniversary of the last hanging in Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyser_Soze Posted January 4, 2019 Author Share Posted January 4, 2019 DeAndre Hopkins donating his paycheck this weekend to her family Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 In this world of cameras everywhere and facial recognition software, the guy will be found. Only a matter of time. With the little details I've read I'm not going to jump on the racial bandwagon yet. Was it just a roadrage incident with a crazy guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Simultaneously infuriating and heartbreaking. My daughter is 7, I can’t even imagine. Also Houston has some really fantastic star athletes in guys like DeAndre Hopkins and JJ Watt who always go above and beyond for the people of this city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 As horrible as it is, seeing the victim doesn't help me aid in a manhunt at all. Red truck is not much to go on. Hopefully they're able to get more images from surrounding traffic cameras. Track his movements a bit, and catch him stopped at a red light where much more detail can be seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DarkStar189 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 https://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-interviewing-persons-interest-murder-year-jazmine-barnes/story?id=60187049 Eric Black Jr and Larry Woodruff have been arrested. I believe both men are black. At the moment I keep seeing one mugshot. "After Black was taken in for the signal and drug violations, he was interviewed by homicide detectives and admitted to driving the rental vehicle that opened fire on Barnes' car. He also told police he had the pistol at his home, which matched shell casings found at the scene of Barnes' shooting." I think what I'm gathering is people claimed a white guy in the red pick up was the shooter but it was actually 2 black men in a different car. The pick up truck was an innocent bystander fleeing from the shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 So it was like the world's worst hitman? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 1 hour ago, DarkStar189 said: https://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-interviewing-persons-interest-murder-year-jazmine-barnes/story?id=60187049 Eric Black Jr and Larry Woodruff have been arrested. I believe both men are black. At the moment I keep seeing one mugshot. "After Black was taken in for the signal and drug violations, he was interviewed by homicide detectives and admitted to driving the rental vehicle that opened fire on Barnes' car. He also told police he had the pistol at his home, which matched shell casings found at the scene of Barnes' shooting." I think what I'm gathering is people claimed a white guy in the red pick up was the shooter but it was actually 2 black men in a different car. The pick up truck was an innocent bystander fleeing from the shooting. Does he resemble the sketch? If not then where did the sketch come from? EDIT: Just read the story... interesting that they didn't discover this error before they put out the sketch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazatron Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 So it’s not a random white guy hate crime. This is not going to go over well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 6 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: EDIT: Just read the story... interesting that they didn't discover this error before they put out the sketch. It's not an error, the white guy is the guy who shot and the black guy hired him to shoot them but it was the wrong people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 56 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: It's not an error, the white guy is the guy who shot and the black guy hired him to shoot them but it was the wrong people. Where did you read that? I don't think the article says that.... it says the White guy in the red pickup was supposedly a bystander who was fleeing the scene. Quote Merritt explained the discrepancy in the police sketch and suspects arrested, saying, "Larry Woodruffe doesn’t fit the description offered by the 4 different witness statements or composite sketch. Accordingly, this tip was difficult to believe. Assuming the confession elicited is reliable— it is possible the previously identified suspect seen fleeing by several independent witnesses was a bystanader (sic) attempting to escape the shooting." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 8 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Where did you read that? I don't think the article says that.... it says the White guy in the red pickup was supposedly a bystander who was fleeing the scene. Ah, derp on my part. I thought the guy arrested, Black, was a black guy who drove the car. The second guy Woodruffe is the guy who shot and I thought he was the white guy but... I was wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Either way, something about this seems... off to me. Like we'll be seeing a Netflix crime series about this 15 years from now explaining how these guys are Patsies and Law Enforcement wanted to find a non-racial solution to this. Seems odd to me that several Eye-witnesses all describe the same suspect and vehicle but the perps are NOTHING like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 16 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Either way, something about this seems... off to me. Like we'll be seeing a Netflix crime series about this 15 years from now explaining how these guys are Patsies and Law Enforcement wanted to find a non-racial solution to this. Seems odd to me that several Eye-witnesses all describe the same suspect and vehicle but the perps are NOTHING like that. Some of this stuff is just exhausting to me. Having to see a weeks worth of articles about how racism and violence is alive and well in America. Black family getting shot up in broad daylight. But now the story is nothing like that. 2 bad guys put a hit on a car but had the wrong car all together. I'm assuming gang violence? Like you said, where did this description of a white guy come from? Did one person say it, so suddenly everyone at the scene latched on to it? Cover up? It's extremely sad for the innocent family. Everything else just added a huge layer of nonsense to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 28 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said: Some of this stuff is just exhausting to me. Having to see a weeks worth of articles about how racism and violence is alive and well in America. Black family getting shot up in broad daylight. But now the story is nothing like that. 2 bad guys put a hit on a car but had the wrong car all together. I'm assuming gang violence? Like you said, where did this description of a white guy come from? Did one person say it, so suddenly everyone at the scene latched on to it? Cover up? It's extremely sad for the innocent family. Everything else just added a huge layer of nonsense to it. FOUR bystanders described the white shooter. FOUR in addition to the mother who was in the car. Police were so sure of the previous description of the suspect that they put out the police sketch and description of the vehicle which is something the y WOULDN'T do if they were unsure. So now we're left to believe that either they bungled the first part of this investigation by putting out a wrong description or they are covering up the potential racial thunderstorm that could come from a racially motivated attack by trotting out the usual suspects, "two unidentified black males". Either way, Law enforcement does not look good here and they have casted a shadow of doubt over the whole thing where there really didn't need to be one. We need to really rethink our Law Enforcement and investigative practices in this country because we for sure are not getting the best outcomes. and if it's exhausting for you to have to read the articles about how racism is alive and well in this country, imagine having to actually live through it and experience it first hand. I'm mostly insulated from it because I spend most of my time in fairly liberal areas of the country: New York/New Jersey area and Southern California/Los Angeles but I'm not immune to it and my family members and friends who live in... redder parts of the country, DEFINITELY are living this shift in tone in the country everyday. My niece was recently subjected to one of these "white guy intervening when he thinks a black person is in the wrong despite the fact that the situation had nothing to do with him" situations that are all over the place and it shook her up pretty seriously. So, even IF these two black dudes actually did this, it doesn't diminish or negate or illustrate an over statement or exaggeration of what is going on in this country and the current tone in the post Obama/Trump era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Innocent people don't flee the scene. Oh wait, he's white. Ah clearly an innocent bystander then. It's ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 29 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: Innocent people don't flee the scene. Oh wait, he's white. Ah clearly an innocent bystander then. It's ok. If I heard gunfire I'd bolt out of there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Just now, Reputator said: If I heard gunfire I'd bolt out of there. I would too. More so it is a reference that when black people free they're assumed guilty even after getting shot themselves, because if they were innocent, why would they run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 33 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: I would too. More so it is a reference that when black people flee they're assumed guilty even after getting shot themselves, because if they were innocent, why would they run. FTFY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 23 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: FTFY I guess it works either way actually. Especially in southern states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 4 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: I guess it works either way actually. Especially in southern states. lol true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 So no hate crime, just more senseless gun violence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 3 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: So no hate crime, just more senseless gun violence? Weird. Thoughts and prayers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 I'm just trying to see where all the conspiracy-mongering is coming from. Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable. I'd be getting the hell outta dodge, too, if bullets were flying around me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 The sherrif’s office didn’t botch anything. They had credible accounts of shots fired from the red truck driver from multiple sources. They had ample evidence to believe this was a legitimate suspect. The investigation continued and they found the actual killers who ultimately confessed to it. Not sure why anybody is taking issue with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 You gotta remember that eyewitness accounts and police sketches aren't always accurate. I mean this sketch barely even looked like the leprechaun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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