Custody dispute leads to shooting at youth baseball game (3 dead)

[Blue_Tires]

DANDRIDGE, Tennessee (AP) -- Three people were shot to death in a park when a family custody dispute turned violent as the boy at the center of the disagreement played baseball, authorities said.

The victims in Monday night's shooting were the paternal grandparents and maternal grandfather of the boy, authorities said. The boy's father was wounded in the shooting at a ballfield in Dandridge known locally as the Field of Dreams.

One gun was recovered, but authorities in the town about 30 miles east of Knoxville were waiting to assign blame.

"I don't think it was a murder-suicide," City Administrator James Hutchins said. But he added, "We don't know yet. We are waiting on autopsy reports."

As many as 75 people, including some children, were in the area when the shooting happened. Authorities were offering them counseling from a chaplain.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/09/19/ballfield.killings.ap/

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. How horrific. Life can be sad beyond words. :^(

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. This Happens In A Violent Nation Filled With MORONS.

The only surprise is that things like this don't happen more often. Perhaps there are others, and we just don't hear about them, since there's so much "HAPPY" news to report these days.

[pinerow]

3. A freaking shame...

nt

[NOLADEM]

4. Oh, wait, nevermind, you WERE the fittest parent

What a fucking asshole.

Killing your child in a dick war with your ex sends you to a special level of hell even Dante could not imagine.

What a sick bastard.

[lazarus]

5. If you read the article

The cops aren't saying who the gun belonged to, but according to the family the one making threats was the grandfather. The mother is in federal custody on drug charges.

[wicket]

6. Prayers for all

:cry:

[Demobrat]

7. Oh well, what's a few dead old people

and a kid with no parents - compared to the right of every asshole in America to bear arms?

[Anakin Skywalker]

8. Whoa....a Redneck Shoot-Out.

I'm surprised they didn't try to ram each other with pick-up trucks first!