Man Shot To Death Over Family BBQ

[matcom]

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Stapleton was angry, Timothy Harper said, because "the barbecue was gone. He paid for it."

The family was planning to gather for a family reunion, Brown said. Instead, it will gather for Larry Harper's funeral, she said.

No charges have been filed.

"We're still trying to sort it out," said Pearl Police Chief Bill Slade, on Monday. "We're trying to figure out who shot first and why they both had guns."

Stapleton fired a .38-caliber pistol at least four times, Slade said. Larry Harper shot his nephew at least once with a shotgun, which spread pellets from Stapleton's knee to his groin, Slade said.

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Differences between Larry Harper and Stapleton "had been building up," Timothy Harper said. The two had been drinking before the shooting started, he said.

Brown said she would have come over if she had known the two were fighting.

"They know I would have taken a switch to both of them," she said.

"I was close to both of them, my nephew and my great-nephew.

"We need to keep praying," she said. "The devil is busy. He is trying to take all of God's children."

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0403/16/m03.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. So the headline could have been....

...Elderly Great Aunt Takes Switch To Idiot Kin...

Sigh...more drunken stupidity.

[matcom]

3. LOL

only in Mississippi :D

[WoodrowFan]

15. and Alabama

let's not forget Alabama!

[Catch22Dem]

2. OMG - WACKO!!!!!!

"We need to keep praying," she said. "The devil is busy. He is trying to take all of God's children."

Yeah, she's gone.

[underpants]

4. Oh sure blame the PBR and the Dickel

Booze doesn't kill people people with booze and guns kill people........over a BBQ.

[matcom]

5. its ALWAYS the Dickel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:bounce:

[Rowdyboy]

6. Hey! We take our bar-b-que SERIOUSLY down here!

Best leave me a few of those ribs or I'll help myself to a few of yours-if you catch my drift!

[markses]

7. You mean to tell me this BBQ sauce is made in...NEW YORK CITY?!?

n/t

[Zero Gravitas]

12. Get a Rope!

[matcom]

8. this is the most important post of the day

it has been to TWO forums!! :D

[Mairead]

9. C'mon people, this is a tragedy. You all know damned well the bbq

had nothing much to do with it, if it hadn't been that excuse it would have been something else, and if not a gun then a knife or baseball bat or some other weapon.

This is the kind of violence DK's Department of Peace would begin with. Family violence is the root of all other violence.

[matcom]

10. um.... okay so

how would DK prevent this from happening exactly?

[Mairead]

14. er, is that a joke?

I didn't say, or intend to say, that *DK* would prevent it, but that this is the kind of violence that's at the root of all other violence, and part of what DK's DoP would address: how to you create conditions and mindsets that conduce to peaceful rather than violent problem-solving.

[CO Liberal]

11. More "Responsible" Gun Owners

*** sigh ***

[HEyHEY]

13. Natural selection - lady it ain't the devil - it's Darwin