Thread: This is where I grew up... "Road rage" related gun death.

Quote: Originally Posted by threefeathers In 1975 I interviewed to be the head football Coach there. After visiting my wife refused to come so I went to a nice H S in another state and haven't regretted it. Amazingly enough, the football teams in that town are no joke. They take their sports VERY seriously. I really think that the situation could have ended without someone being shot, but I also wasn't there to see all of it.

If the shooter's account of the shooting is accurate, then it sure doesn't sound like a murder to me.

In 1975 I interviewed to be the head football Coach there. After visiting my wife refused to come so I went to a nice H S in another state and haven't regretted it.

If the story is as I read it, I would say justified. Mike

Where I am right now, this happens as well and is kinda treated as part of life. More often than not, just threatening with the sidearm is the most common occurrence. The last major case with regards to road rage shooting was when a bus sideswiped a sedan and kept on going AND evading the sedan until the sedan caught up, blocked the bus and pumped the driver full of lead.

Quote: Originally Posted by WalterGC If the shooter's account of the shooting is accurate, then it sure doesn't sound like a murder to me. Its New Mexico though, the definition of self defense is that you are defending your self from great bodily harm or death. Shooting someone for punching you doesnt count. Lemos would have had to have a weapon.

Typical media? Report a justified self defense shooting yet half the article is about murder and murder stats. Base don the story, not considering NM laws, it sure seems like self defense. A guy I went to High School was also killed in a road rage incedent. It was a hairy trial but the shooter wasn't convicted. Both professional, guy I knew was an investment banker and the other guy was a lawyer. Guy I knew cut the guy off to stop him by...

Quote: Originally Posted by wRek The Vegas where nepotism rules, violent crimes are a pretty regular occurrence, and most of the time nothing comes of charges when they are pressed. Hey, that sounds like my country, except better. Latest road rage was last week, a guy in a jetta almost hit another guy in a motorcycle, guy in motorcycle chased him down, began insulting him, they argued, motorcycle guy shot him (he died of course) and left the...

a couple years ago when me and my wife were coming back to Amarillo from Cripple Creek, we took the wrong turn and didn't figure it out til we got to Las Vegas. we stopped there to get gas, and that was about the scariest place I have ever seen. Lots of punks hanging around that looked like they were ready to rob someone at the drop of a sombrero.

Sounds to me like someone's testosterone level got out of whack there. One is 21, . . . the other 22, . . . One's Cadillac is "almost" hit, . . . The other has a PO'ed driver getting in his face publicly, . . . then punching him. I think the shooter could have probably broken it off and just left, . . . maybe having to look like the non-macho, . . . but I wasn't there, . . . I'm just Thursday evening...