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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 15, 2021, 03:21:10 pm
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Shooting at Georgia Supermarket Over Wearing a Face Mask Leaves Cashier Dead
By Jerry Wilson | Jun 15, 2021 10:00 AM ET
A shooting at a Decatur, Georgia Big Bear supermarket, reportedly stemming from an argument regarding wearing a face mask, has left a store cashier dead and two wounded, one of the wounded being the alleged gunman.
A press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation states:
Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 1:10 p.m., a male customer entered a supermarket at 2849 Candler Road in Decatur. While checking out, the customer, identified as Victor Lee Tucker, Jr., 30, of Palmetto, GA, got into an argument with a cashier about his face mask. Tucker left the store without making his purchase, but immediately returned inside. Tucker walked directly back to the cashier, pulled out a handgun and shot her. Tucker then began shooting at a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office (DKSO) deputy who was attempting to intervene while working off-duty at the supermarket. The deputy and Tucker exchanged gunfire, and both were wounded during the shootout. Two responding DeKalb County Police Department (DKPD) officers arrested Tucker as he was attempting to crawl out the front door of the supermarket.
The cashier was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Tucker was also taken to Grady and is listed in stable condition.
The DKSO deputy is being treated for his wounds at Atlanta Medical Center and is in stable condition.
A second cashier was grazed by a bullet. She was treated for her injury on scene.
The DKPD will be taking arrest warrants for Tucker.
The GBI will continue its independent investigation. Once completed, it will be turned over to the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office for review.
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Unreal. People need to get off this stupid mask insanity and right now.
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Counts as a Covid death?
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The non face diaper wearer isn't worth an employee confronting them and it SAF ain't worth dying over.
Down in my free state most employees are mask free and they have removed those stupid "All you can eat buffet" type sneeze shields!
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The article is confusing. As written it means that the customer/shooter was wearing a mask, but got into an argument about it. Was the cashier mocking him for wearing it? :shrug:
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I used to live 2½ miles from here.
Where the cost of living's going up, and the chance of living's going down.
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The article is confusing. As written it means that the customer/shooter was wearing a mask, but got into an argument about it. Was the cashier mocking him for wearing it? :shrug:
If reporters knew how to write, they'd do it without working at it.
That would leave them more time to think about WHAT they are saying, instead of HOW they are saying it.
And if they had the time to think about WHAT they were saying, they'd start wondering WHY they were saying it.
And then they might want to start writing about true stories, and relevant stories, and then they'd have to be kicked out of the Rodent Club and not get any Pull-it-zer prizes and stuff.
So, they're all happy with their fourth grade writing skills and you're not a writer so how dare you judge THEM?
You're right, of course, that as written is reads like the shooter is wearing a face diaper and the clerk was telling him to take it off, which is very unlikely.
And it's too bad the deputy was such a poor shot. The cost of the shooter's funeral is less than his trial and incarceration, and, unless the shooter was (b)lack, the incident would have been cleared as a good shoot.