She closed her eyes. Shooting a gun with eyes closed is responsible?
Sheesh.

Maybe she's like Trump in that she believes she could shoot a man in the street and get away with it.

Daddy's a bigshot lawyer. She's gotten away with everything her whole miserable life, and after all the guy is "homeless". Watch this space.

Edit: The father's explanation doesn't help. If she seriously closed her eyes and pointed the gun away from the guy, then she is behaving totally recklessly with a deadly weapon.

look dead.

Just another case of Afluenza in America.

she is threatened in her car ........... just drive away .. pretty simple . idiot

You're telling me this sweet sweet girl just fired a couple warning shots and left the scene....without knowing she shot the guy??!! That smells of bullshit. Either she was under the influence and didn't realize or care that she shot this man or she ignored the fact the guy was screaming cause I'm pretty sure most people who are shot let out some kind of acknowledgement of the act, just saying.

Either you you have cause to shoot or you don't. And gun humpers always tell us warning shots are the worst thing you can do.

She needs a better lawyer.


And armed society is a polite society.

Excuse me miss, can you move your car?

Pew pew.

"fuck you! Don't you know my daddy's a lawyer?"

That's the way, in a way, I picture it.

Defending attempted murder is reprehensible.

Was she afraid he was going to crush it with his bare hands?

All he had to do was get back in his car, and take the advice of 911 on top of it. He decided to escalate, committed murder, and got away with it.

Unfortunately there's a good chance that this would-be murderer can do the same with Daddy's help. But I hope either some modicum of justice - or karma - prevails.

she could have stayed inside the vehicle
she could have drove away

but the poor frightened woman needed to exit the vehicle because she was afraid ...(that she wouldn't be able to shoot him at the angle from inside the vehicle)

(one would think a lawyer would be a bit smarter than that--unless he graduated from liberty.)

a couple years ago where a 20-something guy leaving a strip club, got out of the safety of his vehicle and shot another 20-something guy who was verbally threatening him. Some witnesses say the man who was fatally shot reached into the window of the vehicle at some point. Regardless, the guy who did the shooting could have driven away at any point or locked his door and rolled up his windows...instead, he got out of his truck and pointed a gun at the guy who was talking trash and killed him. The shooter was notoriously a horrible person - all kinds of evidence illustrating what a jerk this guy is and at the end of it all...he was acquitted!!! This spoiled little brat probably will too. And, it's Texas.

Another member of our well regulated militia.

I hope the homeless guy isn't homeless that much longer..............

A small condo, a lifetime annuity, lifetime medical care, and $everal Thou$and in cash.

Probably can't make a living for herself and is living off Daddy.

Unfortunately, she probably will, especially if Gerald Melton is a man of color.

I'm no lawyer, but doesn't that kind of show intent? If you're in fear for your life, why would you get out of your vehicle?

Like here in Florida? Hard to make a case for stand your ground when she was safe in her car but it worked for Zimmerman.

And we are much the worse for it.

"Hey lady, your car exhaust is choaking me and your music so loud I can't sleep."

- woman thinks for a moment, "It must be tough to live on the street with nowhere to sleep"

- Woman - "Sorry for the trouble. Here's $10 bucks. Try to get some rest and eat well in the morning. I'll move and give you some space."

Now... isn't that a novel approach? Who would ever think it woud be so easy to save pain, possible death, and jail time by doing something so non-jackass as a good deed?

A porsche

Like: "This is drugs. This is Ivanka on drugs. Any questions?"

That includes LEOs.

If it works for her, we'll see more of it.

Is worse than the described act

If she intentionally shot him because he was threatening her (leaving aside the likelihood that a Porche can travel faster than a man can run) she may have a case for self-defense. She might even be excused for leaving the immediate area to go to a safe place and immediately call police.

The story of blindly firing in an attempt to scare him removes any self-defense claim. Instead it is reckless endangerment of the victim and any others in the area. As she failed to miss more charges of negligence can be added including attempted homicide.

Maybe pops would rather have her go down for reckless endangerment than attempted murder.

I wonder what the difference in maximum and minimum penalties is.? And I bet it's easier for some judge to let her off for the light sentence on a reckless endangerment charge. She is, after all, white and blonde kind of.

If he knows she doesn't have a self-defense leg to stand, spin a my-poor-baby-paniced-when-the-big-bad-man-yelled-at-her story. Try to get lesser charges filed then cop a plea for no time behind bars.

Cynical but plausible

(wink, wink)

If you're in fear for your life, you don't fire warning shots, you shoot to stop the threat. Daddy should know that explanation is going to go against her defense. Even if her money keeps her out of jail, that homeless man isn't going to be homeless much longer.

"I wasn't raised to not shoot someone in the gut"

without even a slap on the hand and when the homeless man get well he will go to prison for simply saying anything to her.

I concur with other posts here that this woman will likely see no jail time. A 26 year old with a Porsche? You don't think she feels just a wee bit entitled, do you?

Daddy's argument doesn't hold water. She couldn't just drive that super fast, easily maneuverable race car away IF she was threatened? She had to first get out (and put herself at more risk than staying inside the car) and second had to shoot (with her eyes closed)???? Come on!

Let me sit on the jury!!!

https://www.heavy.com/news/2017/09/katie-layne-quackenbush-nashville-homeless-man-shooting-photos-music/

(snip)
3. She Is Originally From Texas & Has Twice Been Arrested There on Assault Charges
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https://heavy.com/news/2017/09/katie-layne-quackenbush-nashville-homeless-man-shooting-photos-music/

She Is Originally From Texas & Has Twice Been Arrested There on Assault Charges.
Her Twitter profile, includes explicit and nude photos of her ...

A 26-year-old aspiring country singer has been charged with attempted murder after police say she shot a homeless man twice near Nashville’s Music Row in August after he asked her to move her Porsche SUV because loud music and exhaust coming from it were disturbing his sleep.

The victim, 54-year-old Gerald Melton, was shot twice in the abdomen and remains hospitalized in critical condition, according to police. Investigators say Melton “did not impede” Quackenbush’s ability to leave the area.

Katie Quackenbush’s father, Jesse, says that his daughter, who is the single mother of a 5-year-old son, had no intention of shooting Melton.

She then fired two “warning shots” and left, her father said. There was no indication Melton had been shot, the suspect’s father said. Melton did not scream when hit, according to Jesse Quackenbush.

The elder Quackenbush told The Tennessean his daughter and her friend decided to leave and go to a restaurant, and come back later for the other woman’s car.

... her father, Jesse Quackenbush, told The Tennessean that his daughter has been wrongfully charged.

Her Twitter profile, which includes explicit and nude photos of her in an effort to promote her “Outlaw” country music style, has not been active since 2016.



http://heavy.com/news/2017/09/katie-layne-quackenbush-nashville-homeless-man-shooting-photos-music/

Another example of why I dislike hanging around armed people-- getting shot is almost as bad as listening to the Yosemite Sams preach their gospel according to Smith & Wesson.

She shoots somebody TWICE and:

- She's only given $25,000 bond
- Her prior criminal history isn't broadcast in the media
- The local paper's article is packed with cutesy pictures of her and her son, notes that she's a single mom and gives much more space to her daddy's explanation than to the victim's version. The slant is impossible to ignore.

Now let's make Miss Quakenbush a little darker and less affluent:

- She'd be locked up with $250,000 bond or even no bond
- Every encounter with police would be in every news piece about her
- The article about the shooting would emphasize the victim's statement while making her look reckless and violent and it would feature her mugshot plus the most salacious photos possible of her drinking or smoking or in skimpy attire.
- They certainly wouldn't give column space to any explanatory statement by her father or anybody else unless they were criticizing her.

Disgusting

Everybody believes that!

you were planning to shoot him.

LOCK HER UP!