5 dead after shooting spree in Louisiana
Source: CNN
(CNN)A manhunt is underway in Louisiana following a string of shootings that left the suspect's parents and 3 others dead, law enforcement officials said.
Authorities are looking for 21-year Dakota Theriot after two Saturday morning shootings in Ascension and Livingston parishes, near Baton Rouge.
"This is probably one of the worst domestic violence incidents I've seen in quite a while," said Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre.
The suspect, Theriot, is accused of killing his parents, Elizabeth and Keith Theriot, both 50, in the town of Gonzalez, the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office said.
The Theriots were alive Saturday morning when deputies arrived to their home and were able to identify their son as the gunman, Webre told reporters.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/us/louisiana-shootings/index.html
Another white male. Not MS-13, not an undocumented immigrant, not an Islamic terrorist - A WHITE MALE born in the US!
billh58
(6,635 posts)sponsored by the right-wing gun lobby.
Ahpook
(2,749 posts)Stupid, hateful and deranged can hurt so many.
Are we ever going to get this right? Money, money, money! That is all this fucked up country cares about
Hulk
(6,699 posts)They aren't MS-13 or some other illegal criminal? Guess we won't hear this one of fox then.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)Advocate staff report Jan 26, 2019 - 6:48 pm
Link: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_92aa04c8-21b7-11e9-a734-9b1468f5878c.html
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Ascension Sheriff Bobby Webre said Theriot lived with his parents at their Gonzales home previously, but was recently asked to leave due to some disagreements. A neighbor, Michael Logan, said he had heard arguing and "yelling matches," usually at night, coming from the home lately.
........... .........Tears for our nation.........
AZ8theist
(5,418 posts)Solve nothing.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)from any attempt at implementing effective background checks, or mental health screenings, or in any way limiting gun sales.
BigmanPigman
(51,571 posts)This is what has increased in the past two years since the Hater in Chief was not elected POTUS.
Shaddox
(384 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)EX500rider
(10,810 posts)PSPS
(13,580 posts)EX500rider
(10,810 posts)Feel free to walk that back. The US is below the avg for homicide rates worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Regardless of the freedom to walk.
EX500rider
(10,810 posts)....as the poster did. The worst countries have a rate 15x's the US rate.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,325 posts)But sometimes they have journalists fall from windows or sit on some Polonium.
Oneironaut
(5,487 posts)The biggest problem here is (besides easy access to guns), mental illness is something to be ashamed of. American culture says you should never seek help for it, and pretend everything is ok. Everybody has to be normal at all costs.
Of course, this does wonders for our nation's mental health.
AllyCat
(16,152 posts)albacore
(2,398 posts)"For the 29th straight year, Louisiana owns the highest murder rate in the country, according to the FBI's 2017 Uniform Crime Reports data released Monday. But it's not all because of New Orleans.
The state's murder rate was 12.4 per 100,000 residents in 2017. Missouri was next at 9.8.
"And if you take out (New Orleans') murder count Louisiana would have STILL ranked first nationally in murder last year (by quite a large margin),"
New Orleans' 2017 murder rate of 39.5 ranks No. 4 in the country among cities with a population of more than 250,000. It's the 30th straight year, Asher said, that New Orleans has been in the top five of that category. St. Louis, Baltimore and Detroit ranked ahead of New Orleans. Kansas City was behind New Orleans with a rate of 30.9.
https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/article_e9dd6d1c-c077-11e8-9728-1f7f22bc4569.html
And....
The shooting today was neat Baton Rouge....
Murder rate in BR was 38.3.... Chicago's murder rate is 24
"Baton Rouge's murder rate of 38.3 was just behind New Orleans' rate, but the city of Baton Rouge's population was too small to make the list of large cities. Baton Rouge reported 87 murders in 2017 to the FBI, a 58 percent increase from the average of the past five years. The city's high homicide count also drove East Baton Rouge Parish to an historic high for the number of murders last year."
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_ddc03060-f173-11e7-90ea-9f16d6e9dbe8.html
Vinca
(50,237 posts)Stuart G
(38,414 posts)Here is a link for more information...from CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/us/louisiana-shooting-rampage/index.html
TexasBushwhacker
(20,148 posts)"The young man accused of killing five people in Louisiana was arrested Sunday morning in Richmond County, Virginia, after briefly pointing a weapon at deputies, Sheriff Steve Smith said."
Good thing he's white!
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