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TexasTowelie

(112,250 posts) Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:40 PM Feb 2013

Twitter fight leads to 23-year-old's death

A tweet from one man to another man's girlfriend on the popular social media site Twitter resulted in gunfire Saturday morning, leaving former high school athletic standout Chris Mass dead, police said.

Police converged on Broadway Square Mall shortly after 9:15 a.m. Saturday where they found 23-year-old Mass, the former Chapel Hill basketball and football player, dead in the parking lot near J.C. Penney's.

Tyler Police Public Information Officer Don Martin said Ricky Neal Jr., 25, of Henderson, was taken into custody and subsequently charged with Mass' death.

“Chris was a good boy, who liked helping others. Chris was not a bad child. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Charalan Mosley said at the scene. “It all happened over a tweet and Twitter, and all of that stuff.”

More at http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20130210/NEWS08/130219997/0/BIBLETHOUGHTS .

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Twitter fight leads to 23-year-old's death (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2013 OP

Reminds me of the time my roommate and a college prof... Xipe Totec Feb 2013 #1

More guns!! Less Twitter!!, no, wait... make that Less guns!! More Twitter... oh hell, I'm confused! patrice Feb 2013 #2

As if anything ever tweeted or texted, for that matter, mbperrin Feb 2013 #3

Xipe Totec

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1. Reminds me of the time my roommate and a college prof...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:48 PM

Feb 2013

Went after each other over a girl.

I am not joking. Are you ready for this (this is in Texas)?

Pick-up jousting, with shotguns.

Down the main drag of Edinburg, Texas, they went. In pick-ups, shooting at each other as they approached at 55 mph.

Cops were called.

My girlfriend had connections, so they hauled them to the slammer and let them go with a stern warning and no guns.

Today ,they would've stopped the fight with a drone strike.

patrice

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2. More guns!! Less Twitter!!, no, wait... make that Less guns!! More Twitter... oh hell, I'm confused!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:52 PM

Feb 2013

mbperrin

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3. As if anything ever tweeted or texted, for that matter,

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 06:02 PM

Feb 2013

was of any importance even during the time they take to read.

Aren't 20-somethings a little OLD to be still doing the boyfriend-girlfriend crap?

First rule of contacting invisible people: see if they take their invisible crap seriously.

Dumbest murder yet. Not the meanest or the most cruel, but the dumbest. Dead near JCPenney over electronic words. Wow.

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