"I shot me a n*****"

[kpete]

Port St. Joe Man Faces Attempted Murder and Hate Crime Charges

Port St. Joe - A Port St. Joe man is charged with attempted murder, with a hate crime enhancement, after admitting to shooting a black man in the head Monday night. Gulf County Sheriff's deputies arrested Walton Henry Butler, 59, just after 9pm at the Pine Ridge Apartments off Garrison Avenue. Deputies say he admitted to shooting the victim, 32-year-old Everett Gant, with a 22 caliber rifle. Gant is in guarded condition at Bay Medical Center, he is expected to survive.

Deputies say Butler had been calling black children in the apartment complex racial slurs and Gant went to talk with him about the comments. Witnesses say Butler opened the door and shot Gant in the face. Butler told deputies after he shot Gant, he shut the door, called 911 and finished cooking dinner.

When Sheriff Nugent arrived Butler told him he did not understand the problem and acted as if he was being inconvenienced. "He was brought to the investigation unit where he was interviewed and basically admitted to shooting the victim and said he shot a, used a racial slur, and said that is what he shot and acted like it was not like a big deal or anything to him," said Gulf County Sheriff Joe Nugent.

Butler is in the Gulf County jail. He will have his first appearance Tuesday morning.

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http://www.wjhg.com/home/headlines/Port-St-Joe-Man-Faces-Attempted-Murder-and-Hate-Crime-Charges-164397736.html

[valerief]

1. Another proud American just standing his ground.

Frightening.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. Apparently, this is in Florida

Please don't tell me this is another case of "standing his ground".
Something has to be done in Florida before the state turns into a modern day Dodge City. Throwing out their tea-bag reps would be a good start.

The Sunshine State is quickly turning into a national embarassment.

[reflection]

3. Enjoy jail,

you benighted monster. Let me know how that racist mindset works out for you there.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Panhandle of Florida. Enough said.

[onehandle]

5. Just another gun used for its intended purpose. nt

[Ikonoklast]

18. It's just a tool.

Except nations don't arm their soldiers with belt sanders.

[wendylaroux]

6. Another ignorant looser

making believe he is not an ignorant looser.

[LWolf]

13. loser. nt

[wendylaroux]

17. lol,yes loser

oopsie...

[Hoyt]

7. Jeeeez. Where do these "people" come from?

[snooper2]

10. It's okay most of them will be dead in 20 years...

What's this fucker, 59?

All the cranky racist old fucks that want to go back to the 40's and 50's

[Hoyt]

12. I hope you are right, but I've seen some "Young" Republicans that concern me.

I grew up around those "old fucks" and agree with the characterization. We even had a governor in the early 1970s that became "popular" for chasing minorities out of his restaurant with a gun and axe handle.

Nowadays, they aren't usually as overt, but perhaps just as bad. I remember Rep. Charles Rangel said something like, "It used to be racists lynched or refused to hire minorities, now they cut funding for programs that help people and establish roadblocks to voting." I agree with that, and see it with the current bunch of Republicans.

[chalky]

20. "most of them will be dead in 20 years..."

Yeah, that's what we said 40 years ago.

[rurallib]

8. a group of humans is presented as sub-human on talk radio

people are desensitized to violence by the media and --
- shooting someone who is an "other" is no big deal. like shooting an animal.

Hope he gets a long time to sit and think about it.

[HopeHoops]

9. Hang in there Everett.

[DearAbby]

11. How do you communicate with people like this?

It's like two very different realities exists, and the distance between the two are growing further and further apart.

[ryan_cats]

14. A 59 year old 'man' is hurling racial slurs to children?

A 59 year old 'man' is hurling racial slurs to children? Then he attempts to murder someone for knocking on his door, WTH is wrong with people, was he drunk?

I'm sorry but he just proved he isn't fit to be in normal society and that's just for his remarks to children. The attempted murder will allow him to have some quality integrated time in prison for the rest of his life.

[alfredo]

16. He could be Mitt's Veep choice.

[obamanut2012]

15. He finished cooking dinner

No empathy. Sociopath.

[Mr Dixon]

19. SMDH

Madness
But I’m not surprised, IMO the older generation is less likely to change their long held views, they all grew up in a time when things like this were not a big deal in their View. It would seem as if father time is taking a little too long to rid us of these racist holdovers.