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Omaha Steve

(99,632 posts)
Tue Jun 15, 2021, 07:29 AM Jun 2021

Triple shooting over masks at Georgia grocery store leaves cashier dead, deputy and man injured [View all]

Source: WSOC-TV

DEKALB COUNTY, GA. — A triple shooting at a DeKalb County grocery store in Georgia has left a cashier dead and a deputy and the gunman injured, ABC affiliate WSB-TV reported.

The shooting happened Monday afternoon at the Big Bear grocery store along Candler Road.

The incident started when a man walked into the store and refused to put on a mask.

“I have a friend who works in this store and I think it was her who got shot and it’s just really sad,” witness Marquisha White said. “I don’t know what the world is coming to -- period.”

Read more: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/triple-shooting-over-masks-georgia-grocery-store-leaves-cashier-dead-deputy-man-injured/BUGEDLFUVVBXXLRET55FJC6ZEI/



I posted this for the anti-mask violence.

Store owner may not allow guns in the store anymore.
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Yeeeee Haaaaaaa,... every problem can be solved with guns and more guns in the ,... magicarpet Jun 2021 #1
Praise be to the almighty twodogsbarking Jun 2021 #2
There is a new "sign of the cross" for this in gun-nut land... Moostache Jun 2021 #33
The Father, Son and the Holy Glock. twodogsbarking Jun 2021 #43
All over a stupid mask hibbing Jun 2021 #3
It appears to also be anti-women violence... FailureToCommunicate Jun 2021 #4
I hope a lot of things happen to him in jail - rotting would be the least of it (n/t) Moostache Jun 2021 #35
Why do you suspect it sarisataka Jun 2021 #45
Do we know yet the race of victim or gunman? If it's a white guy and a Black FailureToCommunicate Jun 2021 #50
From the pictures I have seen sarisataka Jun 2021 #51
Ah. I had (have) not seen any photos of those involved. FailureToCommunicate Jun 2021 #59
That guy went in there looking for someone to shoot. nt leftyladyfrommo Jun 2021 #5
Stupid and with a gun what could go wrong? Botany Jun 2021 #6
I bet he's never even heard of any of them. Ace Rothstein Jun 2021 #12
I can almost guarantee that he was a regular Fox News watcher and was also hooked into other ... Botany Jun 2021 #13
I suspected the same thing at first. In this particular case, I think we are wrong. Hoyt Jun 2021 #24
Thanx! Botany Jun 2021 #25
trump's rhetoric is aimed at his base. His "encouragement" is all it takes to trigger some. AnotherMother4Peace Jun 2021 #26
His base is not AA. Nt hack89 Jun 2021 #62
Article in the AJC says he left, returned with a gun and shot the cashier. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2021 #7
Oh, so it's premeditated. Ligyron Jun 2021 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Ligyron Jun 2021 #9
Damn right. Give him the needle. oldsoftie Jun 2021 #20
And the person executed the next day SCantiGOP Jun 2021 #22
Because it takes 20 yrs. THIS guy is obviously guilty oldsoftie Jun 2021 #34
I'm used to arguing this on right wing sites SCantiGOP Jun 2021 #42
Sure. My number is accurate, so there's nothing you could say oldsoftie Jun 2021 #55
I said I wouldn't answer, but SCantiGOP Jun 2021 #56
I wonder what could have possibly went through his mind Polybius Jun 2021 #31
Additional info posted today about the shooter, a very troubled man. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2021 #52
This is what Trump and the GOP have wrought. They have made belligerence "cool" in the minds LaMouffette Jun 2021 #10
The store owner had even hired PatSeg Jun 2021 #11
To think that the state of Georgia is being led by a psychopath and by the the legislature turbinetree Jun 2021 #14
I wont call kemp a psychopath since he stood up to Trump oldsoftie Jun 2021 #19
For trump cultists Turbineguy Jun 2021 #15
While this statement may be true. Calista241 Jun 2021 #28
Palmetto is not in Dekalb county Casady1 Jun 2021 #32
Aye, probably fits better under the "Asshole" umbrella though cstanleytech Jun 2021 #39
Shooting over masks is deplorable IronLionZion Jun 2021 #16
I think it's time to end the fight over Karma13612 Jun 2021 #17
The "man" was the shooter; shot by the security guard. oldsoftie Jun 2021 #18
This and the other senseless murders over stuff like this lie directly at Trump and the GOP's feet. hadEnuf Jun 2021 #21
So very wrong. maxsolomon Jun 2021 #58
My point is that right wingers only understand equal force. hadEnuf Jun 2021 #65
Cowardice is irrelevant. maxsolomon Jun 2021 #66
And most of this lies at the feet of the right-wing hadEnuf Jun 2021 #67
Yep. Guns are the hammer that makes every conflict look like a nail. maxsolomon Jun 2021 #68
Originally I figured this was a trumpster gun-nut. Apparently, it is just a killer who got mad and Hoyt Jun 2021 #23
And therein lies the problem. oldsoftie Jun 2021 #37
Every decade we do nothing puts another 100 million gunz on street. Hoyt Jun 2021 #41
It was a "trumpster gun-nut" that didn't want to put on a mask & killed a cashier. AnotherMother4Peace Jun 2021 #48
Nope, it was just a convicted felon, spouse abuser who shot the cashier Hoyt Jun 2021 #49
Of course it was a trumpster following the call of dear leader. The calls are out AnotherMother4Peace Jun 2021 #54
The shooter was black. hack89 Jun 2021 #63
The shooter left the store to go get his gun from his car. Calista241 Jun 2021 #27
How do we know the store allows guns? oldsoftie Jun 2021 #36
So tired of this shit. Someone is dead and their family/friends in anguish over a $2 mask. iluvtennis Jun 2021 #29
A human price tag, and a medical one bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #30
Seeing as he exited the store and then returned and shot her in cold blood cstanleytech Jun 2021 #38
Time for some free-flowing thought that a lot of people may not like. Moostache Jun 2021 #40
Too little too late left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 #44
Yup, a sign sarisataka Jun 2021 #46
Frigging sad. I guess these freaks are slowly being weeded out. C Moon Jun 2021 #47
Some days the U.S. feels like an insane asylum. Joinfortmill Jun 2021 #53
homicidal anger is a constant in some % of men all over the world. maxsolomon Jun 2021 #64
K&R for visibility Blue Owl Jun 2021 #57
Another "stable genius" orangecrush Jun 2021 #60
Murica N Gunz jcmaine72 Jun 2021 #61
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