Man Held in Bar Attack Dies After Shootout

[Sydnie]

<more at link> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060205/ap_on_re_us/gay_bar_shooting

GASSVILLE, Ark. - A teenager suspected of a hatchet-and-gun attack in a Massachusetts gay bar and in the fatal shooting of two people died Sunday morning after he was critically wounded in a gun battle with Arkansas police, authorities said.

Jacob D. Robida, 18, died at 3:38 a.m. Sunday at Cox-South Hospital in Springfield, Mo., Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said.

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After Thursday's attack, police say Robida fled in a green Pontiac and picked up Jennifer Rena Bailey, at her Charleston, W. Va., home.

"Apparently she's had a prior relationship with this guy and had been corresponding with him," said West Virginia State Police Sgt. C.J. Ellyson

[Straight Shooter]

1. Well, the citizens are now spared the cost of an expensive trial.

It also stops the sensationalism in its tracks. The last thing we need is another sociopolitical war over homophobia versus the right of people to live their lives in peace.

[XanaDUer]

2. I'm confused...

who is the woman in his car he also killed? His girlfriend whom he picked up?

[OzarkDem]

3. Apparently so

I guess he thought he was doing her a favor by killing her. Extremists like him see women and children as expendable commodities.

[XanaDUer]

4. Maybe they are not identifying her because her family

does not know?

:shrug:

It just seems strange wording.

[Sydnie]

5. I read an article that said she was 33 years old but had "kept in contact"

with him. Don't know what to make of that exactly ...

[applegrove]

6. Now would be a good time for Bush to step up and condem neo-nazis

as sick & unpatriotic.

But that would loose him 3% of his base. So he will say nada.