1. 16yr old black kid is sent to pick up his younger siblings in Kansas City. Went to an address on 115th Street instead of 115th Terrace. Knocks on door, 80yr old man opens door and shoots the kids in the head. Kid falls to the ground and the man shoots him again. Kid goes to 3 houses begging for help until one homeowner makes him lie on the ground and put his arms over his head and after he passes out the police are finally called. The kid is the top clarinet player in the state. Old man who shoot the kid was taken to the police station and then released 2 hours later with no charges. 2. Sweet 16 party in a dance studio in a small Alabama town. Someone shows up, kills 4 kids and hits 28 others, 16 are kids. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/us/kansas-city-teen-shot-wrong-house/index.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...uj-2MQSycvcAHeNSMU4K16BBqBaJ3XwApIXf8BvoHZ7fM
What's up with people answering the door with a gun? A father was recently shot because the police knocked on his door my mistake and he opened the door holding a gun....... like...... why?
God I hate these cut down videos. But I still don't understand why you'd answer your door with a gun.
It’s pretty easy to understand man. Well where did you grow up? Was it a nice neighborhood, safe? Shit we had friends we’d go pick up in HS and KNEW not to knock on their door, rough neighborhoods are different. We’d call him from the pay phone down the street and he’d come up and meet us. Shit is different in bad neighborhoods.
We had is pretty easy when I was in grade school, but our neighborhood when I was in jr high and high school was garbage. That was when dad bought a shotgun. We had a meth lab/mule house next door and this wild situation with a Hells Angels house across the street from a Neo Nazi skinhead house (like literally flying the fucking flag on a pole in the front yard) and those motherfuckers kept warring with each other.
It quieted down after a few years; the bikers eventually drove off the neo-nazis, and eventually the meth house was raided (after half a dozen insurance fraud fires lol)... that was after I was in college though.
Back in 2019 I took a wrong turn getting to a friend's house in the Lake Oswego area, right off I-5, and accidentally went into this driveway with an American flag on a pole and the garage door was open and the guy started moving to the car like the goddamned terminator and I *never* three-point turned out of a place faster in my fucking life. I thought I was going to die.
Alexis Dowdell’s birthday ended with her brother dying to save her: ‘I just knew he was just gone’ Alexis Dowdell’s Sweet 16 birthday party ended with her kneeling beside her fatally wounded brother on the blood-slicked floor of a dance studio in small-town Alabama, the bodies of other wounded teens scattered around them. Dowdell told the story of Saturday’s terror in Dadeville to The Associated Press on Monday surrounded by family. The shooting left her 18-year-old brother, Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, and three others dead, along with another 32 injured, some critically. “I got on my knees and he was laying face down. And that’s when I grabbed him. I turned him over, I was holding him,” Dowdell said, recalling the moment she found her brother with the life ebbing out of him. “I wasn’t crying at the moment because I was trying to be strong instead of panicking. And so I said, ‘You’re going to be all right. You’re a fighter, you’re strong.” As of Monday evening, state officials had yet to release much information about their investigation. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said only that shell casings from handguns had been found, making it unlikely that a high-powered rifle was used. Investigators continued to appeal for information from the public, including videos. Saturday night in Dadeville, about an hour’s drive northeast of Montgomery, began as it should have, with “everybody dancing, vibing to the music,” Alexis Dowdell said. Keenan Cooper, the DJ at the party, told WBMA-TV the event was stopped briefly when partygoers heard someone had a gun. He said people with weapons were asked to leave, but no one did. Soon after, the shooting started. Alexis said she dove to the floor near the DJ as the dozens of revelers ran. She “didn’t know where to run,” in part because shots seemed to come from multiple directions. When there was a break in the gunfire, Alexis bolted for the front door. But someone pushed her. It was Phil, trying to protect her. “I guess he tried to push me out the door as fast as he could, but I ended up slipping on blood, because it was a whole bunch of blood on the floor,” she said. Bodies were piled by the door, too, “so I had to crawl over people to get out,” Alexis said. Outside, she found her mother and stepfather. “Where are my cousins, where are my friends? Where is my brother” Alexis pleaded. Another of her brothers was calling them. “None of them are picking up,” he said. Making their way back to Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio, the children’s mother looked inside. “She came out and she was like ‘My baby, my baby’s gone,’” Alexis said. Phil Dowdell, a star wide receiver with plans to play football in college, was fading in and out of consciousness. Alexis made her way to him, begging him to stay with her. She checked on wounded friends, including one she said was shot in the head. By the time paramedics arrived, Phil no longer had a pulse. “When they came in, I said ‘Can you check on my brother?’” Alexis recalled. “And he checked my brother’s pulse and I was like, ‘Is he alive or is he dead?’ And the people didn’t want to tell me, so they just gave me, like, a certain look. And I just knew he was just gone.” In addition to Phil Dowdell, Tallapoosa County Coroner Mike Knox said the dead included fellow Dadeville High senior Shaunkivia Nicole “KeKe” Smith, 17, an athlete-turned-team manager; 2022 Opelika High School graduate Marsiah Emmanuel “Siah” Collins, 19, an aspiring singer whose father said planned to start college this fall; and 2022 Dadeville High graduate Corbin Dahmontrey Holston, 23, another former athlete at the school. In the aftermath of the shootings, friends and family remembered details large and small about the dead. Smith, or KeKe as she was called, Smith was so excited about finishing high school and starting college that when a former neighbor asked her about it, Smith responded with the exact hour she was supposed to graduate. She had already shared selfies taken in her cap and gown, writing “almost out.” Amy Jackson, an older cousin of Smith’s who said she was more of an aunt to the teenager, recalled her “million-dollar” smile. “She would light the room up when she walked in. She was that type,” Jackson said. She described her as a talented athlete who ran track and played multiple team sports until a knee injury sidelined her. Smith’s last act before leaving for the party Saturday was to get her little sister ready for bed. “That was her nature. She was a caretaker,” Jackson said. Much of the early public attention focused on Dowdell, in a state where high school football rules Friday nights in the fall. Antreal Allen, an assistant coach at Georgia State University and an uncle to the Dowdells, said his nephew was “super excited to go play football at the next level” at Jacksonville State University east of Birmingham. But Allen said it was about more than football. The uncle said he was the first college graduate in the family and that Phil “was up next.” “He had a lot of the younger generation looking up to him. He tried to lead by example,” Allen said. https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/ale...to-save-her-i-just-knew-he-was-just-gone.html
My dad was once driving a cat to his Vet appointment, and took a wrong turn down a street behind the vet. This wasn't in some rural part of Oregon, this was in a relatively safe area of Portland. Anyway, he realized his mistake, and started backing into someones driveway, and this old lady runs out and starts yelling at him and cussing him out. My dad at the time drove a big ass Cadillac, and it would take 19 turns to turn that boat around. So he just ignored her and kept driving. When he finally got to the end of the road, he realized it was a dead end, so he turned around and left. The lady saw this and ran out of her house and this time was holding a gun in her hand and threatened to shoot at him. It wasn't like this was a private road, or whatever, she was just a cranky lady. My guess is they've dealt with people going down the street and being idiots, but ffs, this was an old white guy driving an old man caddie (it wasnt new, but it was 100% stock). Suffice to say, my dad never took his cat to the vet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-woman-driven-wrong-address-032754474.html A 20 year old woman was shot dead after her and some friends got lost looking for a friends house. They went down the wrong driveway towards a house. Realizing it was the wrong one, they turned around to head back. A man came out the door and fired two shots at them, hitting the woman. They drove to the next town and called 911. She died. The man was arrested, but he wouldn't come out when the police showed up. It took an hour for the police and 911 operators to get him to come out.
