Road-Rage Incident Leaves Mother Dead

ClassicRockr

ClassicRockr

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Remember the Viet Nam Vet who got beat up outside his car due to honking his horn at someone who didn't use their turn-signal when changing lanes to come in front of him?

Well, here's another case of "honking the horn", but this one turns into a homicide/murder!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-road-rage-victim-suspect-deadly-encounter/story?id=29018018

Now, what I'm wondering is WHY did the mother get her son, w/his gun, and go after this dude? Isn't that "looking for more trouble"? Seems to me like that.

What do you think?
 

Just plain stupid! People are so angry all the time. Bad for your health.
 

The father calls his son a Hero.........hugh? His wife and the son's mother is now dead. Just how can that be called a Hero? "Trouble looking for trouble" is Heroism?
 
The mother and son both deserve each other, glad she was killed and nobody else. She got what she deserved, that family acted like a bunch of inbreds.
 
Here in Arizona it's the wild West. You don't even need a permit to carry a firearm concealed. We have shooting every day in the Phoenix area. Don't honk or flip anyone off or you may get shot. Crazy....
 
SeaBreeze said:
The mother and son both deserve each other, glad she was killed and nobody else. She got what she deserved, that family acted like a bunch of inbreds.
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I don't know.

http://dailymediabuzz.com/road-rage-man-punches-out-drivers-car-window-with-a-clean-shot/

In this video many comments on various sites support the window the puncher and blame the driver who remained in his car. I was stunned because I thought leaving your vehicle during a road incident is escalation. I think the community in the Vegas area has a similar attitude and would side with the window puncher.
 
My comment was about the mother who woke up her son and went after the road rage guy with a gun. As far as the window puncher, I don't know what happened previously, but the guy who did the punching was definitely a rowdy hothead, and likely deals with a lot of situations like that. He's guilty for punching the window, IMO, he had no right to do that.
 
SeaBreeze said:
My comment was about the mother who woke up her son and went after the road rage guy with a gun. As far as the window puncher, I don't know what happened previously, but the guy who did the punching was definitely a rowdy hothead, and likely deals with a lot of situations like that. He's guilty for punching the window, IMO, he had no right to do that.
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I didn't realize she had to wake her son which means this was a bigger process than I first thought. They could go the citizens arrest or neighborhood watch route. While channel surfer I noticed many talking heads noting they might have even pursued the wrong car. Or they simply picked the wrong driver to tangle with ie a drug dealer, convicted felon etc.
 
AZ Jim said:
Here in Arizona it's the wild West. You don't even need a permit to carry a firearm concealed. We have shooting every day in the Phoenix area. Don't honk or flip anyone off or you may get shot. Crazy....
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Crazy indeed! I don't know how you all feel safe enough to leave the house and go for a walk, knowing other people are likely carrying guns!
 
Amazing how this story's details changed so dramatically from when it was first being broadcast all over the airways earlier this week. I know I was very sympathetic toward the family and just couldn't understand why someone would follow this woman to her home and shoot her like that. It's still a senseless killing, but, the newer details do change things over all in how I'm thinking about where blame may lie which is with all parties involved.

Reminds me of the news reporting of a missing former political figure in our area; how the reports kept making it seem that guy likely took leave on his own account, only days later, just yesterday actually, he was found dead, murdered. I didn't know the guy, but I teared up. Silly I know, but something about getting your hopes up by the news reports about a dire situation and the people involved and then to have that hope crushed. Knowing humanity failed again. I'm not sure who is worse in doing the investigative work for these stories anymore and how long we should wait for the full details to even feel something. I just remember thinking, yes, I promised myself to watch less of the news and maybe I really should.
 
No, she did not deserve to be killed, BUT, getting a gun and pursuing someone from a road rage incident is REALLY STUPID! What did they hope to accomplish, anyway? Shoot the person they were pursuing??? Over a perceived insult on the street?? Dangerous and dumb. IMHO, one of the natural consequences of pursuing a person with a gun over something like that is getting shot yourself.

No sympathy here. The road isn't seventh grade.
 
Apparently the victim/mom knew the shooter. Still some question about who pursued who or fired/fired first. Shooter a drug dealer?
 
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