He started shooting when a basketball rolled into his yard, neighbors said.

The headline: He started shooting when a basketball rolled into his yard, neighbors said. Now, a manhunt is on as a 6-year-old and her parents recover

The link: Charlotte, North Carolina: Manhunt after 6-year-old girl and parents shot by neighbor when basketball rolled into his yard | CNN

The lede: "A manhunt is underway near Charlotte, North Carolina, for a man who reportedly shot a 6-year-old neighbor and her parents after a basketball rolled into his yard.

"Robert Louis Singletary, 24, should be considered armed and dangerous, Gaston County Police said. He’s 6-foot-2 and about 223 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair."

The comment: Guns in the news.

Again.

Once again our social programs, our laws and our level of law enforcement was unable to avert this shooting. Thankfully, the young victim survived.

Deaths from gunshot, based upon data for 2020, occur roughly every 12 minutes in the United States of America.* Roughly 110-120 people will also die from gunshot today in the United States of America.

The level of deaths by gunshot in the United States ranks high against other modern democracies.

Guns in the news.

Again.

A good guy with a gun? A law-abiding gun owner? Standing his ground? Protecting his 'castle'?

Stay safe 'n well 'n un-shot.

* Ref: Gun deaths in the U.S.: 10 key questions answered | Pew Research Center

 

I'd have shot the basketball and let the 6 year old girl go. But that's just me.

 

That is you but the guy obviously does not have a fear of invading basketballs but 6 year old girls ( unarmed as far as we know) must cause horrendous fear in him.

 

How come when a white person shoots a black person it’s automatically reported and pursued as a racial hate crime, but when a black person shoots a white person race is not even mentioned????

 

In the instance of that white old dude shooting the black kid through the door: the grandchild of that old dude said that the guy made plenty of anti-black comments.
So there is that.

 

Lol, hearsay.

anyway, let’s hope they find this guy at the end of his despair and unwilling to burden us further.

 

if a white guy shot three black people including a six year old kid, Sharpton , Crump, the whole media et al , would be screaming racism. “Peaceful” protests would be organized.
But since it’s a black guy shooting three white people, including a six year old girl , not a word. Things need to change in this country.

 

And then you have the other grandchild saying that that one is full of ****.

And I have likely read the same stories you did and the kid mentioned nothing about such comments as you did.

 

Let's hear from a Clay County Attorney then...

... Earlier this week, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said there was a “racial component” to the shooting, though he did not elaborate. Civil rights and faith leaders have called for Lester to additionally face federal hate crime charges. ...

Oh my, the prosecutor said there was a racial component...

Grandson says Andrew Lester influenced by conservative media | The Kansas City Star

 

You have any theory for why he won't elaborate?

 

You can click the link of the OP and see that the guy is on freaking CNN and here you are claiming "not a word".
Things need to change in "this country" alright, but it's you who needs to do that.

 

Odds are that you hope there is an other grandchild saying that, because you like to pretend there is no racism.

Stop with the far right wing fake news feeds already, geez.
https://newsone.com/4563867/andrew-lester-grandson-ralph-yarl-shooting-fox-news/
Andrew Lester’s grandson, Kilint Ludwig, has revealed that his grandfather is “racist.” During an interview with CNN

 

There's been a lot of these stories lately. Are they actually happening more lately, or is the media is just more interested lately, I wonder.

 

Try reading your own link before posting it

Ludwig talked about his grandfather’s alleged racism during a recent interview with The Kansas City Star, which also interviewed Ludwig’s older brother and another relative, who said they don’t believe race had anything to do with the shooting.

I really didn’t know what to think when I heard about this,” Dean Smith, Lester’s nephew, told the Star. “It just kind of shocked me. You don’t expect something like that.”

“Eighty-four years old, living by himself,” he continued, adding that it would “be hard for me to believe” that Lester is racist.

“He’s worked with so many people,” Smith said. “He’s been a supervisor and all over different races. He’s just a really straightforward, everyday person. He was just retired military, trying to get on with life.”

 

Another angry black male?

 

lol
And why stop reading there? It went on like... with something like that gramps is going with the ol "I'm not racist, I used to boss around black people".
His ex chips in saying he's a violent man and was scared of him with his rage fits

You sure know who to root for.

 

Sad.

 

If you want to make a dent in gun crimes then how about start with convicted felons who can't legally own guns but who actually illegally do have them at extremely high rates. How about we actually just lock these criminals up, never let them out, and then watch the crime rates drop like a rock?

 

Clearly not, or else there wouldn't be a manhunt on. Why the attempt to equate clear and obvious crime with 'responsible gun ownership'? Do you not know the difference, or are you pretending to not know the difference?

 

Never said the story wasn’t covered. What I said was to my knowledge it wasn’t even mentioned that the shooter was a black man that shot a white family, whereas if it was a white man shooting a black family that’s all you would hear about. And YES, to many people it’s beyond annoying and the country will need to change.

 

The thing with the kid ringing the door, is an example of grandpa popping up and seeing a kid through a glass door and without saying a thing, shoots him in the head at as good as point blank distance.
And a relative of the shooter said live on tv that his grandpa is a racist.

While the story about the basketbal player, is one where the shooter said plenty of things against the victim. The shooter somehow felt he was being pushed to eventually start shooting (how unreasonable it is). As far as I know, nothing what the dude said was racist and there is no relative saying live on tv that the shooter is racist.

Your behavior that you find it weird that no racist angle can be found in the basketball shooting in a black person, seems to hint that you actually got a nasty bias against non racist black people.

 

was there a racial aspect to this case?

probably not...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/us/neighbor-child-shooting-basketball-singletary/index.html

"Singletary was charged in December with assault and kidnapping for allegedly attacking his girlfriend with a mini-sledgehammer and keeping her inside his apartment for over two hours, police said in a statement."

 

sadly agree, there seems to be white and black people that only care if it's their own race

 

Terrible!
Regardless of white or black or other.

 

Very sad!