[Vision2020] Gunfire injures seven at Florida spring break party

[Paul Rumelhart]

"Something to look forward to . . ."

What do you mean?  What's changed such that we should expect more incidents
like this?

Paul

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Something to look forward to . . .
>
> Courtesy of today's (March 29, 2015) Spokesman-Review.
>
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> Gunfire injures seven at Florida spring break party
>
> PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – Seven people were injured, some critically,
> during an early-morning spray of gunfire Saturday at a spring break party
> on the Florida Panhandle, police said. An Alabama man was quickly
> apprehended and charged with attempted murder.
>
> Multiple 911 calls flooded in just before 1 a.m., reporting the shootings
> at the house party in Panama City Beach, and deputies found a sprawling
> crime scene with victims inside the home, outside and across the street
> from it, and in the street’s median, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said.
>
> Officers set up a perimeter and found a suspect matching witnesses’
> descriptions. David Jamichael Daniels, 22, of Mobile, Alabama, was charged
> with seven counts of attempted murder and jailed awaiting a first court
> appearance. A .40-caliber handgun believed to have been used was found in
> the yard of a nearby home.
>
> Dozens of cases of beer filled the front porch of a neighboring house
> where loud music thumped inside. The young spring breakers renting the
> house said they were aware of the shooting but felt safe because it was not
> a random attack and the assailant was in jail.
>
> Sheriff Frank McKeithen said a busy party full of dancing young people
> dissolved into “a chaotic scene.” Daniels was free on bond on a drug
> possession charge in Alabama, the sheriff said, and was accompanied by two
> others, one of whom had been recovering from a gunshot wound suffered in
> Mobile last week.
>
> The two companions to the accused shooter were questioned but not charged.
>
> At least three were critically injured. Three others were listed in
> stable condition.
>
> A seventh victim was shot in the left arm, chest, and knee, and was
> undergoing surgery Saturday. No condition was given.
>
> Three of the victims are students from Alabama A&M University in Panama
> City Beach for spring break, university spokesman Jerome Saintjones said.
> He said investigators in Florida told the university police department the
> students were innocent bystanders.
>
> McKeithen said hundreds of people have been arrested in recent weeks in
> and around Panama City during its raucous spring break celebrations. The
> masses of college students bring a parallel migration of unsavory visitors
> to the area and, combined with heavy consumption of alcohol, pose a huge
> challenge to officers, he said.
>
> “We have a recipe for disaster,” he said.
>
> Eddie Tarter shares his back fence with the rental home. Tarter, who
> played ball with his young son in his driveway late Saturday, has lived in
> the neighborhood for 16 years. He said he has had problems before with loud
> parties at the house.
>
> “Never anything like this though,” he said.
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>
> Cheers, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
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