Elderly Man Shoots Dead Assisted-Living Worker in Colorado, Police Say

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A 95-year-old man residing in an assisted-living center near Denver, Colorado, has been accused of killing an employee at the facility over a row about money, police say. Okie Payne was arrested on Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder connected to the shooting death of the facility's maintenance director.

The employee was shot around 7 a.m. in the lobby of the Legacy Assisted Living facility in Lafayette, about 20 miles northwest of Denver.

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It is unclear how the elderly man obtained a weapon as the facility says it has a gun policy that prohibits firearms on site, according to a statement issued by Legacy Assisted Living.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/elderly-man-shoots-dead-assisted-living-worker-in-colorado-police-say/ar-BB1dov7q

[Irish_Dem]

1. Guns are going to be the death of this country, literally.

[DTomlinson]

7. Guns and violence are almost inseparable in the US...

[Irish_Dem]

12. We are a violent country.

All four of my grandparents were immigrants to the US.
Their countries of origin are now much better places to live than the US.
Safer, better social safety nets, etc.

But at the time they all immigrated, early 1900's, the US was the land of opportunity.
And they could feed and educate their children. Little did they know that this country
would turn into the Wild Wild West.

[ellie]

2. I saw

this on the news here. The staff had taken away two of his guns, but the one he used was his grandfather's gun from WWI. He accused the man he killed of stealing his money.

[DTomlinson]

8. Thanks for filling in some important details.

[ornotna]

3. Who writes these headlines?

[csziggy]

11. Yes - I was thinking - why shoot a dead assisted-living worker?

But then realized that had to be wrong.

[ornotna]

13. Not like it's some West Podunk Bi-Weekly

It's frickin' Newsweek for crying out loud.

[handmade34]

14. ...

immediate thought

[milestogo]

15. Well its still a crime to desecrate a corpse.

But usually it wouldn't make headline news.

[NurseJackie]

17. It's getting worse and worse.

[Meowmee]

18. My thoughts exactly

[lpbk2713]

4. Almost anything will be a life sentence.

Probably before he even goes to trial.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. sheesh, we took my grandfather's guns and car keys away from him when he was in late 70s

comes a point in time...

[DTomlinson]

6. I wonder if the stress of the pandemic had anything to do with this.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. At least they were already dead.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. why shoot someone already dead?

grammar... it's fundamental!