Cashier murdered after mask policy shooting at supermarket

[TheBlackAdder]

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A man pulled out a gun and shot and killed an Atlanta-area Big Bear Supermarket cashier over the store's mask policy, according to police. Two people, including a DeKalb County Sheriff's Office reserve unit deputy who was inside the supermarket working as a security guard, and the suspect, were also wounded.

"The subject pulled out a weapon and shot a cashier at the location," DeKalb County Sheriff Melody Maddox said, according to 11Alive. "The individual is deceased."

"Although details are not complete, authorities say that the male suspect was involved in a dispute with a young woman before he began firing at her inside the store," the spokesperson for the sheriff's office said.

There apparently was an altercation over the mask policy, which is clearly posted on the store's door.

"A witness, identified as Alan Williams, said a man walked into the store, struck the woman with a gun, then shot her. That's when the deputy and the suspect exchanged gunfire."


https://www.rawstory.com/shooting-mask-policy/

WTF?

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[Dawson Leery]

1. WTF indeed?

Right wing propaganda networks are to blame for this.

[smirkymonkey]

7. +1000

[cos dem]

2. It's people like this who make me rethink my opposition to the death penalty.

I keep reminding myself, some people deserve death, but not the wussy "humane" death penalty. I'd prefer going back to quartering or the breaking wheel.

[Gore1FL]

14. I am fine with having them wake up every day in a cell.

Each day he will remember he murdered over a mask. He will spend the rest of his life waking up in the same place remembering the same thing.

[BGBD]

35. Maybe

But I know several people who killed somebody and are walking free.

[Scrivener7]

3. We know who he votes for, we know what TV he watches, we know how he treats

the women in his life.

This is today's republiQan.

[AndyS]

4. Guns make everything better!

Domestic disputes? A woman is 500% more likely to die if her significant other has access to a gun.

Road rage?

Mask disputes?

Makes the whole idea of a parent teacher conference disconcerting . . .

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Tell me again about protection

[Crunchy Frog]

5. I think this crosses the line into terrorism.

[Blue Owl]

6. Let him rot for life behind bars

[SergeStorms]

24. And make him wear a mask every day....

of his stinking life sentence. Let the punishment fit the crime.

Reich-wing freaking asshole.

[BobTheSubgenius]

29. And if he persists in taking it off, staple it to his head.

[Cronezilla]

36. Yeah! A nice, shiny iron one...

... just like in the Dumas novel!

[RockRaven]

9. Wasted the rest of his life, and ended someone else's, over a damn mask.

I hate these maskholes/covidiots so fucking much.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Agreed

[Ligyron]

10. How do these idiots figure they're not going to get caught?

Clearly they’re not thinking two steps ahead … or even one for that matter.

[Gore1FL]

15. The are totally in "fight or flight" mode by the time this happens.

It's astounding to me, how quick some people are to engage the "reptile" brain.

[SergeStorms]

26. In this guy's case...

I don't think he ever disengages his reptile brain. It doesn't sound like engaging his higher thinking powers is something he's familiar with.

[billh58]

11. This is just another

example of the far-right "Second Amendment solution" as proclaimed by their QAnon-crazed members of Congress, and FFG45 himself. Another step on the road to Fascism, and a Christo-Fascist form of government.

[Larissa]

12. America's gun obsession

The routine slaughter of the innocent in America remains unchecked. Tourists from other countries are now warned about the routine mass shootings in America.

BBC.com: American's Gun Culture in Charts
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

[AndyS]

19. This should be an OP. Right after the next mass shooting. Sometime tomorrow. nt

[AZ8theist]

22. I wouldn't give it 24 hours.....

[Guilded Lilly]

39. As well they should be. We seemingly have little respect for life.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Expedited trials for shooters

These cases drag on for years. Maybe if punishment were 30 days out ....

[SergeStorms]

28. There wont be any bail for him.

If any judge thinks this mindless degenerate would stick around for his trial, or not duplicate his crime, that judge doesn't deserve to be sitting in judgment of anyone.

[Grokenstein]

16. Further details

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/georgia/articles/2021-06-14/three-injured-in-shooting-at-grocery-store-near-atlanta

The customer was identified as Victor Lee Tucker, Jr., 30, of Palmetto, Georgia, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The agency said preliminary information indicates that Tucker got into an argument with the cashier and left the store without making his purchase, but he immediately returned inside. “Tucker walked directly back to the cashier, pulled out a handgun and shot her,” the Georgia Bureau of Investigation wrote in the news release.

A reserve deputy, who was employed parttime for security with the store, exchanged fire with the suspect and both were wounded, the sheriff said. DeKalb County Police Department officers arrested Tucker as he was attempting to crawl out the front door of the supermarket, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation wrote in the statement.

Maddox said the deputy was hit twice by gunfire but was wearing a bulletproof vest and was taken to a medical center where he was in stable condition. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Tucker is also in stable condition.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. I'm a cashier at a food market in NJ.

The only thing that would make this scenario less likely up here is guns aren't part of the culture around here (NJ/NYC suburbs). But we've had customers go off (so to speak) on stupid things like opening a box/case of beer in order to scan its barcode. Nothing surprises me anymore.

[PoliticAverse]

21. Working retail is certainly educational. n/t

[Grins]

37. Ha! Worked in a supermarket when I was in high school...

Small town. 20,000 people, well off and educated. After a few months I hated a lot of them. Many of whom I knew or my family knew.

[NJCher]

46. re NJ gun culture

Or lack thereof.

Some friends/neighbors of ours (I'm in NJ suburbs, too) thought they might want to move to FL for retirement. I mean, 16,000 a year in property taxes is a bit much.

They went to FL to look at real estate. The first conversation they got into was about guns.

The second conversation they were involved in turned to guns. At this point they cut the trip short and returned to NJ.

No way not ever is their new attitude toward those gun culture states.

So far no mention of moving (this happened 2 years ago), and hey, they can afford the $18gs a year.

[Evolve Dammit]

20. A third of this country is insane. n/t

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. So many right-wing policies went into that tragedy.

The ease of owning and carrying guns, the conspiracies about masks and the virus, propaganda that dehumanizes their opposition, etc.

[ornotna]

25. He seems like a nice guy(not the same guy)

Last edited Mon Jun 14, 2021, 11:01 PM - Edit history (1)

Scary looking asshole.
Pic at link.

https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2021/06/victor-lee-tucker-jr-palmetto-georgia-man-kills-decatur-cashier-face-mask-dispute/

Seems this is not the guy from the OP.

[Whiskeytide]

40. Wow. Who thought it was a good idea to sell THAT guy a gun? n/t

[Grokenstein]

42. That's not the guy.

Scallywagandvagabond made the same mistake I almost made while Googling earlier. The pic comes up in Google Images but it's a thumbnail for a link to a different story which appears on the same page as the article we're pursuing. This clown's name is Dylan Bruce Painter and here's HIS story:

https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/man-dead-after-shooting-on-zimmerman-rd-in-spartanburg-co-suspect-in-custody/

[ornotna]

44. Thanks for the heads up

I'll edit

[Hassin Bin Sober]

43. I get the feeling this is just as much about a woman telling this INCEL what to do.

[KG]

27. remember - an armed society is a polite society

[LudwigPastorius]

30. What a psychopath.

What kind of 'tough guy' pistol whips and shoots an unarmed woman simply because he got pissed off?

I hope he meets a lot more 'tough guys' in prison.

[MerryBlooms]

41. Depends on the crowd. He may end up with a group of Rockin' Pro Gun folks,

that think he's cool. Maybe he's their Hero against masks and anti gun laws... A twofer. Plus, he killed a woman! Back-slapping all around for that one! Lord knows they all know mouthy women who need killin'!

Honestly, these sub-human men who abuse women, murder women... I would like to see their crimes upped to hate status. I am sick of seeing this shit get shoved under the carpet! Military rape, assault, murder... Domestic violence, murders of pregnant women... etc... All should be more severely punished. Hell, we can't even get equal pay.

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. This is beyond the pale

I would ask, When is this shit going to stop, but I think I already know the answer.

[gratuitous]

33. It's a good thing Victor had a gun

Otherwise, he might have had to just go shopping somewhere else and piss and moan to himself about what a rhymes-with-witch the cashier at Big Bear was. But since he had a gun, he was able to end one life, ruin his own, and shoot a security guard a couple of times. God bless America.

[MerryBlooms]

34. Fancied himself as a face mask Hero guy?

After all, there's no bad guns... Good and bad people have guns; it's their right to have any gun they want, and when they murder innocent people, that's still cool, because... There's only bad gun laws.

[NBachers]

38. Poor woman got up this morning and dressed for work with no idea she'd be gun-beat & murdered,

never to return home, before the day was over.

[MerryBlooms]

45. Surprised 2A folks aren't all over this story like a swarm a yellow jackets, seein' how it's a

public safety concern and all... 2A guy with a gun doin' his thing, protecting himself from masking. Good thing no bad guns laws were in his way from expressing his 2A rights. 2A guys should be seeing this as a victory and chimin' in. Bravo 2A guys!

[mopinko]

47. i gotta wonder if this shit isnt why they dropped the mask advice so quickly.

cdc would like to make people wear them, but obviously we would need the national guard to make it stick.

[Hoyt]

48. For what it's worth, apparently the shooter is not a 2nd Amendment trumpster, just a killer who took

an innocent life for nothing.