2 dead in suspected road rage shootings in Oklahoma

[Historic NY]

Source: AP

Two people were killed in separate shootings on a western Oklahoma interstate early Thursday after a man drove through three counties firing randomly from his pickup truck, authorities said. The suspected shooter later surrendered and was being held in a county jail.

Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples said reports came in late Wednesday of a man firing at vehicles on Interstate 40 in Canadian County, which is adjacent to Oklahoma City. The man apparently continued driving west on the interstate, firing at vehicles as he drove erratically and at a high rate of speed, the sheriff said.

"He shot so many vehicles that it would have been totally impractical to assume he knew them," Peoples said, describing the case as a suspected road rage incident.

Multiple other vehicles were struck by gunfire in the incident, but those drivers escaped injury, Peoples said.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol are also investigating.


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[randr]

1. The Gun made him do it!

Or maybe easy access to a gun and ammo helped him do it, it is so easy to be confused.

[Judi Lynn]

46. He would have had a hard time doing it without his gun.

Maybe he could have managed to simply moon them, instead. That could be scary.

[jtuck004]

2. Sounds like terrorism. n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. Never used to fear this until all the gun nutters and their conceal carry shit came along

People had guns, they kept them at home or took them hunting or to a shooting range and didn't feel they needed to stand behind a gun to be a man.

Now you have to be damn careful that you don't piss someone off in public, or anywhere else least they might own a gun.

The Wild West image portrayed by the movies holds nothing over modern America. The gangster movies and legends hold nothing over modern America.

Maybe we all need bulletproof vest just to leave our homes.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Yea, and when you saw someone with a weapon in public they either just bought it, or taking it in

for repair or selling it. In any case no one worried about the gun. When I was in hight school, guys would have them in their truck or even bring them into the classroom to ask someone about it. Now way too many crazies. Maybe it is the fluoride in the water. Shit, it has to be something.

[They_Live]

14. The decline of critical thinking?

maybe?

[LiberalArkie]

21. I have no idea. I do know that just about everyone is angry these days. Everyone thinks that

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they are intelligent. When I was going up you could ask an adult something and they did not have any problem at all saying "I don't know". Now everyone has to pontificate about everything making up crap as they go along. Heck I don't know jack, but I will tell someone what worked for me in a certain situation and maybe it will work for you.

But it is scary these days. I really feel for the younger people who are not able not to walk downtown by yourself to go to a movie theater, Or ride your bicycle 5 or 10 miles to visit another grade school friend.

[They_Live]

33. I know what you're talking about.

The internet and social media amplifies everyone's feelings of self importance, whether it's healthy or not. Thoughts once shared with just one other individual are now put on public display, and everyone feels compelled to comment on everything.

And yeah, I was just thinking about how I used to ride my bike all day as a kid, with no worries of psychopaths, etc, but my wife and I are worried about letting our son walk to a middle school that is ten blocks from our house.

[mnhtnbb]

16. I was out on my daily morning walk with the dog the other day. A guy about 50 yards ahead of us

picked up somebody's newspaper from their driveway--looked at it--threw it back down. He crossed
the street, picked up another newspaper--looked at it (must have been the edition he wanted) and kept
going. About 10 more feet he pulled the plastic wrap off it and tossed it in the middle of the street.
Nobody else around. I thought about yelling at him to put it back, you thief, and then I thought, what
if he has a gun? So I said nothing.

[Judi Lynn]

47. In cars, we'd probably need helmets, too. So sad.

I appreciate your comment about their need to stand behind guns to feel like men. It definitely fits.

[bullwinkle428]

4. "Road rage" sounds inaccurate - that would imply that some kind of incident

provoked the angry outburst, which was then directed at the perceived provocateur. This incident just sounds like some pathetic asshole started blasting away indiscriminately.

[Human101948]

5. Let's do something effective about this!

Let us pray....

Amen!

Problem solved!

[2naSalit]

27. ...

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Pray and then buy more guns. Problem solved.

[Human101948]

30. Amen!

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

[Botany]

6. Is the gun OK?

I hope the NRA is able to get there to make sure that "the poor gun" is
protected and not harmed in anyway.

[Liberalagogo]

23. Here ya go:

[libdem4life]

36. This deserves a kick...

[ileus]

7. And now I know why I always carry.

Upgraded from 9+1 to 12+1 much more like this and I may start carrying the p-09 it's 19+1.


Always be aware to the vehicles around you, it's normally easy to spot the signs of mentally unstable road rage types.

[jtuck004]

20. Irony. The odds are they will find that piece strapped to your body in the car wreck

that gets you - far and away, almost inconceivably better odds of dying in a car wreck than being a victim of a terrorist like this.

You got your 12+1, the kid coming down the road at you is texting on her phone to her BFF. Good luck.

It's the least likely of the two that scares people. Funny...

[ileus]

26. eh that's fine....I'd rather die by cell phone, at least that's kinda accidental.

I was hit back in 2005 by a 16yo "distracted by a cell phone" (police report file)

I currently commute 55 miles a day I've always told the wife, one of these days I'll bite the dust. It's a chance we take...

[Demit]

31. And then what?

What do you see yourself doing once you spot a mentally unstable road type? Shoot at them before they shoot you? I'm really curious to know.

[ileus]

41. You run into them everyday on the road, drive more than 15 minutes and you're

guaranteed to run into one.


They tailgate, zip in and out of traffic, flash their lights, want to race you at every red light, fly the bird ect...


IMHO all these types of aggressive drivers are mentally unstable.

[Paladin]

42. Thank Christ they have easy access to firearms, right? (nt)

[libdem4life]

37. Don't understand the numbers, but that last sentence sounds like a healthy dose of sarcasm.

But if not, do tell. (before the shooting starts)

[maxsolomon]

38. You didn't know before?

It's not to protect yourself from random bullets fired from other cars on the highway.

YOU ALWAYS CARRY BECAUSE YOU LIKE GUNS.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. May we assume this killer was NOT part of a 'well regulated militia' ?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. of course he was "well regulated."

I mean, his truck had tags, he had a driver's license, and he had auto insurance. What do you mean, not well regulated?

[maxsolomon]

40. His firearm worked well

that's all it means, apparently. I've been told that repeatedly on DU. Nothing to do with Regulations, you silly Controller.

[EV_Ares]

9. Angry guest drives through hotel lobby with truck In Oklahoma

VA, Okla. (NBC News) – Stunning video shows disgruntled hotel guest ramming his truck through the lobby of an Oklahoma hotel.

It happened Thursday at a Comfort Inn and Suites in the City of Alva.

According to published reports, the 62-year-old man from Gonzalez, Texas was upset because his credit card had been declined twice.

Security video shows the man slam his truck into drive and race through the front entrance and into the front desk. Two women frantically dove for safety.

The driver told hotel staff he drove into the hotel because “they thought he was bluffing and he proved he wasn’t.”

The driver was held on $1 million bond Monday night in the Woods County Jail on two felony counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one count of malicious injury to property valued at more than $1,000.

Yeah, Oklahoma.......................Maybe same guy or is it the water in OK from fracking, maybe the earthquakes are shaking up the people from all the fracking.

Link to video & article: http://nbc4i.com/2015/12/15/angry-guest-drives-through-hotel-lobby-with-truck/

[Person 2713]

28. Credit card declined twice don't you walk away embarrassed or to make a call to your credit co.?

Better to bust through and try to run over clerks at the front desk as if they are responsible for the decline instead . That solves everything and comes with a room upgrade

[jayschool]

43. The driver in Alva and the shooter across three counties

both appear to be Texas residents, apparently vacationing in Oklahoma.

A wall along the Red River, perhaps?

[safeinOhio]

10. Safe satire

Today president trump said he is going to ban all guns temporally until we can find out what the hell is going on. This will be constitution as it will only be until we find out what the hell is going on.

Bite on that angry white guy.

[EL34x4]

12. Another article says he was drunk (n/t)

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. But weed is illegal.

[libdem4life]

13. Terrorists in the Buckle of the Bible Belt. White ones, at that. Oh, what to do?

Just think if all those cars had guns in them. and they started trying to get the bad guy with the gun, how many other motorists might have been injured or killed. I mean, what's your first reaction when someone starts shooting and you have your gun? But in moving vehicles and all the confusion, I'm thinking the marksmanship might not be so great.

RIP...very sad.

[Demit]

34. That's what I was picturing. What a horror show that would be.

Innocent drivers being shot, losing control of their cars… Jesus, these hero gun-toters really don't think things through. All they can think of is the supposed badass-ness that carrying a gun bestows on them.

[ck4829]

15. Look at this, a Syrian refugee driving a technical, doing a spray and pray on motorists

Oh wait...



Just possible mental illness and alcohol, nothing to see here.

[yellowcanine]

17. "man drove through three counties firing randomly from his pickup truck"

Unless the definition of "road rage" has changed, that is not road rage.

[yellowcanine]

18. How comes he wasn't shot 16 times by a cop?

[FailureToCommunicate]

45. Dunno. Probably cause he's this color:

He's armed, been shooting at people for enough reports to let the police know he's dangerous, but they let him calmly surrender.

So much for equal justice.

[mountain grammy]

22. Surrendered without incident..

he must be white.

[fredamae]

24. Hey, I have an Idea!

Lets get More Guns on the streets.....That'll teach the "bad guys"!

[951-Riverside]

25. Just another day in 2nd amendment America

[AllyCat]

35. Another good guy with a gun until he wasn't?

[EL34x4]

39. Suspect ID'd as Jeremy Doss Hardy, 36.

http://www.news9.com/story/30776465/osbi-identifies-suspect-victims-in-i-40-shooting-spree

[Dems to Win]

44. The 2nd Amendment must be watered with the blood of innocents daily

[yellowcanine]

48. We need Trump to deport all the Syrians and Mexicans then we

won't have to put up with this shit anymore....Oh wait. Never mind.

[yellowcanine]

49. I can't believe over 3 counties in OK there wasn't 1 good guy with a gun.