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irisblue

(37,161 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 09:10 PM Sep 2020

"Were they Black?" she asked." 2 elderly white Floridians shoot at 3 POC dropping off a UHaul [View all]

Source--https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2020/09/01/gunfire-tallahassee-parking-lot-leads-arrest-armed-couple-complaints-racism/5654072002/

Long article at source

snip-"Charles McMillon Jr. was dropping off a U-Haul van with his young son and childhood friend Kendrick Clemons when out of nowhere bullets started flying."


snip-"They managed to escape Thursday night with their lives — incredibly, a police officer who happened to be in the parking lot intervened after the shooting began. But they’ll never forget their ordeal — the product, they said, of racial profiling by would-be vigilantes."

snip-"It turned out the two shooters, Wallace Fountain, 77, and his wife, Beverly Fountain, 72, own the strip mall and were staking it out inside a U-Haul of their own. They said they were having problems with people stealing gas and wanted to scare off any culprits."


snip-"Both the male and female were not obeying my commands at first," the arrest report says. "However, they eventually placed their firearms on the ground and laid on the ground away from the firearms."

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