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(11,841 posts) Fri Jul 31, 2015, 04:28 PM Jul 2015

Good Samaritan Family Gunned Down Trying to Help Stranded Driver in Montana [View all]

Source: KTLA.com

Trying to be Good Samaritans cost two members of a Montana family their lives and left their daughter wounded.

According to the FBI a family pulled over to help a driver on the side of the road and was gunned down. The suspect, 18-year-old Jesus Deniz Mendoza, is expected in federal court Friday.
The triple shooting happened in the town of Pryor, Montana, about 30 miles south of Billings.

The suspect, 18-year-old Jesus Deniz Mendoza, is expected in federal court Friday
The family was shot when they returned to help Mendoza, whose car was seen stopped along side a road on the Crow Indian Reservation on Wednesday morning, according to an FBI criminal complaint.

Read more: http://ktla.com/2015/07/31/good-samaritan-family-gunned-down-trying-to-help-stranded-driver-in-montana/

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Good Samaritan Family Gunned Down Trying to Help Stranded Driver in Montana [View all] 7962 Jul 2015 OP

:( shenmue Jul 2015 #1

Read about that. We've helped several stranded motorists in the past in my family, TwilightGardener Jul 2015 #2

I agree, it's a tragedy for that family and it creates a negative ripple effect Uncle Joe Jul 2015 #20

I got nothing but Sadness. BlueJazz Jul 2015 #3

... magical thyme Jul 2015 #4

Wow... not even a botched robbery or anything. Just 'fuck you, die'... AtheistCrusader Jul 2015 #5

It was a botched robbery passiveporcupine Jul 2015 #16

And the next step in this ............................. turbinetree Jul 2015 #6

Didn't help the armed cop in California who was killed approaching a car this morning.n/t jtuck004 Jul 2015 #11

A legal immigrant from Mexico with permanent residence status OnlinePoker Jul 2015 #7

He will have a rationalization.He says we should only let the "good ones" in, so jtuck004 Jul 2015 #15

I would be willing to guess that one of his prerequisites d_legendary1 Jul 2015 #18

no.words. hopemountain Jul 2015 #8

"An armed society is a polite society." --- right! n/t Binkie The Clown Jul 2015 #9

If only guns were hanging from the trees. --NRA logic. nt valerief Jul 2015 #10

I liked it better when the popular ethos was ToxMarz Jul 2015 #13

Mever ever forget that guns make us safer. SheilaT Jul 2015 #12

The NRA says all good samaritans should be armed . geretogo Jul 2015 #14

Is the gun ok? We need to make sure the gun is ok right now. Darb Jul 2015 #17

So very sad when people try to help and are murdered for it. Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #19