Boy's Bike Swap Leads To Dad's Shooting

[matcom]

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"Little Todd" Copeland, 9, and a pal decided Tuesday that they liked each other's trick bicycles so much that they'd swap. But when their fathers heard about the trade, one didn't like it.

A fight ensued Wednesday night. When it ended, Little Todd's dad, Todd A. Copeland, 28, was dead and a friend had been shot in the arm outside a duplex in the 2900 block of N. 4th St. in Minneapolis' Hawthorne neighborhood.

About noon Thursday, police arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with the shooting. The suspect is a friend of the other father.

Details are still unfolding, but witnesses and police gave this account:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1557/4834589.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. Jeeeeez...people need to calm down!

Shooting over bicycles? :wtf:

[Syncronaut Seven]

2. No, no! This makes perfect sense!

Lets get the lawyers shooting at each other next! At this point It doesn't matter much anymore. The children are in charge, and they're armed.