Police arrest woman in deadly Arizona road rage shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police arrest woman in deadly Arizona road rage shooting
Updated 5:09 pm, Sunday, January 17, 2016

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Police have made an arrest in connection with the deadly Arizona road rage shooting of a student visiting from China.

Tempe police Lt. Michael Pooley said Sunday that 32-year-old Holly Davis has been booked on three charges including first-degree murder.

According to police, Davis' vehicle was involved in a collision at a busy intersection around 2:40 p.m. Saturday. Davis allegedly got out of her car and fired several shots into the other vehicle, hitting Yue Jiang several times.

Pooley says Jiang lost control, crashing her vehicle into another car carrying a family of five. The 19-year-old woman was taken to a hospital where she died.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-arrest-woman-in-deadly-Tempe-road-rage-6765354.php

[underthematrix]

1. I want them to lock her up forever and a day and still that

won't be long enough

[Shrike47]

2. She looks like she got methed up and went for a spin.

At least she got to exercise her 2nd Amendment rights!

[Hulk]

3. Represents the ugliest underbelly of our nation

I hardly know where to begin. My heartfelt sorrow for the family and loved ones of this young, innocent student who was callously murdered by this insane, hateful tramp.

Poster girl for the NRA.

[doc03]

4. If only there was a good guy with a gun there n/t

[vkkv]

43. "An armed society is a POLITE society." Din't ya know that?

[jtuck004]

5. There is no evidence drugs were involved. But she did ram the victim's car with hers, then got out

with a gun and shot several times through the window, killing Jiang.

Then jumped back in her car and took off.

I wonder if they met somewhere before?

[Feeling the Bern]

10. Could be racism. Jiang Yue is a thoroughly Chinese name

My wife is a Chinese national visiting my parents right now. She's run into anti-Chinese racism in Tucson.

I'm happy she's going home Tuesday night to China.

[jtuck004]

11. Absolutely. I was wondering where they connected, could have been a previous traffic incident, too,

which wound up like this because of how the killer saw her.

[Shrike47]

12. I was talking about her appearance. However, googled the story;it appears drugs were involved.

It also appears the murder was random. She rear-ended the victim, shot her, drove off to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend. (she also has a husband). She admitted OxyContin use to the police, the boyfriend said they had been drinking earlier. She asked the police to shoot her.

[jtuck004]

14. She said she used oxy. She also said she didn't do the shooting. You just pick what suits you to

believe, it seems.

Note: Just because she said she uses them does not mean the drugs had a thing to do with it. It could also be the start of a defense, to keep from getting the death penalty for a hate crime.

It is called making excuses. Kinda like saying meth was the problem, then saying something else to keep from saying you were wrong.

Everyone has their own convenient history, eh? You, her...

bye.

[LisaL]

15. There is a reason why someone wouldn't admit they shot and killed a person.

But why would someone claim they are using oxycodone if they aren't?
Anyhow, you can just take a look at her mug shot.

[jtuck004]

18. I avoid superficial judgements from the outside - too much room for error. Then again, error doesn't

bother some folks as much as others.

Most people say they are using drugs whether they are or not because it gives them an excuse. Otherwise it is their own fault, and we are taught from very early on to never, ever admit that.

For example, one might drive into and kill 4 people, and be held accountable, UNLESS they were rich, or on drugs, white, or whatever - those are all mitigating influences that courts often take into consideration to reduce sentencing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Using drugs (including alcohol) is not an excuse for crime of any kind. nt

[jtuck004]

23. I'm guessing you have no clue what goes on in American court rooms every day.

Because they think it is.

ymmv. lol.

[LanternWaste]

27. Benign errors on a message board born of speculation resulting in no consequence

"too much room for error. Then again, error doesn't bother some folks as much as others..."

Benign errors on a message board born of speculation resulting in, at worst, zero consequence is indeed, something that doesn't bother some folks...

[crim son]

31. Based on your response to posts in this thread, I don't believe you avoid superficial judgements.

So, you don't agree with how somebody else assesses a situation. There are pleasant and helpful ways to point that out without assuming the poster is a moron.

Just a thought.

[brush]

39. Who cares if she was on drugs or not. SHE MURDERED AN INNOCENT PERSON.

That's what matters. Put her under the jail.

[montana_hazeleyes]

6. What have we come to anymore?

[jtuck004]

7. This country established on the bodies of indigenous people? We were never better. n/t

[navarth]

16. sad but true.

[Deuce]

28. I agree...

[brush]

40. And built on hundred of years of unpaid labor from enslaved people.

If the bill for the stolen land and stolen labor ever comes due . . .

[Monk06]

8. Arizona the new Florida. Seems like all the open carry assassins come from Arizona these days

[marble falls]

22. Ahhhh you got it back'ards. Florida is the new Arizona. Az has had open carry ....

for decades, before 1975 when I moved there. and there have been all sorts of things like this.

The one that happened after I got there was two "slow" twins with .357s were cut off in traffic on the Black Canyon freeway by a guy who was following a disabled vehicle. When traffic stopped a few feet up from the ramp, the two parties started yelling. The single driver got out and got a baseball bat. The twins got out and pulled iron. The guy put the bat down in the truck bed and raised his hands and backed off. The twins each shot him and killed him.

The twins got off and got their revolvers back.

[Monk06]

44. Last time I visited the US was SF in 1985 That's when I found out the US really is different from

Canada

[Feeling the Bern]

9. Go guns! Good guns! Guns, guns, guns, guns. Arizona is open carry

Guns, guns, guns, guns!

Who cares about that Chinese girl? IF she knew how to drive, she wouldn't have gotten shot.

Guns, guns, guns, guns!

[passiveporcupine]

13. Maybe guns should not be allowed in cars any more,

until we figure out how to stop this insane road rage crap going on.

Of course only law abiding citizens will follow the laws that restrict them from having a gun in the car. She was restricted from having a gun and she had one anyway.

Yes, I know I'm fooling myself if I can imagine any law like this passing. Hey, if you have a gun it needs to be unloaded and in the trunk of your car. Is that good enough?

According to police reports, she hid her vehicle and her weapon before returning home to her Mesa apartment, showering and washing her clothes.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/breaking/2016/01/16/woman-shoots-driver-after-collision-6-hurt-tempe-police-say/78907610/

She certainly was not too drugged up to know she was in big trouble and took actions to hide the evidence.

Davis was previously convicted for resisting a lawful stop and fleeing in Missouri, according to arrest reports. She was sentenced to three years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

[Deuce]

34. Also, she might have planned some act of violence...

While searching the apartment where Davis was arrested, officers found a note "consistent with defendant planning to engage in violence."


http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/30984028/police-arrest-woman-in-deadly-tempe-road-rage-shooting

[navarth]

17. HOW did this woman get a gun?

maybe I shouldn't even ask that.

[maxsolomon]

35. Probably went to a store and bought it.

Or someone gave it to her for protection.

Move along, America. Move along.

[atreides1]

45. It's Arizona

Not difficult to get a gun in Arizona....and Tempe is in Maricopa County!!!


And for those who don't know Maricopa County is the home of "America's Toughest Sheriff" Joe Arpaio!

[marble falls]

20. If only Jiang had been armed. Open carry. What possibly could go wrong?

[Vinca]

21. It's every man, woman and child for themselves in this country. Sanity is history.

Civility has been replaced by guns. If I wasn't closer to the end of my life than the beginning I'd move to a country that doesn't worship guns above all else.

[Javaman]

24. moron with a gun. nt

[Quantess]

25. Oh no, that's totally NOT AT ALL a face of meth.

She's just 32?

[stone space]

26. Another victory for the NRA. (nt)

[EL34x4]

29. She's 32?

No freakin' way.

Maybe 32 years ago she was 32.

[cab67]

32. The caption says "undated photo."

Maybe it was taken in the future?

[rladdi]

30. For some reason Road Rage is huge in AZ. Must be the climate. Being an open carry state and a push

on everyone being armed it so easy now to just shoot. I have been fighting over the issue that the NRA and gun rights advocates do not push body armor also. Since most killers wear body armor and the victims are not. The NRA has been running ads urging everyone to be armed, but no mention about wear body armor. Maybe it needs to be the new style of dress.
The road rage in AZ has been shooting or people just running over those they were mad at. We have had cases where the people in the rage followed the other vehicle home and killed the person there.

But the NRA presses on without any push back about who can get guns. Road Rage or having a temper is never discussed.

[cab67]

33. Sadly, I think it will take more cases like this to get anything done about guns in the US.

I may have discussed this before on another thread - not sure. But I think back to Florida in the 1980's. There was a series of high-profile violent crimes against tourists from overseas. Several tourists were killed, and the murderers were sometimes teenagers. Florida quickly enacted several laws intended to address the problem, including allowing prosecutors to charge juveniles as adults. (Whether this is a good idea is whole 'nother discussion.)

Part of the reason action was so swift was international pressure. Several European countries issued travel advisories against visiting Florida. There are lots of special interests in Florida, but tourism is perhaps the biggest. It's one of the few that can fit the NRA between its fingers and crush it. When tourism dollars were under threat, Florida jumped, and jumped fast.

If enough parents of murdered international students start speaking up, their governments might start warning their citizens against visiting states with open-carry and stand-your-ground laws.

The impact of international pressure is going to vary by state. My upper midwest state has essentially no tourist industry, and thus its legislature wouldn't respond the way Florida's might. The same is presumably true of Arizona. But it isn't all tourism.
I work at a large public university that depends, in part, on tuition dollars from international students. Students continue to apply here because of its reputation for quality education and a welcoming environment. A violent act, like what happened in Tempe (the girl was an Arizona State student), would do real damage to that reputation. The state legislature would notice.

(I realize that, as written, it almost looks like I'm hoping for more such incidents. I absolutely am not. I'm only pointing out that, as gun violence continues in the US, our neighbors in other countries might have something to say about it.)

[maxsolomon]

36. I can guarantee that AZ doesn't give a crap what China has to say about Firearms.

I know I'm a cynic, but Gabby Giffords was an AZ Congresswoman, and they don't give a crap about that shooting, either.

There could be 1,000 similar shootings for 1,000 days straight and they'd still cling to their Guns. They create the conditions they fear.

And AZ is far from alone in that.

[cab67]

41. you're probably right.

That being said, I can at least pretend to hope that a series of atrocities with foreign victims would get companies abroad to reconsider locating branches in states like Arizona. Hit 'em in the old pocketbook and all that.

[KingCharlemagne]

37. I teach ESL. to some very well-heeled International students and I have advised

them to steer clear of AZ and TX (Sandra Bland, anyone?). I would not be able to live with myself, were one of my students to suffer death or injury because of our crazy gun culture.

[Skittles]

46. gun humpers have won

the results of gun humping cowards are now to be expected

[ileus]

38. Looks like your normal drug user...

[vkkv]

42. Yay! Handguns are SO convenient!! __________n/t

[TeeYiYi]

47. This thread needs a picture...

TYY