Deputies: Man dies after dispute over touching truck

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Deputies: Man dies after dispute over touching truck

Updated 6:24 am, Wednesday, January 20, 2016

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in central Florida say a man died after a dispute over whether he touched another man's pickup truck.

Brevard County Sheriff's spokesman Maj. Tod Goodyear tells the Orlando Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1Rz4sCr) that 67-year-old German Heredia was walking with his granddaughters and their dogs Jan. 5 when Warren Buchanan walked up and accused Heredia of touching his truck.

The two men began arguing. Goodyear says 51-year-old Buchanan then hit Heredia's face, knocking him to the ground and causing him to hit his head. Heredia was taken to a hospital, where he died.

The Brevard County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a homicide caused by trauma to the head.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Deputies-Man-dies-after-dispute-over-touching-6771141.php

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Warren Buchanan, left, German Heredia, right. [/center]

[Jim__]

1. Killed someone for touching his truck ... where do these people come from? - n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. An old man with his grandchildren no less

Well, the killer won't be able to drive his truck in jail.

FLORIDA!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

15. Let's get as many people to touch is truck and send the photos to his prison cell!

[Human101948]

4. The pickup truck is a magic talisman of maleness...

It's like touching his most private of areas.

[Bayard]

10. Wait a minute!

I'm a woman, and I drive a one-ton dually Chevy. It's a necessity if you have a farm. Of course, if anybody touched it, you'd never be able to tell with all the bashed in spots, door that won't open, and front bumper with duct tape!

[Human101948]

12. Because your truck is a working truck, not a male enhancement product...

I think you know the difference.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

16. She's obviously not RAM TOUGH!

[Eleanors38]

20. It's the NRA's fault: National Ram Association.

[Eleanors38]

18. Yeah, no gun was involved, either!

[maxsolomon]

27. Earth

this sort of macho bullshit is pretty much planet-wide.

[exboyfil]

3. Please people try to deescalate these types of situations

I learned about that when driving. I was cut off in interstate traffic and gestured and yelled (it could not be heard but seen by individuals riding in the bed of the pick up). They promptly started throwing trash at my car. I had my wife and two daughters in the car. Nothing happened, but something could have happened. From now on it is 10 and 2 for my hands, and I avert my eyes as much as possible whenever I have these type of contacts.

Frankly any sort of interaction like this, given the guns present in our society, can end in death.

Maybe the poor grandfather did not have a chance, and no matter what he said the man was going to assault him. Hope he spends a considerable amount of time in jail.

[bigmonkey]

14. I completely agree with your intention.

But make it a whiteknuckled 8 and 4, so the airbag doesn't break your arms in case of an accident.

[Eleanors38]

21. Deescalation is best. But gun or no -- someone was murdered.

[SpankMe]

5. How much do you want to bet...

...this motherfucker will try to invoke "stand your ground" - and win?

As an earlier poster said: Florida.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Stand your truck?

What the fuck, is more like it.

[Judi Lynn]

7. I have no doubt it could happen. Florida, as you said. n/t

[JoeyT]

8. Extremely unlikely.

He might try to claim it, but it doesn't have a chance in hell of working.

The victim was white. He's going to prison.

[Major Nikon]

11. He also didn't use a gun, so he's really fucked

[MillennialDem]

13. No, stand your ground cases largely only work when a gun is used. Fists and knives are

thug weapons, guns are for holy warriors of god. Or something.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

17. Stand against what? A grandfather, his grandaughters and their dogs? Was he in fear of his life?

[Eleanors38]

23. Most of those "invocations" fail.

[mikeysnot]

9. Now if he just shot him!

This would have been a nothing to see here situation...

[Eleanors38]

19. You kiddin'? Controllers'd be on it like a fly on stink. For weeks!

[mikeysnot]

28. Controllers?

[LanternWaste]

22. Is this the gas-guzzling truck he chose over the girlfriend who's out of his league?

Is this the gas-guzzling truck he chose over the girlfriend who's out of his league?

[LeftyMom]

24. I'm going to need a picture of the truck to make a ruling.

[Judi Lynn]

25. Here it is, and don't try to touch it:

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Apparently it's some big deal, as anal Buchanan sees it.

Most people would just think, "It's a truck." Apparently that could get them killed.

[dembotoz]

26. That truck will be a classic next time he can drive it