Fight over existence of God leads to Oakland murder; now jury will decide fate of defendant

[cbayer]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_23973084/fight-over-existence-god-leads-oakland-murder-now

By Paul T. Rosynsky Oakland Tribune
POSTED: 08/29/2013 09:15:45 AM PDT
UPDATED: 08/29/2013 04:44:27 PM PDT

OAKLAND -- A late-night verbal joust between two friends over the existence of God led to an execution-like killing. Now a jury must decide if it was first-degree murder.

Deputy district attorney Allyson Donovan argued the answer is yes, urging the jury of seven men and five women to find Douglas Yim guilty for shooting his friend, Dzuy Duhn Phan, with an AR-15 assault rifle six times, including once in the head from less than a foot away.

Yim's defense attorney asked the jury to think about Yim's emotional and physical condition when the then 31-year-old, after a night of drinking and ingesting marijuana and cocaine, became frustrated with Phan's barrage of verbal assaults and decided to use his gun to scare away his friend.

"This is a tragedy," Mario Andrews, Yim's attorney said. "This is a horrible nightmare situation."

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[Jim__]

1. It really wasn't the consumption of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine in the proximity of a deadly ...

... weapon. It was the debate over the existence of god that led to the shooting.

[cbayer]

2. Lol! Don't you know that when religious people act insanely it is because of their religion?

So clearly, the drugs, alcohol and hours of video games had a role in only one side of this, lol.

[okasha]

3. When a religious person does something wrong,

it's always because of his/her religion, whether it's murder or letting the parking meter expire. We should know that by now, surely.

[cbayer]

4. Them's the rules.