This is just crazy: Traffic altercation, man hunts and kills other guy

[Glenda]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/03/brockton_traffic_argument_ends_in_tragedy/

Angry and fearful after a traffic altercation, prosecutors say, 60-year-old Walter Bishop hunted down another driver yesterday, 27-year-old Sandro Andrade, who held his infant daughter as at least four lethal rounds were fired point-blank into his head and body.


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Investigators said the bloody chain of events began minutes earlier on a quiet side street, when a young, aspiring Cape Verdean immigrant and a frail, well-liked older man got into a traffic scuffle.
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Bishop left the encounter thinking Andrade had taken down his license plate number to exact revenge later, Reddington said.

''I made up my mind right there I had to do something," Bishop told investigators later, according to prosecutors.

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Authorities said Bishop dropped his wife at an MBTA station, then spotted Andrade's maroon Isuzu Rodeo in front of a downtown employment office. He swerved his Chevy Blazer across traffic and rammed into the driver's side door of Andrade's car, witnesses told police.

Louis McPhee, 47, the manager of a car wash across the street, described what he saw next: ''He's got the window down, never even gets out. Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Four shots. It sounded like a cap gun . . . The guy was lying there in his own blood with a hole in his head and his arm still on the baby."

[bleedingheart]

1. Mr Bishop will now serve out his years in prison

...wonder if he didn't have some early dementia that made him so paranoid????

[Glenda]

17. He had depression

"Reddington said Bishop had recently developed depression and took two medications to treat it."

Don't know why that would make him paranoid though

[DS1]

26. Oh he's REALLY gonna be depressed now

fucking piece of shit, I hope he offs himself in prison

[bleedingheart]

32. my neighbor's husband has been suffering from depression

and has become a bit paranoid...and he isn't taking any medications...BUT he does own a handgun and his wife has hidden it because she is a bit concerned that he may be in the early stages of Alzheimers..

[pitohui]

19. quite likely the case

clinical depression is one of the symptoms of alzheimer's, as is very strange behavior and sometimes violent behavior

could be an early onset case

[raccoon]

30. Dementia is what I was thinking too nt

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. unbelievable

wow, people are farking nuts.

[AverageJoe]

3. Jesus Christ!

What in the hell is wrong with this world, when something like this can happen. This is just awful. My God.

[bryant69]

4. The Most Dangerous Game

Truthfully this sounds like the plotline to a movie I'd actually consider seeing (depending on who was in it).

Yeah, I'm pretty much going to hell.

Bryant
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[LincolnMcGrath]

5. Thank GOODNESS we don't need sensible gun laws!

:eyes:

[Junkdrawer]

10. An armed society is a polite society...

:sarcasm:

[Squatch]

22. Pray tell, what (sensible) gun law would have prevented this?

[marions ghost]

31. when people are depressed or paranoid it would be a good idea

to limit their access to guns.

Once I was looking at a building lot in a semi-rural area with a couple of family members. There was a house nearby. An older man with a similar story as this guy (depressed, being treated for cancer, on a lot of medications) came out of his house with a handgun and got to within a few feet, pointing it directly at us. It was obvious he was raving and very unstable. Of course we said, "hey NO problem...we were just leaving." When the real estate agent confronted the daughter (his caretaker), she just said, oh yeah, I guess I should've gotten rid of the guns....well duh. If someone like this threatened a member of your family you'd be a little more interested in finding a solution.

[PassingFair]

6. KeeRyst!

Sounds like a scene from a Stephen King novel.

[MadHound]

7. Geez, what insanity

Give this man a life sentence for pre-meditated murder. Road rage, a hatred of immigrants, a bit paranoid, and carrying a gun. Put this man away and throw away the key.

[kestrel91316]

13. Hatred of immigrants indeed..........betcha victim was black??

Aren't Cape Verdeans black? And was the shooter white? Crazy old coot afraid of those black folks, so he offs one?

ai ai ai............what kind of world do we live in?

[Glenda]

15. Yes, shooter white, victim black

shooter



victims wife and daughter

[MercutioATC]

8. Guns don't kill people. 60-year old men with emphysema kill people...

...though it WOULD be hard for an overweight 60-year-old man with emphysema to kill a 27-year-old man unless he had a gun, wouldn't it?

[Terran]

9. Oh no

Eventually someone here will claim that he could have just as easily killed this guy with a knife, so it doesn't matter that he had a gun. :eyes: Fucking INSANE, this country is.

[PunkPop]

11. Uhh, "well-liked older man"??

Who liked this guy? Other paranoid, trigger-happy psychopaths?

[Glenda]

12. You can also see the video of the news report

http://www.boston.com/news/local/

Far right, 1/3 way down, search for "Father gunned down in front of daughter in Brockton"

[ComerPerro]

14. This is why concealed carry is such a good idea

:sarcasm:

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. But but

Guns don't kill people
People kill people

And unfortunately,
Guns don't die
People do.

Did you hear about the 6 year who shot and killed her 2 year old brother in central MO? There's an article on the MO board. Yep, concealed carry was a great idea for MO. This is the (I stopped counting how many) kid killed in an accidental shooting in MO since CCW was passed. At least they stopped talking about it in KS.

[smbolisnch]

16. Oh my god.

That is crazy. I don't even know what to say. :cry:

[Dora]

18. Terrible, terrible story.

Bishop's defense will be his use of anti-depressants, mark my words.

Editorial Observation: I think the reporter could have used a better choice of words in this sentence:

Fernandes yesterday held her baby, who was washed up and seemingly sanguine after the day's bloody events.

[put out]

21. "sanguine"? Someone get that reporter a thesaurus. n/t

[Dora]

25. Nobody uses reference books these days...

geez - that's so old-fashioned.

[put out]

33. Hah, I'll be sanguine if I want to. Gosh.

I turn my head in distain to you. See?

[redqueen]

20. Good God Almighty...

:cry:

Depression or not... medications or not... that guy should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

[rman]

23. ''I made up my mind right there" ; premeditated, no less

he probably doesn't realize that's a self incriminating statement, which suggests he thought he somehow had the right to do this.

[bloom]

24. Near Indianapolis recently - a man shot a teenager for throwing eggs

at his truck. Killed him.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Nothing New

When i was in high school (junior year), a guy in my homeroom shot and killed a kid for throwing snowballs at his car. That was in 1972. There have, apparently, always been nutjobs among us.
The Professor

[Toots]

27. What America needs is more guns

If that baby had had a gun maybe.......