Thursday, April 25, 2013

Arkansas Shooting Death - Just an Accident - No Charges

Local news reports

Authorities in Ouachita County have ruled a weekend fatal shooting at a turkey camp to be accidental.

Deputies were called Sunday after 36-year-old Jeremy Owens of Beebe was shot. Deputies spoke with 38-year-old Harley R. Brittain, also of Beebe, who was taking Owens to a hospital.

Brittain told deputies that he and Owens arrived at the camp and that he accidentally shot Owens in the leg with a .40 caliber handgun. Brittain explained that the weapon lodged between two seats in their vehicle and it discharged as he tried to retrieve it.

Brittain acknowledged to deputies that he'd been drinking but Prosecutor Ian Vickery says Arkansas law doesn't prohibit being around firearms while intoxicated. Vickery says he's convinced the death was accidental.
Whaat??? "Arkansas law doesn't prohibit being around firearms while intoxicated." Not only that, drunk or not, treating gross negligence like a simple accident is wrong.  But, what can you expext from a hillbilly state like Arkansas.

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14 comments:

  1. That's news to me. I haven't found anything confirming that. But the report comes from a paper in Indiana, so "local news reports" may not be entirely reliable.

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  2. Hey! More racism against folks from different regions than our enlightened host! They're just dumb hillbillies and can't be expected to do things that make sense!

    You target white people from certain regions, but your stereotyping and generalizations are as foolish and obnoxious as any other racist's.

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    1. The social undesirable denizens of the the American south are the object of much bemusement for the rest of the world. More entertaining is the fact that such regions seem to have produced computer-trained rednecks, who's purpose is to enlighten the world of the idiocy rampant in your tribal and animalistic “culture”.

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    2. We Southerners are typically a generous group of people, but in your case, E.N., no one's inviting you to come sit a spell.

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  3. Don't know who u are, but you are an idiot.!!!!Being a hillbilly dosen't mean you are dumb!!!!!

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    1. Tennessean is a dumb hillbilly, much like yourself.

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  4. Tennessean, YOU ARE A NUT!!! Being a hillbilly dosen't mean you are dumb!!!!!

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  5. Anonymous--My point was the pejorative way Mike was using Hillbilly. It fits right in wit all kinds of other things he's said about people from the south all being stupid, racist, etc.

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    1. I never said ALL. Why do you keep doing that?

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    2. Mikeb, your attitude about people from my part of the country is clear. If you held the same views about blacks, it would be called racism. But let's take an equivalent example: How would you react if I were to claim that I never said that all gun control freaks are evil or stupid? Would you take that as implying that I generally have a favorable attitude toward your side?

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    3. "if I were to claim that I never said that all gun control freaks are evil or stupid?"

      Why do you so often mischaracterize what I say with the word ALL?

      I think you and T. are exceptions to the rule. You guys live in hillbilly states but seem to be educated and eloquent. Greg, you know yourself, if you're honest about it, your students who had their primary education there in Arkansas are very lacking in basic skills. Am I right?

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  6. Your generalizations are highly offensive. I knew the victim, Jeremy. He was a friend and soon-to-be-neighbor. And not a reckless guy at all - he was a licensed riverboat pilot. I don't know all the details of the accident, but I assure you he was a good man, not a 'stupid hillbiilly' and his family is grieving his loss.

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    1. Sorry, his actions speak for themselves. And the laws of Arkansas speak for themselves, too.

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