A Joplin man was arrested after four people were shot this morning. During a news conference at 9:30 a.m., Police Chief Matt Stewart said Tom Mourning, 26, Joplin, had been taken into custody.
The Police Department issued the following release:
August 13, 2016, at 5:08 AM, Joplin Police responded to 1810 S. Connecticut Ave. in reference to a report of a subject shooting at that location.
Officers located a possible suspect vehicle southbound on Connecticut Ave. As they were preparing to engage in a vehicle stop, the sole occupant and operator of the vehicle fired shots striking victims at 32nd St. and Connecticut Ave. The officers engaged in pursuit of the suspect during which the suspect fired shots at victims near 32nd St. and Texas Ave.
At 5:22 AM, the pursuit ended at 32nd St. and Pearl Ave. where the suspect submitted to arrest without further resistance.
Multiple victims from each location were transported to local hospitals. At this time, there have been no fatalities as a result of this incident.
Crime scenes are being held at 1810 S. Connecticut, 32nd St. and Connecticut Ave., and 32nd St. and Texas Ave. The investigation continues.
(Joplin Police Photo- Chief Matt Stewart addresses the media.)
But the gun didn't do it.
ReplyDeleteBuild that wall!!! Oh wait... he's a white guy from Joplin. Never mind.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem one Tom S. Mourning II did it, and his gun no more did it than the car he was driving.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of driving, while the Nice terrorist did shoot at his victims with an illegal firearm, neither the truck he was driving nor that gun killed 85 people, the terrorist did.
Well I don't think he would have injured as many people if he was throwing knives at them from his car.
DeleteAnother inane comment, seeing as how knifemen killing their targets has been so much in the news as of late.
DeleteYou can't just substitute one thing that would result in no casualties to speak of if the perpetrator was determined to cause them; as I noted, it would have been far worse if he'd ran down pedestrians (at a place and time of day where there are appreciable numbers of them, like the terrorist at Nice).
kitty chiwawa: That's a truly inane comment, for "the wall" is addressing the entirely different problem of mass illegal immigration from south of the border, not that of Sudden Jihad Syndrome (there aren't many Muslims south of the border), let alone that of mass or in this case spree shooters in general (something which those south of the border are not in the habit of doing, in fact, I can't think of a single one off the top of my head).
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