ChumpDumper
07-26-2014, 04:45 PM
The girl’s dog wouldn’t quit barking Monday night, so she let him outside. Chad Eric Pickering, 40, was there waiting, crouched beneath a pine tree, prosecutors say. She glimpsed a shadow before she was shot three times.
Pickering, who lives just northwest of Bemidji, targeted the 17-year-old hours after she confronted him about riding his lawn mower through her yard, according to charges filed Wednesday in Beltrami County District Court. He is accused of shooting the girl, whom he described to investigators as “a bitch,” and faces one count of first-degree attempted murder and 20 years in prison.
The shooting has alarmed the Bemidji community and gained national attention Thursday from advocates for stronger gun control, who called Pickering’s pro-gun Facebook posts disturbing.
Neighbor Brianna Benson, 22, said that the victim, who has not been named, was released from the hospital Thursday. Doctors told her it could be months before she walks again, Benson said. The teen was shot in her upper left chest, right thigh and left ankle....http://www.startribune.com/local/268548492.html?page=2&c=y
On the bright side, we now have a subplot for next season's Fargo.
Pickering, who lives just northwest of Bemidji, targeted the 17-year-old hours after she confronted him about riding his lawn mower through her yard, according to charges filed Wednesday in Beltrami County District Court. He is accused of shooting the girl, whom he described to investigators as “a bitch,” and faces one count of first-degree attempted murder and 20 years in prison.
The shooting has alarmed the Bemidji community and gained national attention Thursday from advocates for stronger gun control, who called Pickering’s pro-gun Facebook posts disturbing.
Neighbor Brianna Benson, 22, said that the victim, who has not been named, was released from the hospital Thursday. Doctors told her it could be months before she walks again, Benson said. The teen was shot in her upper left chest, right thigh and left ankle....http://www.startribune.com/local/268548492.html?page=2&c=y
On the bright side, we now have a subplot for next season's Fargo.