This photo provided by the Hoover Police Department shows Adrian Briskey, 28, charged with killing a fellow Alabama fan after the end of last weekend's Iron Bowl football game. Briskey was angry that the victim and others didn't seem upset over the Crimson Tide's loss to archrival Auburn, said the sister of the slain woman. (AP Photo/Hoover Police Department, Capt. James Coker)
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A woman charged with killing a fellow Alabama fan after the end of last weekend's Iron Bowl football game was angry that the victim and others didn't seem upset over the Crimson Tide's loss to archrival Auburn, said the sister of the slain woman.
Adrian Laroze Briskey, 28, was charged Monday with murder in the killing of 36-year-old Michelle Shepherd.
Hoover police Capt. Jim Coker said both Birmingham women were Alabama fans and at the same party for the annual game between intrastate rivals. With no time left on the clock, Auburn returned a missed Crimson Tide field goal more than 100 yards for a 34-28 victory, dashing any hopes of Alabama playing for a third straight national championship.
Nekesa Shepherd said Briskey flew into a rage when she saw the sisters and others joking that the Crimson Tide's loss wasn't as bad as if the NBA's Miami Heat had lost a game.
"She said we weren't real Alabama fans because it didn't bother us that they lost. And then she started shooting," Shepherd told The Associated Press.
Court records were not available to show whether Briskey has a lawyer. She has only had a couple of speeding tickets in the past, records show.
Are you going to call for restrictions on football now?
ReplyDeleteThis was caused by a combination of large amounts of alcohol and the active encouragement of "team spirit" which, when both are taken to extremes, cause all kinds of mayhem. I wonder if she had painted her face to show her support.
ReplyDeleteRageful, alcohol-fueled gun owners are a dime a dozen. It's a wonder this doesn't happen more often. But it does happen too often and that's why we need the strict one-strike-you're-out policy, to weed out some of these reckless people before they kill someone.
DeleteYou keep claiming that such people are a dime a dozen, but you offer no proof. In this case, there is a one-strike policy already. She's going down for murder. But you want to strip rights from people who drop guns.
DeleteYou're goddamn right I do. Drop the salt shaker or a glass of beer all over your shirt, fine, but if you drop a loaded gun and somehow it gets documented like when a round fires out of it and hits someone, you should forfeit your right to own guns, period.
DeleteMikeb, you've either implied or stated outright that merely dropping a gun disqualifies a person.
DeleteOnce a kid in our company simply dropped a box he was carrying, and broke it open. The box had dangerous acid inside it, the kid knew that. It didn't kill anyone, but sent 12 people to the hospital. The kid was fired and I doubt he will get another job handling anything more than rubber bands.
DeleteSome things are more dangerous to drop, than others; and punishment reflects the danger of what you were in charge of handling.
I keep hearing that today's guns will not go off by simply dropping them, but I keep reading stories, how they do.
Make a gun that WILL NOT go off when it is dropped, and I will accept less punishment for dropping a gun. Otherwise the stiffest punishment possible is designed to teach a lesson.
Actually Anon, there have been many improvements to modern handguns. Most if not all revolvers and pistols now have a firing pin block designed to prevent it from discharging when dropped. Of course, that doesn't prevent foolish acts.
DeleteGreg, I haven't "implied" anything. I've always included dropping a gun as part of the one-strike-you're-out policy. But it has to be documented which usually involves it firing. My idea is that the act of dropping it should be the focus of the law, not the damage done. Some of you bumbling gun owners are luckier than others, you drop your weapons and no one gets hurt. Others do the exact same clumsy behavior and a kid gets killed. We need to focus on the behavior not the results.
DeleteAgain, Mikeb, you want to punish people when no one was injured. Your vindictiveness shows your real feelings about gun rights.
DeleteIt's not vindictiveness, Greg. It's prevention, prevention against future incidents in which people are injured and killed.
DeleteThanks ss, but I just read two more dropped gun incidents just today on this blog. I wonder how many dropped gun incidents Mike does not report? As long as guns go off by simply dropping them, and hurt and kill people, then dropping a gun needs stiffer punishments.
DeleteThat's why we need laws to make sure these things don't go to extremes, like murder.
ReplyDeleteWe have laws against murder already. What else do you want?
DeleteI want extremist like you to stop killing people, but that's not going to happen, so we will force you.
DeleteYou have a way to prevent people from murdering one another and you haven't presented it? And don't say take away guns because people have been murdering one another since the beginning of time.
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