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This is a topic from a motorcycle forum. The subject is a shooting stemming from an incident in traffic. Someone from the area may have heard about this shooting.
If you read all pages of replies, looks like about 80% think it's a justifiable shoot, even though the "victim" was a motorcyclist. There are a few replies from "foreign" riders. It takes a while to read all the replies, and the forum is kinda slow, as it is a sponsored forum. It happened in the Louisville, Ky-southern Indiana area.
Thanks, Sheepdip, for the cut and paste
This is a topic from a motorcycle forum. The subject is a shooting stemming from an incident in traffic. Someone from the area may have heard about this shooting.
If you read all pages of replies, looks like about 80% think it's a justifiable shoot, even though the "victim" was a motorcyclist. There are a few replies from "foreign" riders. It takes a while to read all the replies, and the forum is kinda slow, as it is a sponsored forum. It happened in the Louisville, Ky-southern Indiana area.
Thanks, Sheepdip, for the cut and paste
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Oy Vey! How about a c&p?
Woman tells police it was self-defense
By Harold J. Adams hjadams@courier-journal.com June 18, 2008
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Yalanda Parrish was frantic when she talked to a Jeffersonville, Ind., police dispatcher after a road-rage incident on 10th Street at Allison Lane Tuesday afternoon.
"I have just shot somebody up on 10th Street ... near the Thorntons," the 39-year-old Jeffersonville homemaker yelled.
"You did?" the dispatcher asked.
"Yes. He ran up on my car getting ready to open up my door (and) hit me with his fist."
"Ma'am, calm down," the male dispatcher said several times.
"How can I calm down? He tried to hit me," Parrish responded.
Police say Parrish shot Wesley Mosier, 52, of Corydon, Ind., once in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver in what she told investigators was self-defense.
Mosier was upgraded from critical to serious condition today at University Hospital in Louisville, where he underwent surgery.
Witnesses told police that Mosier had been on his motorcycle weaving through traffic as he was eastbound on 10th along with Parrish's Suzuki sport utility vehicle. Police said there had been some interaction between the two drivers but didn't know how long it had gone on.
Motorist Chad Ramirez was on the opposite side of Allison on 10th waiting to turn left as Mosier pulled in front of Parrish on the other side of the intersection in the right-turn lane and stopped.
Ramirez said in an interview today that he saw Mosier "get off his motorcycle, head back to her car. I see the door fly open but I don't know who opened it, and see him hit the ground."
Ramirez said he didn't hear a gunshot "because my windows were up and I had the radio going."
Police spokesman Todd Hollis said Parrish told investigators she pulled the gun, for which she has had a permit since May 2007, from under her seat and put it in her lap when Mosier got off the motorcycle.
Mosier approached with his fists clenched, and Parrish, who had her window rolled down, opened her door to push him back, she told police. She said Mosier then pushed back on the door and raised his fist, at which point she shot him because she felt threatened.
Parrish then called police. She was sitting on a curb at the scene when officers arrived. Her 15-year-old son was in the vehicle during the incident.
Ramirez said he pulled into the parking lot of a Thorntons at the intersection and tried to help Mosier. He said Parrish's son was standing over the wounded man yelling at him.
"That's when (Mosier) was yelling: 'She shot me. She shot me,'" Ramirez said.
A security videotape at the Thorntons was turned over to police. It shows the motorcycle and SUV in the distance, and at one point Mosier can be seen on the ground. But the images are too distant to tell much about them.
A preliminary police report listed two other witnesses who told officers they saw Mosier get off his motorcycle and approach the SUV but provided differing versions of what happened next.
One witness said Parrish and Mosier argued before the gun appeared and Mosier was shot, according to the report.
The other witness said Parrish threw open her door, striking Mosier as he approached the vehicle, then pulled out the pistol and shot him. That witness also told police that Parrish and her son then got out of the SUV and began yelling at Mosier and kicking him as he lay in a culvert.
No charges have been filed, and police expect to submit a report to the Clark County prosecutor's office once they have had a chance to talk to Mosier.
Reporter Harold J. Adams can be reached at (812) 949-4028.
Story from this morning's Courier-Journal
A 39-year-old Jeffersonville woman told police that she shot a man in self-defense after they argued while driving separate vehicles along 10th Street yesterday.
The man, who had been driving a motorcycle, was shot in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver. Police identified him as Wesley Mosier, 52, of Corydon, Ind.
He was listed in critical condition this morning at University Hospital in Louisville.
Police have not yet identified the woman motorist who they say shot Mosier.
No charges have been filed in the case this morning and police investigators expect to turn the case over to the Clark County prosecutor's office today.
Jeffersonville police spokesman Todd Hollis said the shooting occurred at 2:44 p.m. at 10th Street and Allison Lane.
Hollis said the woman was driving a sport utility vehicle with her 15-year-old son as a passenger. Both drivers were eastbound on 10th as they argued, he said.
The motorcycle was in front when the two vehicles approached the intersection.
"It looks like the driver of the motorcycle got off the bike and stepped to the SUV," Hollis said. "According to witnesses, the driver of the SUV pulled a gun and shot the motorcycle driver."
Hollis said the woman had a permit to carry the gun.
"Right now we're still talking to witnesses, trying to put this case together," said Detective Maj. Charlie Thompson of the Jeffersonville police.
Thompson said police also were reviewing a videotape of the incident, which was captured by a security camera at a nearby Thorntons gas station.
Reporter Harold J. Adams can be reached at (812) 949-4028.
He should have kept his * on his motorcyle.
You are asking to be shot and killed plain and simple.
Just let the stupidity go!
Hope this doesn't turn into another biker versus car/truck deal.
If he got off his bike as a man, and approached a woman with a kid, and attempted to pull her door open, he got what he deserved.
Looks like he will live, and I will bet be a lot calmer going forward.
The reports are sketchy and possibly will change but, as it stands right now, it sounds like a justified shooting to me.
He should have kept his * on his motorcyle.
That's basically what about 85-90% of the bikers on the forum said. There were a couple of replies from a anti in Canada, but for the most part, they calmly showed him the error in his thinking.
Stories also mention that Yolanda is represented by one "Christopher 2X", evidently some hot shot lawyer from the area.