PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
Louisiana-Self-Defense: Frenchmen Street musician shoots gutter punk in self-defense :: 01/31/2015
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) - The NOPD is backing a musician`s claim that he shot a man outside a Marigny nightclub in self-defense. Some think the confrontation escalated due to what locals are calling the growing epidemic of gutter punks.
Doorman Walt at BMC says his musician friend and war veteran Billy Gregory was finishing a gig at Vasso when gutter punks began harassing him outside Check Point Charlie’s, “I couldn’t figure out why it was one shot fired, and they all weren’t dead.”
“Billy’s a vet. He plays around on Frenchmen Street, Willie Lockett & The Blues Krewe,” says Claudia Boyle who runs Checkpoint Charlie’s. “He usually stops in to have a drink after his gig and says hi. Nice, man.”
The police report says that 23-year-old Nicholas Temper threatened to commit bodily harm on the 64-year-old musician and take his guitar.
“He said something and the kid got jealous. Got mouthy with Billy,” says Walt.
Fearing for his safety, police say the musician took out a pistol and shot Temper once in the chest.
“There was a big scene,” recalls Boyle who watched as the wounded gutter punk managed to walk inside to the back Checkpoint’s. “I just saw some gutter punk kid came in shot. They screamed for me to call 911. I called 911. He collapsed on the floor. A whole bunch of cops came. Closed off the bar.”
“All I know is that my friend is in the hospital right now,” says an unidentified gutter punk outside Check Point’s. He got shot in the $!#&ing chest. That’s nuts! Some dude slapped him and then he went to go fight him and the dude just pulled a $!#&ing gun out. He’s in the hospital right now, but he’s alive.”
Witnesses say other gutter punks followed the Gregory and beat him up.
One suspect was arrested for helping with the assault.
One more suspect remains at large.
“It’s very random. It’s very rare,” says Bolye. “People should just be nicer to each other.”
http://wgno.com/2015/01/30/frenchmen-st-musician-shoots-gutter-punk-in-self-defense/
