http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1797122&partnersite=espn CHICAGO -- A 26-year-old man was gunned down in the street near Wrigley Field after watching the Cubs play on Thursday. Frank Hernandez was shot about 90 minutes after the Cubs beat the Diamondbacks 11-3. Authorities say the incident started when Hernandez was cut off by two men in a SUV as he was crossing an intersection near Wrigley at about 6 p.m. Police say Hernandez hit the SUV with a miniature baseball bat and then broke the souvenir over the driver's head when the driver got out of the vehicle. Police say that's when the SUV's passenger got out and shot Hernandez in the upper abdomen. Hernandez collapsed on the sidewalk. Paramedics performed CPR, but Hernandez was later pronounced dead at Illinois Masonic Medical Center. "He went to the Cubs game, and he was just waiting, got out and right there he got shot," a friend of the Hernandez family told the Chicago Sun-Times as he sat crying outside the hospital emergency room. "He told me, 'I'm gonna see the Cubs today. I'll go and see my buddies.'" According to the Sun-Times, two Chicago police officers who were parked in a squad car half a block away saw the fight break out and were watching in their rear-view mirror as Hernandez was shot. Witnesses told the newspaper that police took several men into custody almost immediately. Hernandez had attended the game with best friend Brad Wallace Jr. "From what I've heard, they were crossing the street," Margaret Wallace, Brad's mother, told the Sun-Times. "There was a fight behind them. My son got to the curb and turned around. He heard two pops and went to talk to Frankie, and he was on the ground." Chicago police sergeant Robert Cargie says two men remain in custody in connection with the shooting but no charges have been filed.
You see people? This is why I never, ever trust anyone on the road. I learned from an early age that people are idiots, and that you never know who is carrying a gun on them, and it's a lesson that I've carried with me ever since. Someone cuts me off? I let them go. I cut someone off by accident? I let them drive next to me and swear all they want to, but I don't look at them. You can never trust people. There is absolutely no reason to take traffic incidents so personally, especially when your life could be at stake.
Absolutely. Let's not forget that this man was the reason that he got shot. I'm assuming that after a night at Wrigley, this guy was more than a little intoxicated (they usually are), but there's no reason to 1.) Cause damage to the other guy's car because he "cut you off" or 2.) Actually assault the other guy when he gets out. He did a stupid thing, and paid for it. The only thing is, he doesn't have to pay for it, his family does. I feel sorry for the family related to this idiot who have to suffer and grieve now because he picked a fight with the wrong people.
Kind of scary because I got into a little argument as well after I watched a Cubs game...we were all quite drunk after having a lot of beers in the Bleachers. That's one of the problems with all these people carrying guns with them all the time...otherwise, it would just be a fistfight, now someone is dead.
If it wasn't a gun, it would have been a knife. Those souvenir bats are serious whup-ass sticks, and could be considered a lethal weapon. From my perspective, this guy got a case of road rage, attacked someone's car and then attacked them with a small bat, and then his family acts surprised when someone raised the stakes? I'm not a violent man, but if you crack a bat over my head, I don't think I'm going to be seeing straight. By the way, I think that we have fewer fights in America because of guns. I love concealed handgun laws - I don't carry, but how does some punk know that I'm not? This discussion really belongs in D&D, but did you know that property crime (B&E, etc) is much higher in Canada where they have stricter gun control laws? I think it's directly related to the criminals being less afraid of being shot if they go into someone's house.
Killings are higher in the U.S. - I'll admit that. But there are also a larger number of economicallly disadvantaged people in the US, and more gang and drug-related violence as well. I would expect those offences to be higher in the U.S..
Funny that the police just sat there and watched the fight taking place and didn't try to stop it and only acted when the guy got shot. Aren't they supposed to try to stop the fight as well?
