I live in south central Pa. - in a medium sized city A 21 yr old pregnant woman who's husband is in Iraq was shot in the head in a grocery store parking lot near my house. They caught the guy and he said he just wanted to see what it was like to kill someone
That's what I'm so scared about - random killings like that. When I hear about drug or gang related crimes (as in between gangs) I just get worried about society but not neccessarily about me right away - seeing that things like that I can personally avoid. But when you don't actually do anything to tempt you being killed, mugged, raped, etc... that's when I get worried about me but more so my girlfriend, family, and friends. This is just sick. I can't believe how people like that exist.
Send the idiot to Iraq. Give him a gun. He can go find out how it feels to kill someone while fighting for his life in Fallujah. Sick.
i hope they have the death penalty in pennsylvania..... ....then again....he'll just spend 10 years on death row, where is costs thousands upon thousands each year to support him, all at the taxpayers expense. isnt america grand?
man... this may be a little off the subject but maybe not. I was walking to the grocery store just about 30 minutes ago and some punk a** kids started to front me, i guess about 3 of them. they were ready to get into their cars. at first, i was like... wtf? i've never been one to back out of a fight but there was three of them so i kept on walking till one of them said "that's right, keep on walking". I was so pissed i turned around and gave them the motion to come. but they got into their cars and drove towards me like they were going to run me over. i held my ground and they drove away... man, that just ruined my day. i mean when i was high school, i'd rumble, but always for a reason. why the heck do people tangle with strangers they have no beef with and for no particular reason? arrggg.. now i'm paranoid. i use to carry a .32 but i sold it cuz i thought this bs wouldn't happen to me at this age and, also now that i've moved to suburbs. K. Yakko
http://ydr.com/story/main/49494/ Shooting called random A suspect has been arrested and charged in the shooting of a pregnant woman. By JENNIFER NEJMAN Daily Record/Sunday News Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Police said Noel Gomez told them that he had planned on shooting and killing someone. Court documents on his arrest state that Gomez told police he decided to kill Sunday night. He selected a grocery store parking lot in West Manchester Township. Then, the 19-year-old picked up a loaded shotgun and fired at a pregnant woman through the open passenger-side window of his white Chevy Corsica before driving away, according to court documents. Gomez didn't know Julia Cook. She happened to be in the Giant Food Store parking lot shortly before 10 p.m. Cook, 21, who is about six months pregnant, was visiting friends in Dover Township from Mannsville, N.Y. Her husband is a Marine serving in Fallujah. After being shot, Cook fell to the ground, bleeding from her head, her friends told police. She was taken to York Hospital. Monday night, Cook remained in serious condition, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Gomez was arraigned Monday morning on charges of criminal attempt to commit criminal homicide, aggravated assault, and aggravated assault of Cook's unborn child. He was also charged with recklessly endangering another person because two other women had been with Cook when she was shot, according to court documents. After his arraignment, as Gomez was escorted out of District Justice Daniel Garber's office to a police car, he kept his head ducked and didn't answer questions from reporters. Police officers worked into the early morning to find the shooter, said York County District Attorney Stan Rebert. "Our fear was that based on information we had before we apprehended the suspect, there was a real danger of him getting away and doing damage to someone else," Rebert said. Several hours after the shooting, at about 4:25 a.m., York County Detective Matt Millsaps found the white Chevy parked at the Red Roof Inn. The car had a shotgun in its back seat and shells in the front seat. Gomez had registered as a guest, using his photo driver's license. Millsaps called Gomez in his room, telling him that the shotgun in his back seat was a safety hazard. When Gomez stepped outside, police arrested him. He waived his Miranda rights. When questioned about his alleged involvement in the shooting, Gomez said that he had watched the women leave the store. When he fired his gun, he intended to kill the woman, court documents state. The shooting, Rebert said, made no sense. "It's outrageous," he said. "It's absolutely outrageous." Rebert said as far as he knew, Gomez didn't know the woman he shot, nor was his action gang-related. Victim improving Marlene G. Cook, of Henderson, N.Y., said her grandson's wife was still unconscious, but doing a little better at the hospital Monday night. "They're giving good signs now," Cook said of Julia, and the unborn baby. "But, she's got a long way to go." Suspect 'never talked' On Monday afternoon, Ramona Gomez, 56, had no idea that her son had been accused of shooting someone or had been taken to York County Prison. She has a cell phone, but no regular phone. She waited for her daughter, Milagros Ramos, 26, to translate the information into Spanish. Ramos cried, when she heard about her brother. Then, she told her mother. Ramona Gomez talked about her son through translators. She had been worried about him for almost two weeks. He went to work one day, but then didn't return to her apartment on the 500 block of West King Street. Family members called the hospital and prison. She figured her son had gone off to do something fun. He never talked about his problems with his mother or sister. "He came in like a dead person. Never talked. All he did was studied," Ramona Gomez said. He had no close friends, not the kind that could knock on their door, his mother said. Ramona Gomez would try to pull words from him. She told him to join the National Guard. She urged him to spend time around people. His sister said Noel Gomez had been acting unusual since he was about 14 years old. "We don't know anything about his life," Ramos said. "All we know, he wasn't well in his mind. He even frightened me some times." Ramos said he hadn't sought professional help, but sometimes he would listen to her. She was afraid to bring her little girl to visit if Noel Gomez was around. She remembers how, when part of the family lived in another house, Noel Gomez slept with a meat knife. He liked the dark. He slept often, rarely going outside. The last time Noel Gomez attended William Penn Senior High School was in 2003 when he was in the ninth grade, said Debi Beshore, school district spokeswoman. Ramona Gomez knew her son had dropped out. She had been having trouble paying the bills and buying clothes for her younger children and needed his help. Noel Gomez and his mother had moved to York in 1995 from Puerto Rico. A widower and head of family who didn't work, Ramona Gomez said her son often would give her money. He worked as a trash collector once, and most recently at an envelope company. She didn't know the company's name. Noel Gomez had been using mail-order books to work toward his G.E.D. "To know where he is, that hurts me," Ramona Gomez said.
People are idiots. I wish I had a dollar for every time someone decided to start something out of NOTHING at all. I grew up in a bit of a rough area and every time you walked to the local shops, went to get the mail, went to put thegarbage bin out....you had to be on your guard.
Yeah, I was raised in Fifth Ward as well, Christopher... average shooting was just a daily routine... walked home from middle and high school... What amazes me is that the lady was pregnant. Isn't there a law where hunters don't shoot pregnant deer? Don't know the exact term... I don't hunt or fish... just wanted to know. Sick how she was with child and she died... that's the Death Penalty in TX, no?
Yeah...it wasnt that bad where I lived. Then again...we dont have a gun problem in Australia. I remember once my sister went to sit out the fron to have a smoke. Anyway, the chairs on the front porch faced out towards the street. Some dumb fat woman across the road screams out at my sister from her porch "What are you looking at?". My sister ignored her so this dope walks across the road to start trouble! Ive had people I knew at school start to get all stup[id and confrontational when I say G'day to them. My 10 year old cousin had some guy with a knife ask him to take off his footy jersey and give it to him..... Thankfully my whole family moved out of that area a couple of years ago. But still, you have to be carefull.
