Gothamist: Parking Space Fight Leads to Murder

Paul

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:37:11 -0500

"White people do this too. Have you seen the lines at Zabar's during the holiday rush?" Hand over the smoked salmon or I'll bust a cap in your ass. No herring, no peace.

x-new yorker

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:29:54 -0500

"White people do this too. Have you seen the lines at Zabar's during the holiday rush? You try cutting those lines." At least at Zabar's, they'll just yell at you rather than shoot you. I used to live in east flatbush and as A said the sidewalks in that neighborhood are brimming with hostile and aggravated people, primarily those that have gotten off the boat from some two-bit caribbean postage stamp country.

madd maxx

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:52:08 -0500

This is no different than any other "Road Rage" incident. White people do this too. Have you seen the lines at Zabar's during the holiday rush? You try cutting those lines.

Paul

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:06:50 -0500

Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the local news networks will be at the funeral and will be demanding an investigation. I'm kidding of course.

nony

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:24:40 -0500

OOPS! spelling error shood = should. The grammatical ghettoness came out of me.

nony

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:22:43 -0500

I think it was justifiable. If the man pulled out a knife on me and was about to use it on me, and I had a weapon, I'd sure enough shoot him. Kill or be killed! But the guy shood of not ran off, if he stood ground it probably would have just been a charge for gun possession.

A

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:48:21 -0500

i was in this neighborhood yesterday afternoon. the streets were filled with honking, pissed off, automobile chaos and the sidewalks had an ambience of overwhelming hostility and aggravation.

x-new yorker

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:05:15 -0500

There are lots of human "timebombs" in nyc. It just takes the right confrontation to set one of them off. "Deck the halls with volleys of gunfire Fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la" "Tis the season to be shot down Fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la" :).

S.D.

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:36:34 -0500

My condolences to the family. Now that it's the "Holiday Season" it's not unusual for people to get into a fight over a parking spot, but to threaten someone with a knife? In front of a child no less? Assuming that he actually was threatened with a knife, the man who shot him should just have called the police. Now a father is dead and his killer will likely spend years in jail.