main post: Andrew Patterson 2012 Seattle Central district shooer
Everybody thinks he the minivan dad wasn't the target, but what if he was, and all the other "random" shootings weren't mistakes either but a campaign of terror staged as random crimes? He had no previous murders, why did he decide to start shooting people?
Update
http://seattletimes.com/html/latestnews/2022022970_pattersonsentencingxml.html
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Andrew Patterson turned toward the family of the man he killed and read from a sheet of notebook paper.
“This is my first felony I ever had,” the 21-year-old sobbed. “I take all responsibilities for my actions on May 24, 2012. I never meant to kill no one.”
The victim, 43-year-old software engineer Justin Ferrari, was hit by a bullet that Patterson intended for another man. Ferrari was driving with his children, ages 4 and 7, and his parents when he was struck by gunfire at the intersection at East Cherry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
“I feel sorry and sad for Justin Ferrari’s family and for my family because there’s pain on both sides,” the tearful Patterson said moments before a King County judge handed down a sentence even longer than that sought by prosecutors.
After learning he faced more than 23 years in prison, Patterson’s tearful demeanor changed. After Ferrari’s family had left the courtroom, the man with “Payed in Full” tattooed on his neck turned toward his own family and friends and said, “I get out when I’m 41. That’s (expletive) up.
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Justin Ferrari, Tevin Geike, Shorty Belson, Kris Kine, Tuba Man and the list grows. More innocent people killed by gang violence.
Black gang crime is out of control and when are our law abiding citizens going to demand our local governments do something about it. No more sticking your heads in the sand and pretending is doesn't exist like Mayor McSchwinn does. I applaud this judge for making an example of Andrew Patterson.
Black gang crime is out of control and when are our law abiding citizens going to demand our local governments do something about it. No more sticking your heads in the sand and pretending is doesn't exist like Mayor McSchwinn does. I applaud this judge for making an example of Andrew Patterson.
lsmitty
WA
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All too reminiscent of the 16-year-old gangbanger who "unintentionally" killed an innocent girl in a drive-by near Ballard High School almost 20 years ago. Reason also because someone got "insulted". He got 52 years....
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980308&slug=2738567
March 8, 1998 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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PrintThe Story Of A Drive-By Murder
Seattle Times Staff Reporter
Four years ago this month, Brian Ronquillo pulled a trigger outside Ballard High School and killed an innocent girl. The shooting ruined lives and brought unending grief to many families. It also brought a welcome consequence: the demise of one of Seattle's most bumbling youth gangs.
WALLA WALLA - The boy who killed Melissa Fernandes has grown into a man. A small young man with a bald head. Brian Ronquillo is 20 years old, no longer the blank-faced adolescent without a clue. He knows stuff now. At the very least, he knows that lives can be undone in a single moment...
what theory could explain how a bright, talented 16-year-old student with a clean record and wide-open future, who came from a loving, stable, middle-class family that provided every material thing he needed - how could someone like this wrap a bandanna around his face, point a gun at a crowd of students and pull the trigger, not once, but eight times?... Here was a basically decent kid who made a single, disastrous mistake.
Ronquillo and his family say his 52-year sentence was too harsh for his first and only criminal offense. They say he did not get a fair trial. ..As the trigger man in what was arguably the most notorious Seattle killing of 1994 - the only murder ever of a student on Seattle School District property - Ronquillo embodied the worst fears of a gang culture out of ...
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