Thoughts 21 Jun 2007 04:09 am
Pacman Charged
Authorities have charged NFL football player Adam “Pacman” Jones with two felonies for a melee that erupted before a triple shooting at Minxx strip club.
The shooting injured three people, leaving one man paralyzed.
Police said they have not been able to identify a shooter in the incident, but they do put Jones walking away from the club with a man wearing a baggy black T-shirt and blue jeans. Police said that minutes later, a similarly dressed man is seen standing next to a palm tree firing five or six shots toward people at the front of the club.
Two other persons in Jones’ entourage, 24-year-old Sadia Morrison and 37-year-old Robert “Big Rob” Reid, also face criminal charges in relation to the Feb. 19 shootings. Morrison is charged with one count each of felony assault with a deadly weapon, felony battery with a deadly weapon, felony coercion, burglary and felony coercion with use of a deadly weapon.
Jones, a Tennessee Titans cornerback who was recently slapped with a one-year suspension by the NFL and is being sought for questioning about gunfire that erupted this weekend outside a strip club in Atlanta.
Law enforcers in Atlanta have said they do not believe Jones played any role in the incident, but was at the strip club and may know the persons responsible for the gunfire. No one was injured during the incident.
Apparently Jones had about $80k in a bag that was stolen while he was in the club, he seems to have blamed one of the dancers, and that’s what set him off.
In an earlier interview he club owners had said that the shooter had arrived and then left with Pacman.
One of the local news reports said that Jones and someone else had talked about shooting club employees in retaliation.
The NBA playoffs attracted innumerable bangers, but it’s strange how little of the resultant crime made the news.
Admittedly most of it were things like people doing a dine and dash, petty larceny, and drug deals, but the local press treated all of it just like they treat a mugging in a hotel parking lot, or room burglary’s, if it doesn’t involve shots being fired or someone being stabbed, it doesn’t make the papers.
They say it would be bad for our image and might cause some tourist to stay home, instead of coming to Vegas and losing all their money.