Police: Shooting suspect offended by anti-abortion material
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[quote=CNN]
(CNN) -- Authorities have charged an Owosso, Michigan, man with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder in the Friday shooting deaths of an anti-abortion activist and another man, a prosecutor's office said.
Authorities say the suspect, Harlan James Drake, was offended by anti-abortion material that the activist had displayed across from the school all week.
Drake, 33, is accused of shooting anti-abortion activist Jim Pouillon, 63, and Michael Fuoss, 61, who were killed in separate locations Friday morning, the prosecutor's office in Shiawassee County said.
Authorities also have charged Drake with a felony firearm count and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, the prosecutor's office said.
Drake also is suspected of "attempting to locate a third victim without success," the office said.
He was arraigned Friday and is being held without bail, the office said. It was not immediately known whether he had an attorney.
Pouillon, whose anti-abortion activity was well-known in the area, was protesting across the street from Owosso High School about 7:20 a.m. Friday when he was killed by several shots fired from a passing vehicle, Owosso Police Chief Michael Compeau said. VideoWatch Compeau talk about the incident »
Several people witnessed the shooting, and one was able to provide a license number, he said.
About an hour later, Owosso police officers found the suspect, Compeau said.
"At the time of his arrest, the suspect made statements that he was involved in another homicide in Shiawassee County the same day," he said.
Sheriff George Braidwood said a call had come to a 911 dispatch center about 8:17 a.m. saying that an employee at Fuoss Gravel, outside Owosso, had discovered the owner, Michael Fuoss, dead. He had been shot several times, Braidwood said.
Authorities believe that Fuoss and the suspect knew each other, Braidwood said.
According to Sara Edwards of the county prosecutor's office, authorities do not believe that Drake knew Pouillon.
Operation Save America, the anti-abortion group of which Pouillon was a member, said in a written statement that he was "well known for his love of Christ and unborn children."
The Owosso school district went into immediate lockdown after the shooting outside of the high school and remained so until the suspect was in custody, Compeau said
The high school's administration offered parents the option of picking up their children, he said. All after-school activities were canceled, he added.
Owosso, a town of about 15,000 people, is about 25 miles west of Flint, Michigan.[/quote]
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/11/michigan.shooting/index.html]Link[/url] to article.
I have heard of people getting murdered over pro-abortion material, but this is something new. Well the victim didn't look too good anyway. If he had another Big Mac, he would have died as well.
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Damn, see now we look like the crazy ones.
I hate pro lifers but that's just stupid.
How long before anti-abortion people spin this into "See? We told you pro-choicers are murderers!"
Only in michigan will some random person get killed for being anti-abortion and in the news picture there will be an Obama '08 campaign poster
See? We told you pro-choicers are murderers!
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[QUOTE=Omali;17266495]How long before anti-abortion people spin this into "See? We told you pro-choicers are murderers!"[/QUOTE]
That's called Generalizing, its something Pro-Choicers on Facepunch do everytime a pro-lifer kills someone.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;17266553]That's called Generalizing, its something Pro-Choicers on Facepunch do everytime a pro-lifer kills someone.[/QUOTE]
:sigh:
we're now called pro-choicers
[QUOTE=:smug:;17266683]:sigh:
we're now called pro-choicers[/QUOTE]
It's better than "anti-lifer."
[QUOTE=Thom12255;17266553]That's called Generalizing, its something Pro-Choicers on Facepunch do everytime a pro-lifer kills someone.[/QUOTE]
What's with you? Every time I see you post you always accuse someone of generalising, do you support all of these things or just argue for the sake of arguing?
Jesus christ what a shithead.
What more needs to be said.
See! We told you pro-choicers were murderers!
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;17267375]See! We told you pro-choicers were murderers![/QUOTE]
They're called anti-lifers dumbarse
[QUOTE=xXDictatorXx;17266077]Damn, see now we look like the crazy ones.
I hate pro lifers but that's just stupid.[/QUOTE]
Don't call them pro-lifers.
They are much closer to pro-controlyourlifers.
Does it say if the suspect was pro or against abortion?
I've read it, but I might have missed something.
[QUOTE=:smug:;17281480]They're called anti-lifers dumbarse[/QUOTE]
[B]No. Anti-lifers are people on death row.[/B]
[QUOTE=Fangz;17295803][B]No. Anti-lifers are people on death row.[/B][/QUOTE]
And Pro-lifers are the ones that come into a furry convention with a can of petrol and a zippo.
Incoming Anti-lifers v/s Anti-choicers shitstorm.
See? You "pro-choice" people aren't the good guys after all.
I do not condone killing people or babies.
Pro-choice "HEY GUYS IT'S OKAY TO KILL A BABY BEFORE IT'S BORN, OH BUT IF IT'S KILLED AFTER IT'S BORN IT'S NOT OKAY."
At least when we kill someone it makes more sense than anti-abortionists. Not to say that its any more right.
[QUOTE=MrProudfoot;17296331]Pro-choice "HEY GUYS IT'S OKAY TO KILL A BABY BEFORE IT'S BORN, OH BUT IF IT'S KILLED AFTER IT'S BORN IT'S NOT OKAY."[/QUOTE]
Fetus. :eng101:
[QUOTE=MrProudfoot;17296331]Pro-choice "HEY GUYS IT'S OKAY TO KILL A BABY BEFORE IT'S BORN, OH BUT IF IT'S KILLED AFTER IT'S BORN IT'S NOT OKAY."[/QUOTE]
That's a nice man of straw you have there.
Fetus is not a baby. Hell, it can't even think. So go on and kill it, then use it's stem cells for research.
I'm not pro-choice, I just hate babies. :smugdog:
Finally.
edit: Now we need people to start shooting those westboro baptist church people.
[QUOTE=Elstumpo;17299026]At least when we kill someone it makes more sense than anti-abortionists. Not to say that its any more right.[/QUOTE]
How does it make more sense?
Radically anti abortion people don't go around killing babies. They kill people who preform the abortions. The doctors being full adults fully aware of their actions (right or wrong) and the babies they are aborting being defenseless.
[QUOTE=johanz;17299382]Fetus is not a baby. Hell, it can't even think. So go on and kill it, then use it's stem cells for research.[/QUOTE]
Yeah guys, but it's not okay to kill babies when there born!
it's a crime, No matter what even if you fucking kill it as a fetus, Your denying something life.
See anti-abortionists? If abortion was legal everywhere this man may have been aborted and this never would have happened.
SUPPORT ABORTION OR YOU SUPPORT [b][highlight]MURDER[/highlight][/b]
[QUOTE=xXDictatorXx;17266077]Damn, see now we look like the crazy ones.
I hate pro lifers but that's just stupid.[/QUOTE]
No, he looks like the crazy one.
All religious/anti-abortion people are crazy. Only individual extremists on the other end are crazy.
Yeah, I went there. Whatcha gon' do about it?
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[QUOTE=MrProudfoot;17300458]Yeah guys, but it's not okay to kill babies when there born!
it's a crime, No matter what even if you fucking kill it as a fetus, Your denying something life.[/QUOTE]
So you say. I disagree.
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