Joe McKnight Murdered In Road Rage Shooting

[romeo212000]

And that would be a fine way to handle it. Present the weapon if you absolutely had to so he understands you mean business and can respond accordingly. No one knows for sure because none of us were there, but my guess would be it never got to that point, possibly not even close to that point. Chances are the dude got an itchy trigger finger and pumped three into him as he started to approach his car. Hopefully the truth will come out. Regardless the guy will almost assuredly get off.

You're making assumptions that you know nothing about. Apparently they've decided this man was within his rights to do what he did. I'm going to have to defer to that unless we hear information that indicates otherwise. But to say this man should've been willing to take an ass whipping at that hands of a man half is age and probably 50-75 pounds heavier is possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

 

[williewilliejuan]

So he's going to shoot him dead because he's scared to fight him? Shoot him three times and take his life? Bullshit in my book. Either fight him or get yourself out of the situation if you're too afraid to handle it like a man. Watch this coward get completely off or at worst get off very lightly. I can all but guaranty it.

I think your concept of what makes one a "man" is silly and misguided. A man doesn't confront another man physically because he doesn't like how he's driving. A man does what he has to do to protect himself and his family. He doesn't have to get his ass kicked by a younger, stronger man if he has the means to prevent it.

 

[williewilliejuan]

And that would be a fine way to handle it. Present the weapon if you absolutely had to so he understands you mean business and can respond accordingly. No one knows for sure because none of us were there, but my guess would be it never got to that point, possibly not even close to that point. Chances are the dude got an itchy trigger finger and pumped three into him as he started to approach his car. Hopefully the truth will come out. Regardless the guy will almost assuredly get off.

Don't start nothing; won't be nothing.

 

[romeo212000]

Don't start nothing; won't be nothing.

That's exactly right. One of my instructors (black belt) also bounces at a bar on campus. Anytime he has someone bow up on him he begs the guy to just chill out and walk away. He repeatedly tells them to please just chill out so everyone can go home because they don't know what they're walking into. It's amazing how people just don't listen. It's almost like they see it as a challenge. Last person that did that got their shoulder ripped out, and was crying like a bitch. Dude has a fucked up shoulder now and went to jail.

 

[MarkOU]

Dead cause you didn't like the way another person was driving. Good job dumbass.

There is a lesson to be learned here. If you see someone driving in an unsafe manner. Call 911.

 

[Surfahgal]

Sounds to me like someone thought they were a bad ass. He should never have approached the other man car.

 

[8085sooner]

What the fuck was that

 

[outofyourmind]

so any updates to this.

 

[droider]

It was obviously self defense otherwise the guy would still be in jail. McKnight was a troubled guy who got in a lot of trouble during his CFB and NFL days. It is what it is at this point.

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

My instincts tell me there is more to come, but the release is telling. Charges could still come (like happened to Zimmerman), but it doesn't seem as likely.....obviously.

It would be interesting to see why the cops were satisfied the shooter believed he had to defend himself. My guess is merely approaching the car wouldn't do it, so likely he had to be physically attacking the shooter, implying he was armed or gesturing it and/or had made threats prior to coming to the window to use serious violence.

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

Joe McKnight's alleged killer had prior arrest stemming from road rage

 

[fredmccallyRTR]

The man who shot and killed former NFL player Joe McKnight in Louisiana on Thursday was released for undisclosed reasons, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said in a press conference on Friday...

Gasser admitted to shooting McKnight according to police accounts of the incident, which reportedly stemmed from a case of road rage. During the odd press conference, Normand attempted to beat back against what he said were false rumors about the incident as well as any speculation that there was a racial component to Gasser’s release. But he struggled to explain why—when Gasser has admitted to the shooting death—the police had not at least chosen to keep him in custody.

“We felt as of last night out of an abundance of caution we did not want to get to that threshold in that point in time,” Normand said of the decision not to arrest the shooter. “People can Monday Morning Quarterback what we’ve done.

“Mr. Gasser is not going anywhere, he has been completely cooperative with us in every request that we have made. So that’s not the issue. Simply put the issue at the end of the day is that we will do a very thorough and deliberate investigation.”

Again, this vague description of the reasoning behind the decision did not really clarify why the shooter was let go. Normand did say that he did not want to release any additional details because it might “taint” an ongoing investigation.

“There are still witnesses that we are looking for and I do not want to be accused of tainting this investigation or suggesting a story about this investigation to witnesses that we have not located and talked to,” Normand said.

The details, however, that Normand did feel comfortable revealing would seem to have been beneficial to Gasser, or at least were defensive against claims that Normand’s office had acted inappropriately out of any sort of racial prejudice.

“I would strongly suggest that you stop believing what you’re reading,” he said, citing several reports that depicted the shooting as a cold-blooded assassination.

Nola.com had previously reported that a witness claimed it had been an execution-style killing:

A witness, who declined to give her name, said she saw a man at the intersection yelling at McKnight, who was trying to apologize. The man shot McKnight more than once, the witness said. She said he shot McKnight, stood over him and said, "I told you don't you f--- with me." Then the man fired again, she said.

Normand directly contradicted this account, saying that the three shell casings were found in Gasser’s car, which would indicate that he fired from his automobile into McKnight’s and not when he was standing over him. The coroner Gerald Cvitanovich said McKnight was shot three times in the hand, shoulder, and chest, and the wounds were inconsistent with what the witness described to Nola.com.

“We have no witness account of an apology being made by Mr. McKnight to Mr. Gasser so that did not occur,” Normand said, without explaining why this information wouldn’t potentially taint other future witness accounts.

“I’ve been already accused of dropping the ball ... because we released Mr. Gasser last evening after we took his statement,” Normand said, adding, “I can’t go into the details as why that is at this point in time, but I can tell you I can’t wait for the moment so that I can set the record straight.”

The sheriff was adamant that Gasser was not released because he is white and McKnight was black.

“Look, the easiest thing for me would have been ‘book him, Dano.’ Right? But the fact of the matter is that in trying to flush out these details in how it relates to all of this and not having that rush to judgment and doing this in a very deliberate and appropriate fashion we chose not to do that,” he said. “Of course, where that leads us in this point and time is that everybody wants to make this about race. This isn’t about race.”

In a bizarre aside, Normand then went on to say that “the gentleman that raised Joe McKnight Jr. used to work for this office” as a deputy.

While the sheriff implied that he needed a more complete investigation to determine whether criminal charges against Gasser were appropriate, he clearly had probable cause to hold a man who admitted to shooting and killing another man. But, it was revealed in the course of the press conference, the office released Gasser before they even completed McKnight’s autopsy. At the same time, Normand said his office hadn’t yet determined whether Gasser had a concealed handgun permit when they let him go, and that Gasser had a 10-year-old criminal issue, but “I’m not sure of all the details of that.”

So, again, it seems like the shooter was released before a lot of potentially relevant information about the case was ascertained.

When Normand was asked whether there were issues surrounding Louisiana’s “Stand Your Ground” law that affected the case, he seemed to start to say yes before cutting himself off. “It is one of the issues that looms on the horizon as it relates to—I’d rather not opine on that at this time,” he said.

George Zimmerman was famously acquitted of shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin after using Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” statute as a defense.

When asked whether the shooting was being investigated as a possible hate crime, Normand said, “We have nothing of any witness that reveals anything to us at this point in time to suggest that.”

Cops Unable to Explain Why Man Who Shot Joe McKnight Was Released

Sorry, it twas the only article with police statements. Clearly, Slate is already thinking there's already a conspiracy.

 

[The Crimson King]

Not New Orleans......Terrytown

 

[romeo212000]

So they're already trying to use the race card. That took longer than I thought.

 

[TrustMeIamRight]

Well that goes without saying, maybe the gun saved the other guy, i dont know the whole story. Guns save lives!

Tell that to Joe McKnight.

 

[romeo212000]

Tell that to Joe McKnight.

That man's gun very well may have saved his own life. It's McKnight own fault he's dead.

 

[outofyourmind]

Did this McKnight dude get hit in the head a lot.
Might explain some things.

 

[GeekSportsFan]

Damn. People are remembering him for being an ex NFL player, but I remember his playing days at USC like they were yesterday.

He really under performed at SC. I remember when he announced he was coming to SC and the LSU folks were none to happy. But he never really lived up to the hype. So sad to see this happen.

 

[Rex Racer]

Fuck that guy. He'll get off with a slap on the wrist after claiming self defense cuz he was too scared to be a man and take an ass whipping from McKnight which is exactly what would have happened. Disgusting, such an injustice. And now a young man is senselessly dead as a result of it. Fucking coward.

And ironically the dude was some scrawny white guy no less. Don't see a white guy smoking a black guy every day. Guaranty you all the witnesses who lied and said McKnight was apologizing, the shooter was screaming "don't fuck with me" as he stood over McKnight and pumped extra rounds into him, etc. were black. They should be arrested too. All of the witnesses that I saw interviewed on the news were black. Not surprised one bit by the false testimonies.

Other than being wrong about every part of the story, you did well.

 

[Pariah]

Fuck that guy. He'll get off with a slap on the wrist after claiming self defense cuz he was too scared to be a man and take an ass whipping from McKnight which is exactly what would have happened. Disgusting, such an injustice. And now a young man is senselessly dead as a result of it. Fucking coward.

And ironically the dude was some scrawny white guy no less. Don't see a white guy smoking a black guy every day. Guaranty you all the witnesses who lied and said McKnight was apologizing, the shooter was screaming "don't fuck with me" as he stood over McKnight and pumped extra rounds into him, etc. were black. They should be arrested too. All of the witnesses that I saw interviewed on the news were black. Not surprised one bit by the false testimonies.

But it didn't, lol.