man kills grandson over watermelon

[Yuri-G]

...and they're actually white trash. yeah, don't lie, I know what you were expecting to find here.

Police: Man Killed 6-Year-Old Boy In Fight Over Watermelon

Posted: 3:55 pm EDT June 7, 2009Updated: 5:38 pm EDT June 8, 2009
COMMERCE, Ga. -- A Commerce man shot his wife and shot and killed her 6-year-old grandson during a family fight Sunday, authorities said. The suspect was later shot by police.
Police said Monday the confrontation began over a watermelon.
The shooting happened in the 200 block of Troy Street at about 12:55 p.m. in Commerce on Sunday.
Police said the suspect's wife, 58-year-old Linda Clark, called authorities to the home saying she had been shot.

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Robert Clark


When police arrived on the scene, they said 55-year-old Robert Clark opened fire on them.
Police said they were able to convince Robert Clark to allow his injured wife and one of two grandchildren who were in the house to come out. Soon after, police said he opened the front door with a gun in his hand and they shot him.
When authorities entered the residence, they found one of Linda Clark's grandchildren, Michael Levigne, 6, dead.
Police said they found a second grandchild, a 5-year-old boy, inside the house unharmed.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Jeff Dore went to Commerce Monday to talk with the police chief about the incident. Police said it appeared the shooting began with a fight over a watermelon.
SLIDESHOW: Standoff Ends; 6-Year-Old Boy Killed
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"I'm not sure that it's easy to get your mind around that concept, but we believe it was some sort of issue with the child either dropping or prematurely cutting this watermelon that initially precipitated the argument," said Commerce Police Chief John Gaissert.

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Michael Levigne


The suspect and his wife were life-flighted to Grady Memorial Hospital. They were both listed in stable condition.
Gaissert said the Clark home has been a frequent scene of trouble, with seven 911 calls to the house in the past year.
The second grandchild has been placed in the custody of the Department of Family and Children Services.
Police said the children were Linda Clark's maternal grandchildren. Robert Clark was not biologically related to the children, although he and his wife had custody of the children.
Police have not located the children's mother and, in the past, their father has been arrested on drug charges, police said. Gaissert characterized the family situation as "dysfunctional."
Robert Clark has been charged with murder, aggravated assault, and aggravated assault on police.

[Mizango]

Now you see the allure to this precious melon. We been dyin on shit like this for years, this isn't news.

I remember seeing 2 of my uncles fighting over the last piece of a juicy Watermelon.

[Kael]

Wow, that's terrible. Over a watermelon? Come on.

[Azkarin2]

And they weren't even black.... Stereotypes fail me yet again.

[Yuri-G]

that made me literally LOL, I can just see it happening.\

edit: @ mizango's uncles fighting over watermelon.

[Kael]

I could see fighting over it verbally or even physically. But shooting someone for it?

I wonder if he ate it before he walked outside and was shot dead.

[Headspace]

Darwinism.

[Tristam]

This is in Texas...?

No....

Bah...

[Mizango]

that made me literally LOL, I can just see it happening.\

edit: @ mizango's uncles fighting over watermelon.

Dude it was epic. I knew from that day forth that we were a special people....

[Chicomagiko]

LOL @ Miz. Please, tell me more.

[Mizango]

LOL @ Miz. Please, tell me more.

HAHA

It was during the summer and I was getting ready to go to the 7th grade and we had that typical black people end of summer BBQ, well they had been drinking and nearing the end of the BBQ. All of a sudden we here "HOLL ON NIGGA WHO THE FUCK U THANK U R!!!" and POW! They start tussling and shit and going the hell at it in front of kids, other families etc...

We get them separated amongst shouts of "U A DEAD NIGGA WALKIN NIGGA" etc... turns out my one uncle ate the half piece of Watermelon that my other uncle was saving for after he was done playing his game of basketball.

We some raw folks dawg.

[Yuri-G]

that's what he gets for leaving a piece of watermelon unattended at a black family BBQ. rookie mistake.

[Mizango]

Fa sho. A mistake never repeated ever again.

[Headspace]

You know, if the kid had a gun....

[Kuya]

Kind of surprised two threads about murders have been posted, and not a single one is about the white supremacist who killed a black cop in a Holocaust memorial area.

[Cyn]

Kind of surprised two threads about murders have been posted, and not a single one is about the white supremacist who killed a black cop in a Holocaust memorial area.

How can that compare to white people killing each other over watermelon? Seriously.

[Chicomagiko]

Oh lawdy, Miz. Yo fam is kuh-rayzy!

[Bartylby]

Kind of surprised two threads about murders have been posted, and not a single one is about the white supremacist who killed a black cop in a Holocaust memorial area.

[kanye]BG doesn't care about black people[/kanye]

[SephYuyX]

Gaissert characterized the family situation as "dysfunctional."

/shocked

[Lee]

I'm kind of surprised how many of these stupid killings (like the watermelon) go unposted except when a white man is the perpetrator.