Of course, don't bother with the fact that it was in the Westland Mall parking lot, and NOT in the gun show - out where any number of gang-bangers hang out on a given day.
Doesn't have the same appeal.
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local ... e7f9b9a0d3
One dead after shooting at Columbus gun show
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Just found this update. You are correct, it's gang bangers. I were a witness to this I don't think I'd be talking to the press, but that's just me.docachna wrote:Of course, don't bother with the fact that it was in the Westland Mall parking lot, and NOT in the gun show - out where any number of gang-bangers hang out on a given day.
Doesn't have the same appeal.
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local ... e7f9b9a0d3
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Unfortunately gang bangers don't care about any innocent people being shot along with their target.At the time of the shooting, the final day of a two-day gun show operated by C & E Gun Shows of Pembroke, Virginia, was wrapping up inside the west side of the former mall in the 4200 block of West Broad Street in Franklin Township.
The mother and her daughter — who gave their identities but whose names are being withheld by The Dispatch because they are witnesses and the suspect is still at-large — live in Delaware and had taken an Uber ride to the gun show.
The 34-year-old single mother of two said she went to the gun show because she wanted to buy some protection. She bought a Taser at the show.
After leaving the gun show, the mother said she and her young daughter were sitting on a curb outside the mall, trying to decide what to do next. She said she saw a group of younger men standing around a silver SUV and talking.
“Then all of a sudden I heard something like firecrackers, and I realized they were shooting,” the woman told The Dispatch.
She told her daughter to run and she ran right behind her to some nearby bushes, where she pushed her daughter down on the ground.
“I covered her with my whole body and I covered her head because they kept shooting and I figured one of the bullets was going to end up hitting one of us,” the mother said.
Then, the mother said, she looked up and she saw a man hanging out the passenger side door of a black sedan and firing a gun in their direction.
She said she didn’t know if the gunman was shooting directly at them or others nearby.
“Why would they shoot near a kid, I don’t get it,” she said.
Jason Thiede, 49, had come from West Milton outside of Dayton for the show.
Thiede said he heard a series of pops. He said and he and others inside the gun show got away from the front door and took cover when they heard the shots.
When Tiede got outside, he saw the body covered with a sheet.
Tony Sphar, 56, of Plain Township, said he was glad that he had stopped at the restroom before leaving the gun show because he might have been pinned down by the gunfire.
“I was luckily not in the middle of it,” Sphar said.
However, Sphar said the windshield of his Honda Pilot had been struck by a bullet and two other bullets penetrated the roof. He had to wait around as crime scene specialists were processing the damage to his vehicle.
Meanwhile, the mother was still having a hard time afterwards processing what happened. She said she is so proud of how her daughter obeyed her instructions and handled the situation.
“That was nothing a 9-year-old should ever see,” she said.