Man killed over parking spot
The shooting outside a birthday party injured a pregnant woman.
By Kirk Mitchell
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 07/26/2008 11:51:05 PM MDT


A man was fatally shot and a pregnant woman was wounded in the leg early 
Saturday morning during a Denver melee that erupted because birthday party 
visitors parked their car in a neighbor's parking spot.

A man estimated to be in his 30s was found about 1 a.m. in an apartment 
parking lot in the 3200 block of Conejos Place. He had been shot in the 
upper body, according to police.

The man's name is being withheld until family members are notified, said 
Sharon Hahn, Denver police spokeswoman.

The pregnant woman was shot in the knee and was treated and released from a 
local hospital, said the woman's sister, Raylynn Segundo, 18.

Segundo said the birthday party was for another of her sisters. About 20 
people were celebrating when neighbors who live below them in the same small 
apartment complex returned home from drinking at a bar, she said.

A brother of the family that lives downstairs started yelling and cursing at 
them to move a car that was parked in their parking space, Segundo said.

"He was running his mouth," she said.

The visitor moved the car but the man kept yelling at them, she said. He 
faced off with her, Segundo said.

A loud argument ensued and awoke other residents, said neighbor Don Maes, 
57.

"Why are you acting like a man,'" Segundo said the man who was fatally shot 
yelled at her.

The man went to his car and opened the trunk. People at the party ran in 
different directions to get away because they thought he was getting a gun, 
a witness to the shooting said. Instead, he pulled out a crowbar and started 
threatening people with it.

The witness said a man walked around a car with his hand on a gun that was 
tucked into the front of his pants. He pulled the handgun out and fired, the 
witness said.

Maes, who lives several houses away, said his wife heard gunshots and then 
heard someone running across their yard. "They threw the weapon right in our 
yard," he said.

Allen Cox, 36, said he thought someone at the birthday party had fired off 
fireworks.

"We heard some screams," he said.

Police are trying to identify the shooting suspect, she said.

"We were thinking about buying our house," Cox said. But he said this was 
the third fatal shooting in the neighborhood in a few months.

He shook his head, standing beside the sloped parking lot where a trail of 
blood that ran about 20 feet was visible.

"To die for a stupid thing like a parking spot," he said. "I think we're 
going to have to move."

On Jul 27, 11:30 pm, "Reality_Check©"  wrote:
> Man killed over parking spot
> The shooting outside a birthday party injured a pregnant woman.
> By Kirk Mitchell
> The Denver Post
> Article Last Updated: 07/26/2008 11:51:05 PM MDT
>
> A man was fatally shot and a pregnant woman was wounded in the leg early
> Saturday morning during a Denver melee that erupted because birthday party
> visitors parked their car in a neighbor's parking spot.
>
> A man estimated to be in his 30s was found about 1 a.m. in an apartment
> parking lot in the 3200 block of Conejos Place. He had been shot in the
> upper body, according to police.
>
> The man's name is being withheld until family members are notified, said
> Sharon Hahn, Denver police spokeswoman.
>
> The pregnant woman was shot in the knee and was treated and released from a
> local hospital, said the woman's sister, Raylynn Segundo, 18.
>
> Segundo said the birthday party was for another of her sisters. About 20
> people were celebrating when neighbors who live below them in the same small
> apartment complex returned home from drinking at a bar, she said.
>
> A brother of the family that lives downstairs started yelling and cursing at
> them to move a car that was parked in their parking space, Segundo said.
>
> "He was running his mouth," she said.
>
> The visitor moved the car but the man kept yelling at them, she said. He
> faced off with her, Segundo said.
>
> A loud argument ensued and awoke other residents, said neighbor Don Maes,
> 57.
>
> "Why are you acting like a man,'" Segundo said the man who was fatally shot
> yelled at her.
>
> The man went to his car and opened the trunk. People at the party ran in
> different directions to get away because they thought he was getting a gun,
> a witness to the shooting said. Instead, he pulled out a crowbar and started
> threatening people with it.
>
> The witness said a man walked around a car with his hand on a gun that was
> tucked into the front of his pants. He pulled the handgun out and fired, the
> witness said.
>
> Maes, who lives several houses away, said his wife heard gunshots and then
> heard someone running across their yard. "They threw the weapon right in our
> yard," he said.
>
> Allen Cox, 36, said he thought someone at the birthday party had fired off
> fireworks.
>
> "We heard some screams," he said.
>
> Police are trying to identify the shooting suspect, she said.
>
> "We were thinking about buying our house," Cox said. But he said this was
> the third fatal shooting in the neighborhood in a few months.
>
> He shook his head, standing beside the sloped parking lot where a trail of
> blood that ran about 20 feet was visible.
>
> "To die for a stupid thing like a parking spot," he said. "I think we're
> going to have to move."

Don't you guys ever feel the least bit ghoulish the way you seem to
celebrate these shootings. You just can't wait to post these stories
on this forum, as if it makes some sort of point. The only point to be
made is that there are bad people in this world who will do evil
things to their fellow man reqardless of any laws which say they are
not permitted to do it. What any sensible person should do is
recognize this fact and take appropriate safeguards against these
sorts of sub-human slime. My first line of defense is my Glock.