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Video: Kenneth Roop Shoots and Kills Unarmed Salesman Nicholas Rainey
In Cape Coral, Florida, on Wednesday, Kenneth Roop was arrested for shooting and killing Nicholas Rainey, an unarmed door-to-door salesman on his property (video below).
Roop has been charged with second-degree murder, reports The News-Press.
A co-worker saw Rainey knock on Roop’s door, but receive no answer. While Rainey was walking down the drive way, Roop drove up in his pickup truck and asked why Rainey was there.
Rainey said that he was selling steak and seafood. The co-worker said Roop pulled out a handgun and shot Rainey. As Rainey lay on the ground, Roop fired another bullet into the back of his head.
An off-duty sheriff’s deputy was nearby and heard the gunshots. When she arrived at Roop’s property, she found Rainey dying on the ground while Roop was reloading his handgun.
The deputy ordered Roop to drop his weapon and held him at gunpoint until police officers arrived.
Roop told police that he feared for his life: “I’m not going to give him the chance to do something to me. I was in fear.”
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We all know what group is
We all know what group is going to be comparing Zimmerman to this guy...Obviously this guy was a nut, Zimmerman was not.
There are both similarities
There are both similarities and differences between the OV accounts of the killing that Zimmerman did, and the killing this guy did, but it would be boring to go into them in detail. One obvious similarity is the both deaths were avoidable. One obvious difference is that this guy killed his victim in front of a witness.
So, now that I have also made the dreaded comparison that you were the first to make, what is the "group" that you think we therefore both belong to?
Secondly, what do you mean by saying that this guy was a "nut"? Please define "nut", as you intended the word to be understood when you used it.
Cape Coral and south Florida
Cape Coral and south Florida in general is full of old crazies like this guy.
What's "second degree" about
What's "second degree" about shooting an unarmed man a second time, in the back of the head, whilst he's on the ground after the first shot? What's the definition of "first degree murder"?
Pre-meditated (as opposed to
Pre-meditated (as opposed to a spur-of-the-moment decision).
Republicans are to blame for
Republicans are to blame for this. This "fearing for life" language WAS THE FIRST COMMENT OUT OF HIS MOUTH.....this echoes Florida's stand your ground law.
The sonuvabitch had 14 firearms in his house??? WHY??? He shot the second bullet in his head "for effect"?
This is sickening! Republicans need to aim their guns on each other.
fsibler, there were eyewitnesses including Rainey's partner who saw the whole thing from his vehicle. DUH!!!
I haven't read about what
I haven't read about what they saw anywhere but here, and after the first Zimmerman-Martin reports I don't trust what I read in accounts on this site until a more reliable source confirms it. That's why I qualified my remarks.
But speaking as a supporter of Stand Your Ground laws, I would say that if this account is accurate then he deserves to be in prison until he is dead.
He deserves nothing less than
He deserves nothing less than the death penalty, by all accounts, but modern, civilised, rich nations can afford the luxury of being merciful, even to people who deserve to be put to death for their crimes. If he shows remorse, and behaves himself in prison - assuming he is convicted, which seems a foregone conclusion - perhaps one day, when he is very old, he will be allowed parole. The American way, of sentencing some people to life imprisonment without POSSIBILITY of parole, is rather cruel, and undermines one of the noble aims of punishment, namely the reform of the convicted criminal.
I favour the passing of symbolic death sentences, that are instantly commuted to prison sentences with a minimum duration that even the most penitent, well-behaved and now deemed SAFE prisoner must serve before being eligible to apply for parole.
By all accounts, this was an execution-style murder, even if not premeditated. I don't think that there are any OV regular contributors who won't be shocked by it. I used to be a door-to-door canvasser myself at one time. That could have been me lying there, leaving a huge bereaved family. What can the perpetrator possibly have been thinking of?
I think all the right
I think all the right wingnuts and left wingnuts need to fight it out to the death. Then all the reasonable people can get along and accomplish something.
If they do not put this guy
If they do not put this guy UNDER the prison for this I want off this planet!! I am speechless about to say about this SCUMBAG! There are no words to describe this sensless act of MURDER! WTF kind of FUCKTARD must you be to do something like this and care so little about human life??? About your fellow man?? SPEECHLESS!
I am sure some fucking moron will put up a dedication facebook page for him like they did for the fucktard that shot 12 people......something is so god awful wrong in our world today for this BS to be happening. we better find and fix it fast......what kind of colded blooded KILLER must it take to shoot a man already down and shot in the back of the head with another bullet?? And he was found reloading????? Fuck me man......
This makes me sick. What a
This makes me sick. What a piece of trash. I hope he dies miserable and alone in prison.
Wow, this guy must REALLY
Wow, this guy must REALLY hate steak and seafood - to the point he feared for his life. I hope he never walks into a Sizzler...
But seriously - you're in a car and you pull up to someone on foot, you have a gun and they don't. I'm not seeing where anyone would have a reason to be fearing for their life in that situation. It's not like the guy in his driveway was one of the Avengers or Jason Bourne.
If it happened they way it
If it happened they way it was described, with nothing essential omitted, it fails the "reasonable man" test -- it has to be a situation in which a _reasonable_ man would feel that his life was being endangered. All the more so if he shot him in the back of the head while he was down.
In the old days this would have been a death-penalty case; as we now use that only for the cruelest and most horrific murders, it sounds to me like 20-years to life.
This guy is going down. He
This guy is going down. He was just looking to kill someone. The victim wasn't even in his house, just walking down the driveway. After shooting him the first time, which was bad enough (thus immobilizing the victim) Roop puts one in the back of the guy's head.
He should be charged with 1st degree murder, not second. Doesn't Florida have the death penalty?
Roop is a first class moron - "I feared for my life" - man, based on that flim-flam you could go around and shoot anybody over nothing. What a pin-dick. Hope I hear about him frying.