Six dead in US over breakfast argument in Kentucky

• Genny wrote on 2010-09-13 13:51

  
  [SIZE="4"]A US man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, during an argument about his breakfast.[/SIZE]
  
  Stanley Neace, 47, went on the rampage in a trailer park in Jackson, in rural Breathitt County, Kentucky.
  
  He chased his wife into a neighbouring trailer where he shot her, her daughter and three witnesses, reports say.
  
  Police say they are looking into why Neace flew into such a wild rage; there are reports he was facing eviction.
  
  State troopers found him dead at the porch of his trailer, slumped over his own gun.
  
  The shooting happened during an argument with his wife Sandra, 54, after she brought him some eggs for breakfast, a relative of the neighbours he killed said.
  
  Mrs Neace's daughter Sandra Strong, 28, was also killed.
  
  

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  The other victims were named as neighbours Dennis Turner, 31, Teresa Fugate, 30, and Tammy Kilborn, 40.
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  Over eggs? I thought that was crazy. I mean just because his eggs weren't hot?”
  
  End Quote Sherri Anne Robinson Victim's relative
  
  Ms Fugate was shot in front of her seven-year-old daughter, whom Neace spared.
  
  "Her daughter said, 'Please, please don't shoot me,' and he said, 'All right, you can leave,' and she ran out," Ms Fugate's sister Sherri Anne Robinson told the Associated Press.
  
  Mrs Kilborn was another neighbour who stepped out on to her porch during the commotion, reports said.
  
  Neace apparently waited an hour for the police to arrive before shooting himself; police heard the shot as they drove up to the trailer.
  
  Other neighbours had fled in terror during the rampage.
  
  Breathitt County is in Kentucky's rural eastern region, where gun ownership is widespread.
  
  "Over eggs? I thought that was crazy. I mean just because his eggs weren't hot?" Ms Robinson said.
  
  But Jackson police say there may be other factors that led to the shooting and they are still investigating.
  
  The landlord of the Mount Carmel trailer park where Neace lived told reporters he had begun the process of evicting him because he had become hostile to neighbours in recent months.
  
  "He was unpredictable, little things would set him off," Ray Rastegar told the Associated Press.
  
  But County Sheriff Ray Clemons said he had known Neace for some years and he did not have a bad record.
  
  "He was a little hot sometimes, but we never had any major problems. Nothing like this."

  
  
  BBC News - Six dead in US over breakfast argument in Kentucky
• Athde wrote on 2010-09-13 14:04
  That must have been some bad breakfast :O
• Iyasenu wrote on 2010-09-13 14:23
  Oh man...
  That's such a strange thing to get mad over.
  ESPECIALLY to get mad and KILL over.
  
  Geeeez.
• Trigger wrote on 2010-09-13 14:47

  Quote from Iyasenu;153983:

  Oh man...
  That's such a strange thing to get mad over.
  ESPECIALLY to get mad and KILL over.
  
  Geeeez.

  
  
  Especially to kill ONESELF over. =P
  
  And before this goes into gun control laws, which it probably will, let's all remember that guns don't kill people, people kill people. If he hadn't had a gun, he'd probably have grabbed a knife or used an improvised weapon -- clearly his rage extended far enough to motivate him to kill (the gun was merely his chosen instrument).
• Athde wrote on 2010-09-13 15:04
  He didn't get his eggs and bacon D:
• emomutt wrote on 2010-09-13 16:00
  he shot them dead
• Zid wrote on 2010-09-13 16:43
  Over eggs, he had killed 5 people and himself...
  
  That must have been some bottled-up stress.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2010-09-13 18:18

  Quote from Trigger;153988:

  And before this goes into gun control laws, which it probably will, let's all remember that guns don't kill people, people kill people. If he hadn't had a gun, he'd probably have grabbed a knife or used an improvised weapon -- clearly his rage extended far enough to motivate him to kill (the gun was merely his chosen instrument).

  
  
  Hmm, I like that. The other side of things.
  
  Though I'm still a little more on gun control needing to be more strict, as kids tend to die from carelessness too often.
  
  This entire incident is just a little messed up though. People really need to learn to control their anger and impulsive decisions.
• Piko wrote on 2010-09-13 19:17
  I'd get mad too if my Bacon wasn't right, but I wouldn't go shooting people like some idiotic maniac D:<
• Cryosite wrote on 2010-09-13 19:20

  kids tend to die from carelessness too often

  
  

  If [s]he[/s] kids hadn't had a gun, [s]he'd[/s] kids probably have [s]grabbed[/s] played with a knife or used an improvised weapon

  
  
  Still works!
  
  Gun education > Gun control. All gun control does it take our rights away. More people die each year from drunk driving accidents (sadly often from some other person being the drunk driver) than accidental gun shootings... or intentional ones even. Alcohol related automobile deaths are one of the top killers in the US.
  
  Should we take steps to reduce unwanted deaths from guns? Yes. In a way that is effective. But until I start seeing people giving as much voice to banning alcohol as they do guns, I'm going to cross my arms and call them idiots.
• starpaw7 wrote on 2010-09-13 19:23
  It said he was hustile for months before this, I wonder what happened before then to make him kill over eggs :what:
• Piero wrote on 2010-09-13 19:44
  Because his eggs weren't hot?
  Is he like a king? "MY BREAKFAST IS STALE, SHUNNN"
  ._.
  That's terrible.
• abc33kr wrote on 2010-09-13 19:56
  Just wondering... why is it that British ppl make news that says bad stuff about Americans?
  
  Can't it be said that this is a bit biased? Come on if we search hard enough, I bet we can find real messed up ppl in Britain.
• Chillax wrote on 2010-09-13 20:21

  Quote from abc33kr;154071:

  Just wondering... why is it that British ppl make news that says bad stuff about Americans?
  
  Can't it be said that this is a bit biased? Come on if we search hard enough, I bet we can find real messed up ppl in Britain.

  
  
  America's larger, so there's more crazy people to write about.
• abc33kr wrote on 2010-09-13 20:25

  Quote from Chillax;154079:

  America's larger, so there's more crazy people to write about.

  
  
  Then shouldn't American News Networks write about this then? Why so British? xP