"Respect My Authority"

Or Cartman kills a 20 Year Old

U.S. Deputy Kills Driver In Dispute, Police Say

By Allan Lengel and Nicole Fuller
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, October 29, 2004; Page B01

"A traffic dispute between two motorists on Rockville Pike turned deadly last night when one driver, an off-duty deputy U.S. marshal, fatally shot the other in the parking lot of a busy shopping center, police said.

The federal law enforcement officer, who was driving with his family in a sport-utility vehicle, exchanged words about 8:30 p.m. with a young man driving alone in a red Chevrolet Camaro with New Jersey tags, said Capt. John Fitzgerald, a Montgomery County police spokesman."

They exchanged words, more like the U.S. Marshal said something like this.

"The two drivers pulled into the Mid-Pike Plaza, where they got into a fistfight, Fitzgerald said.

"Preliminary information is that the deputy marshal tried to defuse and disengage, to calm it down and settle it, and wanted to get the local police involved," Fitzgerald said."

And then, before the fist fight, the twenty-year old probably heard this.

"He said the young man got back into his car and drove toward or near the off-duty officer, who then opened fire, shooting multiple times. Officers found nine shell casings at the scene. The young man was taken to Suburban Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later."

And, I am sure, the last thing the kid heard was- at least until the gunfire.

I found out about this at the The High Road yesterday, in this thread, that has my other links related to this, and which is an interesting read in itself.

I have always hated Cartmans, and still do...

--WP