Fireworks Spark Deadly Shootings

Three Shot Dead In July 4 Fireworks Dispute In Ohio; One Shot Dead Near Seattle

(CBS/AP)  A neighbor apparently angry about fireworks at a noisy Fourth of July party shot three people to death early Thursday and wounded two others, police said.

Terrance Hough Jr., a 35-year-old off-duty firefighter, was arrested in connection with the shootings, police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.

No charges had been filed Thursday morning because police were still gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses, Stacho said. There was no phone listing for Hough's address.

Police had received a number of complaints in recent years about loud parties, fireworks and drag racing connected to the house where the victims were shot, Stacho said. Some complaint calls came from Hough's address, but no one called police about the party Thursday night.

The neighbors were throwing a party when two men and a woman, all in their 20s, were shot to death shortly after midnight, Stacho said. He said another man was shot in the elbow and a woman was wounded in the hand.

A police officer who lives nearby heard the shooting and arrested Hough, Stacho said. CBS station WOIO-TV reports that a search of Hough's home turned up 12 guns – seven handguns and five rifles.

"I came out of my house, looked over here and I seen the three kids lying there," said neighbor Al Thomas. "Some girl was crying and screaming, 'They killed my friend, my friend."

The area of neat ranch homes overlooking the industrial Cuyahoga River valley is popular among firefighters and police officers who are required to live in the city.

In another incident near Seattle, a man was shot during an argument at a fireworks celebration and later died. Fire officials said the scene was so hostile and unsafe when they arrived that they had to transport the victim to another location to continue treating him, reports CBS station KIRO-TV.

More than 100 people were present when the two men began arguing around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in a parking lot in Skyway, an unincorporated area between Seattle and Renton, Wash. Paramedics called after the shooting found the crowd so threatening that they had to quickly take the wounded man out to continue CPR, said David Nelson, a spokesman for county Fire District 20.

The victim was identified only as a man in his thirties.

Sheriff's Detective Bob L. Conner said it was unclear whether moving the man before continuing CPR was a factor in his death. King County sheriff's deputies were searching for the suspect.

[nyteryder2]

"You would be right about me not being a U.S. citizen, I thank God for that everday! You have one screwed up country!" Posted by erasmus6 at 08:09 PM : Jun 26, 2007
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erasmus6, if you think we have a "screwed up country" why do you read U.S. news? Nothing exciting going on in Canada except for your pot-smoking neighbors?

Maybe you should move to Texas where guns are legal (everyone carries one) and pot is not. LOL!!!

You never did tell me what a dominion is.

[erasmus6]

I have these idiots that live in the house beside me. Their two sons always go in their shed and smoke pot. Not only does it stink but I have to constantly hear them hacking up a lung, spitting etc.
So in this nice weather it would be nice to go and sit outside but hearing them makes me sick. And if I want to open my windows then the smell comes in the house. They are smoking it all day long.
Now I wonder if I should get out my gun and shoot them? OOPS, I forgot I can't do that because I don't own a gun, BECAUSE it is against the law. I could go over there and attempt to stab them, but considering there is two of them that might be difficult, they could end up getting me. Hmmmm, maybe I should phone the cops and report the Bast-ards.

GET MY POINT?

[jetranger7]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JUST RESPECT AND COMMON SENSE, OBVIOUSLY THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WERE IN THE WRONG AND DIDN'T RESPECT THE NEIGHBOORHOOD AND OTHERS SURROUNDINGS !! SEEMS TO BE A COMMON PRACTICE NOW DAYS WITH THE YOUNGER FOLK, THEY ACT JUST ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS, IMAGINE THO IF ALL THOSE FIREWORKS THEY SET OFF WOULD OF LANDED ON TOP OF PEOPLES HOMES AND SET THEIR HOMES ON FIRE AND STARTED A BIG WILD FIRE IN A FOREST,,, OHH THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THAT,, TILL AFTER 30 OTHERS ARE DEAD FROM THEIR SO CALLED LITTLE PARTY. WAKE UP PEOPLE AND USE COMMON SENSE AND RESPECT FOR OTHERS AROUND YOU !!!!!!!!

[erasmus6]

The problem with guns is it makes killing easier. To kill someone with a knife or whatever is a lot harder. Take away the guns and you will have far less killings.

[michellem99-2009]

I think you are missing the point here. GUNS DON'T KILL JUST SITTING THERE..PEOPLE DO..PEOPLE KILL. You could ban evry thing but if a person is bent on killing you bet he/she will. How, well you are not dumb. THE HANDS, DEAR. YEP. I won't tell you how. It helps to see. My vet room mate told me how it is done. And the nails on the hand well dear what do you think. The teeth,well their for eating but what do you think. Guns,knives,rocks,they over look the hands,feet,teeth,nails. Guys yer guns they can grab that and turn on you and you will cry like a baby.When it is used on you , you think you be shown mercy,no way. They will kill you and think nothink of it. That is the real world,boys.

[erasmus6]

RHEOLA

OK, I get it now! hahahaha

[erasmus6]

RHEOLA

Actually I usually say every "Tom,Di-ck and Harry" but CBS always bleeps out the Di-ck so I started saying Tom, ******** and Harry. I just left out the Tom and Harry this time!

[rheola-2009]

Erasmuis

*** is the abbreviated Richard, and your Cranium is your head, you richard cranium.

[erasmus6]

RHEOLA

Oh, you mean use "richard cranium" instead of ********?

I like the word ******** better. I never claimed to have any class.

[erasmus6]

RHEOLA

What is "richard cranium"?

[rheola-2009]

Obviously this person was unstable which proves my point that people should not be allowed to have guns. There is no way you are going to ever be able to control who has a gun when every ******** in the country can get one.
Posted by erasmus6 at 07:13 PM : Jul 05, 2007

Erasmus

The term "richard cranium" has a lot more class to it.

But then again you are not really wrong.

[erasmus6]

funkiwiteboy

"If others were wearing sidearms that nut would've thought hard about pullin his or would have been stopped sooner."

As far as the "nut" goes, he had no idea whether anyone else had a gun or not so obviously it didn't make too much difference to him.

And if the others did have guns and pulled them out there would probably be even more deaths. Nothing worse than people out of control with panic and carrying a gun.

The fact that this guy had that many guns tells me that your country is way out of control.

nvhc

You need to get a grip. It is amazing how you and people like you will think of whatever to justify having that good ole gun, eh?

The chances are if that twit didn't have a gun, this wouldn't have happened. It takes more b-a-l-l-s to run over to someone and try to stab them than to stand back and shoot.

Obviously this person was unstable which proves my point that people should not be allowed to have guns. There is no way you are going to ever be able to control who has a gun when every ******** in the country can get one.

[rheola-2009]

People kill people, yes, but they find it a dang sight easier to do it with a gun, and do it faster and with more damage. You work an ER on prom night and see the kids coming in with gunshot wounds. This country is messed up with guns. You don't see it in other countries.
Posted by clew37 at 05:59 PM : Jul 05, 2007


SPOT ON.

[shammy0202]

By all means lets bring politics into a story which has nothing to do with it...LMAO!!!!

[funkiwiteboy]

if others were wearing sidearms that nut would've thought hard about pullin his or would have been stopped sooner. unarmed folks are easy pray for cowards, plus in jail it's three hots and a cot on US while goin through appeals. not much of a deturrent(?)...
BRING BACK PUBLIC HANGINGS AND MOST OF OUR PROBLEM CONS WOULD BE GONE,
ONE WAY OR THE OTHER!
God hep me understand soon... AMEN

[nvhc]

So you say that guns are the cause of killing and you want to outlaw them. Great let's do it. So then the people who use guns move on to knives. They can kill too, and are easier to conceal. Okay so let's outlaw knives! GREAT. So then, the people who once used guns, then knives go to baseball bats. They can kill people too. Okay so let's outlaw Baseball Bats! AWESOME! Look at the liberals go!! Okay, so then let's say that the people who are dead set on killing (pun intended) go to Hmmmm... Lets see..... CARS!!! so now you have reckless drivers, drunk drivers and now.... Killers behind the wheel!!!! Okay, what now? Outlaw cars? SURE! Why not?? So then we can outlaw Buses!! GREAT! and motorcycles!! WONDERFUL! What about airplanes? People used them to kill!! YES!!! OUTLAW AIRPLANES!! So what's next Liberals???

[azhitman2]

Drunk drivers like Al Gore's son took way more lives yesterday than guns did.

[azhitman2]

Making drugs illegal has worked so well. Why not guns too? lol

[clew37]

The reason you should be against the guns is the fact it gives these bozos "steel courage". If this guy had to come out and fight with his hands or just a knife, the ending wouldn't have been as lethal. We kill a lot more people now then in the wild west. Less than ONE PERCENT of hostile shootings are for defense. All the rest are in doing crime and threatening people. People kill people, yes, but they find it a dang sight easier to do it with a gun, and do it faster and with more damage. You work an ER on prom night and see the kids coming in with gunshot wounds. This country is messed up with guns. You don't see it in other countries.

[zootallures2]

If you think we are going to give up our guns in a time when crazy Muslims are killing people everywhere, you are daft. I need more than George Bush to protect me.
Posted by preacherbob1 at 05:27 PM : Jul 05, 2007

No Muslims in this story....nope. Just crazy Amerikkkanoes celebrating their freedom...LMAO!!! Maybe yawl should wip out the thermite again and have a real hoedown again, nut bags...LOL!