NYC Boat Party Spurs Fatal Gunfight

(AP)  One man was fatally shot after a brawl aboard a party boat spilled into New York City's tourist-friendly South Street Seaport early Saturday, witnesses said.

Omar Trent, a 31-year-old from Brooklyn, was shot in the head shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday after an argument escalated into bottle-throwing and gunfire at the complex of shops, restaurants and maritime attractions in lower Manhattan, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Workers at the complex said the fight started on the docked Atlantica, a three-level yacht that often hosts weekend parties.

Perry Rumnit, who works aboard the Atlantica, told the New York Post that he locked himself and others in the boat's galley to escape the "chaotic" scene.

Workers at nearby businesses, who asked not to be identified, arrived Saturday morning to see the victim's body, covered by a tarp behind yellow police tape.

Police said Saturday afternoon that the investigation was continuing.

Calls to Seaport managers were not immediately returned. Calls to Intercoastal Ventures LLC of Manhattan, the Atlantica's owners, were not answered Saturday.

[pepperwood2]

The Tourists were just elated at the good news on Wall Street this past week. The Libs were appalled & angry that a few of The Conservatives on board were bashing Obama's bailout of Wall Street & Health Care Plan. They decided to take matters into their own hands and Trump them. So Sad!

[ettore570]

a case for CSI New York...........

[pepperwood2]

The Tourists were just elated at the good news on Wall Street this past week. The Libs were appalled & angry that a few of The Conservatives on board were bashing Obama's bailout of Wall Street & Health Care Plan. They decided to take matters into their own hands and Trump them. So Sad!

[democracy1]

Leave it to some idiot to turn this case into a political issue, when of course it has nothing to do with politics.

Get a freakin' life!

[veils-2009]

I prefer to kill my friends with police approved tactics, tasers and batons. Then no one complains.

[woeisme1]

Guns in the hands of extremists is dangerous. We call people like that, "loose cannons".

Hold on to your seats folks. This behavior is the new wave of the future. It'll get alot worse before it gets better. Just too many stupid people out there with guns.

[stryker54]

Very well said.

[aztecdakota]

Never go to a drinking party with a knife, gun, or bad attitude.

[ToolMangler1]

Never go to a 'drinking' party... (period)
If you want to drink yourself into a stupor, remember that 'stupor and stupid' mean brainless.. (basically) So do it at home with the doors closed and locked.

[jumkey]

Just goes to show that firearms are always the best way to resolve a complaint.

We should have more deadly shootings to prove the need for less gun control.

[Phxfire]

The drug in the needle is the bullet. If the drugs weren't available there would be no junkies. If guns were less available to everybody there would be less shooting. Guns kill people, people just pull the trigger. No guns, time for thinking first or running fast.

[creeper00]

"people just pull the trigger"

Yep. 'Nuff said. Thanks for making the argument for us.