LinkyMan Shot 3 Times Claims He Was Gunned Down Over Pro-Obama Shirt
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
A British man who was shot three times on a London street claims the gunman was enraged over his Barack Obama T-shirt, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Dube Egwuatu told the Mail he was purchasing a cell phone when a stranger started shouting racial slurs over his shirt featuring the presidential candidate’s face and the word “Believe.”
Egwuatu zipped up his jacket and headed for his car, but as he turned it on, the gunman opened the passenger side door and shot him three times, hitting him in the face, hand and shoulder.
Egwuatu managed to drive off while bleeding and call for help. A piece of metal was removed from his jaw from the attacker’s gas-powered ball-bearing pistol, the Mail reported.
“He was telling me that he was going to kill me,” Egwuatu told the Mail. “I couldn't believe it was happening — and just because I was wearing an Obama T-shirt. He was trying to make me walk somewhere quieter, saying: ‘I've got something for you,’ and ‘I'm going to kill you.’”
Local police are still looking for the gunman.
A gas-powered ball-bearing pistol? Thats a f*cking bb-gun. I don't think anyone has ever been "gunned down" by a BB gun. Granted, the shooter still needs to go to jail, but there is a big difference between getting shot three times with an actual handgun, and with a BB gun. And why cant they just call it a BB gun?
