13 Wounded in Shooting Outside Arizona Nightclub
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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Thirteen people were wounded in a shooting Friday night outside a Phoenix-area nightclub, police said Saturday. No fatalities were reported, though two of the victims were in serious condition.
Police are looking for two young black male suspects they say fled the scene in the parking lot of The Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe, Ariz. on foot, KTVK-TV reported.
Tempe Sgt. Steve Carbajal said some of the wounded drove themselves to various area hospitals, so police aren’t sure if there were more victims in addition to the 13, according to the Associated Press.
Concertgoers had come to hear rapper Nipsey Hussle perform when “some sort of altercation” erupted outside, Carbajal said.
Paul Butler told KTVK-TV he was among the crowd waiting to get into the club when he heard a series of pops as the gunfire erupted.
“And you see everybody running, couple more shots, everybody running,” Butler told the station. “It was pure chaos.”
One patron, tweeting about the incident under the username @renten10, described a scene where she was “backed against the wall” and said people were losing their phones and high-heeled shoes in the panic, CNN reported.
Police didn’t have immediate details about a motive or the type or number of guns used in the shooting.
After the shooting, Hussle — who did not end up taking the stage — wrote on his Twitter account: “Az….y’all gotta be cool man. This sh-t ain’t rite.”
This post has been updated since it was first posted.
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Comments (112)
Zeb
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:14pmProbably a lack of contraception at an appropriate earlier time. Now we are suffering the consequence.
Report Post »I believe I am slowly becoming more progressive, or is it a latent racial thingy induced by the current political climate, or global warming.
R.A. Bullseye
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:54amvery funny…..lol
Report Post »Pedro Gonzalez
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:08pm……….Rap is to music as Etch-A-Sketch is to Art…………..
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:13pmRap is crap.
Report Post »MEANS2RESIST
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:38pmWho’d of thunk it….a rapper named Nipsey Hussie puts on a performance of raw talent for his sophisticated followers, and gunfire breaks out? Whats the rap world comming to?
Report Post »Toxic Pirate
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:12pmLmao
Report Post »conservativeblackman
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:39pmI see the blaze has been infected with a bunch of close minded idiots who hate what they dont like or understand. If you dont care for rap music, that’s fine, dont listen to it. I myself dont like country music, but to call people who do listen to rap ignorant or worst, just shows that there is still a long way for some people when it comes to excepting differences of others.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:50pmRappers are R=radical…A=annoying…P=popinjays….
Report Post »Oldtruth
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:00pm@conservativeblackman, I agree with you however, you don‘t see country music artists having drive by’s, or singing songs that promote violence, racism, hatred and sexual dominance of women……which is why I don’t listen to crap, I mean rap.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:29pmHelp deter crime and violence Ban Rap & Hip Hop.
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:24pm@conservativeblackman real conservatives don’t listen to rap music. The notion that rap music is simply poetry from life in the hood is enough to eject the CD or take the needle off the record right away. Real conservatives know just exactly why inner city life is the way it is…and there really is no reason to subject oneself to the rap crap over and over….we all know why the inner city is “illin’….it’s sick because of progressive thought and politics…and to aggrandize and fund rap musicians is contra-positive at best. I for one would want my inner city son to work at a hamburger joint while going to college…than to aspire becoming a “rap star” someday. You can’t possibly be a conservative and defend rap music with any genuine validity other than it definitely is a black thing…or at times..a white or hispanic black wannabee thing. The black community doesn’t need more rap stars…..it needs much more than the illustration and reduction of it’s own dysfunction to words or “back beats’.
Report Post »Pedro Gonzalez
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:06pm……..Rap is to music as Etch-A-Sketch is to art……………
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:10pmDitto!
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:26pmRap is to music what painting by numbers is to great art.
Report Post »Toxic Pirate
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:16pmRap is to music as a solar panel is to a Nuclear power plant
Report Post »Toxic Pirate
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:21pmOk ok I got another …..rap is to music as bologna is to a Filet Mignon!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:32pmRap artist are attracted to Islam…Look on youtube for all the converts…white-women will still flock to these artists like flies to sh$tt…God I hate a white-hoodrat
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:01pmThe police are looking for a black Escalade with tinted windows, spinner hubcaps and an Obama sticker on the bumper.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:11pmLol That is the demographic,and 40 0z bottles were everywhere.
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:17pm…don’t forget the “pookie” license plate GONZO
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:27pmGee, I wonder if they were black.
Oh, no, that can’t be. Anybody who thinks so is a racist. Hahahahaha!
Report Post »jand777
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:59amI worked in the adult entertainment in Atlanta for eight years where this style of music is very popular. All I can say is I saw the rapid decline of more than one club from what was normal bad for that industry to closing or close to closing because of all the drama. It never ends. I left because of professional as well as spiritual reasons. The music was a big part because I just could not take the message of violence, materialism, justification of money by any means necessary and the lack of respect for women. This along with seeing young people adopt this message was too much for me take. It was really sad. Felt like I was losing my soul because I was. The music was bringing about a very large portion of this decline if not all.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:12pmMy first listening to “rap” & I taped this from MTV was the Chicago Bears win to a rap-song. The beat can be annoying…kind of like the disco music…and alittle goes along way but I cannot stand the horrible words to the songs (when a car pulls-up,windows-down & young people do the head-jerk & every-other word very violent & negative). Too bad, because I enjoy most music. Oh well! Good for people who Love the Rap & the message…to each his own.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:54amI went to quite a few concerts in the pre-rap days and I can’t remember a single shooting. Of course I was a country music fan, maybe that explains it.
Report Post »Richalu
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:43pmSame Mom, but more rock oriented. Doobie Brothers, Outlaws, Marshall Tucker, Rush, Kiss. Once even … (whispering….) Boz Skaggs.
Never saw a fistfight, much less a gunfight. Is it in the lyrics? The beat? The culture? Is a gun the first step toward an entitlement lifestyle? Or is the entitlement lifestyle a first step toward the gun?
Report Post »elihu
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 3:38amEasy explanation for the results of those into rap ‘music’: All of the so-called ‘songs’ have the same writer: Satan.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:47amChris Rock knows what happened.. http://youtu.be/f3PJF0YE-x4
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:41amRap Music………..the Music of and for idoits.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:57amIt really shouldn’t be called music in the first place.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:18pmIt isn’t music. It’s extreme brainwashing for stupid people.
Report Post »Jungle bunny spear chucking trance music…a tool of violent demons used to get in their heads.
swoods08
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:07pmWhoa whoa.. please please PLEASE do not say rap is like trance. Rap is just little wayne yelling and grunting UUUUUUGH into the mic. Oh and YYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!!
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:20pmIt really not an art….. it more like a fart….a mono tone drone….with no feel on it own…..
Report Post »noland
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:41amJust doin thier Master”s work. They serve him well!!!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:41amI am thinking “Fast & Furious” here.
Report Post »That deeb Holder & BHO are losing voter base.
welovetheUSA
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:40amRap Music…….the music of idoits.
Report Post »FNTM
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:39amIt appears as though the liberal trolls are out this morning. @Encinom, you still haven’t let us kwno who is paying you. There is no way you could actually have a brain and type the BS you type. Absolutely no way.
Report Post »BO_Bill
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:37amWas the shooter light-skinned or dark-skinned?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:50amUnless you are a police officer on the case..what difference does the color of someones skin make? Please tell me…please.
Report Post »The measure of a man is not to be seen in the color of his skin…unless you are a racist like you
BO_Bill
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:32pmThe answer is that we can accurately predict group behavior from the climate in which a human being’s ancestors evolved. Those who evolved in tropical regions have had their biology guided by bodily strength and a patriarchal group structure (Alpha take all), as the hunter-gatherer societal model did not require cooperation among males to succeed.
In contrast, humans who evolved in the presence of seasons and agriculture were compelled to develop storage skills (think savings accounts) and the ability for the men within the population to cooperate with each other in order to reap the group survival multipliers of civilized society.
When the energy associated with gunpowder was introduced among these two different groups of humans, those tested by seasons tended to organize around armies with good marksmanship skills, and those tested by bodily strength tended to form gangs whose members could shoot, like thirteen people, without a single kill-shot.
Therefore, using my magical powers of prediction, I suspect that the shooters were either light-skinned or dark-skinned black males.
Perhaps I am wrong.
Report Post »NoBuckwheat2012
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:44pmWhy can’t I answer Baddoggy. The skin color DOES matter/make a difference, since 90% of the shootings in this country involve blacks.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:37amA lot of this violent behavior can be traced back to social programs and media campaigns devised by the Federal Government and Entertainment/Indoctrination companies. Welfare and “entertainment products” metered out to the target population in small doses of ever-increasing intensity, until the desired result is achieved; people operating on an emotional level, functionally illiterate, indoctrinated from childhood, and ready to cede control of their minds to an external authority.
Tools of the State. Slaves. An Army.
Minds abused and Souls stolen.
Or we can, in the words of our President, ignore the mechanics of communist indoctrination through language and arts as “…just words! Just speeches….” Let’s put on a play!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:35am,
Sad thing is….
I bet we could find a collage student willing to tell the Obama Administration. This is just another form of Birth Control…..
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:05pmA collage student?
Report Post »666Sucks
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:25amShow me who your friends are and I will predict your future! I think it was Baal who invented rap!
Report Post »NoBuckwheat2012
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:48pmI think the inventor of C-rap was Alley Oop’s buddy, Foozy, back in cave man days.
Report Post »elihu
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 3:44amYeah, I believe you…I think that Nimrod was the first ‘rapper’. Then everyone changed languages!
Report Post »polishboy
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:17amNature thinning the herd.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:29amOh, that’s cruel. But, you might be on to something there!
Report Post »Freedom from liberals
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:26pmI was thinking the same. Thin the herd, they just don’t shoot very accurately.
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:15amThugs will be thugs………yo!
……
You know what i‘m sayin’
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:47pm“Yes, I know what you are saying.” (Butters Stoch, South Park)
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:15am13 wounded and no deaths? Sounds like some gun control is in order here.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:55amAmong that crowd style is more important than accuracy, holding the gun sideways while holding your pants up with the other hand, that sort of thing, is all that matters.
Report Post »conservativesteve1960
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:19pmIn this economy? It was those value bullets. Less bam for your buck…
Report Post »freedomdontcomefree
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:52pmanyone know why they hold the gun sideways? Well my answer is thats how it comes out of the box
Report Post »drago
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:12amThis is my shocked face O_O……….
Report Post »uslawman1983
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:12amRapper night clubs and shootings go together like macaroni and cheese.
Report Post »PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:17amYou got that right… And when things do not go their way… they cry “Racism”!
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:33amUSLAWMAN1983: that is basically what I posted but for some reason it isn’t showing. No real surprise. An accident waiting to happen. Criminals will always have guns. Gun laws will only leave innocent people unprotected.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:09amWell, when the rappers are all shooting at each other, what do you think their fan base is going to do?
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:07amRap music and shootings……..perfect together.
Report Post »conservativeblackman
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:47pmWhite people & killing, enslaving, and prejudice towards all who are different, perfect together as well
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:33pmExcept that “BlackConservagtiveMan” conveniently leaves out that most African slaves were sold into slavery by the fellow black tribes. The stronger tribes would capture the weaker tribes and sell them into slavery. So, who is the real enslaver here, BlackMan? Huh? A little REAL history goes a long ways.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 12:20pmconservativeblackman
Report Post »I‘ve got no beef with your comment on ignoring rap if you don’t like it. Common sense I would say.
I do have issue with minorities ALWAYS portraying only Caucasians as being the only people capable of prejudice. I grew up in the Sixties and Seventies in a college town in Oregon. The population was about 90% white and the other 10% a mixture of blacks, native americans and asians. My mom taught us that all people have value and are to be respected. The few black people in our community were athletes (usually) at the university and therefore local heroes. It was not until I enlisted in the Army that I saw true racism and this was usually exhibited by northern inner city blacks, it was overt and violent. This was in basic training, I actually experienced a great deal of camaraderie with many black people and would state that David Gavin from Gary Indiana probably saved my life one day when I was attacked by 8 of the not so tolerant types. 8:1 nice ratio. Most of the real malcontents were released from the Army and harmony existed where ever I was stationed after that (the military is the great equalizer). I am sick of being stereotyped by liberals and minorities, If you don’t know me, you don’t know me.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:05am“Concertgoers had come to hear rapper [Nipsey Hussle] perform when “some sort of altercation” erupted outside…”
I‘m assuming that these weren’t fans of Justin Beiber….
Report Post »The_Plumber_Says
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:05amWow Shocked!
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:18amI guess Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have found their JOBS PLAN for the State!
Allow anyone and everyone to own guns and carry them anywhere and everywhere – and the police and hospital staffs will be kept busy!
Report Post »drago
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:23am@veryseniorcitizen aka encinom.
Report Post »Stfu punk,that is all….
RightPolitically
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:33am@VERYSENIORCITIZEN: In case you haven’t noticed, criminals and those who wish to do others harm will find a gun or some other weapon with which to do the job, no matter what the law is.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:56amI’m sure the shooter was a licensed to carry legal gun owner. Take your Geritol.
Report Post »Gary S
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:13pm@ Gonso. Proof please. crickets
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:42pm@Gonzo
Report Post »1 of 2 things. Either turn you sarc button on OR somebody stole your screen name.