MN: Man charged with murder after randomly shooting at cars

[seamusTX]

In Oakdale, Minnesota (St. Paul surburb) Monday a man was arrested after allegedly shooting at occupied vehicles at random.

A 9-year-old boy was killed and two women were injured. One woman had a finger amputated. Several people in cars escaped injury but had their cars "riddled with bullets."

A 34-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder and other violent felonies. He reportedly confessed to police.

The man had no criminal record and no known history of mental illness.

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The Minneapolis-St. Paul area is home to a large number of people who were refugees from Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, etc.), or their descendants.

- Jim

[Keith B]

From the article:

A loaded 9mm handgun.
A fanny pack full of bullets.
Two loaded magazines.
A backpack with more ammunition and two large knives.

That, prosecutors say, is what Nhan Lap Tran carried when arrested minutes after a shooting spree left a 9-year-old boy dead and two people wounded Monday in Oakdale.

The arsenal was described Wednesday, Feb. 13, in Washington County District Court in a criminal complaint charging the Oakdale man with the attack.

Aresenals are now portable.

From Dictionary.com

ar·se·nal/ˈɑrsənl, ˈɑrsnəl/ Show Spelled [ahr-suh-nl, ahrs-nuhl] Show IPA
noun
1. a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.
2. a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.
3. a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.
4. a collection or supply of anything; store: He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.

While technically correct, I would guess the differnce is that is wasn't an 'Impressive aresenal', just a plain one.

[seamusTX]

There's no longer any point complaining about this misuse of language. It's always an arsenal, a cache of weapons, a high-powered assault rifle, a high-capacity magazine, "cop-killer bullets," yada, yada.

I would only point out that this language often comes straight from the lips of police spokesmen, who often have their own agendas.

- Jim