A house party murder, a stabbing at the jail, and gun deaths (06-04-2025--Hour3)

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Law enforcement responded Saturday at eleven pm to a noise complaint at a house in southwest Kataba County's Mountain View community. Less than two hours later, they then had to return, where to reports that there was a shooting and it killed. The shooting left a fifty eight year old man dead, Sean Patrick Hood. He apparently played for the Crawdad's baseball team long time ago. Sunday's party had been advertised in a social media post as a quote topless pool party. I'm going to be very interested to know all of the details surrounding this event, okay, because like the aerial footage, I guess they sent a drone up to shoot video. I mean, this was a large house, seemed to be a nice house with a big pool in the backyard on a really large piece of property, and cars were parked all over the you know, really large lawn and stuff. And I gotta tell you, the first thing I thought was that this is well, the first thing I thought when I heard house party, like, I just think, okay, well, these are the types of parties I used to throw when I was in college. You know, we had hundreds of people at our That's not a humble break. I'm serious. We had hundreds of people, maybe thousands. Look, the fraternities would cancel their parties when we held ours. Okay, that's how big our parties were. So like, I know a thing or two about this from a you know, an event planning standpoint, and so the first thing I thought was, okay, probably like a bunch of young people with a you know, rental or something. But when I saw the size of this house, I started thinking, is this is this like an Airbnb? And then you hear that they're advertising it on social media. They're charging twenty bucks at the door. We never charged that. I mean inflation, I understand and all, but like we would charge three bucks five if you weren't wearing a costume, Like we weren't, you know, gouging people here. So there were videos that were shot from inside the pool party that were posted up on Facebook, which is really bizarre because I didn't think like the twenty somethings used Facebook anymore. And that's who apparently was in a lot of the videos. The Charlotte Observer pointed out that no one in the video was topless. So some false advertising there in order to get people to show up at your party, I guess. But this thug named Killian is being held without bond at the jail in Newton. He did get a bond. I think today. I think I just heard in the NewsCap it was like a quarter of a million dollars or something like that. According to a Hickory Police news release, Killian was charged in April in an unrelated shooting. Wait what in April? That was like two It's like four weeks ago. What do you Police responded to Cataba Valley Boulevard early in the morning on April sixth, where shots had been fired into a crowd during a fight. No one was injured. Police charged Killian and another man with seven counts of attempted first degree murder. You have seven counts of attempted first degree murder on you and you are out. You can't even blame the juvenile justice laws, right, you can't even say that this is something you know legislatively. Oh, we can't because even then, if it's attempted first degree murder, you can try them as an adult. You can hold them. Why is this guy out on the street with seven counts of attempted first degree murder, seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, going armed to the terror of the public, and discharging a firearm in the city limits. What do I keep saying? This is a choice. I don't know who the DA is up there. I don't know what judge heard this case. I don't know any details. But all I know is what's right there. You got seven counts of attempted first degree murder, seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. You should not have bond. There should be no chance that you get out. No chance. I understand the point of bond. I understand it's that you know, to make you show up for your court appearances. This guy is a threat to the community. He opened fire in a crowd, and now I'm supposed to be surprised that lo and behold. Six weeks later, he opened fire into another crowd. No, somebody like somebody who has the mindset to do that kind of a thing, to just start firing indiscriminately into a crowd of people is a menace to all people. He doesn't get to enjoy freedom while he stands trial for these charges. And now a man is dead because somebody didn't want to hold him without bond. I don't know who that somebody is up in Catawba, County. God knows what's going on up there. I got we got our own problems down here. Like down here, we got Sheriff's office employees stamp in each other at the arrest intake area. How do you even get a knife into this area? WBTV reported a Mecklinburg County Sheriff's office employee has been arrested after she allegedly stamps you have a co worker multiple times on Monday. You know there are cameras there, right, You know there are cameras. This is the arrest processing center. You know they got cameras. And you are in a jail. You work in the jail. This should be a constant reminder to you of what happens when you do bad things. Okay I said that, and now I'm realizing, actually no, probably not. You could probably stab some people and not go to jail. In Mecklinberg County, the Sheriff's office said the stabbing happened to the happened at the arrest processing center during a fight between employees. Here is the press release from Gary not my Fault McFadden's office. For some reason, this press release did not have the massive photo of him at the top of the page, like takes up a third of the of the page on the press release. For some reason, they didn't put his face on this one. I don't know why. The Mecklinberg County Sheriff's Office arrested Lakeisha after an altercation on June second at the processing center. She produced a knife, had you get the knife into the jail, sheriff had that happen, and stabbed a fellow employee multiple times, resulting in serious but non life threatening injuries. The Sheriff's office staff immediately responded, restraining her. Easter was a fingerprint examiner at the Arrest Processing Center hired on April eighteenth, twenty twelve, terminated June second as a result of the incident, taken into custy by CMPD without further incident. Charges our forthcoming and will be announced once formalized. I've not seen that yet. And then there's this at the end of this press release. This is an isolated and extremely unfortunate event. We are grateful for the quick actions of the Meckleberg County Sheriff's Office staff, which likely prevented further harm, said Sheriff McFadden. Quote. No one expects violence to erupt in their work in their place of work, and yet incidents like this remind us how critical it is to identify and address warning signs early. Well, how do you think you did on that score? Gary, how do you think you did there? Identifying and addressing warning signs early? Did you say could you say you missed something there? No? No, I know It's not your fault. I got you, not your fault. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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You know the illegals are criminals, and instead of calling ice, you dump them back on the community. Yeah, I agree, Russ says the shooter and Hickory ties into the cricket dispersing moonbats from the first segment. Personally, I lean more towards firearms and ammo vending machines on every corner. But those who show negligence, malice or cause harm should be severely punished severely. They keep passing gun laws, but the same folks that advocate for those laws are the first to drop charges or show leniency when a bad guy gets caught with a gun. Yeah, like this is this is the gas lighting. We need more gun laws like right now today, and I'll go back and watch it later as part of my three hour workday. By the way, that's a reference to a caller yesterday. So anyway, I'll go back and watch this this floor debate that was had over I believe it was permitless carry or universal conceal I forget. Look, I have a concealed carry permit, and I will probably always keep my like I will try to keep my permit even if I don't need the permit to conceal carry, I will still do that because if I want to go to a different state, I want the reciprocity in that other state. Okay, So I will always keep mind. Now, some people don't want to, they don't travel or for whatever reason. Doesn't matter. But the whole gun debate is being had now. We got gun violence Awareness Month. You know the proclamation last night that was used as a cover story basically for these left wing activists to drop a whole bunch of crickets in the chambers of the Mecklelberg County Commission. But it's one of these things where the same people of the left that demand stricter gun laws then don't prosecute the gun law violators. Why is that? Why is that? Because the issue is never the issue, right, the issue is always the revolution. You destabilize a society by tearing at the infrastructure that preserves order, and with the opposite of order, chaos. You create the chaos, so people clamor for a restoration of order, and they will let you then do almost anything. Why do you think people, why do you think people's attitudes on deportation have changed so radically over the last ten years. Like I remember, even on the right, there were a whole bunch of people that were like, well, you know, we don't need to deport all of them, you know, just the criminals, and this the attitudes have shifted. Why is that? It's because the chaos created by the open border policies now prompts the reaction. We need to restore order, and so now it's like, we don't care. Get somebody in there who's going to do it all for us. And this is what democrats are running up against as they try to know, Oh, the Maryland manned and now they've got another Massachusetts man who was like a child rapist, Like, you guys picked the worst people. Yeah, I'm supposed to be now all outraged that the the terrorist from Egypt that set Jews on fire for Palestine, I'm supposed to be sad that his family now just got deported to they're all illegal aliens. Also, sorry, like maybe your dad because he said he told authorities. I waited until my daughter graduated high school before I did this. Okay, y'all can go, all, y'all can go. You're all out, sorry, like, oh, the sins of the father kind of thing. No, Like, there isn't any more quarter to be given none. We're done. And so now we're talking about gun control. How dare you allow people to conceal carry you without a permit? Don't you know it's going to make things dangerous? Did you know that criminals already concealed carry. I know it's true. I would never have guessed it either. Somebody who makes a habit of violating all sorts of laws does not adhere to that law. It is really a brain buster, but it's true. It's the research is clear. Meanwhile, as we ramp up for gun violence prevention Awareness month or day or week or whatever, and everybody's wearing orange, right, you're going to hear a citation of a CDC data point, which is that guns are the number one killer of children. They've been saying this for a couple of years now. I've been pushing back on it every chance I get because it is a misrepresentation. I'm not sure that they know it. I'm sure a lot of people in the you know, the leadership of these organizations that are advancing this this lie, I know they know it. But the people who just you know, regurgitate it and haven't done the research, they don't know it. Which is why I am going to give credit where it is due to the Charlotte Observer. I know for real, Charlotte Observer, seriously, thank you, kudos, good job because they printed an opinion piece. An opinion piece from David Mastio, who is a national opinion columnist for McClatchy and the Kansas City Star. He's a former deputy editorial page editor for the liberal USA Today and the conservative Washington Times. He's worked in opinion journalism as a common editor, editorial writer, and a columnist for thirty years. He was also a speech writer for the George W. Bush administration and the headline the CDC says guns of the number one killer of children. Here's what's really true. I'll tell you what's really true in a moment. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Ashville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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He says, with Robert F. Kennedy, make children healthy again with that effort, the report under attack. Democrats are worrying about a politicized public health system selling snake oil to the American public. Now, I would point out a Govco health ministry has been obliterating trust in this industry for a while on its own. So he says, there was a time when public health officials simply made up the claim that staying six feet apart would help stop the spread of COVID, and the time top officials and scientists conspired to falsely debunk concerns that the coronavirus was released from a Chinese lab. And then there were times when public health advice was politicized, like when public health officials said gathering in groups was unsafe, except if you were protesting the death of Saint George Floyd. They're not just about COVID either. Remember the great kerfuffle over Flint, Michigan's lead problem. The people who were telling you that black kids were poisoned forgot to tell you that their own data showed blood level of blood lead levels in the poisoned quote unquote kids were actually much lower than a decade earlier when nobody was talking about poisoned kids. This weekend, you'll be treated to another misinformation campaign that comes with the impremature of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the National Institutes of Health. It's time for the annual Gun Violence Awareness Week. So you'll be hearing gun deaths are the number one cause of deaths of American children and adolescents, or guns are the number one killer of kids. Right. However, guns are actually not the number one killer of children at any age between zero and twelve, or what I would consider to be kids. They never have been. Cars are the biggest killer. Who says the CDC database, it's called wonder wnder. It's an acronym of some kind, and that tracks the cause of death in most US deaths and indexed by race, sex, and age, among other characteristics. And for a number of years, for a number of care kids, years of life, drowning or falls are the greater threat than guns. Here's what the CDC says, quote, taking into account all types of firearm injuries, including homicides, suicides, and unintentional injuries, firearm injuries where the leading cause of death among children and teens ages one to nineteen. And what they mean then is if you lump all the dead kids and teenagers into one gruesome pile and count how they died, the number one killer was guns. But that's only because guns kill so many teens, a large number of them eighteen and nineteen year old adult teens. Basically, it has nothing to do with children's deaths, but by conflating the groups, they get to make the emotional appeal. You know, this poor one year old toddler, you know has this greater than you know, normal chance of being murdered with a gun. And it's not true. So why would the CDC do something so misleading like this. Well, it goes back many decades when reporting what the leading killer of children and teens would do. It made sense at the time, right, The killer was the same for all of them, and it was accidents, mostly car accidents, and so they reported that number all together because it didn't matter every single age group, every age category, it was always car accidents. So they just put them all together as kids car accidents. But when guns overtook car accidents during the Biden administration, they just kept doing the same thing they had always done. Gun control groups loved it because it lets them make the claim that children are dying left and right from guns. That scared concerned parents into backing their agenda and coughing up donations. The Biden administration CDC did not seem to mind. But there's more to the story. Remember, guns are the number one killer of teens. But are guns a threat to your kids? Probably not, He says. Guns are not the number one killer of female teens, White teens, Hispanic teens, Asian teens, Native American teens. In fact, the only group for whom this claim is true is black teens, which is statistically troubling. Why, he says, if your goal is to raise campaign donations and build a national political movement to restrict gun rights. Stats don't matter. Scaring parents whose kids are not at risk by fudging the issue, well, now that works pretty well. If your goal is to get Congress to fork go for millions in research grants on the problem of gun violence. It works great to make Congress think that the bullets are flying everywhere and the blood is flowing on rural, suburban, and urban congressional district streets alike. But if your goal is to actually solve the problem, then it really does matter just who is dying and why. Only when we face the answer to that question, can we focus resources where the problem is and come up with ways to do something about it. And it would be nice if the CDC made that a priority. Again. This was by David Mastio at the cd or sorry, at the Charlotte Observer. He's a McClatchy writer. The CDC says guns of the number one killer of children. Here's what's really true. I've said this for years, ever since The Washington Post did a deep dive trying to get at the the stats on gun deaths, and the reporter who did it said she went in there with one mindset gun grabber and came now with the exact opposite when she saw the data the number one gun death cause you know number one is well, now I'm going to so I know the top three. I forget if the number one is suicide or domestic violence. I believe it's suicide. Number two is domestic violence, and number three is street crime. 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It's you only get that stat if you include eighteen plus, And it doesn't mean that those deaths are any more tragic or less tragic, I should say, right, it's simply to say that they're juicing the stats. They're using this misleading conflation for political purposes. Regarding taxes, these are emails from the entire program for over the last two and a half hours or so. What about the thousands of additional properties that have been built in Mecklenberg County the last several years. City council never mentions that or considers that in relation to property tax increases with all of the additional properties, there should be no need for additional taxes. This is one of those things. I remember having this argument with city leaders there's twenty years ago when they kept saying growth doesn't pay for itself, and I said, well, then why do we want to grow? Right, If it doesn't pay for itself, why would we want it? And they were like, oh, well you don't want to be shrinking because that's even worse. Oh I see, so there isn't a scenario where taxes don't go up. Well that's convenient, Dennis says, My hat's off to you, Pete for taking your time to keep an eagle eye on our stalwart stewards. Of Mecklenburg. That board of Commissioners has blown more money each year on unaccountable projects, and I'm glad I have eagle eyepte to explain the state of the madness carry on a ego, thank you, sir. Mark rate juggling aside. Let's do a comparison of reassessments. Most went up seventy percent last time, and the prior reassessment up over forty percent. And these are of course higher than most other counties near by. Right, So when they did the revaluations, they jacked up everybody's property values. They assess them at higher values. So therefore the rate you were paying now means more dollars out of your pocket. The rate may have stayed the same or even declined, but because your property is being assessed at a higher value, you're paying more actual dollars out of pocket. I have rentals and my own in the county. That experience that many elderly folks in areas like Weddington etc. Are being taxed out of their homes reminds me of reconstruction preaching to the choir. But almost half of that goes to the failing CMS schools, which keep sucking up the money with zero accountability, not to mention staggering bond funds. Correct me if I'm wrong. But Dana Diorio, longtime county manager that did just retire, came from New York, loves big budgets, tax more, etc. I don't know if she came from New York, but her accent would indicate it. And of course with that hard hitting social services degree all over strict financial management and ability to push back on excessive spending. Of course, three hundred K plus payoffs do add up. So just general malaise. Now, I do have a bunch of emails from yesterday that I did not get to because we were having such a good time chatting with the various callers on education funding, specifically teacher pay right and so I did not get to these, but I feel I need to read them because there was a lot of pushback to the three different teachers who called in, and I got to say, did not exactly present themselves as the best ambassadors for their positions. But I'm not going to go into the arguments. I don't have enough time, so let me just read a couple of messages. Sean said. Where I work, no one is full time, so they don't have to provide insurance or any other benefits. My hourly rate is the same as when I started five years ago. No merit raise, no cost of living raise ever. Eddie said, I just wanted to give you a pat on the back for today's show. I enjoy hearing arguments one with truth and common sense, and you killed it today. I thoroughly enjoy your show in all things WBT, Thank you, Edie. I appreciate it. Benway Katz said, everybody keeps talking about the eight weeks of vacation teachers get in the summer. Don't forget they also get two weeks of Christmas a week in the spring, in addition to numerous other holidays that are only observed in education. Timoteo said, I was a welder for thirty six years. My last three years were twelve hour shifts twenty eight days straight with two days off a month. I wore my body out. Everything hurts, scars everywhere, lowered kidney function from repeated nsaid use, I don't know what that is, and lowered oxygen saturation from damaged lungs. I'm wishing I had been a teacher instead. Oh well, life choices, Vector said, I did not get a raised from the state from twenty thirteen when the General Assembly reforms took place, through my retirement in twenty twenty. Veteran teachers had longevity pay rolled into their salaries. In the years that followed. Their pay was the greater of the payscale salary or their sal How are you when the reforms were implemented, No raise for me as a conservative, I was disappointed, but I sucked it up. By the way, I spent twenty eight years in the private sector before teaching to love your program. Thank you, Vick, appreciate it. Just a sampling of that's about half of the emails I got in opposition to those that we heard from at length yesterday. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.