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Thebes shooting suspect surrenders

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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THEBES, Ill. -- A Carbondale, Ill, man wanted for shooting two people outside a public housing complex turned himself in Monday morning to the Alexander County Sheriff's Department, the Illinois State Police announced. Dion L. Meadows, 24, had been wanted since Wednesday. Meadows is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and is being held at the Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, Ill. The victims of the shooting were taken to Saint Francis Medical Center for treatment. One victim received serious wounds while the other's wounds were described as non-life-threatening by the state police in an earlier statement. Neither victim has been named.

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Another victim of the free market society!!!

-- Posted by Glock_23 on Wed, Nov 11, 2009, at 11:09 AM

You got it Glock. That statement needs to be thrown out there in every similar scenerio.

There are two types of liberals out there

1) the victims of the free market system.

2) the one's who make it feel guilty.

The free market system allows for the most people to have the most prosperity. This fella apparently made an unwise choice.

-- Posted by sasiemers on Wed, Nov 11, 2009, at 11:26 AM

I don't understand what a guy shooting someone has to do with a "free market society"?

Sounds like a common criminal to me and if he did not have a gun to shoot them with, he would have used a club or a knife or maybe just a sharpened screw driver or better yet, maybe an ice pick!

Let's face it...there really are people who are just ornery, and they "get off" by hurting other people. Look at the madman they executed last night. I really don't see how we can blame what he did on anyone but the perpetrator.

-- Posted by Walkenstick on Wed, Nov 11, 2009, at 11:38 AM

Ted Nugent ROCKS!!!!!

-- Posted by Glock_23 on Wed, Nov 11, 2009, at 12:24 PM

Maybe Ted Nugent can use this poor fellow for target practice when he is at the shooting range using his Glock!!

-- Posted by Glock_23 on Thu, Nov 12, 2009, at 4:56 PM

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