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SF Murder #44
23-year-old Patrick Allen was found guilty today of murdering 18-year-old Laney College football player Robert Atkins Jr. Over the use of a remote control. It seems Allen shot Atkins "multiple times at point-blank range" over a dispute between him and his sister over the TV clicker, if you will. Allen claims that he was overcome with emotion "because he thought that Atkins had sexually assaulted his sister, who had been living with Atkins' family for several years, because she phoned him in tears that day and said Atkins had put his hands on her." According to Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Paul Delucchi, however, says that Atkins and Allen's sister had a fight over a remote control, which then sparked the shooting. Amazing. Sentencing is scheduled to happen in February 09.
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This is a prime example of why society doesn't need pistols.
Of course you'd say that, you Nazi. Guns don't kill people, remote controls do!
Or why society doesn't need misleading headlines. I thought he murdered him by remote control, like on an awesome mystery show. "I couldn't have murdered him, detective... I was watching TV with witnesses in the other room."
I remember Remote Control! I also remember the sadistic babysitter who let me watch it and then told me that, yes indeed, the contestants were actually killed and replaced with neat-looking skeletons. Thanks for the nightmares you fucking bitch.
At first glance I thought that this post, based on the title, was going to be the strange yet joyful news that Colin Quinn had finally been put out of his misery. The graphic was misleading.
I recently worked on a case where the husband and wife got into an argument over what tv show to watch and she stabbed him repeatedly with a steak knife. (he's not dead)
TV rage is the new road rage.
That beats all the cases I've ever worked on. Did defense try the strategy of saying Sean Hannity incited her to do it? That would probably win over the hearts of the jury--at least bring her down to 2nd degree.