At least one person was killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a homeless encampment in Las Vegas on Friday, police said.

The incident occurred in the area of Charleston Boulevard and U.S. 95 around 5:30 p.m. local time. Officers responded to a homeless encampment, where witnesses directed them to multiple victims, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson said at a press briefing Friday night.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    It could have been a homeless person that shot them. Waiting until the facts are known is always better than assuming you already know without needing them.

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      101 year ago

      So to you it’s not disgusting if a homeless person shoots a homeless person?

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        Sure it is. It’s disgusting that anyone shoots anyone. But when you start making assumptions that it was someone from outside preying on them- yore creating a false narrative for the purpose of agitating the us vs them crowd which is disingenuous.

        Just wait and see what the investigation produces.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          The only person who made that assumption was you. No one mentioned whether the shooter was homeless or not.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            How do you attack those that society has already failed utterly.

            OP assumed it wasn’t. I made no assumptions. Learn how to read.

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                31 year ago

                Of course they were. Thats not the point.

                This would be a dumb thing to say if an assumption wasn’t that the person wasn’t also homeless. OP assumed the shooter wasn’t also homeless.

                Read it again with the idea that the shooter was a homeless man and it reads entirely wrong.

                For fuck’s sake man.

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                11 year ago

                That is not how to interpret that statement. That reduces the point to a tautological statement of no consequence.

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              81 year ago

              If a homeless person attacks a homeless person, they are still attacking someone society has failed. My interpretation of the comment is that it is more related to the victim than the perpetrator, like shooting elderly people in a nursing home or children or otherwise less privileged people - you’re victimizing someone who doesn’t have the same opportunity to protect or defend themselves or even choose where they reside. This is not to say that they are pitiable or anything like that, but they are disenfranchised.