Starting with Graffiti and Ending with Murder

Just read a Reuter's article about a police chief near San Antonio getting shot to death during a traffic stop.

The dead officer's name is Michael Pimentel  and he died of multiple gunshot wounds during a struggle with a motorist around noon in Elmendorf, a rural community of about 1,500 people just southeast of San Antonio, according to Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau.



The shooter's name is Joshua Manuel Lopez, 24, who was taken into custody on charges of capital murder of a police officer. When Lopez was stopped, he was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant for graffiti.

I feel for the young 24 year old tagger whose life could have been turned around, but now will either die of lethal injection or spend the rest of his years locked up with hardened convicts who have sex with any young man they desire in return for protection from prison gangs.

Lopez had no discernible reason to kill the police chief with such a minor infraction as graffiti on his record. There will likely be an investigation given no real motive for shooting Pimentel.

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