Man attacks with hatchet, gun in Mass. gay bar
 

What is wrong with people? Why have all of this hatred inside of you?
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Man attacks with hatchet, gun in Mass. gay bar
Police investigating incident as a possible hate crime; 3 people injured http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11146480/

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - A teenager armed with a hatchet and handgun opened fire inside a gay bar early Thursday, wounding at least three people in what police are investigating as a hate crime.

A bartender at Puzzle Lounge told The Associated Press that the young man, dressed all in black, ordered a drink and asked if Puzzles was a gay bar. He finished his drink shortly after midnight, ordered another, then started attacking people, the bartender said. Three were hospitalized Thursday.

Police were searching for Jacob D. Robida, 18, Police Capt. Richard Spirlet said.

An arrest warrant sought to charge Robida with assault, attempted murder and civil-rights violations. According to a court filing attached to the warrant, a woman in the bar recognized Robida as a current or former student at New Bedford High School.

The teenager was armed with a handgun and “some sort of cutting instrument,” Spirlet said.

The bartender said the attacker was swinging a hatchet.

‘He was shooting everyone’
After finishing his drink, the man walked to the back of the bar where two men were playing pool, shoved one to the ground, then pulled a hatchet from his sweat shirt and began swinging at the man’s head, cutting him, the bartender said.

Other patrons tackled the man, sending the hatchet sliding across the floor, the bartender said. That’s when the man pulled out a handgun, he said. The gunman shot both pool players and also fired at a patron who was leaving the bathroom, hitting him in the chest.

“He was shooting at everyone,” said the bartender, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Phillip, because of concerns about his safety.

The attacker also shoved him before running out, Phillip said. He said police found the hatchet and a machete in the bar.

Puzzles is popular with the local gay community and is listed on Web sites offering resources to gays and lesbians.

New Bedford, a city of 94,000 residents, is 50 miles south of Boston.

Don't they ID people at bars in Mass? Why use a hatchet, did he misplace his tomahawk or machette?

They do at most bars, but I'm not sure if his would say that he had a rage problem...

Re: Man attacks with hatchet, gun in Mass. gay bar
 

On another, unrelated note, there was a gang-related hatchet attack near ksigkid's and my fraternity house a few years back . . . must be a Mass thing.

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Is that the one on the next street from where i used to live that I didn't believe you when you told me until my friends told me that they were living on that street when it happened?

Suspect is dead
 

Jacob Robida has died after being shot by police.




http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/05/robida/index.html

I think he deserved it after everything he did.

Wow, what a story.

Scary to think there are people like this guy out here among us.

The kid was shot and killed in the parking lot of the restaurant I used to work at. Gassville is about 3 minutes away from my house. I drove through there 3 times that day, and I knew the cop who got killed. I still can't believe that he ended up in my little town...but I believe he deserved everything that he got, and more.

I agree with DeltAlum...it is scary to think that these people are out there...and that they could be anywhere, even a little town in Northern Arkansas...