(Didn't know bringing a loaded gun to a mall and shooting somebody who disrespected him was going to change his life for the worse? what is he a RETARD? - YOU HAVE TO LOVE THESE PANDERING NEWSPAPERS TO BLACK AMERICA!)
The Seattle Times: Insults, disrespect and access to weapon often have deadly results
Now serving a 17-year-sentence in prison, Barry L. Saunders Jr. can see there are worse things than disrespect (Like being gang raped in the prison showers), but he didn’t know that when he brought a gun to the Westfield Southcenter Mall in 2008 and fatally shot a 16-year-old boy.
CLALLAM BAY CORRECTIONS CENTER — Looking back on it, Barry Lee Saunders Jr. now knows there are worse things than being disrespected.
Nearly four years behind bars have given Saunders ample time to reach that conclusion. And he has up to 15 more years to ponder why he ended up at Clallam Bay Corrections Center.
Of course, Saunders, 25, didn’t have the benefit of hindsight that day in 2008 when he armed himself with a handgun — for a number of reasons that made sense to him at the time — and went to Westfield Southcenter mall. When he saw his younger brother involved in a fight, Saunders pulled out a handgun and killed 16-year-old Diaquan Jones and wounded a second teen.
“I wish I didn’t have the gun with me that day. I had nothing against Diaquan,” Saunders said during an interview in the visitors’ room at the prison, about 50 miles west of Port Angeles.
The fight that changed Saunders’ life, and ended that of Jones, started with an insult.
That’s not unusual, say police and prosecutors.
An insult, a slight or another perceived sign of disrespect, coupled with access to a weapon, can be a deadly combination, according to Karissa Taylor, a prosecutor with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office gang division. Many of the homicides and assaults that have occurred in the county over the past few years have had those common denominators.
Take the case of Justin Ferrari, a 42-year-old software engineer from Madrona, who was killed May 24 after he was struck by a stray bullet fired by a stranger, according to Seattle police and prosecutors.
Prosecutors allege that the suspect, Andrew Jermain Patterson, 20, fired a handgun several times at a person who had called Patterson a “bitch” for trying to bum a cigarette.
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