Open Season On Loud Music

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The trial of Michael Dunn for the killing of 17 year-old Jordan Davis is with a Florida jury.  If convicted of first degree murder, Dunn will face a life sentence.

Dunn shot and killed Davis because Davis, who was sitting in an adjacent car, was playing the music "too loud," according to Dunn.  Three other African-American youths besides Davis were in the car, but were not hit.  They were also not armed, as Dunn initially alleged.  After firing 10 rounds (three of them as Davis' car was driving away) and killing Davis, the cold-blooded Dunn drove off to a hotel with his fiancé, ordered a pizza, walked his dog and drove two hours home the following day, not reporting the shooting to police.

UPDATE:  Dunn is found guilty on three counts of attempted murder and shooting at a vehicle;  a mistrial was declared on the first degree murder charge.  To be continued….

Here's Wonkette's summary of the verdict:

The jury in the Michael Dunn case — the man in Florida who fired 10 shots at a car full of teenagers because they were black he was “scared” of their loud music, before heading back to his hotel, ordering a pizza, and declining to phone up the police — has come back with guilty verdicts for four charges of shooting a gun and attempted murder (the teenagers he did not succeed in killing), and a hung jury on murder in the first degree (the boy he did). This means they also deadlocked on lesser included charges, such as manslaughter — meaning at least one person on the jury agreed that Michael Dunn was reasonably scared for his life while shooting 10 bullets at a car speeding away, and with no return fire. 

 Jordan Davis would have been 19 tomorrow

(cartoon: S. Carlson, via Gocomics.com)