Shooting At Hmong Celebration by Addison Jordan

Summary: A man open fired at a Hmong New Years celebration at the Green County Event Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday night. The Hmongs are an Asian ethnic group who were important friends with the United States during the Vietnam War.  Many of them left the communist government when the war was over.  There are an estimated 210,000 Hmongs living in various places in the United States.

This shooting ended up injuring five people. Police don’t know what caused the man to begin shooting, but they arrested the man that did it. “Two attendees were hit in the upper body, while the other three were struck in the arm and leg,” said Tulsa Police Capt. Mike Williams. The victims were all between the ages 30 and 60.

“A police helicopter that happened to be flying by saw a vehicle leaving the area. When officers tried to stop the car, they saw a passenger changing clothes, then throwing his hoodie and a gun from the car,” Williams said.

            Police believe that 19-year-old Ming Mee was the shooter and the driver of the car was 21-year-old Boon Mee.

Analysis: There are some sick people in the world, and I don’t understand how anyone could just take the lives of random innocent people.  What if there were small children that had been killed?  If the two people that were arrested for this crime are found to be guilty, I hope that justice is served and they pay for this crime.  I couldn’t imagine why any sane person would do something like this.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/13/justice/tulsa-hmong-shooting/index.html?hpt=us_c2