Local lady shoots & kills cousin because she wore short shorts to Easter dinner

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...te-easter-outfit-blamed-in-death.html?sid=101

When a teenage cousin showed up at Evelyn Burgess' house for Easter dinner wearing what Burgess considered a revealing outfit, the hostess was not going to let the issue go.

According to family members who were present, Burgess got mad when her husband took notice of the T-shirt and jean shorts that Danielle Pickens was wearing.

Burgess and Danielle Pickens fought before Pickens walked outside and got into a car in front of the Linden-area house.

Burgess followed, pointed a handgun at her 19-year-old second cousin and shot her in the head, according to police.

Burgess, 42, told police that Pickens showed up at her house in an outfit that "was inappropriate and disrespectful to wear at Easter dinner," said Columbus homicide detective Steven Eppert.

He said Burgess told investigators "she didn't mean to shoot" Pickens, who was wounded at 8:43 p.m. in front of 1666 Manchester Ave.

Pickens, who lived nearby on Pontiac Street, died at Riverside Methodist Hospital at 2 a.m. yesterday of a gunshot wound in the head, said Franklin County Coroner Jan Gorniak.

Burgess is charged with one count of murder. During her initial court appearance today, Franklin County Municipal Court Judge William Pollitt set bond at $500,000.

Eppert said a large number of family members and friends were at Burgess' house during the confrontation and "quite a few were witnesses" to the shooting.

Yesterday, several family members gathered at Pickens' house. Her cousin, Tico Pickens, 33, described Danielle as a "sweet, young, caring person."

"And what happened to her should have never happened," he said.

Eppert said Burgess does not appear to have a criminal record.
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Wow.
 
This thread is worthless without pics.

Sad. That lady must've either been jealous or demented.

There's something else obvious I'd like to say, but I'll refrain from it because I got permenently banned from GAF for a similar comment.
 
I'd hate to think what might of happened if the victim commented about the quality of the food. :shock:

This whole situation is a terrible tragedy and proof why some people don't need guns.
 
See, I disagree that this is a tradgedy. A tragedy should be something unforseeable or unavoidable. Sorry, but if you own a gun, and your willing to point a loaded gun at your family member, because your husband checked her out, then this isn't unforseeable. I also could care less that she didn't mean to shoot. You pulled the gun out and pointed it. That wasn't accidental. Once you do that, you set things in motion where anything can happen.

I hope this woman gets life with no chance of parole. I know nothing about the 19 year old, but I have to think that she had more of a future than this lunatic deserves to have.
 
[quote name='tiredfornow']This is the best murder ever![/QUOTE]

This Plus your forum pic made me lol big time
 
So, let's get this straight...

Inappropriate and disrespectful:
Wearing a t-shirt and jean shorts to dinner.

Not inappropriate and disrespectful:
Shooting a guest in the head.

Just making sure I have things right, because I think Ms. Manner's didn't cover proper gun etiquette. Also, which side of the plate do you put the firearm on?
 
[quote name='2DMention']This thread is worthless without pics.
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Pic in article.

pickens-art-g0283j6r-1pickens.jpg

The victim ^
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']Huh? This sounded like pure redneck.[/QUOTE]
Who said they weren't rednecks?
 
[quote name='DAWG26']Did you see the pic?[/QUOTE]
You're going to say you've never seen a Black Redneck?
 
[quote name='shrike4242']This whole situation is a terrible tragedy and proof why some people don'tno one needs guns.[/QUOTE]

Fixed!
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']I'll say I've never seen a black redneck.[/QUOTE]

It's a myth - like a Chinese homeless person.
 
An Indian who isn't a doctor and doesn't work in a convenience store. There is no in between.

A Native American who is not an alcoholic and doesn't work in a casino.

This is fun. Somebody should make a song about stereotypes. It would probably be the most hated and offensive song ever...but still, I gotta feel there's a place for it.
 
i just saw a homeless chinese in chinatown.
the scottish korean i have never seen. but i have seen german koreans (twin girls).

the killer is a fucking idiot. who points a loaded gun at a family member? what kind of situation warrants it? she needs to be locked up for good.
 
murder on Easter. going to the n'th degree of hell, bitch.

and... what kind of journalism translates a 'gunshot to the head' to be 'wounded?' [sighs]

whoa OP, you left out this final quote:

"The shooting is the 25th homicide in Columbus this year."
 
Its not a tragedy.

A tragedy is a thousands killed in a earthquake, a tragedy is a baby being born dead because the umbillical cord was around its neck, a tragedy is a government killing hundreds of its own people for political reasons or simply because they can.

A woman shooting another woman in the head is a incident.

Besides we dont know the whole story. The lady shot may have been a real cunt, she could have been a rude, nasty, disrespectful bitch and had been getting at the other lady for years on end and she finally snapped. Not saying its an excuse but we dont know the truth because every single time this happens the dead person is always said to be a good person, sweet, kind, caring, talented and a bunch of other positive adjetives thrown in. The victim is always glamorized to invoke sympathy so they get more press out of it. If the headline was "Rude, obnoxious, hateful bitch shot on easter" no one would feel sympathetic and give a shit.

When people read stories and see the words "tragedy" and see "The victim was a sweet person" then they will kneejerk an automatic response of anger towards the killer and never stop to think or consider anything else.
 
How many times has an innocent gun been dragged to a easter gathering or for that matter an holiday gathering. That's a tragedy.
 
[quote name='gargus']Its not a tragedy.

When people read stories and see the words "tragedy" and see "The victim was a sweet person" then they will kneejerk an automatic response of anger towards the killer and never stop to think or consider anything else.[/QUOTE]

Whle you sort of have a point, the issue you skipped right over is that regardless of what kind of person the victim was, it's going to be difficult to justify shooting her in the head. Even if she told the host her cooking sucked, spit on the food, and then fucked her husband right in front of her, shooting her would STILL be unjustified (it would definitely be more understandable, but still beyond her legal rights). It really doesn't matter what kind of person the 19 year old girl was. The host escalated the situation into something much bigger than it should have been and decided to pass judgment on the girl's entire life. That fact alone is tragic.
 
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