The volunteer, tasked with security for the march and later identified as Matt Alder, saw Gamboa assembling a legally owned, legally carried AR-15-style rifle near the march in downtown Salt Lake City on June 14. Alarmed, Alder called for another volunteer security guard before drawing a concealed handgun. As Gamboa tried to rejoin the march, Alder opened fire, hitting Gamboa and killing Ah Loo.
Immediately after the shooting, police arrested Gamboa on a murder charge. The arresting officer claimed that Gamboa’s actions had created the situation that caused Alder to fear for his life and the lives of others, prompting Alder to open fire.
As a result Gamboa was blamed for Ah Loo’s death for having “acted under circumstances that showed a depraved indifference to human life, knowingly engag[ing] in conduct that created a grave risk of death and ultimately caused the death of an innocent community member,” according to a police statement.
Gamboa was held without bail for five days under suspicion of committing a violent felony. Police briefly detained Alder but did not take him into custody.
Yeah, you should be suspicious. That’s why you go investigate what’s going on and don’t just shoot a dude, or rather shoot at a person, miss them then proceed to murder an innocent man because your aim is shit.
Sure you do. But then what happens that time where security is on the way to investigate and in the meantime the shooter starts shooting.
Ultimately I think you should stop allowing people to walk around with AR-15’s. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean it’s sensible to do it.
That said America is messed up and they seemingly love guns and will put that love against any common sense for greater good so I don’t really care anymore. Kill each other or don’t, just wish they would stop exporting their crappy individualism on everybody else.
I’m not saying people should walk around with ar 15s but unless the dude had it shouldered and started aiming it you just go talk to them and discern their intentions. At the very least get close enough to hit your target when you shoot.
It is what it is, being armed at a protest should not be an automatic death sentence especially when it’s legal (for better or worse).
I own firearms and I think they’re too easy to get and need to be better regulated but I am not in Congress writing laws nor sitting on the Supreme Court making shitty decisions on how to read the 2nd amendment. Regardless of my opinion though I think shooting at someone and missing and hitting another person is pretty fucking egregiously bad.
I’m not a crack shot by any stretch of the imagination but it is ludicrous to me this person shot into a crowd to try to subdue a person that wasn’t posing an immediate threat. Who was surrounded by people who were not freaking out which should tell you they’re not dangerous
Perhaps it’s different when you grow up around guns but I’m not going approaching someone with an AR-15 to check they’re not a mass shooter. If they’re then surely I’m first to get shot.
Sure, I agree that you shouldn’t be shot if you’re doing nothing wrong, which is why I think the laws over there are wild that it creates places where you genuinely don’t know if you’re going to be murdered or it’s just someone larping around or even worse someone trying to do it just because you can. Regardless if others feel threatened by it.
Ultimately comes down to Americans individualism over society and that’s also something I can’t comprehend. I don’t put my wants and needs above others as I think that’s selfish.