Calif. student arrested in shooting

Calif. student arrested in shooting

Associated Press

FRESNO, Calif. - Police arrested college student Tuesday suspected of opening fire at an apartment during a dispute over a video game console, killing one man and wounding two others.

Jonquel Brooks, 19, was taken into custody after a series of intense phone negotiations with police, his parents and an attorney, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

Police said the shooting across a street from the California State University, Fresno, stadium broke out during a confrontation with four men over a Playstation game console late Monday.

Brooks, who was majoring in criminology at Fresno State, was arrested after police and federal agents launched a manhunt for him. Investigators initially believed he was still inside the apartment complex where the shooting occurred, but then expanded the search to other parts of Fresno.

"The suspect had altered his appearance significantly," Dyer said. "He shaved his head and also changed his clothing apparently in an attempt to avoid being recognized."

The Fresno County Coroner's Office identified the deceased victim as a Brant Daniels, 19, who had moved from the Los Angeles area to attend Fresno State but was not a current student.

Police identified the two wounded men as Fresno State student Roderick Buycks, 19, and Drew Pfeiff, 22, who is not enrolled at the university.

Fresno State students were never in danger because police were in contact with the gunman and knew he was not on campus, Dyer said.
Police were searching for evidence, including the gun, at six apartments at University Village Apartments.
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WHY do people need to use a gun to solve their problems?

Over a mf'n Playstation? Shit man. What happened to an old school fist fight. People are just too afraid to get an ass kicking they'd rather pull out a gat, go to prison and get their balloon knot twisted by their bunkmate.

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I just don't, and never will, understand why people feel the need to take a human life. It's really quite sad. I would do it to protect my own life, or a loved one... but just because I'm ticked off at some one... never.

........and I'll say it again, if this dude didn't have a gun, would it have happened? No, I don't think so: he would've socked the guy a couple of times and run off.

If he didn't have a gun he probably would have used a knife or something. There are just too many bad people in the world now. People who are this twisted will use anything to kill someone. Ridiculous. Pathetic really.

A dude went at me with a knife in one of my parent's friends house once (long story), I grabbed his arm, headbutted the motherfucker and he started crying. Knifes are for pussies, and the dude in the story above wouldn't have been able to kill 1 and injure 2 others with one. He'd have gotten a few deep cuts in that were treatable and then someone would've jumped on him and held him down til the cops arrived.

Though knifes attacks are typically a hundred dollar fine or something, right?

Assault with a deadly weapon? That's a felony with some jail time. A lot of times it's plead down to aggravated assault, misdemeanor, with minimal jail time. Not like attacking someone with a knife is like a parking ticket out here.

But if you're famous you can stab whoever. Like O.J.

I had to knock a knife out of a dudes hand once, me and a buddy threw him to the ground. Didn't know it at the time but he dropped him on a beer bottle which broke and stabbed him in the back. Ironic.

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Ouch dude, that's harsh.

Knifes are pretty much illegal to conceal in Australia and England. If you're found with one on the street, you could do jail time. I think the same's true in Taiwan, so people stick baseball bats in their car to deal with traffic 'incidents.'