Lewis-McChord soldier stabbed to death
You folks have been stuffing my inbox with the news of 20-year-old Tevin Geike who was stabbed near Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) when he was walking with a couple of his friends.
From the Seattle Times;
When one of the soldiers yelled back a comment about treating combat soldiers with disrespect, the car turned around and stopped next to them in a parking lot in the largely industrial area.
Five men climbed out of the car, and surrounded the soldiers as the verbal confrontation continued.
When the driver determined the men really were combat veterans, he summoned his passengers back to the car. As they were returning to the car, one them appeared to bump Geike, who fell to the ground as the car sped away.
“It was then that they discovered the victim had been stabbed and was bleeding profusely. Geike died at the scene,” Lawler wrote in a news release.
The video report is below the fold because I can’t turn off the autoplay;
Apparently, the police are investigating this as a “hate crime”, whatever that does to help. I’m pretty sure that making it a hate a crime won’t put anyone in jail any faster. Hate crime legislation is so much mental masturbation, it’s more feel good stuff from the Left. I just hope they catch the guy who stabbed Geike and let him out of his obvious miserable existence.
Hope they catch the fucker soon, and fry his ass…. Just wondering if the occupants of the car were military. Not like you average gang banger/thug is going to be impressed with the sacrifices of a Combat Veteran.
Notice it’s only being “investigated” as a hate crime. When these people are arrested, that won’t even be part of the trial.
That being said, I hope the Soldiers find them first.
Occupants were hood rats. Arrest will come soon. Vehicle make and model most certainly identified. Perps will be fingered and mug shoots will confirm. I suspect the end of the day.
Cowardly attack.
Gangbangers looking for a fight. Otherwise they’d have kept going.
What was the point of stabbing one of the soldiers in the first place?
Apes.
In before the news reports their defense attorney says it wasn’t their fault, it was because of Travon… :/
@4, beause one of the 5 that got out of the car was pissed they were no longer going to F’ them up.
Hmmmmm. Obama’s sons strike again?
@1 – I’ll bet the same. Seems once the Soldiers status as active duty was confirmed, the drive wanted to walk away, probably because he, too was active duty and either didn’t want the issue to impact his military career or had respect for the other Soldiers. Seems one of his crew had no such ideas and shivved the Soldier as he walked past. My 2c anyway.
“Discretion is the better part of valor.”
It’s entirely likely that, had the three not played the “respect for combat soldiers” card to five goons who were obviously spoiling for a fight, said goons would have just kept on driving and Geike would be alive today.
But too many times, pride overrides common sense.
The goons will get theirs, whether in this life or the next.
This is about 2 miles from my house used to be a rough strip of road Tactical tailor is on that stretch. haven’t been aware of too many drug and prostitution busts along there lately as they shut down some of the hot sheet motels
@1 Your instincts were right, and I guess we owe collective apology to the local civilian thug population. CNN is reporting that three soldiers from JBML are being held as suspects in the stabbing.
Active duty hood rats. I am not apologizing.
AverageNCO: MCPO has a point. Some installations have a gang problem among those on active duty.
http://www.katu.com/news/local/3-arrested-in-deadly-stabbing-of-Lewis-McChord-soldier-226770411.html
“Based on information developed during the investigation, Lt. Chris Lawler of the Lakewood police said it does not appear the stabbing was a hate crime.”
[eyeroll]
EVERY crime is a “hate” crime.
@13/14 I absolutely agree with both of you. I remember a few years back when one of the tech training bases in the Air Force was having absolute fits with gang activity in the dorms. Hence why I qualified it by saying “civilian” thugs. I just didn’t want to have the civilian thugs portrayed in poor light while they are trying to turn their lives around in the hope of making it into one of TAH’s Feel Good Stories of the Day.
Race was not an issue:
“The three were in a group of five black men who allegedly confronted three white soldiers who were walking along Pacific Highway Southwest early Saturday.
During the confrontation, one of the white soldiers, 20-year-old Tevin Geike, was stabbed to death. The group of black men then fled the scene in a car”.
Black on white crime is never wrong bro!
But white on black crime is racist dog!