Mesa shooter arrested
So this fellow Ryan Giroux went on a shooting spee yesterday in Mesa, Arizona killing one and wounding 5 others, according to Yahoo News;
According to court records, Giroux was sentenced in July 2007 to seven and half years in Arizona state prison after pleading guilty to attempted aggravated assault. Details of that case weren’t immediately known.
He served a little more than six years in prison before being paroled in October 2013. But according to Maricopa County records, Giroux violated a condition of his release a year ago and was placed back on probation through October 2016.
So, he’s another one who gun control didn’t work for – he is a felon and not allowed to own a gun or have one in his possession. That’s not much comfort to the grieving family, though, I’m sure.
The shooting spree began at about 8:40 a.m. MT at the Tri-City Inn, where three people were shot — one of them fatally — after an argument, police said. The gunman then ran to a nearby restaurant, where one East Valley student was shot. He then stole a car — a gray Honda Accord — and attempted a pair of separate home invasions, where he shot two people, police said.
But, yeah, I’m glad he’s not a military veteran, I’m pretty sure that those tattoos would have precluded any military service. But it is probably easier for a criminal to buy a gun in a darkened parking lot than it is for a law abiding citizen to buy one in a gun show.
Category: Crime
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http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/ss313/taco130130/tattoo-locations.jpg
Damn. I knew I never should have put that cannon tattoo on my left forearm. Thank God I’m self employed! 😀
White supremacist scumbag. Hopefully this time Arizona will put a needle in his arm and cancel his check permanently.
Maybe he could have a hanging accident in his cell…
Does some idiotic judge think this scumbag will be reformed in 7 years? HANG HIS WORTHLESS ASS!!
That young man is a gentle giant. He was just emotional about being accepted into UC Berkley for next the next semester.
Nicely done.
I was thinking Planned Parenthood’s new poster child.
HANDS UP!
WHITE LIVES MATTER!
/sarc
When I see some fucktard like this I often wonder if these complete fucking morons can even decipher what the word supremacy actually means.
Stupid skinhead fuck.
Yeah, in what sense are these idiots “supreme”? Scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity is more like it.
Well, the phrases “supremely ignorant” and “idota el supremo” come to mind. But that’s about it.
Those are white supremacist tattoos? I thought the one on his neck read, UNICEF. Font size is your friend sometimes.
UNICEF…too bad somebody didn’t save this asshole when he was a child.
His mama should have knocked him in the head and raised a pig on the milk.
That is a SERIOUS case of ‘lights on, nobody home.’ That dude is Parvo in the head!
He has, as you might guess, an extensive criminal record, from burglary to attempting to get his hands on a police officer’s firearm. He has been arrested in three states (AZ, CA, WA) and has twice served prison terms, both in AZ. He was a very bad boy in prison, too, being charged with possessing drugs, contraband, and assault. He is evil incarnate.
Which absolutely begs the question: Why the hell was he even out on the street in the first place?
Our criminal justice system is a bad joke, and now there is one more grieving family because of it.
We have to release the violent criminals to make as much room as possible for the dopers…that way judges and cops can show progress in their losing efforts on the drug war while shitbags like this can walk.
Say what you want about the death penalty, the one good thing about it is that you never have to worry about seeing that thug on the street again!
Executed murderers have a 0% recidivism rate!
Why? How? Dollars to donuts, his criminal justice system trail includes all of the following:
1) Nolle prosses;
2) Plea bargains;
3) Probation in lieu of prison;
4) Failure of the state to criminally (not administratively) charge him and try him for the drugs and weapons possession in prison;
5) Failure of the courts to impose maximum, consecutive sentences; and
6) Release before his maximum, legal sentence dates were reached.
I took a look at his record too (open source information). You are correct, I believe he is a bad boy. And has at least 8 infractions/guilty’s while in prison including: what seems to be assault, manf a weapon, etc. Like you said, what the hell was he doing out on the street in possession of a weapon.
Its not guns that are the problem. Its the bullets damn it. He looks like an all American kind of kid. He probably bought the gun at a show and the bullets at Walmart.
You can just bet he was using one of those .223 handguns the liberal media love to write about.
.223 aint nothing compared to 40mm.
Have they published a photo of his laminated tea party id card yet?
40mm is going to leave a rather large entry and even larger exit wound…that will not be easy to clean up or repair…those wily reporters who never learned the metric system ought to have someone with a half a brain explain the conversion factor just a little to them…
“But it is probably easier for a criminal to buy a gun in a darkened parking lot than it is for a law abiding citizen to buy one in a gun show.”
Let’s see, one requires an FFL, DROS fees, a 4473 for BATFE, a mandatory waiting period, and is subject to all applicable local, state, and federal regulations. Would the gun-grabbers care to take a guess as to which one?
So; we’re going to have to pay for this pile of shit to get 3 hots and a cot for the next 20 years until all his appeals run out?
Possibly longer than that. He could get life w/o parole vice the needle.
‘Course, in that case he could also find out the hard way that he’s not the biggest, baddest mo-fo in prison well before 20 years have passed . . . .
Hey lookie….. He Fell Down…..
*A LOT*
http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/35/22/72/7679627/3/920×920.jpg
To bad he got up.
Obviously tripped over a cigarette butt ..
So I guess some of the other tattoos were water-based fakes? What happened to the Thor’s hammer on his lip and chin, and the “88” that was on his left temple? I can still see vestages of “SKIN HEAD” under his eyebrows.
The real 1% right here.
Criminal injustice system is responsible for this scums actions. They have blood on their hands.
If he served his time and got out, there’s nothing anyone can really do until he breaks the law again (as he very apparently did in this case.)
It’s a case of knowing something bad is going to happen, and not being able to legally do a thing about it until it occurs. Unfortunately. That’s why I made the comment about the death penalty above — and he just may get that this time. He’ll die in prison, but at least he won’t get out again.
I hope.
Not quite true, Ex. “He served a little more than six years in prison before being paroled in October 2013. But according to Maricopa County records, Giroux violated a condition of his release a year ago and was placed back on probation through October 2016”. He violated parole, so the state had the option of putting his ass back in prison, to finish his original sentence, it sounds like they just decided to extend his parole, even though he’d given them reason to know that he wouldn’t behave.
Yep. It is common for a defendant to receive a split sentence, with prison, followed by a period of probation. Thus, he is either mandatorily or by discretion of the parole board, released before his sentence expires, and, on that release date, his probation begins. Thus, he can violate the terms of his parole and those of his probation at one and the same time. This was not the sort of fellow who would have cottoned to being supervised and he probably violated quickly. The question is whether his parole and probation officer acted quickly.
My comment was in reply to PN, not Ex. I suffer from Postfastitis, apparently. You’re correct, 2/17, this POS should have been shuffled off to prison when he violated. Now, someone’s family pays for the parole and probation board’s fuckup.
I was trying to come up with something to say the would be funny or possibly sarcastic to “compliment” this asshole. The only adjective that seems to fit I already said above; asshole.
What a waste of space this asshole occupies.
I Wish I could post a update to this story here, this happened right up the road from me. This kind of crap seems to happen here quit a bit up north in Phoenix and kingman. This was on our news all morning yesterday. Crap is crazy
Update from local “paper”
Ryan Giroux’s Past Full of Violence and Meth Use
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2015/03/ryan_giroux_mesa_arizona_shooting_violence_meth_use.php
I guess he’s gonna blame drug misuse…
Gee whiz, a felon in possession of a firearm and ammo. Forget about passing more laws, how about enforcing those that are already in effect? He violated his probation and was let loose, I bet that gives his victims’ families warm & fuzzy feelings about our Justice system! Where is there some rope and a gallows when we need them?