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Trial date set for man accused of shooting neighbor
Published Thursday, July 9, 2009
An Ironton area man accused of accidentally shooting his neighbor will stand trial Aug. 24 and 25 in connection with that shooting.
Floyd McCann, 50, of 38 Township Road 203W, is charged with felonious assault in the shooting and injury of Mark Robinson, 39, of 750 State Route 650, who was shot once in the upper back at his home on the evening of Jan. 7. Authorities said Robinson heard a noise outside his house and went to see what caused the noise.
McCann is also charged with having a weapon under a disability — as a convicted felon, he is not permitted to have a gun.
The trial before Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge D. Scott Bowling was scheduled during a pretrial conference Wednesday.
In other news, a Lovely, Ky., man was arraigned on two felony counts of ethnic intimidation and one count of aggravated menacing.
Shannon L. Workman pleaded not guilty through his attorney, Mike Gleichauf. Judge Charles Cooper allowed a $7,500 cash bond set in Lawrence County Municipal Court to continue and scheduled a July 29 pretrial conference. Cooper also ordered Workman to have no further contact with his alleged victim.
Ethnic intimidation is a charge rarely heard in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.
“He called on the phone and made threats to the victim’s son and used racial slurs,” Assistant Lawrence County Prosecutor Mack Anderson explained. “Then he called a second time and threatened the victim and used racial slurs.”
Anderson said one of Workman’s family members lives next door to the alleged victim and the two families have had problems in the past. Workman is Caucasian; the alleged victim is African-American.
Anderson said the two felony charges carry a maximum of 12 months each in prison.
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Posted by Retro (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 10:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I get sick and tired of hearing the term "African-American" used as a race. Caucasian is a race. African-American sounds more like a family history. Why didn't they identify Workman as a British-American or some such designation. How do we know the alleged victim isn't African-British, or African-Austrailian, or African-French? Did the reporter do a family history on them? If you insist on identifying people in news stories by their skin color and/or race then do it in a racial way. Caucasian, Negroid, Mongoloid, or whatever the correct terms are. I have a lot of dark skinned friends and frankly I can't tell where their families are from by the color of their skin so let's lose the African-American term as a racial designation.
Posted by OLDad (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 11:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
they are either white or black americans.....when you become part of america you are american no matter where you came from...its good to be proud of where you came from but stand and say i am american....people cant tell what color you are just by looking at you....this country isnt called africa america or latin america or mexico america...its the united state of america and people should be more proud of that than anything
Posted by Green (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 11:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The problem with our country today is that people have forgotten this is the United States of America. If they don't want to live here, say they are a member of the USA and as such say they are American, they should stay where they were. Either be an American or go back to your native country. Most of those coming into the USA are doing so to reap the rewards of our country. If so, then they should stand up and be proud of what we Americans have done rather than take advantage of us and laugh about it. Economic times are tough right now but there are still plenty of jobs out there. Many are so high and mighty they don't want to work at a low wage job. Too bad. Whoops! I got off on a tangent.
Posted by localgirl (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 12:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Geez, I thought the article was about someone accused of a crime against his neighbor. It should be about the fact that he threatened someone.
Posted by MEinOH (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 12:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Idiots. Why start a race issue when the story clearly has nothing to do with that?! See, bunch of drama-lovers!
Posted by osu (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 12:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I prefer the term "person" when talking about anyone.
Posted by Vil (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 1:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ethnic intimidation? I bet if an Asian called me and threatened me or used slang terms for white folks there would be no charge of ethnic intimidation.
I bet you could post slurs against Caucasian folks on this site and they wouldn't be taken down because mainstream doesn't think they are slurs but they are.
Posted by groversdad (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Since when is attempting to rob your neighbor and shooting him in the back when he catches you an accidental shooting?
Posted by rooster1410 (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 3:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm sure that MR. COLLIER is chomping at the bit to work out PROBATION deals with these people.
Posted by Guess (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 3:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The gun MR. Mcmann used had a scope on it, he new exactly where he was shooting. It was no accident and I hope they up his charge to attempted murder
Posted by Retro (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 4:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Come on JB, "Guess" upped his charge now up yours...LOL
Posted by Dad (anonymous) on July 9, 2009 at 5:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
to answer groversdads question: see frog's comment.
Posted by mykool79 (anonymous) on July 10, 2009 at 4:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
this was an attempted robbery for sure! do you know what the odds of accidently firing your gun and the bullet going threw your neighbors back? it should be attempted murder. anything less is unjust. tired of all these junkies going out and robbing people with little or no punishment!
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