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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Retired Olympics relay runner, 62, and his friend, 60, both die after shooting each other during heated argument
2021-11-30
[Linda Ikeji's blog] A 62-year-old retired Olympics relay runner and his 60-year-old friend both died on Sunday, November 28 after pulling out guns during a heated argument and shooting each other, according to police reports.

Emmit King, a former University of Alabama track athlete and two-time member of the American Olympics Relay Team, and his friend Willie Albert Wells were having an argument outside a home in Bessemer, Alabama, before it ended in gunfire, according to police.

It is not clear what the two men were arguing about or who shot their weapon first. The shots were exchanged around 3.40pm on the 800 block of 22nd Street North, according to police.

Wells was pronounced dead at the scene at 3.59pm, while King was taken to UAB Medical West Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4.40pm.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  ^ Sons of Bessemer but neither one a Man of Steel
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-30 19:01  

#6  Both tied for 2nd since neither one was faster than a speeding bullet.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-11-30 18:58  

#5  "Mutual Combat": a new Olympic event

I read somewhere that pistol dueling used to be an Olympic event.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-11-30 15:16  

#4  In other strange news:

Double Vaccinated Obese Nurse Dies From Covid…

Her Medical Workers Union said,
(Her) death was a reminder at how vulnerable health workers were on the pandemic frontline.

I guess the over 200lb woman's weight was not a factor....right ?
Posted by: Beldar Grumble6490   2021-11-30 15:05  

#3  This will go down in criminal folklore
as the "King Wells Bessemer Process".

Gun play between
a Darwinian Olympic Scholar
and a feral urbanite.
Posted by: Beldar Grumble6490   2021-11-30 14:56  

#2  "Mutual Combat": a new Olympic event
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-30 10:25  

#1  It is not clear what the two men were arguing about...

....but a successful resolution was obviously reached.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-11-30 10:21  

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