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2021-04-20 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Rakayo Alandis Vinson Charged In Kenosha County Bar Shooting

That was fast. He shot up the college bar just the other day.

[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] A 24-year-old man is being held on homicide charges, in a shooting at a Kenosha County bar that left three men dead and three others maimed on Sunday.

As CBS 2’s Jim Williams reported Monday, authorities said a stolen car led police to the suspect.

Rakayo Alandis Vinson of Racine, Wisconsin was arrested Sunday and charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide, according to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department. His bond was set at $4 million on Monday, and he is being held at the Kenosha County Jail.

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The shooting took place early Sunday morning Sunday inside the Somers House, at 1548 Sheridan Rd. in the village of Somers, and another exchange of gunfire took place outside in the street.

"It’s a difficult day in Kenosha, and recently today I found out that they’ve been something like 40 mass shootings in this country in the last month," said Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth, "and to think that Kenosha is part of something so tragic, it just breaks your heart."

Beth said Monday that the chain of events started a little bit before 12:42 a.m. Sunday — when a scuffle broke out between Vinson and the three men who were later rubbed out. Vinson was kicked out of the bar, and he went outside — only to come back in with a gun and open fire, Beth said.

Two of the men who died were shot inside the bar. A third was shot across the street along Sheridan Road, and got into a car with a driver who drove a few blocks and flagged down police to help him — but he then died, Beth said.

Three other men were maimed in the shooting, Beth said. It was not believed that they were intended targets, he said.

Family late Sunday identified one of the victims who was killed as Cedric Gaston of Kenosha. He was a little more than two weeks away from his 25th birthday and was a regular at Somers House, family said.

Katrina Haun is the mother of Gaston’s son.

"He’s the best dad in the world, and I don’t know how to tell him he was taken from us," Haun said.

Gaston’s brother, Cartier Gaston, spoke while in shock on Sunday.

"He was very loved, lovable — he loved his kids. He loved his nieces and nephews. He loved his girl," said the victim’s brother, Cartier Gaston.

Beth said the other two victims who were killed were identified as Atkeen Stevenson, 26, and Kevin Donaldson, 22, both of Kenosha.

Cartier Gaston said all of the victims were friends.

The three men who were maimed were a 26-year-old man from Kenosha and two men — ages 22 and 23 — from Wonder Lake, Illinois, Beth said.

At a virtual bond hearing Monday, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said suspect Vinson fled to another county, and was apprehended when a relative called police and reported he had taken a car without permission.

Graveley said Vinson first denied having been at the tavern, but then admitted he had been there after detectives said his ID had been found there and he was on video.

Vinson also admitted that he had been in possession of a gun and that he was in a fight. When detectives asked Vinson if he was the shooter he said, "I blacked out and s**t went down," Graveley said.

Vinson told detectives nobody had been targeted and said the gun would not be found — which indeed it had not been as of Monday, Graveley said.

"The current indication is that this was literally over nothing," Graveley said. "This was literally over a very minor dispute that happens at a busy bar across this country every night when people are out celebrating or socializing."

This occasion was also the fourth time that Vinson has been arrested for illegal possession of a weapon in the past 10 years, Graveley said.

Posted by Fred 2021-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 This occasion was also the fourth time that Vinson has been arrested for illegal possession of a weapon in the past 10 years, Graveley said.

You don't need 'new' gun laws if you simply enforce old gun laws.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-20 07:28|| 2021-04-20 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "I blacked out and s**t went down," Graveley said.

Posted by Frank G 2021-04-20 07:38|| 2021-04-20 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The supply of Caucasian Persons of Color seems limitless...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-20 09:30|| 2021-04-20 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps he was like the J Edgar Hoover character testifying at trial in Woody Allen's 'Bananas' and simply had many enemies and thus had to take precautions.

Posted by Cesare 2021-04-20 12:40|| 2021-04-20 12:40|| Front Page Top

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