Hispanic Men Open Fire on 7-11 Clerk: Didn't Like His Border Patrol Hat!

Gunfire breaks out at Basalt 7-11


No when hit when shots fired Tuesday night; police seek suspects



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Scott Condon
Vail, CO Colorado
June 27, 2007

[link to www.vaildaily.com]

BASALT — Five shots were fired at the counter of a 7-Eleven from outside the store at about 11:10 p.m., Tuesday, police said.

No one was hit but Basalt Police Chief Keith Ikeda said the clerk and the four or so customers — which included a family with a child — could have been killed or seriously injured.

Police want to question two Hispanic men who argued with a clerk at the convenience store at about 9:30 p.m., Ikeda said.

The men left the store, hung around outside for a short time, then departed.

The clerk the men argued with was off duty and had gone home by the time of the shooting.

Police have images of the two men from video surveillance cameras at the store, Ikeda said.

The clerk, Bruno Kirchenwitz, said the two men were angry about a hat he often wears to work. The baseball cap says, “U.S. Border Patrol.” He said he didn’t have the hat on at the time they approached him.

Ikeda stopped short of calling the incident racially charged.

“All we know is he got in a verbal dispute with two Latinos males and we believe that this may be connected to the shooting,” Ikeda said.

Basalt investigators worked with law officers from Pitkin and Eagle counties and Snowmass Village Wednesday to try to find the two men, who police said were last seen driving a small, silver, two-door sedan on Two Rivers Road toward El Jebel.

Police described one of the men as overweight and about 5-foot-8-inches tall, with “medium brown skin” and a black crew cut. The other is a bit shorter, weighs between 180 and 195 pounds, and has a shaved head and dark brown skin, police said.

No arrests had been made as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to Basalt Sgt. Joe Chavira, but officers will still working numerous leads.

Though less serious, this is the second shooting in the region is as many days. On Monday night, a 20-year-old man was shot to death at the Ponderosa Lodge in Glenwood Springs.




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Don't let the cowards scare you, Bruno!

German and other European immigrants built this country after struggling to make it here with ZERO handouts. 95% of these Mexicans sneak in, soak up the wealth produced by descendants of those European immigrants, and turn every place they go into a third world sewer of rape & murder, the worst of which the media downplays and never reports outside of the town it happens in.

And Bush wanted more of this?!? He got an ear-full from patriots like Bruno this morning!

report this | replyby Knut Hamsun

Scary
This is just the beginning of terrible confrontations as Americans get tough and outspoken on illegals.

Those untold millions will not go willingly or quietly. It's gonna get real ugly. But that's no reason not to enforce the law on millions of lawbreakers.

Thanks to an idiot president(and a few before him) and many long years of a rubber-stamp and do-nothing congress.

And this happened to a legal(assumably) immigrant! My, how they hate anyone who says they should go back to their own country. This is nothing less than a hate crime, and they will commit a great many of them over the coming years.