Panhandler Shot Man Who Told Her to "Get a Job"

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on September 23, 2008 at 2:24 am


When a man turned down her request for money, saying "get a job," a panhandler decided to get her gun out instead and shot the man!

A bus stop panhandler shot a man who turned down her request for money, Sacramento police said. The woman was later identified as Audrey Jackson, 47.

Several people turned Jackson down, police said, and she shot the last man who did so. There was some sort of conversation between the man and Jackson, Sgt. Matt Young said. A witness told KCRA 3 that the man first told Jackson "no," and then said, "get a job." The 54-year-old victim was shot once in the stomach and taken to the UC Davis Medical Center for surgery.

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22 comments to "Panhandler Shot Man Who Told Her to "Get a Job""

  1. EEM
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 am

    Hope he's ok :(

    Weird to see where I work (UCD Medical Center) in the news.

  2. Larfin Jackarse
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 am

    She has a job now, making number plates.

  3. Sweet Violet
    September 23rd, 2008 at 5:56 am

    Sounds like one of the mentally ill who have no place to go but the streets. A lot of those people need to be locked in institutions for their own safety. Looks like this one needed to be locked up for ours.

  4. ted
    September 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 am

    Nice to see that mental illness doesn't stop people from being able to exercise their right to bear arms.

  5. shedigszombies
    September 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 am

    Well atleast now she doesn't have to worry about where she will get her food, bath or sleep. What a punishment.

  6. shedigszombies
    September 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am

    Oh yes and we know nothing of her mental health so we can't just pass this off on that. Sane people shoot people every day for no good reason.

  7. LisaL
    September 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Ugh..... skidmarks on the underwear of our society.
    Hope the guy is ok and I hope she gets what is coming to her.

  8. Tracy
    September 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 am

    This is why I don't say a word.

  9. wpdunn71901
    September 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Sweet Violet
    Said
    Sounds like one of the mentally ill who have no place to go but the streets. A lot of those people need to be locked in institutions for their own safety. Looks like this one needed to be locked up for ours.

    Unfortunately when the Liberaloons went crazy themselves in the late 70's and turned out by the droves tens of thousands of mentally impaired and disabled patients onto the streets without a safety net, they created this problem.
    Now with ACLU meddling, you can't even consider involuntary committal for theirs and society's safety

  10. sw
    September 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    wpdunn, don't talk out your ass. i work in a homeless shelter. while i agree that too many people were put out on the street with no safety net, it is possible to have people committed for their own safety. A fellow was involuntarily committed recently for not treating his tb, which was putting the general population at risk.

    the idea of armed panhandlers scares me, though.

  11. Gail Pink
    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    Hmmm...I seem to recall that the loonies were let out of the asylum due to budget cuts under...the REAGAN administration. And he wasn't exactly a liberal.

    Anyway, yes she will likely have a job to do in jail!

  12. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    This is nothing unique, unfortunately. There are a lot of aggressive panhandlers in Vancouver. Many of them are on crystal meth. The news has captured footage of them screaming at people walking by. I can't imagine what would happen if everyone carried guns like in the U.S. We'd either have a lot of dead tourists or a lot of dead panhandlers. Neither of those sounds like an ideal situation.

  13. hooper
    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    The guy was an idiot. He should have just kept his mouth shut. I work in a metropolitan area with lots of homeless people. Some of them are crazy, some are whacked out on drugs or who knows. You never know, so just steer clear of them

  14. CheeseDuck
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Man. I used to think that homeless people were okay people.

  15. jay
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Hoover, I agree. While I don't agree with violence in solving problems, the guy was an ass to say 'get a job'. Maybe jerks like him won't go shooting their mouth off so flippantly, especially since he did not know the situation of why this person was reduced to begging. At the very least it is uncharitable. But he did not deserve to be shot either.

  16. Queequeg
    September 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Yes, "wpdunn71901" you are misinformed ...you have Ronald Reagan to thank for the armies of homeless. I remember that happening in real time in a certain SoCal city in the 80's, our safe streets turned into an insane asylum literally overnight. Now, years later living in downtown LA, I can see how much worse it has gotten. Lied to by a realtor about the "new, gentrified, hip" downtown, I see proof daily that this story about the aggressive panhandler is the standard, not the exception. I get chased, mugged, screamed at, sexually and racially harassed, walking through urine, blood and dead bodies in an area that is supposed to be worth a million-dollar loft. It gets worse everyday. It's a hellhole, and it's only going to get worse after the Treasury gets raped by Bush/McCain. The bodies will keep piling up while they buy another mansion. But, hey "wpdunn71901", keep playing political pattycake and frothing about pigs and bibles and blastocysts, I guess you won't have anything to worry about as long as you're another multi-millionaire like Bush/McCain.

  17. Terry
    September 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    If you check the statistics of violent crimes committed by non-mad people that have stable housing, you'll find the rate is far higher than homeless mad people.

    "It is not by confining one's neighbour that one is
    convinced of one's own sanity."
    Dostoievsky

  18. bob2112
    September 23rd, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    this is 'neato' news?

  19. aerio
    September 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    It's best to avoid the internet during American Election season if you don't like seeing depressing or negative topics. Things get dark and sad.

  20. Larfin Jackarse
    September 24th, 2008 at 2:35 am

    >wpdunn71901
    I thought Neato was troll free now?

  21. Thomas
    September 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    @Larfin Jackarse, what rock have you been living under, Neatorama has had trolls for a while now, and I see no change. If anything, I see more.

  22. Jill
    September 25th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    Am I the only one that thinks if a homeless person has a gun they should at least be able to sell that to get money? Those are expensive yo....what would make you choose a gun over food money?


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