Veteran Survives 3 Tours Of Duty But He’s Gunned Down In Lancaster [CA]

Source: CBS News

LANCASTER (CBS) — A 30-year-old veteran who served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan was shot to death Saturday in Lancaster, sheriff’s officials said.

Nathen Taylor’s family is grieving and in disbelief.

The shooting in the 700 block of West Avenue H-7 occurred around 12:10 a.m., said Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.

Taylor, according to his brother Patrick, had just left a party because he didn’t like to be around a lot of drinking. Taylor called his brother to say he would be dropping by his house within a few minutes.

Taylor was sitting alone in his car, cell phone in hand, when he was shot by an unknown assailant.

Read more: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/04/22/veteran-survives-3-tours-of-duty-at-war-but-hes-gunned-down-in-lancaster/

this is just one of those stories you read late at night...and you just wonder what the hell is going on in this country.

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Veteran Survives 3 Tours Of Duty But He’s Gunned Down In Lancaster [CA] (Original post)	Tax Man	Apr 2012	OP
Damn, that's awful	Art_from_Ark	Apr 2012	#1
Maybe, but it's a pretty gangy neighborhood. I know, I live in Lancaster.	DesertDiamond	Apr 2012	#2
So you're saying it might have been just random violence?	Art_from_Ark	Apr 2012	#5
Random violence is rarely really random.	TheWraith	Apr 2012	#20
Patrick said it took a half hour for an ambulance to arrive.	Downwinder	Apr 2012	#3
On the local news, one man who responded after the shots...	pinboy3niner	Apr 2012	#4
comment	marshall gaines	Apr 2012	#6
+1000	sinkingfeeling	Apr 2012	#7
There are probably just as many Democrats as Republicans who judge their manliness by the size	LiberalArkie	Apr 2012	#8
Guess you could say the same about our shared obsession with sex and sexuality. WTF?	DCKit	Apr 2012	#26
All guns start out legal.	onehandle	Apr 2012	#9
Uh, they are now. That's what serial #'s are for. nt	Snake Alchemist	Apr 2012	#10
yeah	marshall gaines	Apr 2012	#11
Seems like stolen cars would be a more pressing issue.	Snake Alchemist	Apr 2012	#12
Every gun sale should be recorded. The seller and buyer.	onehandle	Apr 2012	#13
And they are now. Not sure how you want to identify illegal sellers though.	Snake Alchemist	Apr 2012	#14
Oh, ok. Problem solved.	onehandle	Apr 2012	#15
Lowest level in 50 years and dropping.	Snake Alchemist	Apr 2012	#16
When we get within striking distance of civilized countries, let me know	Doctor_J	Apr 2012	#18
Considering Switzerland allows automatic weapons in homes what does this tell you? nt	Snake Alchemist	Apr 2012	#21
That guns are not as prolifigate, and more closely regulated, than here?	Doctor_J	Apr 2012	#24
Try again. Guns are in almost every Swiss home yet their gun deaths are a fraction of the US's.	Snake Alchemist	Apr 2012	#25
Yeah, that's exactly what he said...	PavePusher	Apr 2012	#19
Ya think?	Doctor_J	Apr 2012	#17
What policies would you propose to limit access to guns? nt	Snake Alchemist	Apr 2012	#22
So sad for his family	riverbendviewgal	Apr 2012	#23