Man with Ax Kills Baby, Injures 2 in Vegas

[Soylent Brice]

(CBS/ AP) Las Vegas police say an ax attack that killed a 4-month-old boy in a stroller and left his mother critically injured appeared to be a random act.

Police say they don't think 33-year-old Harold E. Montagu knew the woman and the child attacked just before noon Thursday on a residential street several blocks east of the Stratosphere hotel-casino.

Police say the woman was hospitalized in critical condition after Montague ran out of a house and hit her and the boy with a hatchet or small ax.

*snip*

"It was a look of pure evil," Teresa told the station. "I just saw a man beating a woman. I thought he was beating her with a golf club. I came out and told him to stop. I was calling 911, and I realized it was a hatchet… He started hacking on her again. I said, 'Stop that right now.' He ran in the house."

link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/12/national/main6201776.shtml?tag=latest

[TwilightGardener]

1. Good Lord.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Do people still have axes nowadays?

It's got to be a dwindling number.

:shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

3. Yes, I have a hatchet, and a big heavy pick-axey sort of thing.

Not lookin' to use them on anybody, though.

[mike_c]

4. I have several....

:evilgrin:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. ...and lots of full garbage bins.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_j5IRpU4jOac/RlgEiRb_pbI/AAAAAAAAAB4/u8t8Q32DHPI/s320/Bush+smirk.1.jpg

[mike_c]

24. brush chippers....

[pansypoo53219]

47. my aunt gave my

camping brother one from L L bean. it can open cans. i'd hate to think what it would do to a human.

[Warpy]

9. Those of us with woodstoves do

for splitting kindling wood off split logs. Mine's right next to the stove.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. I own one, too.

For a wood-burning fireplace.

Still...urbanization has got to be making inroads on the necessity for axes.

[havocmom]

43. We have three. One in the shed, two with the camping gear & short shovel.

Chain saw is faster for big jobs, but cumbersome on camp-outs.

[tkmorris]

17. I can see that but...

This guy is in Vegas. I wonder what the hell one does with a hatchet in Vegas? Aside from this of course.

[blueamy66]

25. I'm in AZ

and we still get some cold weather. We own a hatchet, to cut wood for our fireplace.

Anyway, this is really disturbing.

[shimmergal]

48. Beats me. Growing trees takes

such an investment in scarce water and attention, nobody's going to cut them down for firewood. Plus there's an ordinance here that forbids wood fires; if you want a "working" fireplace, it has to be gas-fired.

[Warpy]

59. It can get chilly there from time to time

and snow isn't completely out of the question. The high today is in the 60s, and for people who are used to the 100s, that's fireplace weather.

[Obamanaut]

13. I have a single bit, double bit, a maul for splitting, and a hatchet. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

19. I have 3 of them around. 2 single-bit & an old double-bitted one.

Along with the other usual household tools like a canthook, a couple of chain saws, etc.

[derby378]

21. My wife and I have a small axe for use in geology work

This is truly freakin' bizarre.

[slackmaster]

33. Mostly just so they have something to grind

Nobody needs an assault axe.

[msanthrope]

41. Yes--at both my city house and my beach house.

At the city house, it was used by neighbors to hack down the door of a burning building, and to remove a fallen tree from the road.

Tree removal at the beach house.

Useful thing to have. That, and a crowbar.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

52. I have several.

[cali]

55. I don't think I know anyone who doesn't have an axe.

[era veteran]

58. I probably have 5 or 6 & about that many broken heads

One day I'll replace the handles. I live on some land so I need tools but what about Vegas? A tragedy

[Mixopterus]

5. A hatchet or small axe?

I'm placing bets on a disgruntled Juggalo, no joke. Every other year one of those guys comes out of the woodwork and chops someone up without the slightest provocation.

[Soylent Brice]

18. an ICP fan? hardly.

"...whatever happened to people just being crazy?"
-Chris Rock

[Mixopterus]

54. Well, it IS a wild guess

Just going by the weapon and the fact that several fans of ICP and associated acts have been motivated to kill, often citing said bands as an inspiration, which is quite the rarity.

Probability is on your side, however, he's probably just some random maniac.

[Soylent Brice]

65. the Judas Priest defense? lol

[NightWatcher]

6. time to outlaw axes and hatchets

[marshall]

11. They used to outlaw wire cutters and pliers

People were using them to cut fences.

There's lots of stuff that could be outlawed.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. You read this article, and the first thing you think is "This'll help my arguments to keep my GUN!!"

...really?

That's the first thing you can think to say?

...really?

[Enrique]

8. I said 'stop that right now'

he ran in the house.

:wow:

[Robb]

10. Ooookay, Back under the bed then.

After I double lock all the doors. I ain't comin' out until you all are done with the crazy. :wow:

[hlthe2b]

14. Uggh... if only we could be done with the crazy..

I need some cuddles and hugs from my girly doggy- STAT

[SidDithers]

15. WTF?...nt

Sid

[the other one]

16. Thankfully he didn't have a gun.

Or the toll could have been much worse.

[Rebubula]

20. Right on schedule....

:eyes:

[Soylent Brice]

22. Right on schedule...

:eyes:

[Javaman]

30. How do we schedule these things?

:shrug:

[Soylent Brice]

38. i'm not entirely sure. i'm just being a cheeky monkey.

:hide:

[Javaman]

49. Good little cheeky monkey. ;)

Cheers!

[LanternWaste]

39. Much like post #6.

Much like post #6.

Motes, beams, eyes...

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Speaking of axes...

Maybe you can find a different thread to grind your particular 2nd Amendment one in? :shrug:

[proteus_lives]

37. Too bad the mother didn't have a gun to defend herself and her child.

See? I can play too.

[Shell Beau]

23. What in the hell? Poor baby. I hope the mother survives, but

she will be so empty now. What a terrible terrible thing.

[Binka]

26. Indeed. This Thread Is Disturbing In That Most Replies Don't Even Address The Act

That poor woman. How does one get over having their baby murdered in front of their eyes? I have four children, the oldest 28 the youngest 8 and I would be lost without any of them. What insurmountable horror. :cry:

[Warren DeMontague]

32. It's awful beyond words.

Just indescribable. :cry:

[EFerrari]

45. That would be it for me.

[Shell Beau]

62. I thought the same thing. Many didn't even address what happened.

Maybe it is too horrific? I only have one child, a 16 month old. I am not sure I could go on if something like that were to happen.

[Maine-ah]

67. agreed, Shell. Mine is 3 now

this is such a horrible story. Poor baby.
:cry:

[elehhhhna]

51. how could the mother even bear that memory? I'm sure Good Morning America

and the Today show producers are in her face right now so we can all hear the gruesome details, etc., until Matt inevitably says "And on a much lighter note..." and segues seamlessly into a banal sports story.

Then they'll sigh and ask "What would make that man do such a thing?" When we already know the answer is untreated mental illness, for fucks sake.

[Shell Beau]

61. I am not sure I could go on living if I saw my baby get murdered,

especially like that, in front of my very eyes. So tragic and senseless. The man must be very ill because I can't think of any other logical reason for doing something like that. Not that there is a logical reason of course, but that one seems to make the most sense.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Jesus Fucking Christ.

:cry:

[dysfunctional press]

29. king solomon, he ain't.

[guitar man]

34. I'm at a loss for words

every day I read something like this and.....


:cry:

[tomm2thumbs]

35. these are the stories that make my mom lock her doors

cuz they are always the lead story in local news for ratings

[proteus_lives]

36. Awful!

Some people are just animals.

[proudohioan]

40. What's up with the ax killings? One happened here just the other day...

Some guy with a camping ax killed a 59 year old woman at a VOA shelter here in Cleveland.

This is just bizarre!!!

OMG that poor woman; I can't even BEGIN to imagine what she must be going through!!!

[nonconformist]

42. Speechless.

:cry:

[winyanstaz]

44. This is what happens when the mental institutes are closed...

When a crazy person is pushed too far they go bonkers and this stuff happens.
Its been this way ever since ol Ronald Reagan put the mentally ill out on the streets.
We used to have a system to help catch the worst of the crazies and get them some help or at least put them where they couldn't hurt others or themselves.
Now we just let them run amok and cry that there isn't any money to help them because we are too busy using that money to murder brown skinned people that live over oil or minerals we want.
If we closed those 700 bases we have already built or are building in Afganistan..we could stop more of this kind of tragedy happening.

[PassingFair]

46. Maybe this is why Obama keeps telling us to avoid LasVegas.

:hide:

[TroglodyteScholar]

56. Wow, that's hilarious.

You really find it appropriate to make jokes about a baby's murder?

If you have an ax of your own, I'd suggest you go ahead and give it a good firm kiss.

[Mixopterus]

57. Jeez

That might have been a touch beyond the pale.

[Beaverhausen]

50. off his meds?

this is very sad.

[MadHound]

53. Welcome to America's behavioral sink,

Too many people, under too much pressure, with too few resources, let it all go and see what happens.

Poor kid, poor mom.

[belpejic]

60. Mental illness, meth, or both.

Tragic and senseless any way you look at it.

[dugaresa]

63. How horrible for the child and the mother!

that poor woman will wake up to a nightmare. it is doubtful she knows what happened.

[ddeclue]

64. What the hell is wrong with that guy?

:hide:

[Codeine]

66. In Vegas?

I'm guessing meth.