Tucson Shooting Survivor Arrested for Issuing Death Threat to Tea Partier at ABC Town Hall
In the middle of a taping for a town hall meeting to be aired on ABC Sunday, a survivor of last week's Tucson shootings issued a death threat to a Tea Party member in attendance. According to the website of ABC-TV affiliate KGUN, J. Eric Fuller was arrested and charged with threats, intimidation, and disorderly conduct: The meeting room at St. Odilia's Catholic Church on the city's northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the mass shooting Jan. 8, some of the witnesses to the shootings and the first responders to the scene for a taping of an ABC-TV special, a town hall event, at 11 a.m. Saturday. Host of the program, This Week, is Christianne Amanpour. The show will air at 7 a.m. Sunday on KGUN9-TV. Toward the end of the town hall meeting Saturday morning, one of the shooting victims, J. Eric Fuller, took exception to comments by two of the speakers: Ariz. state Rep. Terri Proud, a Dist. 26 Republican, and Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries. According to sheriff's deputies at the scene, Fuller took a photo of Humphries and said, “You're Dead.” Deputies immediately escorted Fuller from the room. Pima County Sheriff's spokesman Jason Ogan said later Saturday that Fuller has been charged with threats and intimidation and he also will be charged with disorderly conduct. For the record, Humphries is the head of the Tucson Tea Party. Fox News elaborated on this breaking story (h/t Mediaite ): It will be very interesting to see whether this ends up being part of Sunday's program or gets omitted. When ABC's Pierre Thomas interviewed a friend of shooter Jared Lee Loughner's during last Sunday's “This Week,” her opinion about the assailant being a liberal was completely ignored . Stay tuned.
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Tucson Shooting Survivor Arrested for Issuing Death Threat to Tea Partier at ABC Town Hall
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