Nashville DA Glenn Funk is a regressive Democrat ‘criminal justice reformist,’ and as such, the blood of Belmont University freshman, Jillian Ludwig, appears to be on Funk’s ‘decarceration’ hands. Funk is one of those ‘let’s let repeat criminals, including known killers and violent offenders, run free’ DAs we associate with Soros-approved “justice reform” threats to law and order, with threats to our society as a whole.
Case in point: Eighteen-year-old Ludwig was killed by a known criminal’s “stray bullet.”
What gun law would have stopped a known criminal (with gun charges, no less) from shooting this innocent young woman?
(Spoiler: zero gun laws stop criminals, who are so-named because they flout and break the law. We have laws against shooting people, against killing people. Oddly, criminals don’t think much of, much less abide by, such (or any) laws. They commit crimes. They are criminals. D’oh.)
The alleged shooter, Shaquille Taylor, has a criminal history dating back to 2010.
The man accused of shooting a Belmont student on a run is no stranger to law enforcement.Shaquille Taylor, 29, is accused of shooting Jillian Ludwig, 18, in the head Tuesday afternoon.It is the latest in a string of Taylor’s alleged crimes over the years. WMSV4 Investigates dug through his criminal background and found charges dating back to 2010.In 2016, he was charged in connection to a home burglary. Ultimately, court records show he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, but the victim of that home burglary said she could not believe that he is now connected to this shooting case in 2023.Taylor’s background also includes charges for vehicle theft, robbery, handgun possession and multiple aggravated assault charges. One affidavit WSMV4 Investigates obtained said he shoved a man to the ground on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge downtown back in 2015 before stealing money from him.Taylor’s most recent aggravated assault charge was in May of this year, but the District Attorney’s Office did not prosecute. The DA’s Office told WSMV4 that he was found incompetent to stand trial.
Here’s the ‘official’ report of the ‘incident’ (i.e. a known violent criminal’s murder of an innocent college student) [archive link]:
The investigation shows that Taylor was standing on 13th Ct when he opened fire on a car traveling on 13th Ct toward Deford Bailey Avenue at 2:24 p.m. Tuesday. At that same time, Ludwig was walking in the park located on the opposite side of Deford Bailey Avenue. One of Taylor’s shots is alleged to have struck Ludwig in the head, causing her to immediately collapse. She was discovered on the ground at approximately 3:30 p.m. by a passerby who quickly notified police. Ludwig was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she is in extremely critical condition.A review of surveillance camera footage and witness information led to the identification of Taylor as the suspected gunman. He admitted to firing shots during an interview with detectives at police headquarters. He claimed to have given the gun involved to another person.Taylor had been last arrested on September 21 in a grocery store parking lot driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck that had been carjacked by two men wearing ski masks on September 16 on Whites Creek Pike near Dickerson Pike. Taylor did not admit to being involved in the carjacking. He was charged with felony auto theft and was subsequently released on a $20,000 bond. He failed to appear in court on that charge last Friday. A failure to appear warrant was issued by the court.
Democrats seem to want violent criminals and murderers running free. They refuse to enforce laws that could have prevented this tragedy; indeed, they enabled (and arguably colluded in) this crime by being soft on this known violent criminal who had previously been charged with gun crimes. They let him live and walk among us even as they knew the threat he posed. That threat was always very real and completely ignored, and the end result is this tragedy inflicted upon this innocent college freshman and her family.
This is a crime, and the suspect has been arrested for it, but the culpability runs right through these Soros-type ideologues who seem to want maximum violent gun crime . . . in order to target law-abiding gun owners rather than the actual violent criminals who should not be running free, much less armed and killing innocents.
Democrats are cynical and sick and evil. They aren’t remotely interested in keeping guns out of the hands of known criminals, but they are hell-bent on taking them from law-abiding citizens. What. The. Actual. Hell?
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