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by bngarland | March 5, 2009 at 05:25 pm
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A man was murdered today in the parking lot of a busy Lexington mall.
Detail are few and far between right now. A man was shot twice, in the back and head, at the Lexington Green shopping plaza around 3:30 this afternoon. The suspect led police on a chase through the city and barricaded himself in his car in the parking lot of Ridge Behavioral Health System. The standoff ended peacefully around 7 this evening.
UPDATE 3/6/09: Kentucky.com is now reporting the victim as 31 year old Christopher Tolliver, and that Tolliver and the suspect 31 year old Toby Ray Lasure knew each other (FOX56 reported on their 7AM news broadcast this morning the two had been in a relationship).
Lausre has been charged with murder, wanton endangerment, fleeing police, and leaving the scene of an accident. He is expected to be arriagned in Fayette District Court at 1PM today.
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at 20:47 on March 5th, 2009
Ended peacefully? a innocent man was murdered it was premeditated in cold blood, or at the time of the incident, warm blood to be politically correct. nothing peaceful about the whole incident the cops should have shot him dead instead of chasing this murdering monster all over creation.
then again what do we care about the victim (possibly the father a few kids), as long as some superrich psychiatric institution gets him for new patient. That is once they find him to be criminally insane.
at 06:55 on March 6th, 2009
Thanks for the news.
Ravinwood, you may not understand how seldom insanity defenses are used by defense lawyers. They are very seldom used because they so seldom work. In fact, American prisons are running over with people who have very lengthy records of mental illness. Some have spent years in mental hospitals and have acute psychiatric problems dating back to childhood. Perhaps an insanity plea would work for this guy if he is wealthy. Not many of them go to prison. Otherwise, the shooter is not likely to try it. Consider this data:
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~pzapf/classes/PY820/Week%2011%20Mental%20State%20at%20Time%20of%20Offense.htm