That wasn't the case during the early-morning incident inside E's 24 Hour Café, an eatery east of downtown Memphis. Videos on YouTube and elsewhere on the Internet show people pulling guns on their friends and their friends pulling guns on them, but no shots are fired. "No Lackin" means you are ready for any situation or confrontation, according to the website. The "No Lackin" game has emerged on the Internet in recent years, with "Lackin" being a slang word which means not having a firearm on you, according to the Urban Dictionary. He was jailed on $25,000 bond and a hearing is scheduled for Friday.
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Police told the Memphis Patch website that the alleged shooter, 21-year-old Sherman Lackland, didn't have a permit to carry the gun and faces charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession of a handgun. The youth remains hospitalized in critical condition after the Thursday incident. Piedra’s family started a GoFundMe campaign earlier this month to raise money for hospital and funeral expenses had raised about $70,000 as of Monday morning.Watch Video: Man arrested for allegedly shooting friend in online stunt gone wrongĪn Internet stunt that police describe as “downright dumb” led to a 17-year-old Memphis, Tenn., boy being shot in the head by a friend as they played a game called the "No Lackin Challenge," officials said. Such a funny, caring and hardworking man.” He was always the one that if he saw you in a bad mood, he’d come over and try to lift you up and always was making us laugh. “He was a hardworking man and really funny,” his niece told the El Paso Times. One of his passengers even came to visit him in the hospital. He loved his job, his niece told the Washington Post, especially getting to meet new people. He had been a mechanic but began driving after a knee injury. Piedra had been driving for Uber for about three weeks before he was killed, the Post reported. The violence has cast a light on how the country is flooded with guns and raised even more scrutiny over America’s lax firearms laws and permissive self-defense statutes. She is being held on a $1.5m bond.Ĭopas’s arrest and Piedra’s killing come amid a spate of shootings across the US this year which have victimized Americans who were engaged in ordinary activities. She allegedly took a photo of Piedra and sent it to her boyfriend, KTSM reported. The incident also did not take place near a bridge or any port of entry to Mexico, authorities said.Ī criminal affidavit obtained by KTSM, a local news station, alleges that Copas did not call for help when she believed she was being kidnapped or after she shot Piedra. “The investigation does not support that a kidnapping took place or that Piedra was veering from Copas’ destination,” El Paso police said in a statement. She allegedly saw a road sign for the Mexican city of Juárez during the ride, believed she was being kidnapped, and shot Piedra, according to the El Paso Times. She booked a ride on 16 June to a casino in the El Paso Mission area. Phoebe Copas, a Kentucky woman, is being held in the El Paso county jail on a count of murder in connection with Piedra’s slaying. That decision was made for him the second that those bullets went into his head.” But, honestly, we don’t think that we made the decision to disconnect him. Of her uncle being taken off life support, Lopez said to the Washington Post: “My aunt didn’t want to see him suffer.
“It’s something that shouldn’t have happened.” “It’s devastating, and it has wrecked us so much,” Didi Lopez, Piedra’s niece, told the local news outlet WBKO.
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