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3 charged following fight, drive-by shooting at busy South Kitsap park – Kitsap Sun
Investigators linked three Pierce County men to an incident at Horseshoe Lake Park in South Kitsap earlier this month in which a 16-year-old boy was beat up and then shot at in a drive-by shooting, according to court documents.
On the night of the shooting on June 7, the park was full of people enjoying the warm weather and many people were forced to take cover to avoid the shots, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post following the incident.
“Deputies wrote in their reports there were approximately one hundred people at the park at the time of the shooting,” a Kitsap County detective wrote about the incident in court documents. “Four vehicles had been damaged by gunfire and ten spent shell casings were found in the parking lot.”
This week, Bishop Sterling Slaughter, 18, of Tacoma, was charged with a count of first-degree assault, while Brandon Ebony Allen, 23, and Kalfani Thabiti Whomes, 25, both of Gig Harbor, were both charged with one count of attempted second-degree robbery in Kitsap County Superior Court. Court documents identify Allen and Whomes as brothers.
“There are many witnesses in this case, many of whom are juveniles, who may be in danger once it’s known these three individuals have been charged,” the detective wrote.
Allen and Whomes were arrested at the Gig Harbor YMCA on Wednesday “after a concerned citizen provided information about their whereabouts,” Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office public information officer Kevin McCarty said, also noting that a juvenile was also arrested Wednesday for his involvement in the incident. Slaughter is still being sought.
Investigators linked comments the 16-year-old victim made on social media to the fight.
The detective wrote that the victim’s 17-year-old friend died of a suspected drug overdose in November 2022 and that prior to her death, she had told him she was getting drugs from Whomes. That death is being investigated by Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.
Additionally, the 16-year-old was also told by two teenage friends that Whomes was providing them drugs and that he had sexually assaulted both of them, the detective wrote, noting that investigators spoke with the two girls, who were 14 and 15, and they said they had been purchasing drugs from Allen and Whomes and said they had been sexually assaulted by Whomes.
“After seeing his friends dying and being preyed upon, (the victim) posted derogatory comments about Kalfani on Snapchat,” the detective wrote. “The Snapchat post included text message screenshots from (the victim’s) friends about the sexual assaults. (The victim) would later tell me he posted on Snapchat as a warning to other kids to stay away from Kalfani. It’s believed the Snapchat post is the reason for the assault, robbery attempt and drive-by shooting perpetrated by Kalfani and a group of his associates at Horseshoe Lake Park on 06-07-23.”
Deputies were called to the park on reports about a drive-by shooting at about 6:30 p.m. on June 7.
The 16-year-old had been at the park swimming and hanging out with friends when he was approached by Whomes, Allen and several other people, the detective wrote. Whomes asked him if he wanted to fight and eventually Whomes, Allen and two other males started to punch him before someone tackled him and several people stomped on him. At one point, one of the people picked up the boy’s phone and threw it, and someone tried ripping his shoes off.
A female bystander broke up the assault, and the boy, who suffered injuries to his head and face, sat down with a friend to wait for the victim’s father to pick them up.
“As (the victim) waited next to the parking lot, Brandon Allen began revving the engine and spinning the tires on his red and black Dodge Charger,” the detective wrote. “Brandon then began driving toward the park exit and as he did so someone on the passenger side of the vehicle began shooting a gun into the air. As the Dodge Charger approached (the victim), the suspect lowered his arm and began shooting directly at (the victim) and his friend. (The victim) pushed his friend down on the ground behind a red Toyota Celica and laid on top of him as the car was hit with gunfire.”
The owner of the Celica followed the Charger to a park in Gig Harbor and confronted the man he saw shooting, later identified as Slaughter, according to court documents. The man apologized, offered to pay to fix the car and the two exchanged Instagram account information to communicate, but later, when the Celica driver went to contact him, he discovered that he had been blocked.
Law enforcement spoke with the female bystander who broke up the fight, and she said she was familiar with Allen and Whomes. She said she saw Allen and others assaulting the boy, the detective wrote. She also saw a man trying to steal the boy’s shoes and said this was the same man who she later saw shooting from the back seat of the Charger. She said that after the fight she saw Allen sit in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, Whomes sit in the front passenger seat and three people get into the back seat.
The Celica driver provided her with the Instagram account information he received, and on that account she saw photos of the shooter. As he was attempting to identify the shooter, the detective began monitoring the account, and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department assisted in linking Slaughter to it.
Detectives spoke with someone who was in the Charger, who said she was sitting in the back next to the man who fired the shots as the vehicle was leaving the park. She too had witnessed the initial assault and claimed Allen and Whomes didn’t participate, the detective wrote.
Two of the males who had been assaulting the boy got into the Charger with her, Allen and Whomes, she said. After the man sitting next to her began shooting, she “ducked down and didn’t see what happened next, but people told her the person with the gun saw (the victim) and started shooting at him. (She) heard the shooter say something like, ‘That’s what they get!’”
Asked to identify the shooter from a photo lineup, she picked out a booking photo of Slaughter, the detective noted, adding that the Celica driver also picked Slaughter from a photo lineup as the person “who he thought looked like the shooter and the person he talked to.”
After the incident, deputies broadcast a description of the Charger, and the next day Pierce County sheriff’s deputies located the vehicle and detained the driver, Allen, about 12 hours after the shooting.
On June 8, a Kitsap deputy spoke with Allen, who confirmed that he was at the park with his brother and said that he saw a group of people who were “fighting a tall kid.”
“I asked if anyone in the back seat did anything as they were leaving that would attract law enforcement’s attention and at this time he mentions that he heard gunshots,” the deputy wrote in a report. “Brandon claimed he did not know who was shooting and that it sounded ‘low’ like fireworks. He added that his music was up and that may have contributed to him not hearing the gunshots well.”
Allen was released but the Charger was impounded to be processed for evidence, the detective wrote. Items were collected for DNA processing, and a backpack containing nearly $15,000 in cash and an unfired 9 mm bullet were also found. After the search, the vehicle and money were returned to Allen.
Anyone who has information related to the incident may contact detectives by calling 911 or emailing KCSOTips@kitsap.gov.
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What time is Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III today? Schedule, main card start time for 2023 exhibition boxing fight – Sporting News
Floyd Mayweather once again steps inside the ring to compete in an exhibition fight. This time, he faces someone with legit combat sports experience and a last name nobody will ever forget. Mayweather faces John Gotti III, the grandson of infamous gangster John Gotti, on June 11.
The fight is inside the FLA Live Arena in Florida and airs on the Zeus Network.
Gotti turned pro in 2017. Winning five in a row to start his MMA career, Gotti lost his last fight in 2020 against Nick Alley. The 30-year-old has since competed in boxing bouts, winning two contests in the past eight months.
Calling this fight a “pinch-me moment,” Gotti has nothing but respect for Mayweather. However, he will not let his fandom get in the way of what he needs to do.
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“I’ve been following him since I was eight years old,” Gotti said via Boxing Scene. “This was my idol. This was a guy I did school projects on. It was a guy I looked up to. The fact that I’m in a position to stand across the ring from Floyd is a tremendous honor. But make no mistake, June 11, I’m bringing bad intentions to that man. I don’t care if it’s an exhibition or not. You signed to fight me, there’s no quarter. It’s kill or be killed.”
This is the latest exhibition for Mayweather, who retired in 2017 at 50-0. In 2018 he teamed with RIZIN and beat young kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa via TKO. Mayweather fought Logan Paul and former training partner Don Moore in non-scored bouts. He beat Mikuru Asakura and YouTuber Deji in 2022 via TKO. In February, Mayweather went the distance against MMA fighter Aaron Chalmers.
Here is all you need to know regarding Mayweather vs. Gotti, from the time, channel, and card.
Mayweather vs. Gotti begins at 6:30 p.m ET | 3:30 p.m. PT. Ringwalks are scheduled for 10 p.m. ET | 7 p.m. PT, depending on how long the undercard fights last.
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Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III can be streamed on Zeus Network.
Fans in the U.S. can pre-order the fight for $15.99. They can also sign up for the network at the annual rate of $59.99 per year. In the U.K., the pre-order price is about £13, $21 in Canada, and $23 in Australia.
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Daniel Yanofsky is a combat sports editor at The Sporting News.
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club 2 comic brings back the character played by Jared Leto in the movie for an unexpected, but critical role.
Angel Face, played by Jared Leto in the Fight Club film adaptation, makes a surprise return in Chuck Palahniuk's comic book sequel to his original Fight Club novel – coming back with both revenge, and, oddly enough, love on his mind, following the vicious beating he received from the Narrator a decade earlier.
Fight Club 2 – by Chuck Palahniuk, Cameron Stewart, Dave Stewart, and Nate Piekos of Blambot – features the son of the Narrator and Marla Singer being kidnapped, with a returning Tyler Durden being the prime suspect, compelling the Narrator to reintegrate himself into Fight Club. In the closing pages of the series' fourth issue, the permanently-scarred Angel Face reappears.
In a brutal display that directly mirrors the original, Angel Face administers a brutal beating to the Narrator. He ends up knocking the Narrator into unconsciousness, which triggers Tyler Durden to awaken in his place at the start of Issue #5. Angel Face knows what's happened immediately, and subsequently is horrified as Tyler mercilessly returns the meeting. It is not until a few issues later, in Fight Club 2 #9, that it is revealed Tyler has been having an affair with Angel Face for quite some time. The Narrator discovers this only when he's awake, rather than Tyler, at a moment Angel Face kisses him.
As the Narrator's therapist says, on the same page as the reveal, ""a sociopath will sleep with anyone to gain her allegiance … or his." The re-emergence of Angel Face gives readers a glimpse of exactly how being a Fight Club member for so many years has worn on Angel Face's body. Aside from the distorted face the Narrator gave him ten years prior, he is littered with scabs, scars, and bruises from decades of sparring. It's clear that Angel Face has clung on completely to the ideas that Tyler put in his head years prior, whether it is because he's a true devotee, or he has nothing else.
Angel Face is depicted as not only unflinchingly loyal to Tyler Durden's ideals, but to the man himself. It remains ambiguous in the text whether Tyler returns Angel Face's feelings, or the extent to which he can feel at all. Angel Face is in love with Tyler – for Tyler, a physical relationship may just be a way to retain Angel Face's loyalty, to continue holding power over him. In this way, it is reminiscent of how the Narrator describes Tyler's relationship with Marla in the opening pages of the original book. "This is about property as in ownership. Without Marla, Tyler would have nothing."
Tyler's connection to Angel Face may not run as deep as with Marla in Fight Club, but Angel Face is still a useful vessel for him, one that someone as possessive as Tyler isn't willing to give up so easily. On the chance that Angel Face may have harbored these feelings in the original Fight Club, it also re-contextualizes their previous dynamic. It certainly offers a new explanation as to why Angel Face stays a follower of Project Mayhem/Fight Club for a decade after the Narrator beat him up. Most certainly, it further complicates Fight Club's iconic twisted love triangle of Marla, Tyler, and the Narrator.
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Joe Anthony Myrick (or JAM) is a comics writer who specializes in, of course, covering the big figureheads of the industry (Marvel and DC), as well as lesser-known indy parties and some personal favorites like BOOM! Studios.
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Ryan Garcia vs. Oscar Duarte fight results, highlights: 'King Ryan' bounces back for late TKO win – CBS Sports
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Although it was far from perfect, Ryan Garcia reminded boxing fans of his explosiveness on Saturday as the junior welterweight star successfully rebounded from the first defeat of his career.
Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs), despite a fight week soaked in drama amid a war of words with his own promoters, showed no mercy to Mexican slugger Oscar Duarte (26-2-1, 21 KOs) in an eighth-round TKO inside the Toyota Center in Houston.
Not only did the victory mark the 25-year-old Garcia’s return to the win column just eight months removed from his knockout loss to Gervonta Davis in their pay-per-view blockbuster, it also marked a successful debut of his new partnership with 2022 trainer of the year Derrick James, who became Garcia’s third head coach in as many years.
“It was a great performance but I just want to give honor to God and give him the glory,” Garcia said. “I fought hard to find myself again. I did a lot of soul searching and I just wanted to thank him.
“[Duarte] was a strong fighter. He took a good punch. He’s a Mexican fighter like me and he’s tough. I hit him with some hard shots but he just kept coming. I started using my legs, just as Derrick told me to between rounds, and it opened up the shots.”
Garcia’s ability to focus was impressive considering the potential distraction of his nasty feud with Golden Boy Promotions, which geared up to an all-new level at Thursday’s final press conference when Garcia, Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins took turns airing out their private laundry.
“It just comes with the territory,” Garcia said. “I am a person about moving forward and having a kind heart and showing forgiveness so I just keep it at that. I want to show positivity in this world. I said what I said but I hold no hard feelings.”
Despite the highlight-reel finish to the fight, which began when Garcia stung Duarte with a beautiful check left hook in Round 8, the total sum of Garcia’s comeback performance was a mixed bag.
While it’s certainly a result that could be excused for the first fight of a new relationship between trainer and fighter, Garcia continued to show puzzling (and potentially dangerous) reactions to Duarte’s pressure and spent most of the middle rounds avoiding exchanging of any kind as the crowd booed Garcia’s constant movement.
Yet, the very thing that makes Garcia so dynamic — the lethal combination of his speed and power — exploded virtually out of nowhere in Round 8 to instantly combust a close fight. After hurting Duarte badly with his counter left hook, Garcia exploded with combinations to eventually drop Duarte.
Even though Duarte was able to beat the count, referee James Green didn’t like the look in his eyes and waved off the fight at 2:51 of the round.
“I have a killer instinct,” Garcia said. “Sometimes, when I am hurting somebody that bad, I am just cracking them. But I caught him with a perfect left hook.
“I just had to slow his momentum down. He was building momentum, momentum and I knew I had to cut this off somehow.”
The fact that Garcia outlanded Duarte by a single punch, according to CompuBox, explains how close this fight felt until it was over. Garcia praised James for his effort after the fight and called for a title shot at 140 pounds against WBA champion Rolando “Rolly” Romero.
“It’s our first fight. [James and I] worked hard,” Garcia said. “We are going to build off this and are committed to get better. I’m committing to becoming a world champion so, if Rolly wants it, let’s do this.”
CBS Sports was with you throughout the entire way on Saturday with the live results and highlights below.
R8: Duarte beats the count but the referee doesn’t like what he saw. The fight is stopped! It’s a dramatic finish for Ryan Garcia. Result: Ryan Garcia def. Oscar Duarte via eighth-round TKO
R8: Big left hand from Garcia hurts Duarte and down he goes!
R8: Duarte simply isn’t throwing enough to take advantage of Garcia lowering his output.
R8: The main issue here is that Garcia is actively avoiding any punch exchanges by moving which suggests either an injury or insecurity.
ROUND 8: Good sticking and moving from Garcia, even though the crowd isn’t wrong to boo his lack of output.
R7: Garcia takes the round despite angering the fans late. Score: 10-9 Garcia (Overall: 68-65 Garcia)
R7: Garcia spends the last minute on his bicycle actively avoiding Duarte. The only issue is he isn’t throwing while doing this. It draws boos from the crowd.
ROUND 7: Big attacks from Garcia with powerful right hands. Duarte was covering up and only absorbed partial impact but that statement was felt. Garcia catches Duarte big again with a right cross.
R6: Good counter right hand from Garcia caught Duarte coming in. Score: 10-9 Garcia (Overall: 58-56 Garcia)
R6: Good defense from Garcia as Duarte came forward with punches. Duarte continues to hammer away at the guard of Garcia, hoping one slips through.
R6: Right hand to the body from Garcia. This is almost a modified shoulder roll defense from Garcia and he doesn’t look fully comfortable with it.
ROUND 6: Big right uppercut from Garcia and Duarte looks hurt. Back comes Duarte, however, with body shots.
R5: Close round but Garcia landed the cleaner shots. Score: 10-9 Garcia (Overall: 48-47 Garcia)
R5: Left hook to the body from Garcia lands low and the crowd boos following the referee’s warning.
R5: Good head movement from Garcia to avoid Duarte’s aggressive punches. They trade body shots in the clinch. Garcia is standing up strong this round.
R5: Big uppercuts from Garcia split the guard of Duarte.
ROUND 5: Garcia opens stronger with stinging left hooks to Duarte. Big uppercut from Garcia lands.
R4: Another round for Duarte and he mostly did it with pressure and body shots. Score: 10-9 Duarte (Overall: 38-38)
R4: Duarte warned for a low blow while the two fighters were tied up. Nice left hooks to the body from Duarte.
R4: Good body work from Duarte in the corner. He’s not landing everything flush but the judges have to be taking note of this momentum movement.
R4: The rabbit punch appeared partially to come because Garcia nearly turned his back on the action in trying to avoid Duarte’s pressure.
ROUND 4: More pressure from Duarte backs Garcia up to the corner. Nice body work. Garcia is starting to react in somewhat troubling ways to this pressure. Duarte gets warned for a rabbit punch.
R3: Garcia facing much more resistance here. Good round from Duarte with solid pressure. Score: 10-9 Duarte (Overall: 29-28 Garcia)
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