Don’t you hate it when you ask your buddy to hand you a beer and he gives you the wrong type? I mean, it’s almost enough to infuriate you to the point where you could shoot him! Hang on, no it isn’t.
As it turns out, it is. A man in New Orleans was arrested last week after an altercation with a friend who had allegedly committed the awful crime of handing his pal the wrong type of beer. The sixty-four year old man is reported to have requested his friend hand him a Budweiser however, the other guy gave him a Busch instead. An altercation is said to have resulted which ended when the unhappy recipient pulled a firearm and shot his friend in the arm whilst the two were drinking in a parking lot in the New Orleans suburb of Harvey.
The man brandishing the gun, Clarence Sturdivant, shot his sixty-six year old neighbour, Walter Merrick. Merrick was shot in the arm and luckily, did not sustain any serious or life-threatening injuries, spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, Colonel John Fortunato, according to the HuffPost. Fox 8 reported that Merrick was taken to hospital for treatment on his injured elbow.
The shooter left the scene and was pulled over by police a short time afterwards. The deputies found a discharged 20-gauge shotgun cartridge at the scene which matched the cartridges they also found in his truck. It was then that Clarence Sturdivant confessed to the shooting of Merrick.
Various sources say that witnesses have told of how the incident began with an argument over the merits of differing brands of beer and appears to have escalated as a result of differing opinions. Sturdivant told police that it was Merrick who had originally drawn a weapon first by pointing a gun at him, and so he then drew his shotgun in self-defence.
When all was said and done, Sturdivant was not actually charged as a result of the incident however, he was arrested due to an unrelated charge, whilst Merrick received a charge of aggravated assault despite not being found to have a weapon on him whatsoever. Colonel Fortunato also said that no weapons were recovered during the incident.
Sturdivant was taken in to custody by police due to the unrelated charge which stemmed from an earlier failure to appear in court over charges including resisting an officer and interfering with police back in September of 2013. The New York Daily News later reported that the man was released from the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center with a $1000 bond.
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