Nathan Hansen
The Farmington Independent (Minnesota, USA)
There were gunshots fired but no injuries when an argument apparently got out of hand Saturday afternoon at the Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Hampton.
Initial investigation suggests the incident may be gang related, Dakota County chief deputy Dave Bellows said.
The incident took place around 3:30 p.m. during a New Year's festival attended by about 2,000 people. At least two people exchanged gunfire in a parking area just west of the temple. According to Bellows there were eight to 10 gunshots fired, but nobody was hit. Several cars were damaged.
Three or four deputies were working the festival as off-duty security and were called to the parking lot immediately.
Bellows said there was not a large crowd in the parking lot when the shooting occurred but there were people nearby.
"It's extremely fortunate that nobody was hit given the number of rounds fired and the number of people at the festival," Bellows said.
A 29-year-old man was taken into custody following the incident and is currently in the Dakota County Jail awaiting charges.
Dakota County Sheriff's deputies are looking for additional suspects.
Anyone with information should call the Dakota County Sheriff's Department at 651-438-4720 or the TIPs phone line at 651-438-TIPS (8477).
Initial investigation suggests the incident may be gang related, Dakota County chief deputy Dave Bellows said.
The incident took place around 3:30 p.m. during a New Year's festival attended by about 2,000 people. At least two people exchanged gunfire in a parking area just west of the temple. According to Bellows there were eight to 10 gunshots fired, but nobody was hit. Several cars were damaged.
Three or four deputies were working the festival as off-duty security and were called to the parking lot immediately.
Bellows said there was not a large crowd in the parking lot when the shooting occurred but there were people nearby.
"It's extremely fortunate that nobody was hit given the number of rounds fired and the number of people at the festival," Bellows said.
A 29-year-old man was taken into custody following the incident and is currently in the Dakota County Jail awaiting charges.
Dakota County Sheriff's deputies are looking for additional suspects.
Anyone with information should call the Dakota County Sheriff's Department at 651-438-4720 or the TIPs phone line at 651-438-TIPS (8477).
11 comments:
Cambodian need these kind of people back, so they can be the fearless soldiers at the Preahvihear Temple frondline.
they should have watched the documentary about those deportees, you got shit when you are back. No more fried chicken for you dude.
We don't want them here! send them to Iraq!
It was a lao gang that was there and started all of it. My car was parked right where it happened.
Hey! listen MN gangsters. You don't bring guns to the temple. Bhuddist temples are for the people to celebrate the feistivities. If you want to shoot at one another you should go the war zone not at the temple. I think these people should be the next lists of deportees to Cambodia. They don't belong here in the U.S.
Good Job, your brainless Cambodians. Because your are Cambodians, so even if you were provided excessive wealth and education but you are still the second or possibly third class of human being, just little monkey.
Just gave Ah Thai thieft more body bags! if they dare to step inside khmer territroy again! just kept shooting them up with those RPG-29!
fuck thai thieft!
7:57AM! your mother is 10 class human being dumbfuck! she can't even know how to wipe of her ass with toilet paper! your mother had to use bare hands cleaning her ass! that how stupid she is...
Many claimed they are Cambodian/Khmer and they do care about their motherland and the people.
On contrary, they seem pushing all bad things from their second homeland back to Cambodia! Is this how they love their motherland?
I hope my above asssumption is wrong as I've told myself that those comments were not from my fellow oversea Khmer but those foreigners who always instigate Khmer to kill one another.
Yeah these bastards deserve to get deported out of the US and sent straight to Darfur.
They want to be deported back to srok khmer because they may get screw hard by the inmates.
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