i wasn't going to post this article

but i found out yesterday, a person effected by this crime was the son of someone i know. my thoughts and prayers go out to you jimmy james.......


Revenge Cited As Slaying Motive Records: Pizzeria Shooter ConfessedDecember 28, 2005 By MATT BURGARD, Courant Staff Writer

Ricardo Mack had 18 bags of marijuana and two handguns hidden in his pockets when he walked into a popular late-night Hartford pizza joint early on the morning of Christmas Eve and flew into a rage, according to police and court records.Pulling one of the guns from under his jacket, Mack aimed it at 21-year-old Chaz Booth. As customers and restaurant workers looked on in horror, some seeking cover, Mack and Booth got into a heated argument, and Mack opened fire, police said.Under questioning several hours later at police headquarters, Mack confessed to killing Booth because he believed that Booth shot and killed a close friend of Mack's, 20-year-old Marlon Atkinson, in July 2004, records say. Details of the Christmas eve incident, which happened about 2:40 a.m. at Papa's Pizza on Union Street, were revealed during Mack's appearance Tuesday at Superior Court in Hartford, where he was arraigned on charges of murder and possession of narcotics and ordered held on $1 million bail.........