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Sun Apr 24, 2016, 06:49 PM Apr 2016

SEC rivalry: Trash talking about Florida fan's attire leads to car chase, gunshots

http://theadvocate.com/news/15567771-32/comment-about-mans-florida-gators-clothing-leads-to-argument-at-baton-rouge-club-a-car-chase-and-gun

A bachelor’s party at a Baton Rouge club early Friday morning was cut short after a comment on a stranger’s Florida Gators attire led to a car chase and a drive-by shooting.

Everett L. Beauchamp IV, 32, was at The Penthouse Club on Bennington Avenue around 2:15 a.m. when one of six men at a bachelor’s party made an unwanted comment on Beauchamp’s Florida Gators gear, the Baton Rouge Police Department report says.

In response, Beauchamp picked up a stool at the valet entrance to the club and tried to assault the man who made the comment, but he was stopped.

Beauchamp threatened to get a weapon and walked to his vehicle to get a handgun, the report says, at which time the men drove away in their vehicle.

Beauchamp followed them in his 2013 Ford Raptor down College Drive onto I-10 eastbound, the report says. The men exited at Essen Lane, only to get back onto I-10 going westbound, at which point Beauchamp tried to ram his vehicle into theirs.

Beauchamp followed them onto the interstate and as they reached the I-10 westbound, I-12 eastbound loop Beauchamp opened fire on their vehicle, striking the vehicle once under the driver’s side taillight.

The men only lost Beauchamp after they exited the interstate at Dalrymple Drive, according to the report.

Shortly before 3 a.m. uniform patrolers found an impaired Beauchamp and his vehicle after he drove his truck into the LSU Lakes at East Lakeshore near Stanford Avenue, according to the report.

Beauchamp told police he had consumed between eight and 10 Corona beers, the report says. A breath test revealed that his blood alcohol level was 0.19.

Police found a Taurus .45 caliber handgun at the scene.

Beauchamp, 5010 Mancuso Lane Apt. 115, was booked into Parish Prison on six counts of assault by drive-by shooting, one count of aggravated criminal damage to property, DWI, reckless driving, failure to maintain control and one count of illegal use of a weapon.
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SEC rivalry: Trash talking about Florida fan's attire leads to car chase, gunshots (Original Post) Ex Lurker Apr 2016 OP
He wuz just defending his Southern White Male Honor* wid likker, hot rods and gunz like he should jpak Apr 2016 #1
Gators.... Fla_Democrat Apr 2016 #2
IKR Lochloosa Apr 2016 #4
It's a good thing Drinky Beauchamp had a gun gratuitous Apr 2016 #3
I had no idea the Securities Exchange Commission people got so violent. Gidney N Cloyd Apr 2016 #5

jpak

(41,758 posts)
1. He wuz just defending his Southern White Male Honor* wid likker, hot rods and gunz like he should
Sun Apr 24, 2016, 06:54 PM
Apr 2016

*and there is such a thing...

yup

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. It's a good thing Drinky Beauchamp had a gun
Sun Apr 24, 2016, 07:42 PM
Apr 2016

Otherwise, this whole contretemps might have ended with a few punches and a conciliatory bottle of Corona. Instead, we get the treat of a high speed drunken car chase, shots fired from Drinky's trusty .45, and police involvement.

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