We, the comrades of Unit 1012:
The VFFDP, will always remember Lacie Christabelle LaRose on February 2 every year
as it was her birthday. Although she was murdered on May 3, 2015
and taken from this earth, we will remember how she lived on this earth, and
not how she died. To treasure her memories, do support her organization, ‘Love ‘em
Like Lacie’.
"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a part of us as we remember them."- Gates of Prayer
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Lacie LaRose (February
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3111080/Girl-19-fatally-shot-college-party-uninvited-39-year-old-guest-following-argument-beer-pong-rules.html
Murdered over BEER PONG: Student, 19, fatally shot at college party 'by uninvited guest, 39, following clash about rules of the drinking game'
- Lacie LaRose was fatally shot at a college party early last month
- New reports say that her death was the result of an argument over a drinking game
- Ronald McNeil, 39, showed up uninvited to a college party in Texas and argued with the college-age party goers about the rules of beer pong
- The man was asked to leave the party and he vowed to return with a gun
- He fired 15 shots, injuring two and fatally wounding LaRose in the neck
A Texas man
is facing multiple charges after, allegedly shooting dead a 19-year-old girl at
a college party following an argument over the rules of beer pong.
Ronald
McNeil, 39, of College Station, is charged with murder, deadly conduct for
discharge of a firearm, and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon in connection with the May 3 shooting that left 19-year-old Lacie LaRose
dead.
McNeil
allegedly fired 15 shots outside the home on San Benito Drive at around 3am. A
bullet struck one man in the leg and another was struck in the arm by shrapnel,
but LaRose was fatally shot in the neck.
She was pronounced dead at around 5am at the
College Station Medical Center, NBC reports.
LaRose, a student at Blinn College studying animal
sciences, attended a May 2 house party along with many others gathering to
watch the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight on TV, KWTX.
The
39-year-old McNeil, who lives just across the street from the home, showed up
to the party uninvited along with his group of friends, The Eagle reports.
'It was a
little strange that they were at the party but they were really nice, at first,
congratulating me on graduating,' Landon Duke, a guest of honor at the party
who was celebrating his pending graduation from Texas A&M University, told
The Eagle.
The party
died down after the fight and its more than 100-person attendance dwindled to
20 or 30, witnesses told The Eagle.
Around 1am
the next morning (Sunday) McNeil, a convicted felon, and some of his friends
were playing beer pong with some of the college-age guests.
Witnesses
said that one of McNeil's friends argued with one of Duke's friends about the
rules of beer pong -- a drinking game in which players attempt to throw or
hit table tennis balls into cups of beer.
When the
argument got heated, McNeil and his friends were asked to leave the home, The
Eagle reports.
Duke and
some of his friends attempted to escort the group out.
Duke said
the argument eventually led to a brief exchange of blows, but he said that the
fight was over pretty quickly.
McNeil told
police that as he and his friends left, some of the party-goers yelled racial
slurs, WTAW reports.
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Lacie LaRose (February
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Duke told
The Eagle that he did not recall anyone yelling racial slurs, and police
reports about what was said as McNeil and his friends left the party
vary.
Duke did,
however, recall hearing McNeil say he was going to get his gun.
McNeil said
that he went to his home across the street and retrieved a Glock .40 caliber
handgun, WTAW reports. He said he returned to the backyard of the home and saw
his friend being assaulted.
He said
that his gun accidentally fired once then several more times when he tried to
gain control of the weapon.
LaRose was
in the backyard at the time getting beer, The Eagle reports. She was struck by
one bullet and someone dragged her partially into a garage.
'Call 911;
I can't breathe,' witnesses told The Eagle they heard the 19-year-old say.
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Lacie LaRose (February
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An officer in
a patrol car down the street from the residence heard the shots and responded
to the scene to find McNeil and his friend fleeing in separate vehicles,
according to the College Station Police Department.
The officer managed to stop McNeil's friend and
gave dispatchers a description of McNeil's vehicle. He was arrested a short
time later.
He is being held at the Brazos County jail with
bail set at $500,000.
McNeil was
convicted in February 2000 on drug-related charges and later served a three-year
sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon in Williamson County, The Eagle
reports.
LaRose'
mother, April LaRose, told NBC that her daughter's life was cut short.
'I want everybody to know how caring she was,' April said
of the 19-year-old. 'Ever since she was little she
loved animals. It was her dream to become a vet.
'The vet dream was taken from her.'
INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.theeagle.com/news/crime/suspect-in-lacie-larose-murder-trial-makes-first-appearance-in/article_54e25b20-4c33-11e5-8a78-7396fb2f1959.html
Suspect
in Lacie LaRose murder trial makes first appearance in court, pleads not guilty
Posted: Thursday,
August 27, 2015 12:00 am
By Jordan
Overturf jordan.overturf@theeagle.com
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39-year-old College Station man charged with the May 3 shooting death of a
Blinn College student pleaded not guilty to four felony charges Wednesday
afternoon in a Brazos County courtroom.
Ronald
Wayne McNeil and Houston-based defense attorney Vivian King entered the pleas
in Judge Glynis Gore's 85th District courtroom. McNeil faces a murder charge,
two aggravated assault charges and one count of discharging a weapon in public.
McNeil, who
has been in the Brazos County Jail since his arrest May 3, didn't speak during
the trial, according to victim Lacie LaRose's grandparents, who attended the
hearing.
LaRose's
mother, April Hollinghead LaRose, said she was shaken by the news of McNeil's
plea.
"I
think he should be charged with lying under oath," LaRose
wrote in a Facebook message, adding "this is
really eating us all up. It's killing us that we have to fight to get him put
away. ... He needs the death penalty; that is what he gave my (precious) little
girl."
McNeil
isn't the only one being charged in the incident.
Landon
Duke, a Texas A&M graduate and guest of honor at the May party on the 900
block of San Benito in south College Station, turned himself into police Aug. 3
in connection with assault charges stemming from a fight that started before
the shooting.
According
to jail records, McNeil lived across the street from where the graduation party
was taking place.
Duke told
The Eagle in May that McNeil and a few of his friends attended the party to
watch the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao boxing match. Later that evening,
after most of the guests had left, Duke said McNeil's friends got into an
argument with some of the college-aged men over a game of beer pong. Duke said
the argument got heated and he joined his guests in asking McNeil and his
friends to leave. Duke told a reporter McNeil and his friends resisted and Duke
admitted to punching one of McNeil's friends hard enough to knock him on the
ground.
College
Station police wrote in a report that witnesses say they saw McNeil and his
friends leave the residence for a few minutes before McNeil allegedly returned
with a semi-automatic handgun and open fire in the backyard. Police said
LaRose, 19, was hit in the neck and later died at a College Station hospital.
Two other men were injured in the shooting. A bullet was recovered from the
wall of a neighbor's home behind where the shooting took place, according to a
police report.
Duke, who
moved to Houston after graduation, turned himself into Brazos County
authorities Aug. 3 and was released the same day on $5,000 bail. He is facing a
misdemeanor charge of assault.
McNeil, who
has not been charged with capital murder, will not face the death penalty if
convicted. He does face a maximum sentence of life behind bars.
A hearing
has been set for Oct. 7.
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I agree with the Mother. He deserves the death penalty and the legal system needs get on with business. There's not a single article on the internet that I can find about what's happening regarding the sentence of this murderous thug. My heart and prayers go to the family.
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