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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 10:19 PM Jun 2012

Teen lesbian couple found shot in Texas park

Two teenage girls in a relationship were found with gunshot wounds to the head in a south Texas park, with one of them dying from her injuries, media reports say. Police were searching for their assailants.

Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Christine Chapa, 18, were found in knee-deep grass in a nature area in Portland by a couple Saturday, said Portland Police Chief Randy Wright, who confirmed to msnbc.com details first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller Times.

Olgin, originally from Ingleside but recently living in Corpus Christi, died; Chapa, of Sinton, was rushed to a hospital where she had surgery and was in serious but stable condition on Sunday, local NBC affiliate kristv.com reported. Wright said Chapa was still in the hospital on Monday.

Friends told kristv.com that the girls had been together five months. Wright said he didn’t have any information about their relationship, noting that “we understood from their friends that they were (in a romantic relationship). I know from … Mollie’s parents that they were very close.”

When asked if police had been able to determine if the girls' sexuality played any role in the shootings, Wright told msnbc.com: “That’s always something that we’re looking for, but as of this point, we have not been able to establish that that had anything to do with the attack.”

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/25/12402620-teen-lesbian-couple-found-shot-in-texas-park?lite

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Teen lesbian couple found shot in Texas park (Original Post) cynatnite Jun 2012 OP
Terrible! GreenPartyVoter Jun 2012 #1
People are really starting to piss me off FrodosPet Jun 2012 #2
No, I'm sure the shooter acted in self defense. Quantess Jun 2012 #3
hang 'em high. nt StarryNight Jun 2012 #4
Sickening malaise Jun 2012 #5
How terrible! MineralMan Jun 2012 #6

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
2. People are really starting to piss me off
Mon Jun 25, 2012, 11:23 PM
Jun 2012

Intellectually, I am against the death penalty. It's not a deterrent, it is unfairly applied, and innocent people get executed.

Emotionally, I want to take razor blades and lemon juice to whoever shot these young ladies. Not sure if it was homophobia or a spurned ex-lover, but I don't care. I hope they are caught, and I hope they go to prison for the rest of their lives, and I hope their lives in the joint are a daily living hell.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
6. How terrible!
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 09:35 AM
Jun 2012

We don't know, yet, whether this had anything to do with their relationship, but that seems likely, all things considered. In any case, two young women are dead by someone's hand. The fact that they were shot in the head gives an execution-style color to their deaths. There are several possible scenarios, and we won't know the motive unless someone is arrested in this case.

May the shooter be found quickly!

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