No Murder Charges for Alleged Pink Saturday Shooter Ed Perkins

[Newsjock]

Source: SF Weekly

The San Francisco District Attorney's office moments ago sent out a press release stridently announcing that alleged Pink Saturday shooter Ed Perkins, arrested by police for the alleged murder of Stephen Powell, will be hit with weapons charges.

Left unsaid -- but easily inferred -- is that Perkins will not be facing murder charges. Bluntly, whomever shot Powell and two others during Saturday's Gay Pride events is still on the loose. The DA's office noted that the police have determined that none of the seven bullets recovered from Saturday's barrage of gunfire matched the .357 caliber revolver found in Perkins' possession -- and no witnesses could place him on the scene of the shooting.

The 21-year-old Perkins -- still being held without bail -- will be charged with one count of possessing a concealed weapon and one count of possessing a loaded weapon. It was loaded, it seems, because it was not fired. Retrospectively, even the term "shooter" doesn't fit Perkins. He's the guy who allegedly toted an illegal, loaded pistol during Pink Saturday's bloody melee.

Read more: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/no_murder_charges_for_alleged.php

[msongs]

1. just exercising his 2nd amendment rights nt

[Mz Pip]

2. Okay

If he never fired his gun then it seems pretty logical that he shouldn't be facing murder charges. Weapons charges seem appropriate.

[mackerel]

3. The SF Chron reported that police weren't

looking at this as a hate crime. Any truth to it?

[Mz Pip]

4. Sounds like it might have been

some kind of gang related thing, but who knows for sure? If this guy wasn't the shooter but was there when all of this was going down then maybe he knows more than the police are letting on.

The thing about these big events is that they used to be fun but now they just attract all kinds of people who have nothing to do with the sentiments of the event. People get drunk. People bring guns. It gets crowded. Bad combination.