Verbal Sparring Over Citizenship Leads to Shooting
Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC), May 15, 2006
A parting gunshot from a vehicle leaving Waffle House in West Asheville shattered a window and caused a minor injury, police said.
The shooting happened around 3:00 a.m. Saturday after a group of whites argued with a group of Hispanics at the 24-hour restaurant on Smokey Park Highway, Asheville police Lt. Wallace Welch said.
“The two groups were jawing back and forth with each other over citizenship issues and whatnot,” Welch said.
As the Hispanic group drove off, someone in the vehicle fired at least once into a large window near the front door, he said.
Whether from a ricocheted bullet or flying glass, Welch said, one man’s arm was bleeding when police arrived. He declined medical treatment.
Police were looking for a white Dodge Intrepid that left the restaurant going west.
