{"id":326745,"date":"2017-09-19T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/alleged-nashville-shooting-brings-social-relations-into-relief\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:25:35","slug":"alleged-nashville-shooting-brings-social-relations-into-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/alleged-nashville-shooting-brings-social-relations-into-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Nashville shooting brings social relations into relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Alleged Nashville shooting brings social relations into relief<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Warren Duzak<br \/>\n    <br \/>19 September 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The alleged shooting of a homeless man by an apparently well-off young woman in Nashville, Tennessee last month might serve as a metaphor for the growing class inequality in a city that has become one of the most unequal in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Melton, 54, was shot once in the stomach August 26 after he allegedly objected to the sound of loud music and exhaust fumes coming from a Porsche driven by Katie Quackenbush, 26.<\/p>\n<p>Melton was sleeping outside in the Music Row area near downtown Nashville when Quackenbush, an \u201caspiring\u201d singer\/songwriter, pulled her car in at 3 a.m. near where the homeless man was sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>An encounter led to disputed verbal exchanges before Quackenbush (a.k.a. Katie Layne) pulled a gun and fired twice before driving away without calling for help or reporting the shooting, Nashville police said.<\/p>\n<p>She would only turn herself in much later.<\/p>\n<p>Quackenbush is the daughter of a prominent Amarillo, Texas attorney who defended his daughter after she was charged with attempted murder and released on $25,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cShe didn\u2019t try and kill this guy,\u201d Jesse Quackenbush said. \u201cShe had no intention of killing him. She didn\u2019t know that she hit him.,\u201d the <em>Tennessean<\/em> newspaper reported. <em>People<\/em> cited this crude and reactionary comment by the attorney: \u201cI know there has been a problem in Nashville, so I\u2019ve read, with the homeless attacking, raping and killing people. There has also been a problem with local citizens killing homeless people. So, my daughter is ending up as a poster child for all these pre-existing problems with the homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melton, also known as a talented musician but a loner, remains in Vanderbilt University Medical Center in stable&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/09\/19\/nash-s19.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Alleged Nashville shooting brings social relations into relief By Warren Duzak 19 September 2017 The alleged shooting of a homeless man by an apparently well-off young woman in Nashville, Tennessee last month might serve as a metaphor for the growing class inequality in a city that has become one of the most unequal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}