Another Athlete Gets Shot. This week’s Shot Athlete of the Week is University of Miami reserve safety Willie Cooper. Here’s the account as reported by the Associated Press:
SOUTH MIAMI, Fla. — Miami Hurricanes reserve safety Willie Cooper was shot in the buttocks when confronted in his yard Friday morning by an unknown person who fled after another player returned gunfire.
Police said Cooper was able to walk after being shot and the injury wasn't believed to be serious, but he was taken to a hospital for treatment.
After Cooper was shot, teammate and roommate Brandon Meriweather pulled a pistol from his pants pocket and fired three times at the person, who jumped a fence and fled with another person in a car, police said. It was unclear if the assailant was hit.
Police said Meriweather used his gun legally.
Cooper and Meriweather told police they noticed a suspicious car parked outside their home near campus shortly after 6:30 a.m. When they went outside to investigate, a person crouched next to the house jumped up and shot Cooper.
These two guys just happened to be looking out the window at 6:30 in the morning, noticed this suspicious car and brought a pistol with them to see who it could have been … okay, sure. Why not just call the police and report the suspicious car?
At press time Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was NOT a suspect.
Article comments
1 - RJ Elliott
"These two guys just happened to be looking out the window at 6:30 in the morning"
So they were up early...or late...so what?
"noticed this suspicious car and brought a pistol with them to see who it could have been"
Because it was on his property, and the 2nd Amendment allows for armed self-defense...
"Why not just call the police and report the suspicious car?"
Maybe because the police, if called, probably wouldn't arrive for another 25 minutes, which may have been too late...
2 - sal m
ummm...ok sure...yea that's it...these two guys were sitting around at daybreak, saw this "suspicious car" and said to each other, "hey dawg, let's go exercise our second amendment right for armed self-defense even though we aren't defending ourselves."
and "too late" for what? if the car was parked what was the urgency?
3 - Andy Marsh
Shame on you Sal...rooting for the Eagles? Well...I never!
As far as E-rod goes...I haven't liked the guy since he tried to knock the ball out of Arroyos
hand in that play-off game a few years back...I even wrote something in my blog back then saying essentially...what i had heard from a Sox fan...Jeta' wouldn'ta done that! I heard on the tube the other day that he leads the league in game winning RBI...what I want ot know is where he stands in the league with runners left in scoring position...he seems to hit the long ball when the Yanks are leading 10-1 and not when they really need it...but living in VA...I don't get that Yankee channel that my folks get in Jersey...so I don't see all the games.
As far as Tiger and the Open...I thought it was a lot more fun to watch the Open as opposed to the US open...the Open seems to give golfers more than one choice as to what type of shot to hit...the US open seems to be all about hitting it long and to a green with the landing size of a pea...the Open seems more about playing golf the way most people actually play golf...us weekend hackers end up in the rough more often than not...and it's about the next shot...in a US major...if you're in the rough you almost have to take an unplayable lie...and that's just wrong...
4 - Matthew T. Sussman
There's very little chance A-Rod will finish his career in New York, but wherever he goes after that he will have a much better experience than his time with the Yankees.
5 - Andy Marsh
I heard one of those two guys on PTI sya the other day that every team E-rod leaves gets better when he does...
6 - sal m
there's a few problems with moving ARod. first he has a no trade clause in his contract and second there are only a hand full of teams that would pay him...and the red sox won't, so that leaves the dodgers and the mets and maybe a few others.
when he gets hot and carries the yankees for a while everyone will be cheering him again.
7 - Andy Marsh
Never happen...I didn't like him when he was the MVP! It's also my understanding that $10 mil a year of his contract is actually paid by the Rangers!
And you should still be ashamed of yourself for rooting for the Eagles...
8 - sal m
i was glad that the eagles handled the TO situation the way that they did, and i respected them for not giving in to that brat...however, they made a mistake in bringing him aboard that set back the franchise a good 10 years.
9 - Matthew T. Sussman
Actually TO set the Eagles back 24 years, the last time they made the Super Bowl.
10 - sal m
One of the great fallacies associated with TO's time with the eagles is that he got them to the superbowl.
the eagles got to the superbowl without TO's help as he was injured at the end of the regular season game and didn't play in the playoffs...the eagles had won the NFC championship game without him and lost the super bowl with him.
11 - Matthew T. Sussman
Point taken, but he didn't not help them to the Super Bowl.
12 - Andy Marsh
I do have to agree with you sal on liking the way the Eagles handled the situation...I'm just waiting to see how the Tuna handles TO...
13 - sal m
i've heard others say it, but i agree that the first time bledsoe throws an interception while going to a receiver other than Owens, or the first time he misses a wide open Owens, there will be an incident.