What a stupid way to basically end your life as well as somebody else’s over a football game.
A fight between two fans over the outcome of the Nov. 9th LSU-Alabama game turned fatal when one man shot the other with a pistol.
James Michael Roland “Mikie” Merritt tragically lost his life on Friday after almost a week spent on life support. He was just 29-years-old.
The alleged shooter is David Allen Fulkerson, and he has now been charged with murder, according to the TimesDaily newspaper in Florence.
County Sheriff Frank Williamson “said the shooting happened at Fulkerson’s residence at 2172 Ligon Springs Road after an argument concerning the outcome of the game.”
“They just got into it over the ball game,” the sheriff said. “They’d been jawing at each other all day. Alcohol played a big part in it.”
Williamson said several people had gathered at the residence to watch the game. He said Merritt and Fulkerson’s girlfriends are sisters.”
At one point during the game, Merritt called a football player an expletive, and Fulkerson thought it was direct to him so he went and grabbed his gun.
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Fulkerson’s defense attorney claimed self defense because of the black eye he suffered. That was dispelled when a witness told authorities that she watched Fulkerson hit himself in the face.
LSU defeated the Crimson Tide 46-41.
