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Man pardoned by former Mississippi governor involved in shooting
[NEWS.YAHOO] A man who was among roughly 200 felons pardoned a year ago by then-Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour as the Republican left office was involved in a gunfight on Thursday that left another man dead, authorities said.
"This here town ain't big enough fer both of us, Wayne!"
The pardoned man, Wayne Harris, 56, of Slate Spring, Mississippi, was recovering at a medical center on Friday after receiving two gunshot wounds in his legs during an altercation that resulted in 51-year-old Chris McGonagill's death.
"He's dead, Jim!"
The two men were at a cookout on McGonagill's property with three other men when a fight erupted, said Calhoun County Sheriff Greg Pollan.
"Gimme some o' that there barbecue, Wayne!"
"It hain't done yet, Chris!"
"I say hit's done! Now gimme the barbecue, yew varmint!"
"Smile when yew say that, Chris!"

McGonagill and Harris fired shots at each other,
"Go fer yer guns, Wayne!"
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]

McGonagill using a 9mm pistol and Harris shooting a .22-caliber rifle,
Wait a minute! Who the hell brings a .22 rifle to a gunfight?
Pollan said. The sheriff said alcohol was a potential contributing factor in the incident.
No! Re-e-e-e-e-ally?
McGonagill died early on Friday
"Rosebud!"
from multiple gunshot wounds throughout his body, said Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy.
"Lookidat, Bob! Eighteen rounds, right through his brisket!"
It was unclear on Friday whether Harris had fired in self defense or if he would be charged with a crime, the sheriff said.
One of his party guests was waving a 9mm, and he had a .22 rifle? It sounds like he was trying to do himself in if he started it, unless they were shooting it out at 100 yards.
"Charges are pending based on what we find out from the interviews," Pollan said.
"You get anything from the party guests yet, Stan?"
"None of 'em's sobered up yet, Chief!"
"We can wait. Is the barbecue done yet?"

The deadly incident happened one year to the day after Harris was pardoned by Barbour for a 2001 marijuana-sale conviction.
"That's because I invited all my friends to the anniversary party for my pardon!"
Harris had been out of prison since March 2002, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He was able to legally own a rifle after completing a rehabilitation course in 2007, according a circuit court employee in Calhoun County.
So it's not like it was an illicit firearm. It wasn't even an "assault rifle" unless you define a Western Auto .22 long with an 18-round capacity as an "assault rifle."
Barbour sparked an uproar when he issued some 200 pardons in January 2012 as he completed eight years in office. Among them were five inmates in prison and five others who had worked at the governor's mansion doing odd jobs, four of whom were serving life sentences for murder.
Presumably he became acquainted with them in the course of his term as governor and their term as handymen. If Norman Mailer could do it, why couldn't he?
Posted by: Besoeker 2013-01-14
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