What's wrong with people?

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By LISA FALKENBERG, Associated Press Writer

CANTON, Texas - [size=-1]The father of a high school quarterback shot and wounded the football team's coach with an assault rifle Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, claiming to have a hit list, authorities said. [/size]

[size=-1]Jeffrey Doyle Robertson, 45, was captured a few hours later. His truck was found abandoned near a golf course outside Canton.

Police were trying to establish the motive for the shooting of Canton High coach Gary Joe Kinne.

But Police Chief Mike Echols said Robertson had been banned from campus and told not to attend school functions. Robertson had had confrontations with some of the coaches, including Kinne, who took over the football program in 2003, authorities said.

According to one parent, Robertson had complained last year that his son was being picked on by his teammates.

Robertson had said he had a hit list, according to state Homeland Security spokeswoman Sophie Yanez.

Kinne was shot with an AK-47 rifle in the chest at the school's field house, officials said. He was airlifted to a hospital in nearby Tyler; his condition was not immediately released.

An athlete's father, Steve Smith, said Robertson had threatened to kill Smith's son last year over an on-field teasing.

"He's a very high-strung, hot-tempered individual," said Smith, a Canton business owner.

Smith told the Tyler newspaper that Robertson's son, then a freshman football player, was walking off the field when some older students "razzed" him.

"This guy blew up," Smith said. "He thought some kids were picking on his son. My son wasn't even the one who said anything. But he threatened to kill him."

Smith said he complained to the school and police. Robertson was never charged.

A local restaurant cashier said Robertson had a reputation in Canton, about 60 miles east of Dallas.

"I wouldn't say he was respected. But he was well-known," said Sister's Cafe cashier Diane Price, who said she has known Robertson for 37 years because he attended high school with her daughter.

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See thread title for my commentary.

 

[tyrus]

I dont see the problem...I am sure the coach had it coming.

 

[osugrad21]

Wow...guess he didn't like the ball control offense or soft zone defense

 

[tyrus]

Isn't it sad we read this shit and we aren't even a little surprised. It happens way too often.

 

[stxbuck]

Let's see....the dude was an admitted redneck asshole with anger control issues....his kid was picked on at school and did not get along w/ the coach....the coach was criticized for starting his own son at QB as a frosh...this took place in a small Texas town known for it's "gigantic flea market"(another article I read about the incident).....Texas HS football in and of itself.....can't say this is overly shocking........yeeeeeehaaaaaww

 

[HabaneroBuck]

I read an article somewhere that said the Dad could handle some of the razzing his boy was getting until one day he heard one of the players refer to his son as "Tibor bait."

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

the only thing i was surprised about was that it was in texas and not sayre, pa

 

[High Lonesome]

Let's see....the dude was an admitted redneck asshole with anger control issues....his kid was picked on at school and did not get along w/ the coach....the coach was criticized for starting his own son at QB as a frosh...this took place in a small Texas town known for it's "gigantic flea market"(another article I read about the incident).....Texas HS football in and of itself.....can't say this is overly shocking........yeeeeeehaaaaaww

East Texas is a very strange place, Rednecks of east texas are even more strange, to close to arkansas or something... oh and they do have one hell of a flee market.