Jesus Take the Wheel: White Man Shoots Black Man Who Was Trying to Keep White Man’s Wife From Getting Beat-Down

Posted on June 18th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Bolitics, For Discussion, KKK, News, One-Time

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This man pulled the trigger on a black man who was just trying to help his wife out. The man pictured up top was kicking her tail, when the two brothers stepped in to help her, the moron shot one of the men and killed him:

Fitchburg police said a man has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting Tuesday night after calling 911 and claiming to be the shooter.Police said Perry Lucas, 28, of Fitchburg, is tentatively charged with first-degree intentional homicide.

The shooting occurred at an apartment building in the 3300 block of Leopold Way, just before midnight, police said.Police said a disturbance took place inside the apartment building, and Lucas, a resident there, pulled out a gun and shot two men multiple times in the building’s hallway.One of the victims, Detarius Martin, 23, of Madison, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Dane County Coroner’s Office said preliminary autopsy findings indicate that Martin died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.His brother, a 27-year-old, is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.Police said even though the person who they believe pulled the trigger is in custody, the incident is still concerning.

“You have three people who basically meet for the first time last evening and some sort of altercation breaks out and shots get fired, and one of the three people is dead. That’s a concern. It’s a tragedy, quiet honestly,” said Lt. Chad Brecklin, of the Fitchburg Police Department.

An exact motive is still not known, but police said they do not believe drugs or gang involvement played a role in the shooting. The Fitchburg Police Department said that officers do respond to that particular area for disturbance calls regularly, but they do not consider it a troubled area.

Now, that is what the article read, but here is what happened from someone close to the situations perspective:

I have a story that I believe you guys should cover. In my Home Town of Madison Wisconsin a friend of mine was murdered. He happened to be an African American man. He was at his brothers house when him and his brother heard noises of the man upstairs from them beating his girl friend (they happened to be white).

They decided to go upstairs and intervene because they thought they were helping. Instead they got into an altercation with the white man and he shot and Killed my friend Tari Martin, and shot and injured his brother. I honestly believe if the tables were turned and the man that was killed was white and it was black man beating a white women, this would have made national headlines.

I am an advid reader of your blogs and really believe this should be brought to the media, and I know you guys would do it. The whole story is not out yet as far as the news, but here is some more info. Whats really funny is half of the local news sources are not even headlining this, they are headlining a bunch of white people talking about how scared they are now. Please Please Please cover this issue.

Don’t worry girl, we got you. This is nothing that is out of the ordinary. People fabricating motives to justify actions. It’s funny, the first reasoning behind this death is looked at as “gang, or drug” involvement. Pigs throw out crack and gangs whenever a crime involves black people. SMH

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  • Dr.Winkie

    Lock his white @ss up for life….but i doubt this will happen.

  • tj22

    Second. Stupid people

  • SHM

    LOOK AT THE STUPID GUILTLESS LOOK ON HIS FACE.

  • Jessika

    RIP..I hope justice prevails

  • su

    this is so sad…

  • mickey

    Really sad news.

  • Stop Trippin’

    And they wonder why more black people don’t get involved in other people’s problems…look what happens when we try to do the right thing. And this will get swept under the rug and the white guy will get 30 days in jail, if any time at all. After all, he ONLY killed a black man. I shudder to think what would have happened had the tables turned…

  • always knew

    well that’s always a possiblity when you are playing Captain Save’em…

    Maybe the bros should of thought about that BEFORE interferring in someone’s marriage. The white broad is still alive, the blk guy who jumped in…

    NOT…

    I know that you blk men can hardly control yourselves, when you see a wht broad, but you better learn to wait until she’s divorced, testing wht men with weapons, isn’t the way to go unless your’e looking for some extra drama…

    In the guys pic, that was arrested, he looks like he could care less….

    SMMH@ blk men..You guys will NEVER learn…
    :(

  • always knew

    QUESTION: Why do blk men always involve themselves in these type situations. WHY? The outcome is NEVER favorable…

  • samech

    ALWAY KNEW- I co-sign. MYOB please! especially with them….

  • bobbi

    “They decided to go upstairs and intervene….”

    see…that right there….SMH

  • wifey06

    I WOULD NEVA STICK MY DAMN HEADINTO CRAP INVOLVED WITH WHITE FOLKS PERIOD. DO WENOT REMEBER KATRINA…

    I HATE TO SAY IT BUT THEY WERE THE DUMB ONES. SHE DID NOT EVEN LIKE BLACK PEOPLE… DUMB!!!!!

  • always knew

    The white guy will get 30 days, all he has to say is that he was scared for his life and thought the blk men were going to do something to him and his wife…

    He would get off for self- defense. No question. The blk guy should’ve just caled the police and let them handle it…

    No, gotta play Captain Save’em, so he got what he got and don’t be surprised when he (the wht guy) does NO jail/prison time..

    Oh well….My your own business, would we even be having this conversation??

  • always knew

    called*- excuse typo

  • Honey Beauty

    I hate how the news headlines or covers “white tragedies” but hardly ever “minority tragedies.”

    This is a sad story.

  • Beanpie St. Ides

    Sad. It’s why you teach your kids to not get involved in domestic disputes. Cops even get killed wading in those waters. Leave it to the pros and call 911. It wasn’t their business.

  • LEE

    Am I slow or are these two different stories? The names of the victims are different…

  • MistaO

    Yea I have to concur with many of you. While we should (on some level) appreciate the fact that there are still some MEN willing to involve themselves and try and help those in need, outside of that fact, these men should have just called the Police and let them do what they are trained to do.

    Other than it being my daughter or sister, I’d be hard pressed to come to some broads defense, hell I don’t know what she did.

    Plus, 9 times out of 10 the broad is going to defend and/or stay with the abuser anyways!!!!

    So, how this will play out:

    1) girlfriend will say she was not in danger and “we do this all the time”.

    2) the idiot will say “i saw two men (read: Black) approaching me in a threating manner and felt i would be killed.

    3) the idiot at best will get a couple of months (probably unregistered firearm) and a years worth of probation for kicking the skanks azz.

    4) Black folk will learn another hard lesson about worrying about other folks and trying to take care of them…

    I do commend what the young men probably were trying to do and their intent, but at the end of the day sometimes you just gotta “stay in your lane”…

  • whatsyoursecretdesireDOTcom

    SAD, Nothing has changed.

  • DR.FUNK

    @always knew:

    We almost never agree….EXCEPT FOR NOW.Co-Sign.
    Just call the cops.

  • http://... LATEEF

    @ALWAYS KNEW:

    I agree Black Men/White Women= issues, incarceration and/or death.

  • last dayz

    I’ll bet you any kind on money who doesn’t go to jail. He may get a year or two.

  • missunderstood

    It’s sad, because the young man lost his life, which is a tragedy in and of itself, but still, there is a lesson to be learned here. We have to draw a ‘line in the sand’ so to speak, when it comes to “their” business, and minding ours.

    I wouldn’t even have called the cops. I would’ve beat on the ceiling with a broom…

  • http://www.myspace.com/ocky_j Octavia

    I agree that if race was reversed in this situation, Fox News would be all over this heralding the victims as heros. However, this is the risk you run when you interfere in domestic disputes. Sadly, that is why so many people hesistate to do the right thing. Either R.I.P to a REAL man.

  • bayouswampman

    See this is dumb. All these females on here are agreeing with this “who knew” idiot when everyone was all up in arms about what Chris Brown did. You have to make up your damn mind. You want to castrate CB but now everyone seems to be on that “he shouldve stayed out of it” BS. You should applaud the young man for trying assist this helpless female who was getting it handed to her. It has nothing to do with race but about the fact that this young man tried to help a female who was getting heavybagged & got shot. Thats the story, not the fact that he was black & the killer was white. Race is just a sidenote in this particular situation. No one should be viewed in this manner for just trying to help. Ok. If you see someone bleeding on the side of the road after an accident, you should say “its not any of my business”? Thats complete garbage.

  • http://bossip NIKA

    @ always knew

    EXACTLY!!!! AGREE 100%

    blk guys will do anything for a stupid white girl. thats just the way they are, such damn fools. they’ll NEVER LEARN.

  • Rrrrroe Ski Love-

    If the one brother survived with just minor injuries, justice will be administered from the surviving brother. Sometimes it is your turn to be judge and jury. Under these circumstances it could be considered justafiable

  • Annoyed with Ppl

    You should add him as a friend on Facebook.. and write him personally abt how he is an A$$ for shooting ppl all willy nilly. Then write the police station and get rally going this is unexceptable!!!

  • always knew

    @bayouswampman

    See this is dumb. All these females on here are agreeing with this “who knew” idiot when everyone was all up in arms about what Chris Brown did. You have to make up your damn mind. You want to castrate CB but now everyone seems to be on that “he shouldve stayed out of it” BS. You should applaud the young man for trying assist this helpless female who was getting it handed to her. It has nothing to do with race but about the fact that this young man tried to help a female who was getting heavybagged & got shot. Thats the story, not the fact that he was black & the killer was white. Race is just a sidenote in this particular situation. No one should be viewed in this manner for just trying to help. Ok. If you see someone bleeding on the side of the road after an accident, you should say “its not any of my business”? Thats complete garbage.
    _______________________________________

    someone has a problem with comprehension

    this has NOTHING to do with Chris Brown

    ‘idiot’? you’re the one with poor assessment skills..

    Someone was killed for intervening and “I doubt very seriously, that race had nothing to do with it”..INDEED…I’m glad that you are so well in tune with people who murder others…race has nothing to do with it **smirk**

    Fact is, right now this place is turning into a powder keg…It has everything to do with economics and things getting worse for everyone, wht, blk, brown,green, purple with stripes..Race relations are getting more and more hostile..It is what it is, stop trying to pretend..

    Your opinion is yours and mine is mine, for the record–helpless wht woman–exactly wht damsel in distress, blk man playing captain save’em. Thank you for reinforcing my point…THEY SHOULD”VE MINDED THEIR OWN BUSINESS. ALTHOUGH I FEEL SORRY FOR THEM, I AM NOT PARTICIPATING IN A RALLY OF ANY SORT. THEY MADE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. AND I LIVE MY LIFE MAKING MINE. DON’T PUT YOURSELF IN THAT POSITION–YOU’LL LIVE LONGER..
    :)

  • always knew

    @missunderstood

    It’s sad, because the young man lost his life, which is a tragedy in and of itself, but still, there is a lesson to be learned here. We have to draw a ‘line in the sand’ so to speak, when it comes to “their” business, and minding ours.

    I wouldn’t even have called the cops. I would’ve beat on the ceiling with a broom…
    __________________________________

    most accurate and best post! :)

  • bayouswampman

    @ always knew
    someone has a problem with comprehension

    this has NOTHING to do with Chris Brown

    ‘idiot’? you’re the one with poor assessment skills..

    Someone was killed for intervening and “I doubt very seriously, that race had nothing to do with it”..INDEED…I’m glad that you are so well in tune with people who murder others…race has nothing to do with it **smirk**

    Fact is, right now this place is turning into a powder keg…It has everything to do with economics and things getting worse for everyone, wht, blk, brown,green, purple with stripes..Race relations are getting more and more hostile..It is what it is, stop trying to pretend..

    Your opinion is yours and mine is mine, for the record–helpless wht woman–exactly wht damsel in distress, blk man playing captain save’em. Thank you for reinforcing my point…THEY SHOULD”VE MINDED THEIR OWN BUSINESS. ALTHOUGH I FEEL SORRY FOR THEM, I AM NOT PARTICIPATING IN A RALLY OF ANY SORT. THEY MADE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. AND I LIVE MY LIFE MAKING MINE. DON’T PUT YOURSELF IN THAT POSITION–YOU’LL LIVE LONGER..

    ———————————————–

    Thanks for confirming you stupidity. My statement was in regards to a woman being beaten, someone stepping in to help, & getting shot. It has nothing to do with race. As for my Chris Brown comment, im sorry if you little mind isnt complex enough to understand to link. I would think people would be more on the “i feel sorry for him” or “thats sad” side instead of the “he got what he deserved’ or “he shouldve stayed out of it” way of thinking.

  • me (the original)®

    It’s like the old saying goes, “Let no good deed go unpunished” and this poor man lost his life trying to help someone out.

    If this man is truly punished, I am willing to bet it will be because he was beating his girlfriend, more so than killing the guy.

    They weren’t there and didn’t see what was going down. They should have just called the cops.

    RIP.

  • Whut??

    The police and the press are setting him up with a good defense/alibi aren’t they? They are gonna help him out of this mess. Now he can say he thought the men were there to “rob” him and he was “afraid”, or some other misc. B.S. And in the end the girlfriend will never say she was beaten and stand next to him during the trial and cry like a fool.

  • black gold

    I hope the white idiot rots in hell!

  • http://bossip.com Shawn Never Settles

    This is very sad indeed. We can never get past racial issues because people continue teaching their children to not accept another race as equal. They are so ignorant that they seem to not realize their children will have to work with other races and their children’s way of thinking can hinder their sucess in life or better yet claim their life. (Not applying the last statement to the young man here what so ever, he stood up as we all should do but the reality is this is what can happen when people try to do the right thing.) It doesn’t matter how much money has been spent on children’s education,…. they can still be very ignorant, plus they may not always have to answer to their own race on a job. A future manager may not be racist but has witnesses how you have treated another employee and when you sit down in the interview what would be the right thing to do then?,….Not hire that racist person because they will eventually cause trouble and really when you are serious about your carrer and taking care of your family, one doesn’t want to bother with these kind of people, at all!!! The more people try to hide their racism, the more it shows. People that are not racist can tell easily when someone is,…. and I am speaking for any specific race here I see it in all races for different reasons. I have seen people of color angry at all white people because of history and treat a white person that had the kindest heart so very wrong just because of history between our races. I have had a white person explain to me how they were not racist and stand their in the very next breath and say I have hugged a black person. (Classic case of how the more people try to hide it the more it shows.) I just overlooked the comment because I recognized that it was out of being ignorant and that it was also a taught behavior. I have met Mexicans that could not speak a word of English but were scared to speack to anyone because they get it on all ends for econimic reasons. People from China get it because people feel they come here and get loans that we can not get and we were born and raised right here. Indians stay to themselves for the most part. My point is it is sad as I just read on another post about one player hitting and killing someone and only getting 30 days for it and Mike Vick went for much more time for dogs (I don’t know if it was actually 30 days but I got he point and it should really open our eyes, and for the records take note that both men were that of color. It just goes to show that things are not as they should be and this holds true in a lot of areas of life. I didn’t say all of this to agree with making this a racial issue but to express that a lot of people of the world of today are not giving one moment of thought to repecting other people or themselves for that matter. This is just a sad situation PERIOD!!! ******* may this young man find peace with our Heavenly Father During these very tough times

  • Come on People

    Really, this is not a black vs. white issue. It is two people that decided to get involved in a violent situation and they got hurt. Many times, especially in domestic violence situations you don’t know how a situation is going to turn. Many time the woman may turn on the people that are defending them and get them killed. It is better to just call 911.

  • Shauna

    alot of the commenters on this site are just sad. ya’ll are basically saying that this man deserved to die for not minding his business. there is a special place in hell for people like ya’ll and the shooter

  • steelcitychick

    @ Black Male……….I completely agree with you. Let them figure shyt out on their own. Nothing good will come out of us intervening in their mess!

  • http://bossip.com Shawn Never Settles

    @Y.4.U.2.Increase, I.Must.Decrease!

    This is very true,….. that’s what makes it so sad. I feel you… I hate that things are the way they are but I so realize that right and reality ARE indeed 2 very different things a lot of times!…lol

  • donna

    You all should know that the white boy has two mixed kids–he ain’t racist, all his friends are black and i’m one of them

  • http://bossip.com Shawn Never Settles

    @ donna I am not saying you are wrong cause again I am not one that is trying to nake this into a racial thing, but at that end of the day YOU just as every one else here can not say what you KNOW about HIS character. Not trying to put you on blast but at the same time people marry people who THINK the other person loves them, people kill their own children, some people become aquainted with people to destroy them just because??? We can not say with cults, brainwashing and agendas of others, people have their ways and they change for what they feel the need to make the change for, I am not here to say you are wrong about him in the end it is tragic and he may be being judged the wrong way but then again YOU seem to be putting a lot of faith in this. I have learned about saying what a person will or won’t do, what they may and may not be, you may just end up having to eat your own words. Do you think a person would say I do to the very same person that will kill them because they grew tired of being with them in a few years so they would not have to say they got a divorce or maybe for what they thought they were going to get in dollar amount (Ins.) (IF) they got away with it if they could see ahead to know what that very same person they are saying I do to would do, I think NOT. Just saying,…..don’t be surprised about anything,… it’s 2009, not how it should be but any and everything is happening now days.

  • http://okaythen quibri

    they parents should have tought them better

  • http://okaythen naw naw

    just so sad

  • Anemus-Lady

    We will see how long that look maintains once they hit the anus without vaseline…..

  • CakeBeater

    The first thing people scream when someone DOESN’T intervene is “PEOPLE NOWADAYS ARE TOO APATHETIC” when they DO help “YOU SHOULD’A MINDED YOUR BUSINESS”. That said, the Brothers should’ve called the police anonymously, because THAT’S WHY WE PAY TAXES!! Also, even the loser who posted so many retorts has to admit if this were some Yuppy who intervened in a Black couple’s domestic disturbance and he was killed he would be hailed as a hero on someone’s FRONT PAGE. That’s the truth of how it is, it is what it is. I bet you’re the kinda guy who thinks the police DON’T harass minorities,right, you don’t have to answer I already know!!

  • CakeBeater

    Oh yeah, it’s “MIND” your business. Read more literature instead of the internet all day and you might’ve “already knew that”.

  • termo

    I stumbled across this site while looking into this… Perry was my friend back in college. We were roommates along with 2 of our black friends/teammates. We were always together and lived like brothers. Perry left for the war and spent a while in ground zero of Iraq. And the rest of us went our separate ways and have barely spoken since we all moved out. Perry loved everyone, he has a huge heart and would reach out to anyone in need.

    He was not married when this happened… he was broken up with his girlfriend who came over with 2 guys to get her stuff out of the apartment. Now this is where this blog is going wrong… It doesn’t matter if the guys are white, black, hispanic or whatever. If you were to ask any guy you know if he would go with a female to move her things out of a (ex)guys house, anyone with any street smarts at all would stay away from that situation. Its dangerous.

    Love, break ups, they can make the most sane people insane.

    I do understand that media is twisted… not only about race, but politics, etc… But the bottom line is that nobody has totally released the evidence of what happened that night. There are 3 sides to this story, Perry’s, the Brother, and the Media… We as the public have to be educated when we piece this together. Not jump into this calling out for anyones head.

    My heart goes out to the family that lost their son… and I too hope that justice is FAIR, not retaliation for unfair rulings made in the past…. which seems to be what most of the replies are calling for here. Moving forward is not about making the present “even” for this countries past, its about learning from the past and doing it right, now. I hope one day we all get it, and all sides stop making crime about race, and making it about people…

  • Madisonian

    There is exactly ONE post so far that is accurate and fair. It belongs to Termo.

    I, too, am from Madison and would like to reiterate that this blog’s post is erroneous on many accounts. Perry was not married and he certainly was not beating a woman in his apartment. His ex brought 2 random guys over to his apartment late at night to gather some of her personal belongings. They all head a head full of steam and wanted to be heroes. I do not believe this to be a matter of race but I do not discredit anyone’s opinion. I only wish this phony, hackjob, website would research the facts before posting any more news stories with completely false premises.

  • Are You Serious?!

    Do some research on the guy, this was not racially motivated at all. It is a case of self defense on one side and a case of wanting to help out on the other. The only ones that know the truth are the 6 people involved in this. It is unfortunate that someone lost their life in this all this, but don’t sit here and try to say this is because of a “White Devil” just because we are white doesn’t make us racist.

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