Ex-GOP Candidate For Gov Starts ‘Shooting Indiscriminately,’ Shoots Neighbor, Kills Horse
A California man who campaigned for governor this year has been arrested in connection with the shooting of his neighbor and the shooting death of a horse Thursday afternoon, according to The Fresno Bee.
48-year-old Tye “Glenn” Champ was taken into custody around noon on Friday without incident, after a Tulare County sheriff’s deputy caught up to him on a traffic stop.
According to the Bee, Champ previously served a prison term for manslaughter, has several convictions for weapons offenses and is also a registered sex offender. But since then, Champ claimed to have “found the Lord.”
A “neighbor dispute” over work being done on a road led to the shooting, according to witnesses. On Thursday afternoon, Champ first approached a 13-year-old boy.
“Champ was angry at the 13-year-old and slashed the tires on the ATV that the child was riding,” Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said. “The parents came to the scene and confronted Champ and that’s when the father was shot, then other witnesses — including the victim and the 13-year-old — ran away as more shots were being fired at them from Champ.”
A horse in a pasture was hit and killed. Mims said Champ was “shooting pretty indiscriminately … it’s fortunate no one else was hit.”
The Fresno Bee reports:
The 40-year-old father was shot in the stomach and underwent surgery at Community Regional Medical Center. He was in serious condition on Friday afternoon but his wounds are not life-threatening, Mims said.
Mims said, “There may have been prior disturbances over the road — I understand it was being retarred in the area — however, that’s no excuse for attempting to murder somebody.”
Champ then took off in a blue, four-door Volkswagen, but was arrested about 10:15 a.m. Friday, Mims said.
Champ was booked on suspicion of attempted murder, willful cruelty to a child, willful cruelty to an animal, and felon in possession of a gun. Bail was set at $500,000.
Raw Story notes that Champ came in fifth in the gubernatorial primary in June with over 76,000 votes.
Watch as he’s taken into custody:
Tommy6860 August 9th, 2014 at 8:54 pm
Isn’t it amazing how these wingers find the Lord after committing previous offenses having served time for them? I guess as long as he didn’t violate the 6th Commandment, he’s still a good guy with a gun.
tiredoftea August 9th, 2014 at 9:01 pm
Bubba encourages finding the lord because he doesn’t provide the lube.
Tommy6860 August 9th, 2014 at 9:03 pm
That was wrong, but damn funny!
viva_democracy August 9th, 2014 at 8:56 pm
The fact that he got 76,000 votes is scary, the fact that he is a serious felon in possession of a firearm is even scarier. Thanks NRA.
tiredoftea August 9th, 2014 at 9:00 pm
We have a sense of humor about our Gubernatorial candidates here in California!
fahvel August 10th, 2014 at 2:39 am
name one who was funny. name one who was outstanding.
ChrisVosburg August 11th, 2014 at 12:33 am
Governor Hercules.
Teddy Simon August 9th, 2014 at 8:58 pm
No we don’t need gun laws , this is what you get an idiot with a gun
John David Peer August 9th, 2014 at 9:15 pm
There are over 20, 000 gun laws, rules and local regulations in the US.
You can’t ban violence, or crazy folks.
This guy was in illegal possession of a gun.
He’s arrested, and charged, where’s the story?
tiredoftea August 9th, 2014 at 9:20 pm
“…arrested in connection with the shooting of his neighbor and the shooting death of a horse” That’s the story, using a formerly legal gun, or was it illegally manufactured? How did it get into his hands, whose was it, where was it legally purchased? None of these things matter, of course.
fahvel August 10th, 2014 at 2:38 am
very stupid question – does it reflect your view in general?
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:45 pm
Obviously it does. There is NO story when someone violates the law with a gun. According to the GOP.
Teddy Simon August 10th, 2014 at 11:00 am
The point of my comment is , why wait till after someone like this does something stupid , he has several convictions already , whoever gave or sold this man a gun needs to be charged also .
ChrisVosburg August 11th, 2014 at 12:31 am
You can’t ban violence, or crazy folks.
Perhaps a civilized society can regulate the former and aid the latter.
tiredoftea August 9th, 2014 at 8:59 pm
“…Champ claimed to have “found the Lord.” Who, apparently led him to the gun and ammunition.
HKAnders August 9th, 2014 at 9:22 pm
Just the price we have to pay for freedumb.
burqa August 9th, 2014 at 9:27 pm
Maybe he thought the horse was going to rob him or something….
tiredoftea August 9th, 2014 at 10:41 pm
Or, tell on him.
Linda1961 August 9th, 2014 at 10:00 pm
He’s the NRA’s new “good guy with a gun.”
Montag August 9th, 2014 at 10:21 pm
This Jesus dude is a bit crap isn’t he? Find him, shoot someone. Very peace and love.
majii August 9th, 2014 at 10:27 pm
I’m glad this f*cker is locked up and has been charged “on suspicion of attempted murder, willful cruelty to a child, willful cruelty to an animal, and felon in possession of a gun.” He’s a perfect example of what can happen to someone who has bought into the NRA’s BS that a gun is the answer to solving conflicts of any/all kinds, and the right to own and carry a gun everywhere is a god given right. I hope he’s convicted for this unnecessary act of violence and spends the rest of his life behind bars. Imo, he’s a menace to society.
fahvel August 10th, 2014 at 2:36 am
M, it’s worse – when these idiots with guns keep carrying them, when do you think they’ll finally break and use them – it will happen!!!!!!!! and to more of them than one would imagine – it’s an accelerating thing.
Obewon August 9th, 2014 at 10:52 pm
Further proof nobody sane remains in today’s GOP or runs as a repub.
GOP Candidate Qualifications: Champ previously served a prison term for manslaughter
Has several convictions for weapons offenses
And is also a registered sex offender!
GOP family value hypocrisy bonus points: The father was shot
Attempted Murder of 4. Champ was “shooting pretty indiscriminately” at a Mom & a 13 year old. Mr. Ed a horse in the pasture was hit and killed by the Felon in possession of a gun. GOP Felons D’Souza / Champ in 2016~
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:44 pm
And according to the GOP, this dirtbag is not dangerous, he’s a candidate!
Guy Lauten August 9th, 2014 at 11:15 pm
Hey Reince… How’s that “re-branding” thingy workin’ for ya’?
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 3:22 am
See what happens in a state run by Democrats. An overcrowded prisons system now under US Justice Dept. control (ha ha) … that can’t keep obviously dangerous people like this and yet fills the jails and prisons beyond capacity with non-violent Drug Felons.
My sincere wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to the injured man, and condolences to our fallen equestrienne friend.
P/s: good job on the post, Anomaly100
Obewon August 10th, 2014 at 4:03 am
Why didn’t you or your GOP do any research on Champ’s 1-2 decades ago incarceration for his 1992, 1993 & 1998 convictions?
A: Repubs have nobody & that’s why they ran this ex-felon after Champ served more than a decade in Prison: Court records show that in 1992, he pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed firearm. In 1993, he was convicted of two counts of assault with intent to commit rape and as a result was placed on the state’s sex-offender registry.
In March 1998, he accepted a plea deal on a charge of loitering to solicit a prostitute; later that year, he pleaded no contest to a voluntary manslaughter charge after hitting a man with his vehicle, for which he was sentenced to 12 years in state prison, according to court records. http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/california-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-glenn-champ-Is-a-registered-sex-offender.html
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 4:18 am
Oh! Looks like I hit the left nerve. Since you answered your own ridiculous question … I’ll run it by my GOP at first chance, I stand by my statement, yet might better qualify it, “pro-Drug War Democrats.”
Obewon August 10th, 2014 at 4:32 am
The War on Drugs are Reagan & Nixon policies. What have repubs ever done for anybody but Big Oil Corporate welfare queen Billionaires & Privatized (CCA) Prisons? Zip!
You can disagree with clean renewable energy and social safety net Dem successes, but their progressive policies save lives, reduced record GOP Great Depressions and recessions, GOP deficits and all the GOP Iraq and other wars.
When was the last GOP success? A: Nixon’s resignation to save the presidency.
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 5:08 am
…and unabashedly supported by Democrats.
Actual, it was under Franklin Roosevelt when the first federal “anti-drug” agency, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, opened for business. And it’s been a riot and a rout ever since. And, of course you must know, it’s not really a war on drugs. Is it? If Democrats have not figured that out by now…
Obewon August 10th, 2014 at 5:10 am
Your single issue war on drugs is oversimplified to put it mildly…
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 5:35 am
Hey, I’m a mild-mannered type of guy…:)
So what’s the problem? End the Drug War already and get rid of all us “single issue” fools.
Budda August 10th, 2014 at 7:28 am
I believe Progressives are attempting to end the “drug war”. It’s conservatives that fear all change that oppose these attempts…but are slowly losing: see Colorado and Washington.
carowe August 10th, 2014 at 3:44 pm
conservatives don’t so much fear the change as they want to protect their moneymaking interests in all those private prisons.
NW10 August 10th, 2014 at 9:03 am
End the Drug War already
Tell it to Ted Cruz.
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:43 pm
He’s too busy trying to pretend he never was Canadian.
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:43 pm
Actually I think you are underestimating your potential when you refer to yourself as a single issue fool.
You have the capacity to be a full blown idiot – give yourself credit for your lack of perception and your small minded dimwittedness.
greenfloyd August 11th, 2014 at 12:17 am
Great! Yet another humor imparied and clueless flamer. I was ribbing Obewon, who made the initial reference.
carowe August 10th, 2014 at 3:43 pm
oh your foolishness extends far beyond a single issue.
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Doesn’t matter – they were embraced by the GOP – who still worship Reagan as their savior. When IS his resurrection anyway?
The War on Drugs is stupid. It would and will never work but once again we are dealing with a GOP idea that is simply another failure.
greenfloyd August 11th, 2014 at 12:05 am
You asked:
When did Reagan ever die? Some think his ghost still occupies the Oval Office, sitting just an inch to the right of Obama.
The Role Model: What Obama Sees in Reagan
Gary August 10th, 2014 at 10:15 pm
No. It’s about privately run prisons getting full of non-violent drug offenders and the companies getting to bill the US gov’t for each and every prisoner. And whose buddies are they??
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 11:31 pm
That too. Mandatory Minimums, Joe Bidden loves em…
Roy Austin Smith August 10th, 2014 at 4:38 pm
Wow: strong kool aid , you drinking. Wow.
IQdaRadical Thinker August 10th, 2014 at 12:23 pm
The pride you take in your stupidity is just sad.
The fact you were the sperm that made it is even sadder.
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 11:28 pm
Welcome to the pile on greenfloyd thread. It doesn’t really bother me though because I suspect you and all the other cheap-shots above would never have the courage to say such a thing to my face. Something all of you should think about before you post. What would your mother say about such denigrating words?
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:39 pm
Wow – you are seriously stupid aren’t you?
Mo Reno August 10th, 2014 at 2:06 pm
And proud of it, too.
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 11:12 pm
Yeah … to think liberals could actually engage in a discussion with someone they disagree with without resorting to name calling and vulgarity.
Roy Blankenship August 10th, 2014 at 4:16 pm
Ever hear the expression, “When the sides of the hole start to collapse, stop digging”? Maybe you could figure out how to STFU and go back to your Honey Boo boo reruns and let the adults have the conversation.
whatthe46 August 10th, 2014 at 8:02 pm
CLASSIC. love your post. can i borrow the Honey Boo Boo part? i’ll be sure to give you credit. funny as sh**!
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 11:04 pm
Or, perhaps you could actually make an intelligent contribution to the “conversation?”
ChrisVosburg August 10th, 2014 at 6:45 pm
GF writes: Looks like I hit the left nerve
Nope, that’s your foot again. Good shot, Hawkeye!
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 11:20 pm
I think the sheer number of hateful replies proves you wrong.
ChrisVosburg August 11th, 2014 at 12:18 am
I think its worth pointing out that any psychotic will describe attempts to talk him down as “hateful replies.”
Cosmic_Surfer August 10th, 2014 at 9:01 pm
War On Drugs – Nixon….Expanded under…Reagan. Both parties own the stupidity but the War On Drugs…That was a built by the GOP
Roy Austin Smith August 10th, 2014 at 4:36 pm
Why was he on the loose?
ChrisVosburg August 10th, 2014 at 1:37 pm
You don’t seem to know much about California, which, whatever else it may be, is definitely not one of those states with overly punitive drug possession sentencing.
Perhaps you’re thinking of Texas. Perhaps you’re not thinking at all.
carowe August 10th, 2014 at 3:41 pm
wow, Greenfloyd you win the prize for stupid of the day. Why do you think the prisons are so overcrowded? Republicans. Own it, bubba, it’s yours.
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 10:51 pm
So what did I win? A free NRA membership?
Don Jensen August 10th, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Colorado is run by Democrats and we decriminalized pot. Your asinine analogy doesn’t hold water.
whatthe46 August 10th, 2014 at 8:03 pm
why weren’t you swallowed is amazing.
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 10:48 pm
Obviously, as you can see below, I am hard to swallow. And remember to chew.
Naithom August 10th, 2014 at 4:11 am
So, a convicted violent sex offender is able to get their hands on firearms and almost kills a man. This is the type of situation that just screams background checks. I do wish that the reporter had at least attempted to find out where someone with this criminal background obtained a firearm.
Am I surprised that the GOP ran a man like this? Why should I, they let Issa in.
Shades August 10th, 2014 at 8:46 am
I’m only surprised he didn’t win.
carowe August 10th, 2014 at 3:40 pm
It’s California, not Floriduh.
whatthe46 August 10th, 2014 at 7:58 pm
GOOD ONE!!!
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Hey as far as I’m concerned, he deserves life in prison just for killing the horse. Animals shouldn’t be dragged into our fights.
Roy Austin Smith August 10th, 2014 at 4:33 pm
Makes sense, background checks , which are illegal, do little good at all. Thugs will always get guns.
Naithom August 10th, 2014 at 8:44 pm
Actually, background checks are not illegal. I refer you to Justice Scalia’s statements in the Heller decision:
“Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. [United States v.] Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html
As for them doing “little good”, I refer you to the Johns Hopkins study of the repeal of Missouri’s background check which found:
1. Missouri’s 2007 repeal of its permit-to-purchase (PTP) handgun law contributed to a fourteen percent increase in Missouri’s murder rate through 2012 (updated from sixteen percent; first paragraph of press release).
2. The law’s repeal was associated with an additional 49 to 68 murders per year in Missouri between 2008 and 2012 (updated from 55 to 63 additional murders per year; second paragraph of press release).
3. The repeal of Missouri’s PTP law was associated with a twenty-five percent increase in firearm homicides rates. (updated from twenty-three percent; sixth paragraph of press release).
http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2014/repeal-of-missouris-background-law-associated-with-increase-in-states-murders.html
In 2010, about 99 percent of people who apply to buy a firearm are quickly cleared. But about 1 to 2 percent are denied, mainly because the records show that he or she has a felony indictment or conviction. The data also show that about 5 percent successfully appeal their denials.
Applications: 6,037,394
FBI denials: 72,659 (1.2 percent)
Appeals 16,513 (22.7 percent)
Successful appeals 3,491 (4.77 percent of denials)
The main reason listed for a denial is a felony conviction or indictment. Here are some of the key reasons:
Felony: 34,459 (47.4 percent)
Fugitive: 13,862 (19.1 percent)
State law prohibition: 7,666 (10.6 percent)
Drug use/addiction: 6,971 (9.6 percent)
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/239272.pdf
So, in just one year, the background checks prevented over 70,000 felons, fugitives, drug addicts and other prohibitive individuals from obtaining a gun. That’s hardly, doing nothing at all. It stopped them and notified the authorities that they were attempting to obtain a firearm.
BanditBasheert August 10th, 2014 at 12:37 pm
Is it possible that this man may actually spend some time in jail for real???? Or does his Jebus conversion indemnity him from punishment?
Jailhouse conversions are common and totally meaningless.
carowe August 10th, 2014 at 3:39 pm
Republicans. Always so classy.
Roy Blankenship August 10th, 2014 at 4:13 pm
76,000 votes!?!?!?!? Who would vote for a registered sex offender?? Have Fox and Rush done a great job or what? We have become a nation of morons.
Cosmic_Surfer August 10th, 2014 at 5:07 pm
76,000 out of 18,055,783 registered voters (2/2013) works out to just about .42% or 42/100 of one percent. California has a population of about 35 million residents.
Roy Blankenship August 10th, 2014 at 6:55 pm
That is 75,999 votes too many, presuming he voted for himself.
76,000 people is the population of Upland or Redwood City, a mid-sized town. I would be interested in knowing what the criteria was that caused these people to vote for a felon. Maybe it was his
“conversion to Christianity”. Yeah. How’s that working for you, “Glenn”?
whatthe46 August 10th, 2014 at 7:57 pm
why would anyone other than his immediate family vote for him in the first place. did no one do their job. LOL!
Cosmic_Surfer August 10th, 2014 at 8:34 pm
32,000 registered sex offenders in CA plus the back country survivalists and then there are the skinheads, Neo-Nazis and KKK…That is enough to get him elected
whatthe46 August 10th, 2014 at 8:38 pm
i just shivered. no one who is a sex offender should be out of prison to begin with. of course i’m not talking about the 18 y/o with the 16 1/2 y/o girl friend.
Roy Austin Smith August 10th, 2014 at 4:32 pm
Well , name calling, excuses, so let us all blame the commie demos. This is a world problem, not just demos and republicans. If you have noticed. we are living in a world of moral decay, to put it nicely.
Cosmic_Surfer August 10th, 2014 at 5:05 pm
Fresno is not the Liberal bastion of CA…
whatthe46 August 10th, 2014 at 7:55 pm
are the republicants so desperate that they actually put someone like this on the ballot? and they have issues with President Obama. wow!
Jazzie August 10th, 2014 at 9:00 pm
So Mims, the deputy, was booked and not Champs?!
Anomaly 100 August 10th, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Thanks for the heads up. It’s fixed:-)
greenfloyd August 10th, 2014 at 10:58 pm
I agree with the “left/right…” stuff. It’s seems only hard-core partisans see much difference. Most Americans can’t stand either.
NativeSonKY August 11th, 2014 at 12:08 am
How was an ex-con even able to run for office? I suppose CA law is different, no doubt, than KY’s, but here, if you have a felony conviction you have to wait until your full sentence has expired before you can apply for your voting and right to run for office. In other words, if you have a 20 year sentence, no matter how long you serve behind bars and on parole, you have no chance of getting those rights back for a full 20 years. Then, and ONLY then, can you get the Governor’s Seal, which releases you for good, finally. Just wonder how they do it in CA.
Khary A August 11th, 2014 at 9:47 am
I find it funny that cops managed to take a convicted felon with murder in his past and varied assault charges into custody and seemingly uninjured but when it’s an unarmed black male it is seemingly and impossible task. Yeah it’s off topic but is it?
R.J. Carter August 11th, 2014 at 9:50 am
Don’t ask me. We’re too busy this morning discussing whether we should lock the front doors and send the employees either home or to the back of the warehouse.
Khary A August 11th, 2014 at 10:32 am
Wait a minute, what!?!? I just got in the office myself.
R.J. Carter August 11th, 2014 at 10:37 am
Co-workers getting texts from friends in police that activity was resurging this morning in and about Ferguson.
Khary A August 11th, 2014 at 10:42 am
Damn really? Hmm well keep your head low and about yourself.I’m looking at the situation now online…holy dammit christmas.
cwazycajun August 11th, 2014 at 3:14 pm
is it off topic …. cause i was thinkin the same dammed thing