The incident began when Raymond Lindstrom, 35, of New Port Richey, pulled out of his parking space in a black Ford pickup at around 12:40 p.m. at the Home Depot, at 1712 N. Dale Mabry Highway.

As he tried to exit the parking area, he drove near a gold minivan driven by Latasha Strong, of Tampa, in the parking aisle. The two vehicles got too close, making it difficult to pass safely, police said.

Lindstrom and Strong were side by side and exchanged words through the driver’s side windows, police said.

As the two exchanged words, Strong’s husband, Darrell Strong, 27, of Tampa, and his friend, John Christian, 40, of Tampa, pulled up in a separate vehicle, police said.

Darrell Strong and Christian confronted Lindstrom, who remained in his truck. The argument escalated and a fight broke out as Lindstrom was still in the driver’s seat, police said.

Lindstrom took out his gun, which Darrell Strong and Christian tried to take from him, police said.

Darrell Strong and Christian ran to their car. Lindstrom drove off, but he headed down a parking aisle that was a dead end, police said. He turned around and tried driving out of the lot.

Darrell Strong retrieved a gun from his car, police said, and went to the front of the store. As Lindstrom drove by, Darrell Strong fired two shots at the pickup, police said. Two bullets hit an unoccupied white Toyota Corrolla that belonged to someone not involved in the incident. The bullets knocked out the back and a side window.

Police estimate there were about a dozen people between the shooter and the truck when the shots were fired.

No one was shot or injured, police said.

Both Lindstrom and Darrell Strong have concealed weapons permits, police said.

You see, both men were law-abiding citizen up to the time of the incident.

.....and now they are criminals and, thus, justification for more people to pack more guns.


Come to think of it, HD is a good place to be if you need to fashion a self-defence weapon from scratch.

Yeah, you quickly grab a lathe, a piece of pipe and go to work while you send the wife off to the gardening department for some fertilizer and sulphur with a quick stop in hardware for a handful of nails. Before long you're banging away with the best of them - and probably with the same accuracy.

Nail gun.

It could have been worse, they could have come out swing pressure cookers!



(possibly a slightly inside joke)

what is a sanitary t?

i keep imagining you throwing tampons at a gunner.

what is a sanitary t?

i keep imagining you throwing tampons at a gunner.