Truth about Fasciana shooting incident
Rock news outlets have been reporting how Phil Fasciana of Malevolent Creation interrupted a store hold-up last week. The guitarist has said he was shot at four times before disarming the junkie perp and shooting him dead. But with no one to back him up, reporters have been asking whether it really happened. Rock Radio has the answer.
Fasciana told Blabbermouth: “When I walked into that store I had no idea it was being robbed. When that homeless crackhead yelled at me, pointed his gun and fired four shots at me, I thought I was surely dead.
“After realising I wasn’t hit, I crawled to the back of the store, and while the gunman was screaming at the worker I tackled him with the intention of beating the living shit out of him.
“The guy already shot at me and surely would have shot again – I’m not retarded enough to think I could talk my way out of that situation.
“When I started beating the shit out of him he dropped the gun and I grabbed it. I had no intention of shooting him until he reached for another gun in his sneaker and looked at me. I shot him in the face two times and put an end to the whole nightmare.
“By no means am I a hero. I just wanted to beat the f**k out of that loser who tried to end my life over nothing. I have a lot of family problems that are far worse. I asked the police if it wsa possible to keep the story from the press, having my dying father and grandfather know about something like that happening to me.”
Rock Radio has spoken to Detective Mark Shotwell of Fort Lauderdale Police's homicide squad, who says he’s been unable to find any evidence of such an event.
He explains: “This did not happen. Our last murder was on June 22 and Fasciana was not involved. I’m certain of this.
Even if the death was a result of self-defence it would still be classed as a homicide and investigated as such.”
“All witnesses, reportees, victims and suspects are entered into a database, but the most recent entry for Fasciana is on April 1, involving him and a female in a domestic dispute."
Rock Radio has spoken to Fasciana about Detective Shotwell’s comments, and the guitarist replies: “The store where it took place isn’t considered Fort Lauderdale. What happened is true and I really don’t know how it leaked into Blabbermouth because I never told anyone about it.”
But Shotwell explains: “There are about 15 suburbs near Fort Lauderdale, but all murders use the Broward County Medical Examiners’ office for autopsies - mandatory in a homicide. There have been no murders in the entire county during July.
“'Homeless crackheads' would trade a gun as soon as they got it and I've never seen one with two guns. And the scenario as described would have made headlines – even in Miami.”
Last word to Fasciana: “This is the second time I was involved in the death of a homeless man. Me and a friend were driving, completely sober, about six years ago, and a homeless drunk dude ran into the street. We ran him over and killed him with several witnesses. I’m flipped out over this and many near-death experiences I have had living in this shithole Fort Lauderdale.”
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