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W'boro man shot, killed over motorcycle incident
By DAVID LEVINSKY
Burlington County Times


Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death
of a Willingboro man who was shot last week during an alleged
motorcycle theft in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Robert Barksdale, 27, died Friday afternoon after being shot in the
head Thursday night outside the Super 8 Motel at Route 17 and
Socastee Boulevard, police said.

Barksdale's family disputes the police version of why Barksdale was
at the motel. They claim he was in Myrtle Beach for a vacation and
was not involved in criminal activity.

Horry County, S.C., police detectives said Barksdale and as many as
three other men - including Willingboro resident Ronald Freeman, 25 -
were trying to steal several motorcycles parked at the motel. Two
owners saw them loading their motorcycles in a dark-colored van. One
of the owners pulled a handgun and fired one shot through the van
windshield after he was nearly run over trying to block the robbers'
escape, detectives said.

The bike owner then fired several more shots at the vehicle as it
drove away, police said.

Barksdale was driving the van. He was hit in the head by the shot
that went through the windshield and then drove into a nearby house,
police said. He was taken to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in
Myrtle Beach, then flown to the Medical University of South Carolina
in Charleston, S.C., where he died the next day, police said.

Two stolen motorcycles were recovered from the van, police said.

Horry County police Detective Allen Large said yesterday the shooting
was under investigation. No charges had been filed against the
shooter, Large said.

"Everything happened very fast, but in our state a vehicle coming
straight at you is considered (a reason for) self-defense and
justifies the use of deadly force," the detective said.

The shooter is a soldier based in Virginia, Large said. He had a
permit to carry a concealed weapon, the detective said.

Lt. Chuck Dunn of the Myr-tle Beach Police Department said Freeman
and Cory Satterfield, 36, of Philadelphia were charged with grand
larceny for stealing the motorcycles found in the van. A fourth man
may have been involved in the theft and is still at large, police
said.

Barksdale was on vacation in South Carolina when he wound up in "the
wrong place at the wrong time," said his sister, Belinda Barksdale,
33, of Willingboro. She said his family refuses to believe he was
involved in any criminal activity.

She said her family believed the incident in which Barksdale was shot
stemmed from a prior dispute between Freeman and one of the bike
owners or between the other men with her brother and one of the bike
owners.

"We heard that they ran into someone they knew who got into an
argument with Ronald over a stolen bike," Belinda Barksdale
said. "Then a guy came out of nowhere and started shooting. He
sprayed the vehicle with bullets, and my brother got shot. ... He was
in the wrong place at the wrong time. He didn't even have the chance
to enjoy himself down there."

She said her brother was employed as a trucker and is survived by a 4-
year-old daughter.

 

kinda hard to say he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when they pulled 2 stolen bikes out the van you gonna steal bikes ya got to deal with the consequences

 

Very Interestng...

 

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