An Ohio man who would commonly jeer his ex-wife’s singing allegedly shot and killed her new boyfriend whereas he belted out a Linkin Park track at a karaoke bar.
Richard Lindgren, 59, allegedly shot 42-year-old Benjamin Hawk — who was in a relationship with Lindgren’s ex-wife — at Louie’s Nook Home in Buckeye Lake, Ohio, simply earlier than midnight Friday, in line with police and Hawk’s mates.
Hawk was only a few notes into Linkin Park’s “One Extra Mild” when Lindgren pulled out a gun and shot him with none altercation beforehand, in line with DJ Robert Humble, who instructed ABC 6 he was working on the bar that night time and was simply “4 ft” from the capturing.
Lindgren had been married to Hawk’s girlfriend up till a couple of months in the past — and would present up at native bars and “blurt out hateful phrases to his ex when she would rise up to sing,” Humble claimed.
“He would name her names and bash her character. I just lately had a chat with him two weeks prior and instructed him if he was going to behave like that, he was not welcome,” he mentioned.
Family and friends mentioned Hawk was well-known among the many native karaoke neighborhood.
“He was utilizing [karaoke] as a method to share his feelings with all people else,” his brother David Hawk instructed The Columbus Dispatch.
A homicide warrant for Lindgren’s arrest was issued instantly after the capturing, the Licking County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
He was taken into custody in South Carolina on Saturday, police mentioned. Licking County authorities mentioned they had been working to have have extradited again to Ohio.
