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twitterFloyd Mayweather Jr.’s car found at shooting, search warrant served
Published Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 | 9:32 a.m.
Updated Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 | 4:10 p.m.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight Juan Manuel Marquez Sept. 19 at the MGM Grand.
A shooting at a skating rink late Sunday night led to Metro Police serving a search warrant and examining the Rolls Royce belonging to boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Monday after the car was involved in the shooting.
Metro officers went to the Crystal Palace Skating Center, 4680 Boulder Highway, about 10:06 p.m. Sunday to check on reports of shots fired.
A shouting match had occurred between two people inside the skating rink and as one patron left the area, along with another person, about seven shots were fired, police said.
The driver and passenger inside Mayweather's Rolls Royce were uninjured, police said, although the car was hit by bullets.
Mayweather is not a suspect in the investigation, police said.
The man who fired shots into the vehicle goes by "O.C.," and is a known associate of Floyd Mayweather Promotions, police said. He is about 6-feet tall and weighs about 220 pounds with brown eyes and black, shoulder-length hair worn in dreadlocks, police said.
As part of an ongoing investigation into the shooting, police served a search warrant early Monday at Mayweather's Las Vegas home and the boxer is cooperating with Metro officers and detectives.
Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555, or the Metro Police Violent Crimes Section at (702) 828-5634.
Mayweather will fight Juan Manuel Marquez on Sept. 19 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on an HBO pay-per-view.
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What in the hell was his car doing at "the skate of the art"? Allegedly.
Does he have son or daughter that likes to skate? If he does not then it's very obvious why he was there...To Skate!
I didn't know skating was part of his training. I guess Brian Boitano would have been one helluva boxer.
I hoe this won't affect his appearance on Monday Night RAW tonight!
Ali trained at an obscure rural area in PA. Can a boxer really get ready in Vegas?
It's a lifestyle.
I assume O.C. is white by the I.D. given
Gayfeather doesn't hang with white dudes.
Once a hood, always a hood!
Fools, you can't hit anything when you shoot sideways. The sights are there for a reason.
Another black athlete with a loaded gun in a public place full of civilians? Who does he think he is anyway, an armed Illegal mexican or other undesirable armed alien?
Sadly, the whole scenario is a caricature of young African-American men today, perpetuating the stereotype.
Guns, fancy cars, huge egos, and a complete lack of common sense.
What a great role model for his children.
Thugz.
Pretty boy Floyd is washed up anyways. He's got to do something for people to talk about him. Manny Paciaou is the man with all the attention these days.
Floydy is just another dumb athelete with no brain.
Even better was Donte Stallworths recent plea/interview where he pronounced Success: sa'ces.
Yes Plaxico we all feel sorry for you being a dumba$$ too. Maybe we should all be strapped when we go to the club. And then when our gun goes off we can hire high priced attourneys to make up stories for us and hope that all americans are dumb enough to buy them, the stories that is.
Can't we make it a requirement for overpaid atheletes to hire people to talk for them. It's getting to difficult to understand these morons.
SHEBA MAMBA WHOBA BABY BUBBA. say what? Remember I IS A COLLEGE STUDENT.
I have dealt with Floyd a few times and he is a very nice man.The problem seems to lay with the people he has in his camp!The fame went to their heads more than it has with him.
Are you sure they weren't shooting around the high school kids behind the $61M Clark County taxpayer funded gun range? Seems to be a theme in this county.