“He’s come over like four times confronting my husband because he thought he was a Democrat,” 43-year-old Anthony Lee King’s wife told 9-1-1 dispatchers Saturday after their neighbor shot her husband multiple times. “Why? Why? Please, I don’t understand.”
There’s not a lot that can be understood about the attack, which WCPO ABC-9 in Cincinnati reports occurred because 26-year-old Austin Gene Combs thought King was a Democrat. King’s family said Combs repeatedly accosted King to scream about politics and his opinion–reflecting Donald Trump speeches and Republican propaganda–that Democrats should be eliminated through the use of guns, if necessary.
King’s wife said she was in the front yard of the house with her son when she heard at least four gunshots and saw her husband laying bleeding in the backyard after Combs came into their yard to tell King the standard BS talking points he heard from Republicans. King was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. “He’s come over like four times confronting my husband because he thought he was a Democrat,” she told dispatchers. “Why? Why? Please, I don’t understand.”