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UGA student on spring break shoots foot, charged with aggravated assault (w/police report)
Staff reports
Issue date: 3/13/09 Section: News
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Amar Yakhou, a first-year economics major from Milledgeville, told St. John's County Sheriff's deputies a group of guys were harassing him and his girlfriend at the Cabana Club on Ponte Vedra Beach because they were from Georgia.
The group followed Yakhou to a parking lot, where he pulled out a shotgun from his 2005 Mazda "to scare them away," the report states. He went back to the beach to get his girlfriend. When they returned, as he was moving the gun from the back seat to the trunk, it went off and he suffered a gunshot wound to one of his left toes.
After the incident, a witness said the group of guys walked by and told Yakhou that it was their beach, laughing while saying he got what he deserved, the report states.
Yakhou faces an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge and was released from St. Johns County jail Wednesday on $3,000 bail.
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HA!
posted 3/12/09 @ 9:28 AM EST
Guess those guys learned not to make fun of Georgia kids...
John
posted 3/12/09 @ 10:14 AM EST
Uhhh Red and Black? I know ya'll like to report every single time a university student commits a crime, but I think this one was better left un-reported. (Continued…)
Giant Mistake
posted 3/12/09 @ 10:26 AM EST
Plaxico! strikes again. "Officer I didn't mean to shoot myself in the foot, I was just trying to ward off Georgia haters on Ponte Vedre beach, while I moved my shotgun it shot me"
curious
posted 3/12/09 @ 12:23 PM EST
I am curious as to why an eighteen year old is going to the beach in Florida with a 12 GUAGE SHOTGUN ? This kid is one dumb fool.
plax
posted 3/12/09 @ 1:06 PM EST
what a dumbass
National Chumps
posted 3/12/09 @ 1:59 PM EST
Geor-gia...
Dumb-ass!
Geor-gia....
Dumb-ass.
Geor-gia...
Dumb-ass
If marijuana were legal, none of this would have happened. (Continued…)
Amar Yakhou
posted 3/13/09 @ 8:25 PM EST
Hi,
This is me. Those guys were threatening me and wanted to meet me in the parking lot or something. I went to my car to get something out of my car and there I see one of the Floridians who was making all those threats. (Continued…)
Winslo
posted 3/13/09 @ 9:57 PM EST
1) If that's really you, say no more on this site or to anyone other than your attorney. It can only be twisted and used against you.
2) I hope you weren't drinking when this happened and that you didn't point the weapon at anyone. (Continued…)
ben
posted 3/14/09 @ 9:48 PM EST
as an eighteen year old he has every right to go to the beach with a 12 gauge shotgun, as long as it is not concealed (obviously it wasn't lol)
Ghoochie
George Patsourakos
posted 3/15/09 @ 8:52 PM EST
For a University of Georgia freshman to accidentally shoot himself in the foot with a shotgun, because beachgoers in Florida insulted him is a strange scenario. (Continued…)
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