I know. That doesn’t sound right. That’s bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang. You know all those TV shows where one detective turns to the other and says “This was personal.” Like that. Not to belabor the point (much), but what must the victim’s body have looked like after taking twenty-nine 7.62x39mm bullets? Swiss cheese is the joke answer. An unimaginably horrific mess is the correct one. So, the facts: on Feb. 19, 2009, Cecil “Joe” Erb shot Jeffery Watson Sr. 29 times with an SKS assault rifle as Watson sat in his pickup a block from Walmart in west Greeley (Colorado). Now, the explanation. “In opening statements Thursday,” TheTribune reports, “prosecutors and defense attorneys told wildly different stories.” Ya think? Here’s the 411 . . .
