Georgia man kills motorcyclist who was following teen daughters

[wolfman]

I saw this article yesterday and didn't see it posted here yet:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333351,00.html

I'd like to know the full story behind this but either way its a reminder how vulnerable we are as motorcyclists and not to piss people off...

[Chrisoh]

More then likely it was the teens who hit him and when they didn't stop he followed...

[Casper]

Damn. That's fucked up. Instead of calling the cops he shot the guy. What the fuck? And I agree, the girls probably hit him. I definitely want to hear more.

[Angrish]

Self defence? He shot him in the back!!

[wolfman]

Self defence? He shot him in the back!!

Yeah, I just read that article on Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website! Pretty sure this guy shouldn't be owning a gun if he thinks that's self defense...

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2008/02/27/motorcyclist_0227.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

[flounder]

How the hell can you justify shooting someone just for driving by your house on a public road.. I hope his ass rots in jail... and his daughters need to be sent to jail and or Juvee if it is discovered that they hit him and he was following to get an address.

[zerocrash]

How the hell can you justify shooting someone just for driving by your house on a public road.. I hope his ass rots in jail... and his daughters need to be sent to jail and or Juvee if it is discovered that they hit him and he was following to get an address.

[Chrisoh]

As we know, not one motorcyclist would hit a car with their bike for any reason on purpose. Now if tempers were gone we would kick a mirror or kick a tail light, we would not run our bike into a car.

[zerocrash]

As we know, not one motorcyclist would hit a car with their bike for any reason on purpose. Now if tempers were gone we would kick a mirror or kick a tail light, we would not run our bike into a car.

Yeah, and I read in another article that the kid just bought this Ninja 250 and was new to motorcycling. So I'm sure he was proud as shit of his new bike and would certainly not intentionally do something that could potentially cause damage to it.

[RC51 John]

As we know, not one motorcyclist would hit a car with their bike for any reason on purpose. Now if tempers were gone we would kick a mirror or kick a tail light, we would not run our bike into a car.

That's a big

[R6KID]

Thats absolutly horrible. If the GA judge has any mind he'll through that bitch in with some locked up Hells Angles or some other biker dudes. Now thats justice.

[exSRAaron]

yeah thats such bullshit, I heard about it on 600rr.net very sad.

[yotaman88210]

Wow. People suck. What a dumbshit

[wolfman]

Couple other articles:

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Feb 29, 2008 2:11 AM (8 hrs ago) AP

BOGART, Ga. (Map, News) - Investigators have seized the car two girls were driving during an altercation with a motorcyclist that ended with their father killing the motorcyclist.

Authorities took the car to see if damage on it backs up the teenage girls' story that Bryan Joseph Mough intentionally drove his motorcycle into their car and followed them home.

The girls' father, Richard Harold Gear was charged with murder after shooting and killing Mough, 21, as he drove in front of their home.

"We seized the car pursuant to a warrant and are in the process of trying to recreate the cause and manner of any collision between the two vehicles," Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry said Thursday. "My traffic people are in the process of doing that, and they are consulting with accident-reconstruction specialists."

The sisters, ages 17 and 19, told investigators they called their father as they were driving home from a store to say a motorcyclist cut them off and rammed their car. They admitted making obscene gestures at Mough, officials said.

Gear was waiting at the end of his driveway as the teens arrived home. He fired a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol "two or three times," hitting Mough once in the back as he drove by, according to Berry.

Gear, 46, is held being without bond on a murder charge. He did not yet have an attorney or a schedule for a preliminary court hearing, Berry said.

Mough and the teenagers were at a Target store in nearby Athens at the same time Monday night and left the store around the same time. Berry would not say who left the store first, but Mough did not follow the sisters, he said.

The sheriff also would not discuss what the sisters told their father before the shooting, beyond that they claimed a man was following them and intentionally rammed their car with his motorcycle.

But Gear did not act in self-defense, said Berry, who said Mough's motorcycle never touched Gear's property and Gear shot Mough in the back.

Investigators also are taking a new look at a 2-year-old case in which Gear may have fired a gun at a group of teenagers.

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By DAVID SCHOETZ

Feb. 28, 2008

A man facing a murder charge for shooting and killing a motorcyclist who he thought was stalking his daughters is now under investigation for other altercations where he may have had an itchy trigger finger, Georgia law enforcement officials have told ABC News.

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Unintended Victim of Vigilante Justice?

"We've got a lot of phone calls from people," Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry told ABC News. "There are other incidents where shots were fired."

Richard Gear now sits in a Georgia jail facing a murder charge after he fatally shot 21-year-old motorcyclist Bryan Andrew "B.J." Mough Monday evening in front of his home. Gear said he acted in self-defense.

Berry said that Gear's two daughters, 17 and 19, called their father as they drove home from an Athens, Ga., Target store to tell him that they had gotten into some sort of road rage dispute with Mough, who was on a motorcycle, in the store's parking lot.

Meanwhile police are looking into other incidents that may have involved Gear and gunshots. One occurred in February 2006, when Oconee deputies responded to a call at Gear's Bogart, Ga., home. The 45-year-old Gear told authorities that his mailbox had been damaged when people he did not know had pulled out of his driveway after he asked them to leave.

When authorities located the people in question, they admitted to accidentally driving over Gear's mailbox, but said it only happened because they were hurrying from the property after shots were fired at them.

Berry's office was never able to bring charges against Gear because police could not prove he fired a gun, and the witnesses would not fully cooperate in the investigation.

Detectives will re-examine that case, Berry said, as well as others.

In Monday's shooting death, Mough apparently followed the girls out of the Target lot and at some point, according to Berry, the Nissan Sentra driven by Gear's daughters made contact with the motorcycle. The girls admitted to authorities that they made obscene hand gestures at Mough during the encounter.

Mough then followed the teens to their family's home, where Berry said Gear "was waiting at the end of the driveway with a .40-caliber semiautomatic." Mough made one pass of the house and on the return pass, Berry said, Gear unloaded multiple shots at Mough, one of which struck him in the back.

Gear called 911 to report to police that he had shot someone in front of his house, Berry said. Mough was transported to a local hospital, where he was declared dead. Deputies arrested Gear Monday night and charged him with murder.

Gear, who is being held without bond, told authorities he was acting in self-defense when he killed Mough. As of this morning, he had not retained legal counsel, Berry said. He has no prior criminal record. he added. The phone number at Gear's Bogart address is no longer working.

A team of deputies will try to reconstruct the alleged accident in the hope that they might determine whether it was the teenage daughters or the motorcyclist that initiated the contact. Berry said it's unlikely, however, that a moving bike would go after a car. "It would be unusual for a motorcycle to ram a four wheel vehicle," he said.

As for Gear's self-defense claims, Berry also said he had doubts about that.

"I don't know how you can legally shoot someone in the back on a motorcycle," Berry said, "and then claim he was was trying to run you down."

[wolfman]

Sounds like this isn't the first time this guy has shot at somebody!

[kawi kid]

im sure this guy is gonna have some jail time unless he has his hands in some judges pocket. im all about right to bear arms and self defense all that but shooting a guy in the back is nothing of any kind of self defense. thats horrible.

[420gsxr1000]

thats bs..it was kids wanting to get with some girls!!!!

[Dweezel]

No its not, they hit him, he was prob following them to get an address or something.

[Disclaimer]

No its not, they hit him, he was prob following them to get an address or something.

I def. think that's the case.

[kinkinhood]

I had actually missed that it got posted here and double posted, but here's another article which does mention that the girls admitted to lying to their dad.

Bogart man indicted in cyclist slaying

Father faces murder charges

An Oconee County grand jury on Friday indicted a Bogart man on murder charges, accusing him of shooting a motorcyclist he said was threatening his daughters.

Jurors returned a six-count indictment Friday charging Richard Harold "Ricky" Gear with malice murder and felony murder and other charges in the February shooting of 21-year-old Bryan Joseph "B.J." Mough of Winder.

Also on Friday, Lawton Stephens, chief judge of the Western Judicial Circuit, denied Gear's request for bond.

"The court is unable to find that the defendant poses no significant threat or danger to the community," Lawton said in his order.

Gear, 45, has been in the Oconee County Jail since Feb. 25, the night he shot Mough as the motorcyclist drove by his house on Gear Road, on the fringe of downtown Bogart.

Mough followed Gear's two daughters to their home after one of them flashed an obscene gesture and later sideswiped Mough's motorcycle, authorities said.

Witnesses testified at a preliminary hearing last month that Samantha and Chelsea Gear already had parked their car in the driveway of their home when Mough arrived.

Ricky Gear fired his gun a few times as Mough drove past, and shot at Mough once in the back after the biker made a second pass, witnesses testified.

The damage to the Gear sisters' car wasn't consistent with their original story that Mough intentionally rammed them, officials said.

The sisters admitted during the preliminary hearing that Mough didn't drive into their car.

And there were no tire tracks or other evidence to support Gear's claim that Mough tried to run over him as he drove past Gear's home the second time, authorities have said.

In addition to murder, the grand jury charged Gear with aggravated assault and three counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

An arraignment date for Gear has not been scheduled.

[fusion]

Bah wish this had remained in the new thread as just the follow up to the original.

Definitely hope the girls eventually get charged as well.

[Dweezel]

thats what I was thinkin

[kinkinhood]

Welcome to why there are so many people are trying to ban guns, you get the crazies like this who ruin it for everyone else.

[John]

if he didnt have a gun he probably would have jsut stabbed him or beat him with a baseball bat once he got off the bike.

we dont need to ban guns, we need to ban crazy fucks.

[Fonzie]

I understand wanting to protect your daughters.......But first of all....They lied to him about what happened. Therefore, his response was based on a lie he was fed, and his daughters should be held JUST as accountable!

Secondly.....He shot the guy in the back. What....Was this after the kid tried running him over on his 250?!?

3rd.....This guy sounds more & more like a hothead after the other article saying he's being investigated for firing at that group of teenagers 2 years earlier Unless they find those teenagers were gangbangers or some other type of unruly kids....How do you justify that??? Sounds like this guy's a real douchebag!!!