Driver for Country Singer Toby Keith Wounded on Freeway, Singer Not Believed a Target
The Associated Press
Published: Oct 5, 2004



CARROLLTON, Texas (AP) - A bus driver for country singer Toby Keith was wounded by a gunshot fired into the performer's bus on a freeway outside Dallas.

Keith was not aboard the bus and investigators do not believe he or his band were targets, said Carrollton police Sgt. David Sponhour. Aside from a mounting bracket for the rear license plate, the bus was not marked as Keith's band bus, he said.

The driver, George Hampton, 55, was listed in good condition Tuesday at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.

Investigators said the bullet's trajectory suggested it may have been fired from a passing vehicle. Police have no suspects, Sponhour said.

Hampton told police he was on Interstate 34E late Monday, hauling Keith's band equipment from Florida to Oklahoma, when he heard what sounded like a shot outside the bus, Sponhour said.

The slug tore through the side of the bus and hit Hampton's left leg, Sponhour said.

Hampton stopped the bus safely. Three other people on the bus were uninjured.

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Hmmmmmm..........first there were shots fired in the BUSH/CHENEY office.............

Then Toby Keiths buss shot up.....................

.......it just HAS to be Armed Liberals............BAN ARMED LIBERALS!!!

Someone had better be careful, Toby Keith is an advocate of putting a boot up the ass of people who fuck with him/us.

Well, its not like they have clubhouse meetings on shooting Toby Keiths bus driver

Quoted: Agreed... the fact that Kerry supporters are turning to deadly force to attempt to intimidate people should be all over the news...  I love listening to liberals scream, "how dare you accuse US of doing this!"

+1

They really don't want to start this.

Road rage.

My guess is;
A) Bus driver driving like an ass.
B) Frustrated nut job with a gun.

mmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm       mmmmmmmmmmmm I looooove this barrrrrrrr

Quoted: Road rage. My guess is; A) Bus driver driving like an ass. B) Frustrated nut job with a gun.

Guns and crazies in TEXAS?! Surely you jest!

Quoted: Hmmmmmm..........first there were shots fired in the BUSH/CHENEY office............. Then Toby Keiths buss shot up..................... .......it just HAS to be Armed Liberals............BAN ARMED LIBERALS!!!

WTF? I am a Armed Liberal?

I also thought I was the only one....

Quoted: Quoted: Hmmmmmm..........first there were shots fired in the BUSH/CHENEY office............. Then Toby Keiths buss shot up..................... .......it just HAS to be Armed Liberals............BAN ARMED LIBERALS!!! WTF? I am a Armed Liberal? I also thought I was the only one....

wtilderjr


another "armed liberal". You diggin yer screen name now?

Quoted: Quoted: Road rage. My guess is; A) Bus driver driving like an ass. B) Frustrated nut job with a gun. Guns and crazies in TEXAS?! Surely you jest!

There have been quite a few incidents of random shooting on the highways in Dallas. Last one I remember, was a guy in a SUV sitting in the breakdown lane of the middle divider, shooting at oncomming traffic. This was in Richardson, IIRC.

Wow!

The other day the news said some baseball player had been hit in the leg while on the team bus. He wasn't too bad because of the go-go boots he was wearing. Team initiation. So he was dressed up in go-go attire. What a way to let the world know you were in drag.

I don't remember what team or player though.

What's with shooting busses now?

could have been some c"rap" fan that just wanted to take a shot at a country cracker to prove a point, as I am sure Toby has some form of logo on his bus.

Quoted: Someone had better be careful, Toby Keith is an advocate of putting a boot up the ass of people who fuck with him/us.

oh. is that who he is...

must be the French.  BAN THE FRENCH!  

Quoted: could have been some c"rap" fan that just wanted to take a shot at a country cracker to prove a point, as I am sure Toby has some form of logo on his bus.

According to the article, the bus was unmarked...except for a license plate frame.

Sounds random to me.

Those damn rappers and the senseless violence....

There have been three shootings on Dallas highways in the last two months so I'd go with random nutjob.

Quoted: Quoted: Road rage. My guess is; A) Bus driver driving like an ass. B) Frustrated nut job with a gun. Guns and crazies in TEXAS?! Surely you jest!

Quoted: Those damn rappers and the senseless violence....

You drive the concert truck, not the bus, right?

Yea and wasn't sKerry involved inthe plat to kill US Senators with his bunch of commie viet vets?

Seems like sKerry has allways been involved in someway to kill Americans who are not Communists like he is.