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Rupert O'Neil Harty, 31, is led out of the West Palm Beach Police Department in handcuffs, charged with murder and attempted murder.
A Florida taxi driver who says he "heard a voice tell him to go kill someone" before he shot and killed a nanny who was riding her bicycle in West Palm Beach was arrested late Thursday, police said.
Rupert O'Neil Harty, 31, was charged with one count of first-degree murder in the Dec. 22 shooting of Amaria Grant following his arrest Thursday in connection with the Feb. 1 shooting of a male bicyclist, according to WPTV.
Records showed Harty was booked into jail early Friday and was being held without bond. It was unknown whether he has an attorney.
West Palm Beach Police say Grant was riding her bicycle on South Olive Avenue near Edmor Road when Hardy approached her and shot her multiple times.
According to an arrest affidavit, Harty told police he was sitting at his home when he "heard a voice tell him to go kill someone."
After driving around in his taxi for 20 minutes, he parked and walked up to Grant, who was riding her bicycle on South Olive Avenue near Edmor Road.
Harty shot her multiple times and fled the scene, police said.
Police say Harty was charged with attempted murder in the Feb. 1 shooting that happened at the intersection of Broadway and 48th Street.
The cyclist who was shot in that incident was rushed to St. Mary's Medical Center with serious gunshot wounds but is still alive, police said.
When officers arrested Harty for the Feb. 1 shooting, he confessed to the shooting of Grant, police said.
Harty is expected to make his first appearance in court Friday, WPTV reported.
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Those voices need to shut up and leave people alone. Geesh.
Wait, I have a voice telling me to eat a girl scout cookie.
The voice was his customer in back seat..telling him you're not getting a tip from me!
Thats nice. Maybe he'll get to hear a voice telling him he will get to fry now.
I hear all kinds of sh!t tell me this that and the other thing all the time...
Then, I wake up..........
You totally freaked me out until i read the "cookie" part ;-)
ga Creek Dog
I understand. Problem is, even after I wake up, she doesn't stop.
If not us, Who?....If not now, When? banned, re-reg of UCantHandleTheTruth6 and others.
Another law abiding citizen exercising his 2nd amendment rights. Then he went and shot someone. Who'd have guessed.
Was it Robert De Niro? Was he talkin' to you?!!!
@Don Giacomo ..... Looks like you have a slight little "mind disconnect" there buckaroo. The 2nd amendment allows individuals the right to bear arms .... NOWHERE does it legalize murder .... but you knew that anyway, didn't you genius ? You are just pushing for gun control aren't you ??
This simply proves that Barack Hussein Obama must DEMAND that Congress "immediately" pass a law outlawing mental illness !!!!!!!!!!! Why, I hear he has promised $4.62 trillion to ban this from ever happening again and he will simply raise taxes on the top 14% to pay for it !!! Yeah Bam Bam !!!!!!!!!!!
That's what Travis Bickle said too and you see where that got him
That's funny Lisa
Why is it that voices never tell these psychopaths to feed hungry people or give someone a hug?
Cappy, the voices in my head shouted in unison, "That's too perfect!"
Okay, so you're crazy and you hear voices - so what? Do you do everything you hear someone tells you to do, real or imaginary?
If you can believe in the existence of a supernatural being that nobody has ever seen or heard directly, that no evidence for exists, that people have told you all your life that it is communicating directly to you and even to everyone, well, meh. It's kind of a crap shoot.
In other words he did it for sh!ts and giggles.
Why don't some of these "voices" people hear tell them to go and buy someone dinner? Or do something kind for someone else? Why are these "voices" only telling people to harm someone?
Good call, what time are you picking me up for dinner? And should I dress formal, or business-casual?
If he is sane enough to tell people that he heard a voice in his head he is sane enough to know to ignore what it asks
Hey I hear voices on TV all the time telling me to go out and buy stuff, do I listen ? Hell no.
Has anyone ever done a (government financed) study to find out whether people who braid their hair too tight hear more voices than the rest of us?
Because this is how Satan or Demons work, by whispering in your ear to give you that "gentle push" to do evil instead of good. Angels or God work by miracle, and only when asked (or prayed for).
John Constantine
If these people would fire more weapons without hearing protection, they wouldn't be able to hear the voices over the high pitched whine it causes. You'll be deaf, but relatively sane.
Well, the taxi dispatch radio does emit voices...
Brian Hamacher needs to get the gender of the victim straight: "a male bicyclist"?
Uhmmmm... maybe tjbv should concentrate on reading comprehension. Sorry, just being sarcastic.
Seriously, don't feel bad, I had to go back and re-read it myself. Hamacher didn't make it that easy for people unfamiliar with the sequence of events to understand. When I first read it, it was more like... huh?
Now he will be fed & cared for by the taxpayers. Probably for 50 or more years. Of course that's not counting the time while he is let out to kill again. Justice for none.
Well NBC seems to not want to report any crooks news. I don't watch your channel, and neither do anyone else. Report the news.....and facts, wheather it is Dem. or Rep.
Now this is one guy we can all agree needs to be off the streets.
Time for strict gun control.
The voices he heard were his own. The echos of him screaming and yelling at bicyclists while he was driving his cab. How dare those two wheel peddle pushers get in HIS way while he drove his cab! He'll show THEM who owns the road.
Good try Rupert... you're not smart enough to pull it off however.
Premeditated.... prove he did it with 100% certainty, convict and then execute.