Another day, another mostly peaceful leftist.
The crime took place in early September and police extradited a suspect, Benjamin Campbell, from his Georgia home in early October.
Police say Campbell was driving past the Paddle Inn Rafting Company on Highway 19 West in the Nantahala River Gorge on the afternoon of September 6th when he saw a Trump flag on the property. Video shows a man ripping down the flag, which belongs to the 87-year-old mother of the owner, Mark Thomas.
Thomas saw the whole thing happen.
Here is more from the Daily Mail's report on Monday:
Thomas said that Campbell first caught his eye as he drove down his road at around 55 miles per hour before coming to a sudden, screeching halt.
The Republican homeowner said he checked his security cameras, and watched a man wearing an 'Antifa-style mask' emerge from his Jeep Cherokee to inspect a Trump banner attached to a bus parked on the Thomas family property.
'He was driving along, saw the sign, slammed on his brakes, you know, had a political trigger moment, and he just had to tear the sign down,' Thomas said.
'He started reaching up on his tippy toes, trying to get to the edge of the sign. I just thought to myself, this is not happening. I don't believe this.
Thomas says he grabbed a rifle, went onto his porch, and fired two warning shots in the air. That's when the suspect got back in his vehicle.
Instead of heeding Thomas' warning and leaving, he circled back down his road while raising a gun through the sun roof and firing multiple times, video shows.
‘He fired five to six rounds as he was heading back down the driveway to the highway that passes in front of my place,' Thomas told the Daily Mail.
‘I found one bullet hole in my refrigerator, which is on my porch.' Thomas was standing on the porch at this point, and the bullet missed him by meters.
The Mail found a Facebook photo of Campbell and reports he is a married accountant who lives in Cobb County, Atlanta, 160 miles south of Thomas. It is unknown why he was in the Nantahala River Gorge area that day.
Campbell is being held on a $70,000 bond and has been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, discharging a firearm with intent to incite fear, and willful and wanton injury to personal property.
Before I go, I have to give credit to the Mail for this savage piece of reporting:
Swain County Sheriff's Office said they booked Campbell on September 30, and they released a photograph of him standing beside a height chart this week.
Campbell stared straight ahead in his booking photograph showing him standing at 5 feet 6 inches tall.
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