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Prison tatted wegro Katie Quackenbush, 26, accused of shooting homeless man who argued about her Porsche, was aspiring singer

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The attorney for a Tennessee woman who allegedly shot a homeless
man who asked her move her Porsche in Nashville last month
claims the man has a history of threatening locals.

Peter Strianse, who is representing 26-year-old Katie
Quackenbush, said attorney Brian Manookian contacted her father
and said he had installed security cameras around his office
because the man had been accosting employees "in this same
menacing and threatening way" for about a year, The Tennessean
reported.

Strianse said Manookian also had surveillance tapes of the
August 26 shooting of Gerald Melton, near Nashville’s Music Row,
but hadn’t seen the videos yet. Metro police spokesman Don Aaron
told the newspaper that he wasn’t aware of any footage.

Quackenbush, an aspiring rapper and country singer, meanwhile,
appeared to update the description of one of her music videos on
YouTube to blast media coverage of the case.

"MEDIA LIES - SO MANY FACTS ABOUT THE CASE NOT BEING SHOWN ON
MEDIA. INSTEAD OF JUDGING HOW ABOUT YOU LOOK INTO MORE
INFORMATION. IM NOT A BAD PERSON,” read a rant posted underneath
the video.

Metro Nashville Police said Melton was disturbed by exhaust
fumes and loud music coming from Quackenbush’s Porsche SUV while
trying to sleep at 3 a.m. and asked her to move the vehicle.

Police said the two got into an argument and began yelling at
each other before the young woman left the car and shot Melton
twice. Quackenbush, charged with attempted murder, fled the
scene with another woman.

However, the woman’s father, Jesse Quackenbush, an attorney,
disputed the police account and said his daughter fired the
shots in self-defense as a warning, The Tennessean reported.

Quackenbush said Melton was threatening the two women and made
inappropriate remarks.

“She didn’t try and kill this guy,” Jesse Quackenbush said. “She
had no intention of killing him. She didn’t know that she hit
him.”

“He comes up to their window and starts screaming in their
window various threats, and something about turning their music
down and that he couldn’t sleep,” Jesse said.

Quackenbush, a mother of a five-year-old son, shot at Melton
with her eyes closed, her father said.

"I think she felt threatened, because she was threatened,"
Strianse told The Tennessean. "She was dealing with somebody
that came out of an extremely dark street in the early morning
hours who comes out of nowhere and is banging violently on the
car window. Somebody who appears to be either deranged, somebody
who may be on some sort of drug, who seems completely unhinged,
and that’s why she reacted the way that she did."

Melton remains hospitalized with critical injuries. WSMV
reported that Melton is a skilled guitarist and singer, and it
obtained a video of him performing in December 2016.

“I had no clue that he was as talented as he was,” said Sharon
Corbitt-House, who, according to The Washington Post, manages
big-name artists on Music Row.

Corbitt-House told WSMV she had launched a crowdfunding page to
help Melton move into temporary housing but he was soon living
on the streets again.

Quackenbush was bonded out of a local jail on a $25,000 bail,
with her court appearance set for Oct. 6, WSMV reported. The
Daily Mail reported that Quackenbush was arrested in 2013 for
assault after a disagreement with her mother but the charges
were dropped.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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