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Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker Prowls the City of Angels
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
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fabulous is great. been using for 2 years
I have a suggestion Bruno Sammartino.
Hi can you do Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE the British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany in 1939
18:13 & Instead they kept him as a slave for the next 24 years.
The fact that the police had to save him from getting torn apart by an angry mob who had chased him down, is the height of irony.
Agreed
That was the part that I found the most interesting honestly. The community decided enough was enough and they were ready. How the saying went where I grew up “you can’t see a rat and in good conscience let it live.” My country really hates rats.
They should have let the rabel have him.
@@riga5372 it certainly would have been an ironic poetic justice.
@@A-Crowe they did not know yet who he was, that was because he tried to steal a car.
The women who send him love letters and idolized him are absolutely disgusting
As long as you’re attractive, pretty or handsome, you get privileges…
How can a woman marry a man who's a rapist? Disgusting.
@No One's Innocent lmfao. 🤣
It's exactly like that case happening right now with these girls idolising a young man who killed a young girl and her mum in a street racing accident and demanding justice for him because he's attractive.
They did the same thing with Ted Bundy, who at least was handsome! Not only was Ramirez a horrible mass murderer, but he had bad skin, rotting teeth, and all his victims referred to his horrible breath ! What part of that says "hey baby I'm boyfriend material?" Charles Manson also had lots of female pen pals and almost got married before he died in prison...I guess you just can't fix stupid !!
To be honest his Uncle has a lot to answer for as well. Showing him horrific images and just normalising such things.
His uncle( cousin) should've been institutionalized after leaving vietnam. The military normalized violence for him and he passed it along.
Violence is normal. People like to act like it isn't.
That's not exactly a shocker, most Serial killers are broken people with a history of emotional, physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
Plus by the mid 80's we had dismantled our long term institutions because of a combination of horrific conditions and Liberal pressure.
@@fuq1nutuberandom violence is normal, the safety of the post war world is an aberration in history.
Lots of killers are born from war.
One of my earliest memories, when I was 4 of 5 years old and we lived in Artesia, CA was when police officers were going door to door handing out Wanted flyers with the artist rendering of Richard Ramirez. It was the creepiest thing ive ever seen. Im 40 now and I can still see those huge eyes.
Unincorporated Whittier (south) over here! SELA
I wasn't going to bother watching this as his case has been covered a zillion times but this was a great detailed episode. Surprised that you didn't mention he stayed at the infamous Cecil Hotel on Skid Row though.
I'm pretty sure he did when he did his Cecil hotel episode on the geographics channel.
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 yeah he did, great episode
Cool
I watched the night stalker netflix show and its mindboggling how instrumental the unique shoeprint was to eventually capturing him. Scary to think that he could have done so much more harm than he already did if he had chosen to wear your typical nikes or adidas shoes. But to have a 1/1 shoe in the whole of LA is just absolutely unbelievable how lucky the police got
I’m so stoked- I’ve heard this story dozens of times but not in this voice.
Great documentary on Netflix
I was a child in L.A. when this guy was killing, I remembered my step dad sleeping in a chair with a gun
Yes!! Gun sales definitely went up. I remember my dad nailing all the windows shut and that had to be the hottest summer.
@No One's Innocent
👍🏿Agree.
That must have been terrifying!
@@KatGlos I was 5, no clue what was going on til later in life
@@merlynrussell4248 Probably a good thing. When I was a kid my parents installed metal gates in the doorways inside our house and told me it was so that our dogs wouldn't go upstairs. Later I found out it was because there had been a lot of robberies and friends of ours had been held at knifepoint during a home invasion.
Bone-chilling. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to write, read, record, and edit videos of this nature. Thank you for your poise, professionalism, and educational content.
It's pretty easy when you keep your staff locked in the basement.
Simon is a robot
Pft, maybe the world is too scary for you. Back to your safe space snow flake.
One of the most frightening serial killers in history.
Other than the golden State killer Joseph James deanAngelo
heard his story like a million times but IF I SEE SIMONS NAME, i’m clicking
Same here lmaoo
yeah me too
Agreed. Hardest working man on CZcams.
I remember growing up in Northeast Los Angeles (Atwater Village), near his first murder in Glassell Park. It was during a heatwave and we would keep the windows open due to the heatwave and keep the house closed with only a screen door. We stopped that as soon as we started hearing the news of his murders. Crazy times in LA for sure.
11:58 Whitney Bennett, then just 16, needed 478 stitches to her head. Ramirez tried to strangle her with a telephone cord but when electric sparks flew off he was scared away and she was left barely alive.
Also, petition to stop naming crazy sadistic killers ominous sounding names like the Night Stalker. Some serial killers actually enjoy the notoriety and attention they get for crime, and from a certain perspective it might even sound like a cool name to them, further feeding into their ego. I have a feeling it would get on Ramirez's nerves if he was called Stinky Breath instead of the Night Stalker.
@KakaCookieMonster
Whitney was so lucky to survive; very strong & determined young lady. Did you know that she ended up marrying the son of Frank Salerno? Frank Salerno & Gil Carrillo were the two lead detectives on the Ramirez case.
only calling him stinky breath from now on
People and the media are more interested when a Criminal is given a catchy name
Someone had a point in saying that it would be a double-edged sword because then potential targets wouldn't take the situation seriously and would take fewer measures in protecting themselves.
And yknow, purposefully angering a *serial killer* doesn't seem like a great idea lmao.
@@panonymousbloom5405 Ah ok that's another perspective to think of. Good point
Wtf is the point of a death sentence when you keep them alive for decades? Sounds counterintuitive.
100% agree.
So Cal was built on being counterintuitive
To allow for the appeal process.
Careful. You'll get people commenting on your thread defending the life of POS like Ramirez.
Better to keep a scumbag locked for 20 years before ending him than to kill one innocent man too hastily. I guess that's the logic. 🤷🏻♂️
It's always kind of messed up when guys like this live out their lives naturally until they eventually die when their victims died in agony and terror
Agreed
hopefully got his cheeks clapped a few times after they connected the child murder to him
He was beaten almost every day in prison.
definitely worse being kept alive in prison, i’m glad he suffered in there for all those years
You thought he lived a good life in prison? Those boys really love hearing about child murderers
Living through this as a kid was terrifying. Working with the deputy who worked the case was surreal. Being friends with Gil is awesome.
Tell us more about that...
Do tell!
@@riga5372 I was a youngster living in Los Angeles when all this was going down. It was scary af because the dude had no m/o and would strike at random.
When I joined the sheriff's department one day in the academy this larger than life detective gave a class about crime scene techniques and I got to meet him not knowing he was THE detective Carrillo. We've since become friends and although he's retired we speak regularly. He's genuinely the best cop I've ever met and one of the nicest people on the planet. Truly salt of the earth.
@@Nobody-dp8br meh? Please tell what would impress you? Have a better story I'd love to hear it, if not kick rocks.
@@IrishMike22 it’s meh…nothing interesting…great you could have been murdered on that time. Great….amazing…history changing….
I grew up in LA County & clearly remember this happening during a heat wave. We had to sleep with our windows closed at night out of fear.
1:00 - Chapter 1 - 1st murders
4:00 - Chapter 2 - Connecting the dots
7:35 - Mid roll ads
9:05 - Chapter 3 - The spree continues
11:35 - Chapter 4 - Two months of terror
15:00 - Chapter 5 - Capture & trial
- Chapter 6 -
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11:35 spine chilling sound effect
For a second there, I thought I was on "The Casual Criminalist". Took me a minute or two to recognize that Simon is a bit too serious and well-presented in this one.
TBH the Simon we get on the Casual criminalist is halfway between biographics simon and business blaze 'boy with the blaze' Simon
I remember Simon suggesting in his casual criminalist video about Elisa Lam that he could do a CC about Ramirez, surprised it ended as a biographics video
In the Netflix series the cops that had been heading the investigation Gil Carillo and Frank Salerno narrate much of the story from their point of views and they were really awesome dudes. Gil was a man determined to prove himself in a still bigoted police force and Frank was a legend in his own right, having helped catch the hillside strangler. Just two examples of amazing individuals who helped put terrible men behind bars
“Good guys never get ink like the bad guys do.” Sad.
14:28 “Peter Pan ended up becoming the Night Stalker’s last victim”. What a coincidental name.
@Biographics what the fucks that got to do with anything?
Duuuude! My time to shine (kinda): my mom worked with Richard's mom at Tony Lama in ELP. I would be shipped off to LA every holiday to spend time with family. You can imagine my mom's fear in the 80s when she'd send me off to a city being stalked by a serial killer. I don't remember much but she's told me that she'd beg family members to remember to lock all the doors and windows. Richard struck within a few miles of my family's homes. Imagine my mom's surprise when she found out her co-worker's son was the one stalking LA. Shocked is an understatement.
That’s honestly a pretty interesting story thank you for sharing it 💕
@@twerktospec Oh, did you or your mom work with his mom? Stfu
@@MajesticalHonky I love your username
@@ClaudsIRo Thanks. Been a fan for a long time.
That’s crazy
My mom grandma and some uncles aunties and cousins lived in Monterey Park, Montebello and Alhambra during this time and they were so freaking scared every night and everywhere they went. They pretty much boarded up their houses every night till he was finally caught. My mom said the 92 LA riots (she worked night shift in downtown LA) and night stalker times were like the scariest times of her life
The way Simon says boogeyman man is hilarious.
The way Americans say many words is similarly hilarious.
Bogey Man, lol, it sounds so funny
Out all the serial killers I’ve read up on or saw documentaries on, he’s by far the scariest.
Edmund kemper is scarier imo
To this very day if an image of Richard Ramirez is shown on TV for whatever reason, my aunt immediately genuflects and prays, true story. I remember my mother telling me how literally the entire neighborhood made sure to shut all their windows and lock their doors. And it was a particularly hot season which made things insufferable. Thank you for this video. Lots of chilling memories.
Good choice to add to your serial killer biographys also i greatly enjoy all your content both here and on a few of your other channels its helped me greatly expand my knowledge on the people you cover and the ideas behind their actions nice to see others find history interesting in the world since here in america most seem disinterested with history and are always just focused on other pursuits 🤷♂️
Good ol' Dianne Feinstein...mucking up CA politics since the '80s.
An entire career spent making things worse for everyone
The four part series on Netflix is a fantastic watch. Truly scary stuff.
I lived in the same town as the Hillside Strangers. Then there was the Toolbox Killers and Ramirez killing miles from my home. It's really weird to think about now but serial killers were just a normal part of my childhood in Los Angeles.
That was during the "Golden Age" of serial killing. So much of it in California, too.
@@matthewjames206 It was a different time. Nowadays they would have their DNA on file. They would be on camera at some nearby gas station buying cigarettes. They would all be caught within a couple weeks.
@@mjwbulich thats not entirely true, there are still active serial killers out there (even in US theres like 10 active that havent been caught yet). Its true that getting away with such a thing for longer was much easier before dna testing became a thing but its still not impossible even to this day. And in china and asia / south america its still very much ongoing. Those are just the ones that we know are still out there, people can still fly under the radar
Feinstein's incompetency - a problem we still deal with to this day -.-
I came looking for it, and I wasn't disappointed!
So glad I left
@@Wppk765 likewise.
The gift of stupidity that never goes away
The Netflix documentary was great! It’s called the night stalker
I was a young woman in my late teens and early twenties when this evil was unleashed. 😟😟😟😟😟😟😟
I was wondering when Biographics was going to upload a Richard Ramírez video. Thank you. No mistakes. And professional. 👍👍
A number of Richard Ramírez videos on CZcams have issues.
Been waiting on this one!
I lived in Simi Valley at the time and while nothing happened there we were all still very scared. My wife lived in Encino and her neighbor was attacked in the motis operandi of the Night Stalker to this day we aren't sure if it was him or a twisted copycat. But that was a horrible summer in '85 for us Angelinos.
Hey Simon, if you’ve not done one yet, could you do a biography on the Taliban, the recent issues that lead to the Afghanistan takeover? (Great video BTW)
I thought this was on MurderBlaze, nah Biographics... Simon is everywhere 👀🖤
Ah i see, a man of culture. Following the REAL Whistler channels.
I remember this. Is why when my wife and I got married in 1985, we got an apartment on the second floor.
Dianne Feinstein gives another example of her incompetence..
Yeah so, that was 100% on the police and you are giving another example of your incompetence.
It was on her. She opened her fat trap ^^
@@eldridgedavis It was on the police, they opened their fat traps. You don't give someone information 5 minutes before a press conference and either not tell them what needs to be withheld or just don't fucking reveal the information to them. Put the blame where it truly lies, the deceives.
She has a 🇨🇳 spy on her payroll
@@kenyattaclay7666 she spoke about details regarding an on going investigation.. it doesn't matter what the police did or didn't do.. she did that on her own which is a clear sign of idiocy.. loose lips sink ships..
love your work simon. even on vacation i need to hear from the big brain himself
Why I read this title out loud and my Boomer mother freaked TF OUT😱 she started locking all the doors and windows... it's 11am. My mother is terrified... she raised us in California.
In fairness the title does read as if he is currently out and on the prowl. Must have been terrorfying to live with the knowledge that indiscriminate selection and brutal attacks were happening in the city.
Wtf does her being a boomer have to do with anything?
@@KingNexusMOCs to give you her age without actually giving you her age😒🤨
Just got done watching an episode of criminal minds with a mention him
The one with Tim Curry?
Yeah, tim curry traveling around in an RV is the only one* I can think of.
@@kathybell616 Darkest Hour. One of the best season finales of the show.
@@tylerrebik7700 agreed!
He told people “Hail Satan” and I’m sure Satan is playing soccer with his soul.
football* :D
@Biographic channel where do I sign up for this, totally its not a scam , wonderful opportunity
If you believe hell exists, We are living in it presently. When a person is dragged out of their car and shot dead at random by a maniac, how could this planet be considered anything less?
@@mgcnashville6615 It’s better than the Huns (or whoever)suddenly appearing and killing your whole family, burning down your house/whole village, raping your wife, or anyone really, and taking your children into slavery. And that’s only just a tip of the violence. No police, no nothing. Then there’s disease. Then the fact you were lucky if 1/2 of your children didn’t die before they were five, if not at birth. Maybe mom would live through the birth🤷♀️. Maybe not. 50/50. Dysentery took down countless people. Rich people were not exempt. Or crop failure, starvation. There have been many, many, x100 worse times to live in history.
@@mangot589 do you really think everything you just mentioned isn’t currently happening on this planet? You’re dead wrong. Every bit of that still exists to this day.
Your beard is looking fantastic Simon! Keep up the great work!!
I lived in San Diego when Ramirez was active. One hot summer night, the anchor for the local news teaser announced, "Night Stalker moves south--toward San Diego. Details at 11." I was terrified, but it was also the first time I realized how sensationalist the news was.
Been listening Casual Criminalist all morning and then BOOM!! Nice transition, CZcams algorithm. 🏆
When I clicked this video and begun listening my first thought was "Where is the music? Why didn't he mention Callum and Jen?" Only to look at my screen and realized this wasn't the Casual Criminalist
Same, it took until he didn't make an easy joke.
My teacher went to high school with him, she said he always gave a creepy vibe
Simon’s beard has the best character progression over the past 5 years
Coming from a city adjacent to where Ramirez was caught, I remember people who claimed to watch good ole Ricky get his ass kicked so fiercely the LAPD had to demand he not be killed in the street. I remember thinking, "whew, they finally caught that monster".
The thought of those pissed-off Angelinos beating him down with gardening tools & tongs..... goddamn.
When I watched the Netflix documentary they held nothing back. The police saved him
@@archstanton6102 I believe it.
....incidentally, Arch Stanton is one of my favorite albums. 😅🤘
Your voice is so comforting.
Are you going to do a Casual Criminalist in depth breakdown on this? I mean, it is already pretty detailed, but the atmosphere of casual criminalist gives it that extra edge
I was wondering that, but I got the vibe that he wanted to get through this particularly awful one as quickly as possible and with zero levity (can't blame him), and I figure that's why he put it on this channel ... so I doubt it.
I’m glad he was caught but I wish he didn’t commit his crimes. My heart goes out to the victims.
I always feel bad about how all that the world knows about these victims is what happened to them during the horrific last moments of their lives.
I honestly wonder what it feels like to be someone who was afflicted by any serial killer whose been specataclized. We always hear the ads and their background music with the hollywood slasher sounds but we never truly know how they must feel knowing that the reality of THEIR suffering is revenue for a TV network.
Suggestion: The Menendez Brothers.
If I'm not mistaken/mixing up names, there's a Casual Criminalist episode on them
Jokes about murderers aren’t funny.
Unless they’re executed properly, that is.
Wow, think of that one all by yourself?
Those kinda jokes fall dead flat, like their victims.
there's a Jonestown joke, but the punch line is really long.
Such deadpan humor..
🤣 /dead
This dude killed Peter Pan. That's random as hell
😜
That is not random, that is called a coincidence you dummy.
@@shrimpflea
…and coincidences are random, smart guy.
It’s kind of funny how victims that survived remembered his disgusting breath like even in life and death situations they were thinking this guy really needs a tic tac
Thank you for doing this video!!!! Maybe the Hillside Stranglers next? 🤷♂️
Okay but I love that a family with the last name "Pan" had a son and named him Peter. Like I'm sure it was a sorce of bullying growing up but it's still cute
The hotel cecil is very interesting
Extremely well done video sir! Good stuff as usual!
I remember this case. I remember when he finally got caught. It was terrifying. Living in 🇨🇦 didn't make me feel any better just knowing people like him existed was not comfortable at all. I am a survivor of a very violent crime. Trust is difficult. I've never seen any justice. It's hard. Anyways, take care and have fun!!! 😷😎😷
0:34
“Bogey” man? Was he extremely bad at golf?
Delete this before somebody sees it
I was thinking that too xD
@@RichMitch
Agree
Calm your tits, people say things differently, especially Americans: Water (Waddurr) Tomato(TomAYto), schedule(skedule) , beer (beyrr), Iraq (EYE-rack), Nikon (N-EYE-kohn) and, the most amusing is Adidas (Ay-dee-darse). There are more, but hey, if we Brits can cope with American mispronunciations, you can take one.
@@owenshebbeare2999 who the hell says addedars and beyr
Was literally gonna ask if you could do this at some point! Lol love it.
Suggestion though: a month of serial killers or just downright evil people for all of October in honor of Halloween? I think that would be fun!
Why not more uploads on the Casual Criminalist ? I mean, that IS his criminal-based channel after all...
@@ignitionfrn2223 I mean that too, but he deals with criminals on their channel no matter what lol
Why does this video feel like it always existed
Yeah i was suprised he had not done ramirez
It feels weird to say but I have been looking forward to this one
Would love to see a story about Henry Lee Lucas, that story is just nuts.
I never realized how much of a compulsive liar he was until I saw the Netflix doc. Dude legit would plead guilty to anything!
with a name like that he was destined to be a serial killer. Or at least an assassin.
We lived in Rosemead California. I was 3 years old ,but my older siblings remember.
Yeah. That Netflix doc was incredible. When I first watched it I could only get through the first 2 parts because it was that disturbing. I don't know if I've ever seen a serial killer and the two "Super Star Cops" (Frank Salerno, a seasoned pro in his prime, and a young man named Gil Carillo with unnatural skill and a dogged persistence who was a regular street cop until Salerno found out about him and took him on as his partner) use LUCK as much as skill to both evade and hunt down. If totally left to their own devices, they would have caught Ramirez much sooner, but they were stymied by their own police force. As serial killers go, I'd call R.R's complete randomness (whether planned or simply drug-addled) brilliant. Of course, his own sloppiness shows no brilliance, but whatever the case it worked. I firmly believe that if it were any other detectives (at that time) his spree would have gone on much longer. To me, these two men were decades ahead of the rest of their counterparts. Salerno was already a "heavy hitter" before he'd been assigned to the Night Stalker, as he was the dude that "cracked" and caught the Hillside Stranglers. Luck and hard work were the keys to both the killer and the cops. This was like a horror movie played out OFF the screen. Both fascinating and horrifying. \m/
Fun fact: Richard Ramirez listened to eyes without a face by billy idol on Cassette while stalking
Along with AC//DC
Been waiting for this one for a long time now..
3:17 we do, she said to him that he shot her once and he should not do it again, he laughed and walked away (at least that's how it is seen in Netflix documentary which is very well made imho)
Can you do Richard Speck?
Love the vids man keep them coming
The end of this video makes me seethe with rage.
Netflix did a great mini series on him. I just canceled my sub. May rewatch for the eight days I have left. Lol
I ended up re-watching it because I watched it all in one binge the first time around. I thought it was really well done.
Let's gooo i've been hoping for this one for a while
YESSSS!!! Thank you for making this!!! It was absolutely amazing and Richard is one of my favorite serial killers to read about and study. I hope you make a lot more of them!!! :)
Tried to go on the biographics site to suggest a person for the next video but I wasn’t able to figure out how to put in my suggestion. I would love to see one on MEL BLANC! He is known as the man of 1000 voices and did every voice on the original Loony Toons from Bugs bunny, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and many many more!! A real legend and interesting individual!!
Simon please do a video on Sir Thomas Cochrane, The Sea Wolf. Probably one of the most amazing persons in history
You should do a ray kroc video
Simon, can you do a video on Israel Keyes, another serial killer from Alaska? He eluded capture for several years and is not widely known.
My God it's Casual Criminalist in fast forward!
I've never understood why after the Mayer mentioned the shoes they didn't just blanket release a photo of the shoe to media asking if anyone knew a man who had this one off shoe of his description 🤷 if you lived around him and he always wore them someone would have noticed.
It's almost incompetent.
They weren't one offs there had been thousands sold and they were a VERY generic pair of trainers. Plus of course the moment that bulletin went out they were going to get dumped. Was at least the logic.
Plus 90% of people can't describe what the last person they saw that day looked like nevermore what shoes they wear.
I was wondering when you were going to do Richard Ramirez. Back when I studied psychology for a semester, I was wondering about the criminal mind and he was the first one that popped into my head. What is unbelievable is that there is more to the madness behind Richard Ramirez then just Satanism and seeing his cousin murder his wife in front of him. There was also rumor that the other building blocks would be that his mother worked in a factory that released chemical fumes while he was still being conceived. And also there was another one where an uncle of his possibly molested him. I know it is terrible but those are other possible building blocks that created who we know today as The night stalker.
A Los Angeles neighborhood almost turned into a mini-Skidmore when the Night Stalker became a prey. Huh.
And turn Richard Ramirez into another Ken McElroy? Vigilante.
I was trying to figure out where the tendency toward Asian victims developed from, but damn that's darker than most on so many levels
Good ol cousin Miguel (Mike). He was truly a psychopath as well. Vietnam must have felt like Christmas to him 💔
Ramirez also had a brother in law who took him on “peeping tom” missions at night.
Very messed up family.
Ramirez used to request a lot of porn from his prison pen pals & admirers. Not surprising of course. In addition to wanting hardcore bondage, he preferred Asian models for the photos. Shudder.
The best part of this story has always been the cops having to rescue him from an angry mob.
it's not a rescue it's their job
Some truely insane monsters wander this earth.
Do Roy Demeo
You have to do the railroad killer
Do Eugene Bull Connor next
They should've let them kill the Night Stalker
Vigilante justice is always a positive for society
Not really. You miss the opportunity of clarifying previous cases, bringing closure to those affected by it. Not to mention the possibility of assaulting someone who may not be a criminal, something that was documented over and over again.
@@martijnstuart95 my cousin was murdered by a would be vigilante. Car broke down on the highway was walking through a field when the lunatic butchered him with an ax. The guy came home from a court hearing to find his home robbed. Simply killed him out of anger and wanting someone to pay. My cousin was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
@@christianmontoya298 I’m so sorry for your loss ♥️
I had a zquil and fell asleep to this video and he was in my dreams. I saw him walking around and we had a brief discussion I don’t remember
Don't tell people your dreams
I remember hearing a call he had with a “fan”. When he brought up that ramirez might get the electric chair, ramirez got very nervous. Its a shame he never got that punishment.
I loved this video. Ramirez really is one of the most scariest people to live, very good
In the documentary the reason why he didn't shoot the girl is because apparently she said "you've already shot me once do you have to shoot me again"