
In New York, a resident of the hippie commune shot several times at its founder. Jeff Gross is treated for gunshot wounds in the chest and arm, and the main suspect, 43-year-old woman, is on the run.
For the inhabitants of New York, familiar to shooting, the most amazing was the realization that hippies still exist in their energetic and abundant city.
The shooting in the Stamiten area Iland told about the mutual jealousy of members of the commune, seasoned with stories about sex with the gnomes and orgies of lesbians, notes The Times .
As you know, the most loud hippie in the commune was the 1978 incident in Johnstown, when Jim Jones organized mass suicide of more than 900 of his followers in Gayan.
The 51-year-old Gross, one of the creators of the Ganas housing cooperative, said that Rebecca Johnson, excluded from the commune 10 years ago, and then returned and threatened Gross and other members.
Ganas commune was created in 1979. One of the founders was a financial manager with Wall Street, who helped the commune buy 10 houses in the suburbs.
In the commune, up to 100 people live at the same time who have common products, cars, and sometimes sex partners. There are only four rules in the commune, the first of which requires "not to apply violence to people and objects."
However, according to reports, several Ganas members committed suicide, and among them was a man who hanged himself on a tree on a area belonging to the commune, and sagged on it for more than one day, because the corpse was taken for decoration to Halloween.
Last week about Rebecca Johnson, the daughter of a priest from Virginia, said that at first she was attracted by the principles of peacefulness, but she had problems with the psyche. At some point, she was asked to leave. After that, she filed lawsuits against the commune for allegedly forced her to lesbian sex, and for being infected with sexually transmitted diseases. She claimed that several gnomes live in Ganas, and once stated that women in the commune were ordered to "sleep with dwarfs."
A lawsuit in the amount of 1.6 million pounds was subsequently withdrawn. But two years ago, Johnson, who moved to new housing near the commune, began to pursue Gross, spreading the posters in which she called him "a rapist and a vault." Gross achieved a prohibitive court order.
On the evening of last Monday, Gross returned from a trip to Manhattan when he was met by Johnson with a 380 mm caliber gun. “She said nothing,” said Gross. “I prayed for mercy when she started shooting. I shouted: I ask you, stop! But she did not stop.”
According to one of the research, in the 1990s about 8 thousand Americans lived in the communes. In the commune, Sandhill Farm lives in Missouri only five adults and one child, and there are "places for new members" (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).