Dad pulls gun on son after UA loss

09/30/03

CAROL ROBINSON
News staff writer


A Pinson man, upset over Alabama's double overtime loss to Arkansas, held a gun to his son's head and pulled the trigger shortly after Saturday's game ended, authorities said.
         
The bullet narrowly missed 20-year-old Seth Logan, who now acknowledges he had picked the wrong moment to ask his dad for a car, sheriff's spokesman Deputy Randy Christian said Monday.

Joseph Alan Logan, 46, surrendered just before the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department SWAT team arrived to take him into custody. He was charged with attempted murder and domestic violence and was released from the county jail Sunday on $7,500 bond.

"I know we take football serious in the South," Christian said, "but that's crossing the line."

Joseph Alan Logan later told investigators he was upset at his son's request because his son had already wrecked several vehicles.

"He claimed he was just trying to scare his son," Christian said.

According to a Jefferson County sheriff's report, here's what happened: Joseph Alan Logan had been drinking alcohol and was furious with Alabama's 34-31 loss to Arkansas. He began slamming doors, tossing boxes and throwing dishes in the sink. It was in the midst of that tantrum that Seth Logan broached the subject of a new car.

That's when his father went to his car and returned with a 9 mm pistol, the report said. He grabbed his son by the collar, put the gun in the middle of Seth Logan's forehead and said he was "going to blow your (expletive) brains out," according to the report.

Seth Logan moved his head just as his father fired and the bullet whizzed past him, the report said.

His ear was numb and his head ringing, he told authorities, but he was otherwise OK when he fled to a neighbor's house to call police.

Sheriff's authorities called the department's SWAT team when they found out the armed father still had a 13-year-old son in the house with him.

Joseph Alan Logan walked out of the house with the other son and turned himself in to police, Christian said

That's just disturbing!   Yeah, I know it was kind of unwise of the son to go and ask for a new car when his father was throwing a temper tantrum, but if you're throwing things just because your team lost and pulling a gun on your son, I think you seriously need help!

Which reminds me, anyone heard from Southern Spitfire or Goldie lately? Are they still big Razorback fans?