Guitarist Phil Fasciana of long-running Florida death metallers MALEVOLENT CREATION was reportedly involved in a bizarre shootout at a convenient store in his hometown of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. According Fasciana, he pulled into a small store at around 3:00 p.m. Friday afternoon (July 3) to get something to drink and walked right into a robbery in progress. "I went in this little store on my way home to get a chocolate milk, of all things, and little did I know, I was walking into a life-or-death situation," he says. "When I walked into the store, I did not notice anyone else in the store until someone started screaming at me and pointed a gun at me. I nearly smurf poo myself, because the dude looked wacked out of his mind and fired four shots directly at me and I went down to the ground because I thought I was surely shot. After about 30 seconds, I realized I was not hit at all and the shooter thought I was dead or injured and started attacking the store worker when I snuck up behind the burglar and talked [to] him and took the gun out of his hands and told him to get out of the store. He then reached in his sock and pulled another gun out and pointed it at me and that's when I fired two shots into his head, killing him instantly!

"Never in my life has anything so twisted happened to me before and I would like to forget it ever happened, but I had no other choice. Lucky for me, the stupid crackhead burglar had the worst aim in the world and missed me with all four shots from about 10 feet away! Needless to say, all charges have been dropped and the store owner has offered me a lifetime of chocolate milk! Ha Ha!

"I have been in some scary situations before, but having someone shoot out you from that close and miss is a f__king miracle and I have no remorse for killing the assailant who tried to take my life and the store owner's.

"I gotta move out of this town!! I have enough problems as it is!!

"I am very lucky and could easily be dead at this moment, but I'm not and I'm gearing up for our Mexican, South American and European headlining tour which starts at the end of July.

"I would like to put this behind me and not talk about it anymore. It was the most f____d up thing I have ever been involved with, besides my ex-girlfriend!!"

Holy cow! I know that Phil did the only thing he COULD do, but even though he says he has no remorse (as he shouldn't), he will never be able to put it out of his mind, even though he would love to. That memory, no matter how right he was, will always stick with him. I hope he can find some peace of mind about it. He did the right thing.

Thats amazing. If it was me, s*** they can take my belongings, cash, whatever, its not worth taking a life over those things....but when they try to take YOUR life, the very last thing you got, thats when bullets will fly. Sounds like Phil made the best decision, sorry to hear a life had to be taken though.

would be more believable if a proper news link had been included with this blabbermouth story.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=123073

wow, way to go Phil!

A real heroe.

Seems like a bogus story to me unless someone can produce some REAL news coverage.

he survived four gun shots from 10 feet away, now thats metal!

Blabbermouth sez that "the incident was reportedly captured on the store surveillance tape but the police has yet to release the footage," on the other hand, it also sez that they "have not found any news reports to corroborate the story."

So whaddya think, is it BS? I would think that a story like this, if it were true, would've been on CNN, Fox News, and every other available outlet fifteen minutes after it happened. Especially on the July 4th weekend! "Here's a REAL American hero for cryin' out loud!"

I dunno, I want to believe it because it's a great story but it just seems a little too out there.

And the news outlets would have found some way to slam Metal even though it appears that the man saved 2 lives. Peace.

When you can't even find mention of it in a newspaper anywhere...it appears kinda fishy.

Free chocolate milk? Right on! Makes the whole ordeal worth it.

What happened to him is like what they write about in their music.

I think what he did was great. I'm sure he'll be just fine as far as coming to terms with it to. And yes I to had to come to terms with killing a man, though under a little different circumstances, so I have a little experience with this as well.

I'm just glad he's alright. We've had enough passings as of late.

Further investigation seems to suggest that the M.C. dude's story is bogus....

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=123301

Some excerpts...

U.K.'s Rock Radio spoke to a homicide detective at the Fort Lauderdale Police Department about MALEVOLENT CREATION guitarist Phil Fasciana's claim that he was involved in a bizarre shootout at a convenient store in Fort Lauderdale on July 3, 2009.

Commenting on Fasciana's claims, Detective Mark Shotwell of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department told Rock Radio that he's unable to find evidence that any such event ever took place.

"This did not happen," Shotwell said. "Our last murder was on June 22 and Fasciana was not involved. I'm certain of this. Even if the death was a result of self-defense, it would still be classed as a homicide and investigated as such.

"All witnesses, reportees, victims and suspects are entered into a database, but the most recent entry for Fasciana is on April 1, involving him and a female in a domestic dispute."

"Homeless crackheads would trade a gun as soon as they got it and I've never seen one with two guns. And the scenario as described would have made headlines — even in Miami."

One of the message board posts beneath this article is by a guy who sez he called the Ft. Lauderdale Police himself and asked about it, and the officer who answered the phone told him "it didn't happen," and when he was asked if he could 'research it to make sure,' the cop told him "No need. This story is the water-cooler laughing stock of the entire department right now."

I wonder why Phil hasn't spoken out against this fraud unless he really is the one that reported this bogus story...