Beating in the First Degree

AUGUST 10--A Braddock man's karaoke performance of an Alabama song apparently triggered a female bar patron to attack him early yesterday at a Braddock bar. According to a Braddock Sheriff's Department report LuAnn Simpson, 42, assaulted Samuel Orville Bash while he was performing with Mr. Gary D. Rollins and Keith Taylor at Buford's Bar, where patrons sing karaoke Wednesday and Thursday night from 9 PM until 2 AM. When Bash launched into Alabama's "Love in the First Degree," Simpson allegedly told the man that his "singing sucked" and that the song "fucking sucked." She then grabbed at Bash's microphone and "pushed him and punched him in order to get him to stop singing," deputies reported. When employees escorted Simpson from the bar, she "became very violent" and struck several other people (and was hostile towards deputies and fire department medics who responded to the scene). Simpson was booked into the Braddock County Prison Farm, where she is currently being held on an investigation of assault. It is unclear why Alabama's music apparently made Simpson snap.