Aussie with a snake around his neck chats to reporters following Adelaide shooting
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Rare moment a mullet-wearing guy chats casually to reporters as a snake slithers around his neck after one of his teammates is shot
- A 19-year-old boy was shot in the abdomen in Adelaide’s Kurralta Park
- Matt Josh Ellul-Kerr was interviewed about the Sunday night incident
- Sporting a mullet and wearing a snake around his neck left viewers entertained.
A guy with a mullet and a snake around his neck amused viewers with his bizarre casual conversation with a reporter after his partner was shot.
Josh Ellul-Kerr, wearing a black hoodie and large-framed sunglasses, was interviewed after the non-fatal shooting of his friend, 19, in Adelaide’s Kurralta Park on Saturday night.
When asked what had happened Sunday, Ellul-Kerr told the reporter that a coworker told him to go back home and that “police were everywhere.”
“I arrived about 10 minutes later and the police didn’t tell me anything,” he told Nine News. He didn’t even know he had been shot.
Jake Ellul-Kerr (pictured) was interviewed about his partner being shot, but viewers were more focused on the snake around his neck.
“I got home and they told me ‘your partner has just been shot’… I didn’t believe it.”
While Mr. Ellul-Kerr was being interviewed, the snake slithered around his shoulders and neck, at one point even hitting its head on its owner’s beard.
“Nice guy, lovely heart,” Ellul-Kerr described to his friend.
‘It’s just…why did they shoot him?’
I don’t understand. He’s a good boy,’ he told the reporter.
He is the least violent person I have ever seen in my life.
When asked what he expected the cops to do about those responsible for the shooting, Ellul-Kerr said he wasn’t sure.
It’s not for me to say. Hopefully something happens,’ she replied.
“I just hope he’s okay, because he’s like 19 years old, he hasn’t even been in a fistfight. And then they shot him.’
The 19-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
He was found on the balcony of his Warwick Avenue apartment around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
One viewer joked about his namesake, posting online: “Jake the snake live from the scene!!”
Police located the injured man on his balcony in a Warwick Ave apartment block at around 2:30am on Sunday, before he was treated by paramedics and taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.
Police are still searching for the offender and the weapon, and the attack is not believed to be random.
It was the third shooting in South Australia in just six days amid concerns over gun violence.
Government Minister Tom Koutsantonis told 9News that the incidents were “concerning”.
‘Any shot is a concern. Any gun violence is a concern. Access to these weapons is a concern,’ he said.