Posted on 11/30/2012 5:43:57 AM PST by Uncle Chip
Three teenage boys have been charged with the murder of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the head while the group were robbing summer homes - despite none of them firing the gun which killed her.
Scott Bryd, Dillon Tyree and Daniel Parnell, all 18, were indicted on felony murder charges on Wednesday by a grand jury after Summer Moody's death.
Miss Moody was fatally injured after homeowners fired warning shots on Gravine Island, Alabama when they saw the group robbing cabins around 4am on April 15.
She died in hospital ten days later. Byrd, Tyree and Parnell are being held in the Baldwin County Corrections Center.
No charges were filed against the men who fired the shots in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, a remote fishing camp.
William 'Nick' Hearn, Larry Dean Duncan and Lonnie W. Davison faced no charges because the shooting was deemed accidental by the district attorney.
The three men were working nearby on April 15 when they heard suspicious sounds coming from homes nearby. The three got in a boat and went to investigate.
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Semi-portable if you are a semi-pro football lineman. Looks to me like a WW1 heavy MG (water cooled). Just imagine the squad you needed to carry this sucker into action then add the ammo boxes!
Not what I would choose for home defense. Now a Mossberg or Browning, that has defense authority!
No bullet should ever leave the muzzle of your gun unless it is aimed at something specific.
Firing warning shots can get you into trouble if you’re claiming self defense, it proves there is doubt about the magnitude of the threat.
Very useful for warning shots. Standing over the bullet filled body the operator says, “I warned you!”.
Was his name Henry Bowman?
I swear the car was doing 35 and spraying gravel when the kid who was ringing the bell caught up with it. Never seen anyone run so fast in my life.
And they never messed with the bell or mailbox again.
I’m going to buck the trend and say that the guy who fired the second shot was an idiot - one of the big four rules is to never fire a shot if you don’t know where the bullet is going to go. That he shot a perp and not an innocent (possibly hundreds of yards away) is pure luck.
This guy should be thanking G-d for sparing him from the consequences of his folly.
Miss Moody was with her 3 friends who were robbing fishing camps on a remote island during the wee hours. Miss Moody hid in the bushes while the boys robbed the cabins. One of the cabins was occupied and the occupants fired a warning shot out the door which hit Miss Moody in the head and killed her - he didn’t know she was there. This was a tragic occurrence but the bottom line is that if she were home in bed instead of where she was it wouldn’t have happened. Nobody with any sense faults the shooter, who was protecting himself at a remote location (it would take cops at least an hour to get there by boat) during a crime in progress, but it turned out he was a felon who shouldn’t have had a gun. Last I heard they were going to prosecute the 3 boys she was with for her murder, which makes no real sense either. She didn’t deserve what happened, and there is much sympathy for her family, but it was her choice to be there - don’t see how the law should compensate her for her poor choices.
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