Great ending to what could have been a very bad experience!
Posted on 08/24/2005 9:28:26 PM PDT by SmithL
LOS ANGELES - A 15-year-old burglary suspect died Wednesday, a day after being shot by a woman who told police she returned to her South Los Angeles home to confront a tire iron-wielding boy in her house.
The shooting took place about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday when Mary Ann Talley, 59, returned to her home after her daily walk, police said in a statement. When Talley entered her home, a young burglar confronted her with a tire iron and she shot him with a handgun she keeps for protection.
The boy was taken to a hospital where he died Wednesday, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman.
The boy's identity was not released.
Talley was not injured in the incident.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office was investigating to determine if any charges should be filed, Lee said.
Pretty stupid to bring a tar iron to a gun fight
Life's tough. It's tougher if you're stupid. This kid was stupid.
"tar iron"
Just another "albabyism"
Great ending to what could have been a very bad experience!
You mean "tar tool"
it,s a nascarism
> The Los Angeles County district attorney's office was
> investigating to determine if any charges should be
> filed, Lee said.
Hell yes charges should be filed: parental neglect, educational neglect, and if the perp were still alive charges ought to be filed against his sorry @$$ for breaking and entering, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon...
Excellent.
i thought the supreme court ruled out the death penalty for minors?
Reading statements like that makes me glad I live in Texas.
I was feeling pretty proud of being from Baton Rouge after reading the title. Then I read on and realized South LA meant Los Angeles and not South Louisiana.
The boy committed suicide.
"The Los Angeles County district attorney's office was investigating to determine if any charges should be filed"
yeah, she shouldnt have shot him. she should have let him beat her to a bloody pulp with his tire iron!!!
LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER
Well said,
In 1976, my wife's cousin, then just 21 years old, shot and killed a would-be rapist who broke into her apartment in Houston. The 300 lb intruder kicked the door in at 3AM, confronted her with his intentions, and declared, "You wouldn't shoot me, you little ****." Those were his last words, she hit him twice, in the neck and above the right eye, with a .45 auto. The grand jury hearing was strictly routine, required by law after all fatal shootings, and resulted in a quick no-bill.
I wonder how many California gun laws Mrs. Talley broke that morning.
Look at the way the story is worded...
"...she returned to her South Los Angeles home to confront a tire iron-wielding boy in her house..."
They word it so it makes her look like SHE came back to shoot him... Not that she happened to walk in on him and startled she probably grabbed for her gun she has... But, instead she left to get the gun and "returned to confront him"....
Ahhhh, they subconcious planting of that poor 15yr. old...
Reading statements like that makes me glad I live in Texas.
I can't believe you said this. Wasn't in Texas when the illegal aliens won the guy's ranch after suing him for giving them blankets, water and food??
No matter where a person lives in the United States, as long as President Bush and his administration refuses to lock down the borders, we are not safe from the illegals.
Add this yoot to the "child victims of gun violence" statistic. :-/
But but but, didn't he call beforehand and inform her of her rights, and state his age??? Sigh
I believe the correct phonetic spelling is: 'tar arn'
Similar to "fahr works"
You got it. In Nascarese, all words that include the 'ire' sound in English have been reduced to 'ahr'.
As in the forementioned, but also in:
Y'all are requahred to call the phone cumpny to check the wahr 'fore you dig that ho.
Good shot. But are you allowed to defend your self in LA?
I would imagine that the woman who shot the perp may be facing a civil lawsuit from the family (if he has one) of the little burglar. I can hear it now. His mother blubbering, "He was a good boy. He shouldn't have had to pay with his life for making a mistake. We miss him!".
And this:
"The Los Angeles County district attorney's office was investigating to determine if any charges should be filed, Lee said."
Please. Filing charges against a woman for defending herself against a thug threatening her with a tire iron?
None, I believe. In CA you can carry concealed and loaded in your home. Also, the law says that if someone breaks into your home you are presumed to be in fear of your life and justified to use deadly force.
California has a "your home is your castle" doctrine. You have no duty to retreat in your own home.
Another one bites the dust! Hey hey!
I'm certain this is being diligently investigated. No sarcasm either. At the very least I doubt if she'll ever see her gun back again.
Anne got her gone..clean kill.
Hopefully he left the gene pool before replicating.
Hope she bills his parents for the carpet cleaning and round.
Keeping that old 49 Ford tire iron around was also a good thing for this lady.
In England,she would have gotten the death penalty for protecting herself....
But if he was black and she was white,it begins another round of questioning...Did she kill him because she was afraid or a racist??????Liberals love to ponder meaty questions such as this one...Because any lib will tell you,she really didn't have to shoot..A round of hand-holding and singing 'Kumbaya" would have turned his life around....
Pretty stupid to waste the time and money, since the puke is dead.
I know of no DA that will file charges against a dead person.
(Yeah, I'm in full "naive" mode this morning.)
That's one 15-year-old burglar who won't turn into a 16-year-old burglar.
Any day now his second cousin will sign on to tell us he was invited over and berate us for slandering him.
Got what he deserved BUMP!
Tire iron, meet shooting iron, you lose.
No doubt the parents will sue this poor woman since the scotus has waid the death penalty cannot be used on teenagers.
$100 says the kid's family will be suing.
clap clap clap clap!
"In England,she would have gotten the death penalty for protecting herself...."
Ummm... England doesn't have the death penalty.
Yeah, we're due.
"They word it so it makes her look like SHE came back to shoot him... Not that she happened to walk in on him and startled she probably grabbed for her gun she has... But, instead she left to get the gun and "returned to confront him"...."
Poorly worded, but then the second paragraph makes it very clear what happened. I can't imagine anybody would come away from this story thinking, "Gosh, that lady came in, found a burglar, left to locate a gun, and then came back and shot the burglar, who had conveniently waited around for her to return so he could be killed."
Let's be realistic.
Build their gallows high
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