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Posted on 11/07/2006 9:56:35 PM PST by DaveLoneRanger
A man wounded during a home break-in on Tuesday was shot by the resident, David Grice, the sheriff of Davidson County, said yesterday.
A news brief in yesterday's paper incorrectly said that the man had been shot by deputies.
Grice said that Zackary Allen Staley, 21, of 149 Clapp Farm Road was shot by the homeowner, Phillip Cross Jr. The shooting remains under review and no charges have been filed against the homeowner, Grice said.
Grice said that deputies were sent to Cross' home Tuesday on a report of a home invasion and that shots had been fired. Grice said that deputies learned that Staley was shot after he kicked in a door into the basement of Cross' home. He was hit in the knee and hand.
Deputies found Staley in the emergency ward at Lexington Memorial Hospital. He was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and later returned to the Lexington hospital, where he was released, Grice said.
Grice said that Staley was charged yesterday with first-degree burglary and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon. He was released on a $20,000 bond.
Two other men were also charged with the same offenses.
Well, you take your happy endings where you can...
This story will be just what the rats need to propose new gun control legislation.
My how the world can change in just a day.
I don't want to change this into a political rambling thread, but I believe it is our own fault.
The media spun the Iraq war day in, day out. CodePink idiots and anti-war nuts were splayed across our TV screens, and the "Bush lied" chant was a household mantra.
In short, the Iraq war cost us the House.
Don't get me wrong. The Iraq war was right. What was WRONG was our response to critics.
Bush received approval bounces of four and five percent when he went on primetime TV and defended the war. How many times has he done that? Four or five. 24/7/365 coverage times four networks all bashing the war and broadcasting negative images, and yet I can count on my hand the times he hit back. He failed to wage the PR war. Admitting no WMD's and conceding intelligence failures was, is and remains Bush's worst error.
He/they/we let the "Bush lied" crap become dogma and then become "common knowledge" without smashing its ugly little nose in the truth. For this I blame everyone. The House and Senate leaders failed to combat this. Bush and even Rove failed to combat that lie. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Snow, Mehlman, all failed to fight that myth.
Even Rush didn't do enough.
The Dems took up that banner and made it their hill to die on. With the unprecented negativity in the media, the daily humdrum of anti-war propaganda, and little to no response, the Republicans lost the election of the House when we lost the PR war on Iraq.
It's their own fault. It's our own collective fault.
We're not going to sit and wallow in it like PEST liberals.
But we DANG sure better get a head start on grooming our '08 candidates. Unless Rice or MAYBE Guiliani runs, the Republicans do not stand a chance.
What is this? The writer rings in 2 more perps but doesn't tell us who they are or whether they are connected with the crime in the article.
The cops are there to take the report not shoot crooks.
Going by your Wiston-Salem Journal article, Dave, the reporter first flubbed on who did the shooting and then didn't bother to specify that the shootee was armed with a gun. It's only mentioned that he's charged with attempting to commit the crime with a dangerous weapon (and 1st degree burglary).
In a paper more local to the crime scene: November 06. 2006 1:00PM
http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061106/NEWS/611060344/1006/news01
Three men face charges of breaking into house
From staff reports
A Lexington man who was shot Tuesday morning after allegedly trying to break into a home on N.C. Highway 150 North was charged with first-degree burglary and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Deputies with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office arrested Zackary Allen Staley, 21, of Clapp Farm Road, after he was treated and released from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center this weekend for a gunshot wound.
The homeowner fired the shot after Staley and two other Lexington men tried to break into the house early Tuesday morning. Deputies say Staley was armed with a handgun.
Investigators first identified Staley as a suspect after he went to Lexington Memorial Hospital to get treatment for the gunshot wound.
On Thursday deputies charged the other two men, Danny Edward Phillips Jr., 21, of Snider Kines Road, and Anthony Victor Hill, 23, of Arlington Drive, with first-degree burglary and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.
At least four people were inside the home when the three men tried to make entry, according to arrest reports.
The district attorney's office is reviewing the case to see if the homeowner should be charged with any crimes related to the shooting, according to the sheriff's office.
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