Posted on 08/02/2007 10:03:39 AM PDT by Serious Capitalist
BENTONVILLE -- The father of a 17-year-old girl found his daughter's boyfriend hiding inside her bedroom closet Tuesday, beat him bloody with a pool stick, then left the room to fetch a gun. The daughter and boyfriend blocked the door with a dresser, so the father shot through the closed door, hitting the boyfriend in the back and paralyzing him, police said.
George David Reed, 48, posted a $150,000 bond and was freed from jail Wednesday afternoon as Michael Austin Guzman, 19, underwent surgery to treat a bullet lodged in his spinal cord.
Three of Guzman's vertebrae are fractured and doctors don't expect him to regain feeling or mobility below his waist, according to a probable cause affidavit released Wednesday after Reed's bond hearing. He was still in surgery Wednesday evening in Joplin's Freeman Health System, according to an intensive care nurse.
Benton County Circuit Judge Xollie Duncan set the bond Wednesday based on a request from Chief Deputy Prosecutor Shane Wilkinson. Reed was arrested on suspicion of a felony terroristic act, the most serious type of felony aside from capital murder, punishable by up to life in prison. He was also arrested on a charge of felony first-degree battery.
Defense attorney W.H. Taylor, who spent the morning consulting with his client at the jail, did not object to the bond. Reed is to be arraigned Sept. 10 before Circuit Judge David Clinger.
Taylor said that Reed has three children and lives with his wife, Sharon, at 13569 Vaughn Road near Highfill. Reed has been in Northwest Arkansas since 1962, owns a farm and rental properties, and has operated a moving and storage business since 1983.
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Sounds like a great sequel for Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
The daughter and boyfriend blocked the door with a dresser, so the father shot through the closed door, hitting the boyfriend in the back and paralyzing him, police said.
Nice shot!
According to a legal website, age of consent in Arkansas is 14, affirmative defense is that the age difference is no more than 3 years. (Do NOT rely on the foregoing as legal advice, I could be wrong. That, and anyone trolling even near these limits is scum.)
Yeah, he was a little slow in leaving out the running him over part. But, maybe the car was in the shop, who knows?!
If you really mean that, then since the 17 yo girl was consensual in the behavior, can I assume you mean you would also have beaten her in a similar manner? Shot at her? This wasn't assault on the part of the young man.
Was your daughter so helpless at 17 that she would have been forced by a boyfriend in her own bedroom? Doesn't say a lot for your parenting abilities.
At that age my daughter could take care of herself with any male. If she had been doing anything, it would not have been against her will. I would have been pissed at the boy, but I would have considered her responsible, had it been consensual on her part.
To destroy a 19 yo life because of mutual behavior between a 17 and 19 year old is unexcuseable. 60 years in a wheelchair is fair punishment for normal sexual desires of teenagers? Geez. Scary.
When we kissed, ooh what a thrill You took my hand and, ooh baby, what a chill I felt like grabbin you real tight Squeeze and squeeze with all my might But all I could do were stand there paralyzed(Paralyzed by Otis Blackwell.)
This is Arkansas...it's not like they aren't already related.
You nailed it - that’s the song. Quiz question: what happens when you play Country Western music backwards? Answer: You get your dog back, then your car, your girlfriend, your job, your house maybe even your wife back . . . .
If that doesn’t work,you can always beat the boy with a pool cue and shoot him!
LOL
Whether or not his daughter chose to have intercourse with an intruder on his property, the individual in question is still an intruder on his property.
Was being a slut worth it?
And an intruder who concealed himself on the father’s property and assaulted the father to boot.
Only fathers of daughters are allowed on this jury.
The paradox of fatherhood: no man wants his daughters doing what he once wanted other men’s daughters to do.
I guarantee Mr. Guzman will think twice before he kicks someone after this . . .
I don’t know why expected to find folks on this thread who think what the father did was OK, but here they are. Sad.
Twenty years ago at a local festival a father caught his daughter smooching on a guy he had warned her to stay away from. Just kissing. He angrily forced her to leave along with the rest of the family. As he prepared to pull the car away she started screaming that he might just as well kill her if she couldn’t see the boy. The father stops, whips out a loaded (and legal) gun, cocks it, points it at her and says, “Maybe I will.” Girl grabs gun and is shot in the chest. When I arrived (newspaper reporter at the time), rescue squad is doing CPR in the middle of the street and the father is, of course, in hysterics. She didn’t make it.
Hey, but I guess she learned her lesson, eh? /sarc
Arkansas? Do we get to make a joke about how he’s sorry ‘bout what he did to his own brother?
If this was a rape, it would be one thing. But it appears that the boyfriend was invited in.
Legs will show the kick marks. If dad has some he might get off. If he doesn’t he’s probably going to prison forever.
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