[theDentist]

A necessary ingredient: " Investigators found a stolen piece of machinery belonging to Reid into the back of the sedan. "

Case closed.

[cowboyway]

Reid said he tried to block the sedan in with his truck........Brown was pinned between the car and a gate post....was airlifted to Duke University Hospital, where he later died.

Truck control! Truck control!

[org.whodat]

A necessary ingredient: " Investigators found a stolen piece of machinery belonging to Reid into the back of the sedan. "

Case closed.

Well I guess they'll stop the OJ trial in Vegas and let the crook go home to Florida then.

Little something in law called after the fact and before the fact. If they charge the man, the jury will never know about the stolen part. Bad deal!

[LIConFem]

"Case closed."

It should be. We need to get back to a place in this country where there is a serious and immediate threat associated with committing these types of crimes (burgulary, robbery, assault, et cetera). That means having only two rules governing use of force against criminals:

1) Was it reasonable to assume the crime was being committed, and...

2) Was the force applied during the commission of the crime.

Crime should be damn'd dangerous to a criminal's health.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Gosh, a story with MORE information about what actually happened. For all of you that want to see Reid “get hanged” for this, eat your hearts out. He probably WILL NOT have any charges. READ the article.

Intruder dies after homeowner hits car
‘I just backed up and waited for the law’
Marlon A. Walker and Thomasi McDonald
(Raleigh) News & Observer
Posted on Fri, Nov. 09, 2007

SELMA —
A suspected thief has died from injuries he received Thursday when his car was struck by a truck driven by a homeowner.

Lauren Williams, a spokeswoman for Duke Medical Center, this morning confirmed the death of Cornelius Brown, 40, of Dudley. Brown was airlifted Thursday to Duke Hospital.

Brown was injured after John Reid pulled up to his mobile home at 955 Hawkins Road, outside Selma, about 1:30 p.m. Thursday and found Brown and a companion there. Reid said someone had been stealing equipment used in his lawn-care business for about a year.

Reid, 37, said that he saw an Oldsmobile Cutlass with one of his augers in its open trunk. Brown and a second man walked out from behind the home, Reid said, and Brown became belligerent.

“[He] got out and started talking to me, asking me what I was doing on this land ... acting like it was his,” Reid said.

When Reid told Brown that he had the authorities on his cell phone, Brown ran to the Cutlass. Reid said that in a panic his foot got caught between his brake and gas pedals and his truck hit the Cutlass, knocking it backward. With the car still moving, Reid said, Brown jumped out.

“When he did, his door hit him and wedged him in between the car and the fence pole,” Reid said. “I just backed up and waited for the law to get here.”

Sheriff Steve Bizzell said that deputies also found a generator that belonged to Reid in the car.

Reid said the men told authorities they hadn’t taken anything. “They kept denying it ... saying they were just here looking for a job,” he said.

Bizzell said he expected no charges against Reid, but said the investigation would continue.

The passenger in Brown’s car, Mark Ray McNair, 46, of Dudley, was charged with second-degree trespassing, misdemeanor larceny and felony possession of burglary tools.

McNair was jailed under $11,000 bail, Bizzell said.

Reid said Thursday that he was hoping Brown would survive.

“I’m sorry that the guy got hurt,” Reid said. “I hate that it happened.”