No charges in shooting of accused stalker

The Times Online ^ | Thursday, January 10, 2008 | STEVE ZABROSKI

[jaydubya2]

Listen to the 911 tape, it's chilling...

[wideawake]

"What are you trying to do, kill me?" the mortally wounded Bergner asked.

Sounds like a real winner.

[wastedyears]

Understandable if she didn’t want it to turn out like that, but you have to do what you have to do to stay alive.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Happened in November.

What took them so long??

[Jaxter]

Thank goodness she knew how to run the pistol. (I know, I know, if it had been a .45 she would have only had to fire once)

[Spok]

Sounds like a no brainer to me.

[Doogle]

...the 51-year-old woman in an upstairs bedroom closet capped a month of....

sorta

[swain_forkbeard]

Did he ask his last question after the first, second, or third bullet hit him?

[tx_eggman]

Are you trying to kill me

"No, try not. Do or not do ... there is no try" Yoda

[ko_kyi]

“What are you trying to do, kill me?” the mortally wounded Bergner asked.

I guess her rejections didn’t sink in.

But the bullets did.

[maine-iac7]

He had been stalking, threatening, assaulting and even previously broken in to her house - and he was still walking around free - typical of these cases.

By the time the police got there, the dead body would have been hers - had she not had the gun.

What is the saying: “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

We have the right of self-defense = and not to feel bad for taking a life rather than dying...she did not kill this man so much as he killed himself by his actions...This is a better outcome than her having to go through a year of more of trial - with him, no doubt, out on bail...and even if convicted, the specter of his getting out always hanging over her life. This way, it is over with. He is the cause of his death.

[org.whodat]

Sounds like a real winner.

I would happily replace her ammo!

[jaydubya2]

Family defends shooting victim

Ryan Lee Bergner was a "gentle" and "kind" man, and his family "can't even believe" he would break into a woman's house and try to hurt her, his sister-in-law said Wednesday night.

"It's just so shocking for such a gentle person to die in such a violent way," said Becky Bergner, who is married to Ryan Lee Bergner's brother.

"He did not go there that evening to hurt her, as far as the Ryan that we know."

http://www.nwi.com/articles/2007/11/15/news/top_news/doc03135c1e27e2e7038625739400154bf6.txt

[wastedyears]

Also, he was still alive after three shots to the abdomen.

Sounds like she needs a larger caliber.

[The KG9 Kid]

A friend gave the woman the gun earlier in the day to defend herself. I'm sure the gun grabbers will be shocked and outraged at this.

Oh, and the family of the dead scumbag insist that he was such a sweet man. Why, they simply can't believe he would do such a thing.

[donna]

a 9 mm pistol on the bed nearby

Don't leave the gun with the attacker - he might get up again!

[super7man]

“What are you trying to do, kill me?” the mortally wounded Bergner asked.

Like...duh!

[Dreagon]

That had to be the dumbest question of his life.....and the last one to boot.

[scripter]

Ping

[jaydubya2]

This was the second time in recent days that Bergner broke into her home, breaking a back window, destroying a clock radio and stealing several of her undergarments over the weekend.

Police records show Bergner also allegedly had tried to kick in the woman's front door a week before that, and also allegedly accosted her at her job and being ejected from the business by her co-workers.

He also was suspected of slashing her Jeep's tires on at least two occasions, police records show.

"This isn't over yet," Bergner told the woman on Nov. 3, according to police reports.

Now it's over!