Posted on 05/06/2011 12:25:47 PM PDT by marktwain
FLINT (WJRT) -- (05/04/11) -- UPDATE -- A 16 year old who was shot by a homeowner as he entered her house has died.
The shooting happened at around noon Tuesday in the 1900 block of Roselawn near Cloverlawn.
Family members say their mother, in her late 50s, told them a kid was climbing through the window and she warned him she had a gun.
The incident ended with her shooting the intruder.
Neighbors say they heard some shots, and feared the woman who lives in the house got hit. They quickly learned she was fine, but the person trying to break in was not. He is listed in critical condition at a local hospital.
"You hear shots all the time around here," Hiram Brisker said. "Gunshots sound like music around here, OK?"
From his front porch, Brisker tells it how he sees it. "They just that much nerve to break in, in the middle of the day?" he said. "It's either her or him. Case closed."
"She's doing what she had to do to protect herself. She's a great lady. She don't nothing wrong to nobody, one of the best neighbors you could want. They break into her house in the middle of the day, what's she supposed to do?
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Sounds like a happy ending.
You try to break into someone’s house, you risk your life. It’s that simple.
Good for the homeowner. I’ll bet B&Es in that neighborhood go down.
A sixteen year old can still rape you and cut your throat. Sounds justifiable to me.
Lucky I'm bilingual...although I don't speak it well, I do understand ebonics.
Shot happens.
Excellent news. Perhaps a dozen Obama voters will now have no chance of seeing the light of day.
“They just that much nerve to break in, in the middle of the day?” he said. “It’s either her or him. Case closed.”
Case closed and filed by me. Nice shooting.
Says a lot about the type of “music” that is played and makes it easy to guess the type of people in the neighborhood -— gosh darned Amish church choir, again.
FTA:
..”you have to shoot ‘em to keep em from coming into your house.”
Can’t say it any plainer than that....hell of a neighborhood.
“she warned him she had a gun. “
And the little genius didn’t walk away at that point.
Maybe he was turning his life around?
*groan*
Yeah his life is 180 from what it was.
That it is.
No doubt a good boy who loved his mom.
Feel sorry for the decent black folks in society who get tarred by the association of many lesser thugs and criminals of the same race fluxing it up on all of us together.
"Ain't never been no nobody not like me not nowhere".
I enjoyed the part of the video when they interviewed her son. He seemed quite pleased with the outcome, and proud of his mother. Good son.
BTW, if nobody is doing it yet, there should be some effort to compile the statistics of how with gun freedom, minority communities are far more able to defend themselves against criminals. Since they traditionally have higher crime rates, the ability to defend themselves is even more important.
I'm a retired U.A.W. member, tell me about it.
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