Posted on 03/27/2012 8:24:31 AM PDT by marktwain
TAMPA, Fla. - Taquanda Baker doesn't remember the suspect saying anything. She just remembers seeing his gun.
"I was standing here," she said, pointing to a spot near her cash register. "As I saw him coming, he already had the gun up."
Baker pulled her gun out of her pocket, misfiring a shot into the wall, then aimed and shot again.
"He stumbled about 3 feet back, hit the floor, and I shot out the door," she recalls.
Baker ran outside her convenience store to Armenia Avenue and flagged down a TPD cruiser.
"I was like, 'I just shot somebody. Help me! Help me! Help me!"
While paramedics raced the suspect to the hospital, police put Baker in handcuffs and in the backseat of a patrol car.
She told them she not only knew the person she shot -- she knew he was only 16.
"I used to tease with him, 'Why aren't you in school today?'" Baker explained.
Baker calls Quintavius Moore a regular customer, who shopped in her store several times a day.
He'd buy shirts or candy, sometimes he even brought kids in.
Moore's grandmother, Delores Wesley, wouldn't comment on her grandson's death, but asked ABC Action News to relay a message to other teens.
"Stay in school," Wesley said. "Put God in your life."
Knowing she killed Moore, even in self-defense, makes Baker sick.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcactionnews.com ...
Another one of Obama’s sons.
Bye.
Nice shooting.
Just trying to get whacked so his family can make a lot of money off Al & Jesse’s circus
Yeah by that “bigot” Taquanda Baker . . how dare she protect herself by taking the life of a young man? All he did was point the gun, he didn’t shoot her, beat her head on the pavement, or try to wrestle her gun away. Be prepared for Al, Jesse, and all the other color blind leaders-by-example to organize hate protests ASAP.
Oh my, that poor little baby. I’m sure that mean racist woman is lying and that gun was really just a bag of skittles. Where can I buy a t-shirt for this hate crime?
She looked pretty black, so this crime is no problem.
LYNCH HER!!!! BOUNTY FOR HER HEAD!!!
“He’d buy shirts or candy, sometimes he even brought kids in.”
Skittles?
Why hasn’t she been arrested yet? Not enough pressure from the “baiters” yet? Or because it was actually self defense? Or it was “only” a black on black incident. No headline here. Nothing to see. Move along.
Quintavius Moore.
Another “Saint Skittles” for the left-media hive to adore.
May Our Almighty Father bring her His peace, as is His will. I ask this in the Name of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
I am Quintavius. /sarc
How terrible that the poor woman was put in that position. His grandmother, too. Very sad.
Why???????????????.....................
I am Taquanda..............
Was he wearing a hoody?
‘Yeah by that “bigot” Taquanda Baker . . how dare she protect herself by taking the life of a young man?’
How insulting, that this little twerp who kept skipping school and wasting so much time in her store, on a friendly basis, would betray her and even steal her things, much less threaten her with a firearm.
Insulting betrayal.
What is with the grill work? Even on women?
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