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 ...
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Preventable...??
I can't help but wonder if the Revs. Jackson & Sharpton stepped out of the spotlight long enough to teach God's laws to these young people:
Thou shalt not steal...
Thou shalt not murder...
Thou shalt not bear false witness... etc....
Where are the parents, educators, spiritual leaders, and "community organizers" when it comes to the EPIC FAILURE to instill basic morality, ethics, and self-discipline to each oncoming generation of young people--regardless of ethnic background.
I expect God will eventually hold them accountable...
... No one else seems to have the stones to call them out.
RIP young man...
QUITE SAD: a justifiable self-defense shoot in a preventable circumstance...
Go figure...
If the national MSM were to report this incident the headlines would read something like this:
Florida gun laws are killing innocent black youth.
They will demand to know what the gods of government, and Obamessiah is going to do about it.
“Which, I suppose, means the ‘Jessie and Al Show’ can stay in Sanford... “
The “reverends” Al and Jesse will need airline passes to get to all the places where the Trayvon Martin look a likes were shot just today. I think that this is the third one I’ve read on FR this morning. Zimmerman could have avoided all the trouble by changing his name to Taquanda.
Another dead teen who “looks like” a male relative of our president. But the shooter “looks like” a female relative of the president. Nothing to see here.....
Quintavius? Sounds like something you contract from drinking the water down south of the border. I heard that it responds well to treatment with copper-jacketed lead.
There, fixed it.
I have to ask - what is the point?
This woman would be the kind of neighbor I could live with. She loves to keep her area neat and clean.
Taped?
911, “Police or Fire?”
Taquanda Baker,”Both! I need a clean-up in Aisle 1 & 2!”
A hundred bucks the kid looked like obama.
Good shooting, Citizen. Civilization thanks you.
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