This is the sort of behavior that will save Detroit.
"I grabbed a gun and ran towards the side door," he said. The door was suddenly kicked in and that's when he fired the rifle.
"I shot and it hit him in the shoulder," White told us. "When I shot, I heard I don't know who it might have been saying he's been hit, and they ran out the driveway."
White called 911, but there was nothing anyone could do to save the suspected burglar. Detroit police identify him only as an 18-year-old male. They found a gun on him.
White knows he did what he had to do, but for a man who never fired a gun before, this is something that's hard to deal with.
"I'm not comfortable with it at all because I had a son that was murdered in 2010," he said. "I was just glad that I was able to protect us because he obviously meant to do some harm."
Police did confiscate White's gun as part of their investigation. That's usual procedure. The case will be forwarded to the prosecutor's office, but odds are White will not face any criminal charges.
He needs to buy another rifle quickly.
Time to go Trayvon on this guy’s punk ass.
Race is not mentioned one, single time in the entire article. I’ll bet I know what that means.
Where’s Jesse? Where’s Al? Where’s Obama? Whitey/Latino kills blacky very bad. Blacky kills same and turn the other cheek routine from the race baiters.
More details: It is believed the robber had two accomplices (plus picture of the homeowner).
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Willie White, 75, demonstrates how he fatally shot an 18-year-old burglar, who allegedly tried to break into his home Tuesday. (George Hunter / The Detroit News)
Applause!
“He could have been my father” (Barry Obama)
I truly feel sorry for this guy and the rest of the law abiding citizens who are trapped in this city, the majority of whom are the elderly whose houses can't be sold and have no money in which to purchase another outside of the city.
FWIW, having spent 35 years in a plant on Detroit's east side, I know at least a dozen employees who have been murdered during my time there.......Of the last two, one was robbed and shot down two months before our plant closed in Dec. 2006 and the other was a guy who retired a year before and was found stabbed to death in his apartment in approx. Jan. 2007........
This thug would have probably killed a few productive people and cost his victims/taxpayers millions over his lifetime. Not to mention the damages from his future feral children, grandchildren, etc. Now he's 6 feet under with the most minimal of expense.
I wish I could donate to get this guy a shotgun. I have a feeling the ‘youths’ will come back after they hear his gun is gone.
They should have to give him a loaner if they take his weapon. They leave him defenseless. And the mdeia lets everyone know he is now unarmed. This is just not right to do to the victim. It’s like publishing the address and home phone of a rape victim and where they work.
Oops!
Detroit just got less cool for the commie jennifer granholm. Is that whore still hiding in Berkeley?