Posted on 12/11/2012 5:52:49 AM PST by marktwain
GEORGE COUNTY, MS (WLOX) -
A George County man found himself on the wrong end of a homeowner's gun after allegedly breaking into a home on Crenshaw Road Saturday night.
Sheriff Dean Howell said just after midnight, dispatch received a call from a homeowner who said he was holding a burglar at gunpoint. When deputies arrived, they found Alex Hamblin standing on the sidewalk with the suspect, Wilton Grady Dickerson, 28.
Hamblin recounted how he had heard a loud noise downstairs, grabbed his gun and found Dickerson standing in the kitchen. At first, the homeowner thought it was his son, but quickly realized it wasn't. He said the intruder was wearing his wife's coat, so he told him to take it off, put his hands in the air, and drop to the floor. The suspect complied.
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Prolly didn’t want blood splattered all over his walls and furniture. I can understand that. It’s a shame you can’t shoot em on the way outside.
Plus, probably would have caught hell for putting a hole in his wife's coat.
This was literally just down the street from me.
This is one of the problems.
If the burglar had started running when he got outside and the Homeowner had shot him to keep him from running, the homeowner would have been guilty.
This guy was obviously not thinking or he could have run.
Anyone you are holding for the police who is not attacking you, but running, you are helpless to stop.
Could that be the reason he's a criminal???
Anyone you are holding for the police who is not attacking you, but running, you are helpless to stop.
You are assuming that the burglar believes that the homeowner fears the law. The burglar does not, so he projects that the homeowner does not. Thus, he fears the homeowner more than the law. He does *not* know the homeowner will not shoot, and seen from stories that I have posted on freerepublic, he is right to be fearful about it.
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Clonazepam has an unusually long elimination half-life of 18–50 hours, making it generally considered to be among the long-acting benzodiazepines.
The guy was a druggie, stoned out of his queer mind.
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