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'Point 'em out, knock 'em out': Brutal game ends when assault victim fires his concealed handgun
Mlive ^ | 8-26-2013 | John Barnes

Posted on 08/26/2013 10:45:56 AM PDT by Darren McCarty

The game was called "point 'em out, knock 'em out," and it was as random as it was brutal.

The object: Target an innocent victim for no other reason than they are there, then sucker punch him or her.

But on this day in Lansing, there would be no punch. The teen-age attacker had a stun gun. He did not know his would-be victim was carrying a legally concealed pistol.

The teen lost the game

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The 17-year-old in gym shorts approached his target. The 28-year-old Lansing man was waiting for his daughter at her school-bus stop at REO Road and Ballard Street.

....The teen had two friends nearby - dropped off by a third friend in a van after they scouted their target. They knew what Marvell Weaver was going to do. They had discussed it.

Weaver approached his victim from behind, a black KL-800 Type Stun Gun in his pocket. It is capable of generating 1.8 million volts.

He passed him and turned back, pressed the stun gun into the victim’s side. Again and again, and … nothing. It had fired earlier when testing it, he would later tell police.

“The button was like stuck down … or something. I don’t know what caused it not to work,” according to a transcript of Weaver’s statement.

‘Please don’t kill me’

The intended victim moved quickly, pulling his stainless steel .40-caliber Smith and Wesson. It had a full 10-bullet magazine, and was worth about $900 police estimated.

He shot Weaver in his buttocks as the teen turned to flee.

“It happened so fast I wasn’t sure. I just know something was shoved into my side. I wasn’t sure if it was a knife, if it was anything,” he told police.

Weaver ran, sat down across the street, his leg going numb, bleeding. Pleading.

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; ccw; guncontrol; knockoutgame; lansing; secondamendment; stungun
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To: Darren McCarty
“I’m sorry, please don’t kill me, I don’t know why I did that, I’m high you know, I just wanna go home,” the teen told the man who had just shot him.

Should've shot him again for being such a little whiny bitch. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, @$$hole.

141 posted on 08/27/2013 8:00:36 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

If you shoot someone in the back who is running away, you’ll probably be the one who’s in trouble.


142 posted on 08/27/2013 8:12:05 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: shotgun

Jurys are funny things. They have a way of not working out the way you expect. Ask the state of Florida which is now on the hook for $300,000 in legal defense fees since losing the Trayvon Martin jury trial.


143 posted on 08/27/2013 2:03:03 PM PDT by RC one
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To: Fightin Whitey
...black scum... This offal, this feral scourge...do they have to take the language down with them?

I kinda like "Native-black Savages".

144 posted on 08/27/2013 2:26:08 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (HEY RATS! Control your murdering freaks!)
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To: RC one

No one said anything about juries. This is about not having the public pay for his needed medical care while waiting for the trial. The second they arrest him the county picks up the tab!

Imagine walking in to the emergency room to be told your kid was in an accident and a coma fir the past week and was listed as a john doe. the hospital was ready to eat the cost but now they find out your the parent and now you are the responsible party to pay the bill.


145 posted on 08/27/2013 3:38:09 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Red in Blue PA
What's the one thing that they all have in common?

None of them have an IQ in the triple digits.

146 posted on 08/28/2013 2:01:21 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Darren McCarty

Too bad all of the feral thugs couldn’t be shot dead right then, and save civilians and authorities the bother of having to deal with them later.


147 posted on 08/28/2013 2:03:30 PM PDT by pallis
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To: spawn44
When’s the last time you heard a black succeeding in school. Winning a math contest, spelling bee.

Oh knock it off. You can see it on TV, the floor of the NYSE is filled with young people of all skin colors.

You think they "thugged" their way in there and forced Wall Street to give them a job?

148 posted on 08/28/2013 2:55:58 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: petro45acp

It’s not Stunner; It’s STUNER!


149 posted on 08/29/2013 3:45:39 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: smokingfrog
If you shoot someone in the back who is running away, you’ll probably be the one who’s in trouble.

Unless you are a cop.

150 posted on 08/29/2013 5:25:56 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Future Snake Eater
Should've shot him again for being such a little whiny bitch.

Sorry, disagree. Threat's over. Any further shooting by the defender gets him in much trouble. He did the right thing.

151 posted on 08/31/2013 7:49:32 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Darren McCarty

“Game Over, Man....Game Over!”


152 posted on 08/31/2013 7:50:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lee N. Field

Truth does tend to bring down self priding egotists don’t it :-)


153 posted on 08/31/2013 7:51:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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