Missouri woman tracks down, kills alleged carjackers at gas station

Fox News ^ | 12/24/22 | Peter Aitken

[Robert DeLong]

I say free Demesha Coleman, and I am not being sarcastic. Since law & order is no longer enforced, then we might as well all become vigilantes.

[flamberge]

But ‘tracking them down’ and finding her stolen car at a gas station and then shooting the men inside is likely to get her in trouble pretty much anywhere.

I don't care anymore. Not Guilty.

We have the same problem in this State with progressive DAs who refuse to prosecute car thieves (because that would be "racist" or some such thing). The police do not even bother to arrest car thieves these days. The results are exactly what you would expect. We have a massive increase in the rates of car theft with a corresponding increase in violent carjacking and robbery of the driver as well.

Let the vigilantes take care of thieves. The "Justice System" certainly won't.

[Alas Babylon!]

But ‘tracking them down’ and finding her stolen car at a gas station and then shooting the men inside is likely to get her in trouble pretty much anywhere.

I agree to an extent, but...

It's the "and then shooting the men inside" that I disagree with.

Maybe she brought the gun solely for self defense. SCOTUS have ruled that we have the Right to "Keep and bear arms".

She has the right, even in this case, to be armed.

I think she absolutely can say she had no intent to shoot anyone; just an intent to protect herself. After all, that fact that these people stole her car proves criminal intent on their part. They, not her, made the situation dangerous just by their actions.

She had a gun yes, but contends they pulled their gun(s) on her. She has the right to protect herself from these men, who she know stole her car, and in split second appears to be prepared to take her life.

Absolutely not guilty of 1st or 2nd degree murder. Manslaughter at the most.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Get the right jury and not so. They would have probably shot her when she tried to take it back ... good preventive defense.

[coalminersson]

WHAT WAS HER LEGAL OPTION WHICH WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN GETTING HER CAR BACK WITH GUYS SITTING INSIDE?

[TalBlack]

Only in modern America is this a crime. The car belongs to her. She knows it to be stolen. If cops encountered it as a known stolen car THEYD have approached it with guns drawn.

[packagingguy]

Thanks for posting.

It seems the woman’s intent was to get her car back and had a gun with her.

So it seems she did not go there with the intention of killing anyone but just to get the car back.

In this case it seems to be manslaughter at worst since she didn’t intend to kill anyone, and self defense in the case of the perp who also had a gun.

[SaxxonWoods]

Treat her like the rest of the criminals these days. She pleads guilty, gets probation. And wipe her record clean if she stays out of trouble for a year.

[Redmen4ever]

Governor should commute her sentence to a weekend pass at Six Flags St Louis.

[fr_freak]

Police found Farrar next to a gas pump with a gunshot to the torso and Jackson was on the ground next to the car, also shot in the torso.

A third man sustained a gunshot to the head during the shootout

Every time you read about some gangbangers having a little shootout, all you see is wounded and dead bystanders, often little kids, because those dummies can't aim for nothing. This girl put shots in all the right places, and nobody else got hurt. She needs to give classes.

[Blue Collar Christian]

“The St Louis police will do nothing to stop car theft. It’s understandable that people have to be their own law enforcement”

You are absolutely right. The reason to have our government run law enforcement and justice systems is to relieve the citizen of the need to get revenge. Stop doing that job and folks are compelled to handle it.

[Glad2bnuts]

It reads to me like Lonesome Dove. If we are not in the Wild West days, with Frontier Justice REQUIRED, we need to apologize to Wyatt Earp and the REAL Texas Rangers.

[TnTnTn]

No sympathy for the car thiefs…unfortunately she will be charged with murder probably…

[NorthMountain]

The People don’t have prisons. Only governments have those.

When government doesn’t do the job which The People created it to do, The People take the law BACK into their own hands. Lacking prisons, there’s really only one way for The People to punish criminals. The criminals don’t necessarily survive ...

[Glad2bnuts]

Sure, but it is not right, or correct. They DESERVED TO DIE. Sorry, America is now a land of P***ies. If you want a return of law and order, and boy do I want that, you either give police the authority to END things, or THE PEOPLE will take back that power LOANED to government.

[Glad2bnuts]

Sure, but it is not right, or correct. They deserved to die. Sorry, America is now a land of P***ies. If you want a return of law and order, and boy do I want that, you either give police the authority to end things, or We the People will take back that power LOANED to government.

[NorthMountain]

She seems to be guilty of “Takin’ out the trash” in the first degree. One of the trash wasn’t taken out, so she should be sentenced to several hours of punching holes in paper.

[dfwgator]

Well this is the State that punishes people for defending their property against BLM thugs.

[Nuc 1.1]

Not Guilty, all counts.

[Cen-Tejas]

........dang Frank!.........you nailed it!