Unarmed teen shot inside homeowner's fenced yard, but not breaking into home, NOPD warrant says

NOLA.com / Times Picayune ^ | July 26, 2013 | NOLA.com / Times Picayune

[Sharkfish]

A 14-year-old boy remained in critical condition Friday after being shot in the head by a homeowner who said he thought the teen was trying to break into his house. But police said the teen was unarmed and did not pose an "imminent threat" when he was shot and have charged the owner with attempted second-degree murder.

[i_robot73]

Let’s see. Teen w/ prior burglary arrests (but never used a gun before...WOOPIED-F*-DO?!) is shot while INSIDE a fenced/gated property (can’t see how THAT was a ‘mistake’) @ 2AM (where’s the parents??)

I presume he was told to leave? The story doesn’t say. But dude was spooked enough to shoot (this IS New Orleans) from the kid ‘reaching for something’.

Still a good shot..30 feet to head. Love the older brothers comment: “He would steal — he was a professional thief, sure...”

Just another instance of the wrong non-verbal communication from the Amish. A simple “Excuse me” could have diffused the whole situation...or good PARENTING (where the blame lies).

[stars & stripes forever]

I believe a fence means private property - stay out.

[MHGinTN]

No doubt the media vermin will be along to express the sorrow of Americans that an blooming entrepreneur has been shot down before reaching his prime in life. The resident community race baiter-in-chief will go on national TV to tell us that if he had a son ... and the usual race agitators will bemoan the fact that this poor child had great expectations in life, if only whitey had not squelched his talents.

And as silly as that sounds, if little barry bassturd boy needs more distraction from the criminal acts he is perpetrating to destroy America, his strawboss holder will hype this to the max, even sending unJustice dept. monies down NO way to foment more unrest which the regime will exploit by herding black people by their magic thinking.

[bayoublazer]

It has already started. I live in N.O. on the west bank. Local talk show was discussing it. Blacks see it as a white guy killing a black youth. Whites see it as a man protecting his property where he has a child and a pregnant wife. The NOPD has video which shows the youth climbing the fence to gain access to yard. Got a sick feeling the self appointed reverands will be down soon to roil up an already racist group for more contributions to their org’s.

[Jim Noble]

Of course the homeowner is guilty of racial profiling

So what?

Is that a crime in Louisiana?

[MeshugeMikey]

If I had a SON we would LOOK like this CHILD... Rev Al Sharptongue July 28 2013

[kabumpo]

Everyone should remember the sad fate of the idiot white do-gooder from Seattle or Portland, who, in the aftermath of Katrina, opened a small medical clinic in New Orleans with her husband. She was shot and killed answering the door in a 2 a.m. attempted robbery. Left behind a toddler.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Black agitators have been screaming that the Zimmerman verdict now means that it's legal for white people to kill black boys, and Useful Idiots have been repeating thi drivel.

Never mind, that a simple review of the recent news shows that:

The white Hispanic, Aaron Hernandez, has been charged with murder and already convicted in the court of public opinion for killing a young black man;

An old white guy, John Spooner, was just convicted of murder for shooting a black teen in Milwaukee; and

Now the white man in this article is charged with murder for killing a black teen on his property.

The black agitators will not let facts get in their way. They will continue to scream that the Zimmerman verdict (despite all the evidence in Zimmerman's favor) now means that it's legal for non-black to kill black boys. And Useful Idiots will continue to mindlessly parrot the drivel.

[Marcella]

The baby boy had already committed numerous robberies and now he had climbed over a fence to get onto the man’s property. Why do you think he violated the law to enter that man’s fenced yard? He wasn’t going to sit in the yard and have a picnic by himself - he was going to rob that yard or car or house - the owner’s property and could have had a gun to kill those people inside the house.

What did the property owner think at that time: His dog’s bark said there is someone bad there, the man shot one time 30 ft. away from the robber baby boy, and the bullet hit him in the head. Why did the baby boy robber get shot? Because he was trespassing and the homeowner was fearful for his pregnant wife and child.

Moral to stay alive for baby boy robbers: Don’t trespass or you may get shot. Baby boy didn’t think anyone would hurt him so he could rob all he wanted. He was wrong.

[ViLaLuz]

My old neighborhood. Glad I left that crime-riddled rat infested hole.

[9YearLurker]

As likely, hey dad, where’s your parenting?

[GraceG]

This is why you wait there silently until they get their head and shoulders and at the very least waist into the house before you blast them....

What if the homeowner was following biden’s advice.....

[9YearLurker]

I don’t doubt what he was up to, and I don’t know well enough the LA laws to know if the shooting was within its parameters.

Just pointing out some fundamental differences between this and the Trayvon situation in which Zimmerman IMO was on less reasonably questionable grounds IMO. Putting it simply, the evidence shows that Zimmerman’s life was in immediate danger, Trayvon was in the midst of committing a felony, and Zimmerman wasn’t in any position to be able to retreat.

[Graybeard58]

Was he drinking a bottle of iced tea flavored with Guaifenesin?

I have found that stuff to be great for chest congestion.