Posted on 06/18/2015 4:00:14 PM PDT by lowbridge
18-year-old armed robber Tamon J. Stapleton stormed into the the Breadbox and forced the female employee behind the counter and towards the register at 2:30 AM with a gun to her head. One of the employee’s male friends happened to be in his car in front of the Breadbox. He retrieved his legally-owned pistol from his car and ran into the store, firing a single shot that struck Stapleton in the head, killing him.
Believe it or not, Stapleton’s mother Joy is now demanding homicide charges be filed against the man who defended the clerk from her violent thug of a son:
The teen just graduated from Austin-East High School. From his mother’s point of view, things were getting better.
“I don’t care what they say about Tamon’s juvenile charges, the past is the past,” said Stapleton.
She plans to fight for charges against the shooter, but police say the case is closed.
“If the store clerk would have killed him I would have felt different,” said Stapleton. “But because that man came into the store and killed him as he watched this robbery go on…he was not in danger. He could have dialed 911 and then went in to the store. But he didn’t, he just automatically went into the store and shot my son in the head.”
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I assume this picture was taken in the school after the graduation ceremony. Is this the way people dress for a graduation rite now-a-days?
Boom! Headshot!
Go jump in the lake, lady!
Good grief, this woman is dumber than a box of rocks. At some point in her life, she’z probably called 911 to report someone stole her drug money while trying score some rock.
Truly ignert.
Caller: Ambulance, dead body to be removed
I wondered at that, too. Dressing as though they had been cleaning out the garage gives us a clue as to the respect they show for his one accomplishment.
“And lady, if you would have closed your damn legs 18 years ago we wouldn’t be having this pointless discussion.”
Bingo!
“I don’t care what they say about Tamon’s juvenile charges, the past is the past,” said Stapleton.
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His past is really in the past now (where it belongs).
“Mom: Teen killed in store heist was a follower “
Interesting to me because a few years back when my girlfriend’s son was in high school she chewed him up one side and down the other one night for wanting to hang out with a bad seed kid who had gotten into up until that time minor trouble.
She told him he was a follower and the other kid was no good and there was no way she was gonna let him go there.
A few months later the bad seed kid got into a heap of legal trouble.
It’s really a shame he graduated from a school
that stressed common core instead of Natural Sciences like Darwin’s theorem.
He graduated alright....
I too believe the parents should bear some of the repercussions.
Being a numbers cruncher, how did he not estimate the likely LOW total in an overnight cash drawer? After paying 'rent' for the gun, not much left.
About one in ten thousand people do dress like this at graduation ceremonies. Also marriages, funerals, church services etc.
So no, it isn’t commonly accepted behavior.
It does, however, get unmerited attention.
Which is why it was posted.
Well Stapleton.... I for one am glad that your son is dead.
There are many good people in this world that should not have to be victimized by these bugs. Look at it this way mom, his crime days are over and you will never have to say that your son is a murderer.
Breadbox when I worked for them about 25 years ago had a no firearms policy for employees. Not a one of us including the manager abided by it. We were in a bad part of town the second worst store location in Knoxville but we never got robbed. Nothing like having the night clerk thumbing through a firearms magazine to make a thug think twice. When someone suspicious did show up it didn't hurt to let the butt of the revolver be seen. We also gave away free coffee all night to the local blues. But you had to be your own protector. One clerk per shift and BreadBox stores usually are not close to other open stores. When 7/11 left Knoxville Breadbox a Nashville headquartered company bought up the stores.
There was an incident in South/Central Los Angeles in the late Seventies. The owner of a bodega in that neighborhood had two young black men come in and try to rob him. He fired two shots. The first armed robber died on the spot. The second ran half a block before he keeled over dead.
The investigating officer said to the owner, "That's some of the fanciest shooting I've seen in years. Good work."
Knox County schools graduated in May 2015. The clerk was lucky her armed friend was there. If she had been shot she could have likely bled out that time of night before the next customer came in. There's a Wendy's and a car parts store at the intersection the store is at and nothing else. If someone pulls a firearm or a knife on a clerk there is reason to believe they will be shot.
The real tragedy that happened was within a few hundred feet from this store was this school year when two school buses collided and several kids and a school employee died. Now that was true innocents being killed.
I was lucky all I had happen was a beer grab for two 12 packs. I had a night stick for such ocassions and when I got done his friend had a cracked rear window and he had one can of beer LOL. I had a 71 LTD I deliberately parked in front of the door. He ran right into it running out LOL.
The store across the street from us a day store IGA I think got robbed one morning about 9:00am and perp killed a clerk. IMO there are no innocent store robbers and the perps are expendable.
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