11-year-old shoots, kills assailant threatening his grandmother

South Bend Tribune ^ | 2-6-2002 | GWEN O’BRIEN

[chuknospam]

The next time you here the Socialist spew lies about teaching kids about guns, just point them here.

[New Horizon]

Another thread here.

[Valin]

Two points,
1. NEVER bring a knife to a gun fight,
2. Mr. Colt was right.

[AD from SpringBay]

This boy deserves a medal.

[scooter2]

The kid deserves a medal. He probably saved his grandmother's life as well as his own. Plus, he saved the local taxpayers a whole lot of money. One more puke bites the dust. I hope the boy get's over the obvious emotional trauma of taking a life. The kid did what he had to do and thank God he knew how to do it well.

[Rays_Dad]

Nice work son.

[B-A-Grizzley]

If we can save just one child...well the child saved himself and his grandmother...good shooting kid!!

[StriperSniper]

Bang!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Another cancer on society exorcised.

[csvset]

“He’s proud of himself. He feels bad he took a human life. But he didn’t want to lose me."

Good shooting lad.

[chuknospam]

“He hit the bottom of the stairs with the .45 and stood ready stance with the gun,” said Gay with feet spread apart and her hands outstretched as if holding a handgun.

The boy shot one round and hit Murry, 27, in the chest, even though the man was shielding himself with Gay.

“I don’t know how he did that. One shot and he got him. He’s my little hero,” Gay said of the grandson she adopted.

The fifth-grader may not have been just a lucky shot. This is a family that knows guns.

“Before his dad died, they’d go target shooting. He knows they’re not toys and not something to mess with,” Gay said.

This pretty much sums it up!

[teeman8r]

the liberal think will be--- the only reason the knife wielder was there in the first place was to get the guns. if guns were not allowed, then human life would have been saved. the right way to think is-- the scum would have gone someplace else for the guns, and now he is resting with the worms... good work son, and nice aim.

[illbenice]

Bump, for a fairly unbiased story. Great shot kid.

[francisandbeans]

Not to bring anyone down, but does it bother anyone else that this is the child of a woman who is in jail? Don't get me wrong, minus that it is a great story, but if I want to point someone to a pro-gun article I would probably avoid that one because of the picture that was painted.

[phasma proeliator]

It would definitely seem that this boy was well trained.

I'm impressed as hell - and he should be damn proud of himself for doing "what needed to be done".

[jdogbearhunter]

PING

[Cicero]

Killing someone, especially someone you know, isn't a pleasant thing to do, and I imagine the police officer understood that. But it was indeed heroic, and probably necessary. Since the man with the box-cutter was well known to both people, it would seem as if, once he decided to steal the guns, he would in the end have had to kill both witnesses to protect himself from arrest. Probably he was too drunk to think of that ahead of time, but not drunk enough to leave a pair of witnesses behind.

[japaneseghost]

“He did what he had to do. That’s an unfortunate burden for an 11-year-old to have on him,” he said.

I don't think so.