In my foyer I'd provide a qucik Japanese lesson:
Posted on 09/12/2005 10:00:30 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Neighbor shoots attacker who beat woman to death
Associated Press
Published September 10 2005
BRISTOL, Conn. -- A Bristol man was arrested Saturday in the fatal attack on a city woman.
Michael Foster, 37, faces several charges including assault, burglary, assault of a person over 60 and possession of a pistol without a permit. Selina Brewster, 36, died in the attack.
Police said Brewster ran screaming into a neighbor's home early Friday morning and was followed by a crow-bar wielding man, later identified as Foster. He allegedly beat Brewster until Victor Ventrello shot him in the head with a .22-caliber rifle he keeps in a closet, police said.
Brewster, a nurse, died on the Ventrellos' floor after fleeing. Police said Foster also beat Brewster's live-in boyfriend, identified as David Fongemie by the Hartford Courant.
Police say the three knew each other, though they did not elaborate.
Foster was airlifted to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center with gunshot wounds to the head and shoulder. He was arrested just before 2 p.m. Saturday.
"We couldn't hold the door closed. He got into the foyer and started beating her with a crowbar," Victor Ventrello, 66, told the Courant in a phone interview from a relative's house Friday afternoon. He said the attacker hit his wife in the arm with the crowbar.
"I told him to stop beating her, or I'm going to get my gun," Ventrello said. "He said 'I got a gun too,' so I went and got the gun. I said 'stop or I'll shoot.' He didn't stop, so I shot him."
The victim's mother, Lynn Fawcett Brewster, said her daughter's death was a bad dream.
"I just can't believe it," Fawcett Brewster said. "She was an angel. She would do anything for anyone."
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One more shot may have finished the job.
Stronger medicine called for!
Never use a 22 when a 45 is called for.
I think I need another cup of coffee.
WTF?
Is this a new kind of "hate crime"?
Anyone beating a woman to death in my foyer would become familiar (for a fraction of a second) with the meaning of "total cerebral avulsion". My closet gun is a 12 gauge stoked with frangible 00 buckshot.
Winner of the worst written story of the day award. I needed to diagram this on a story board to comprehend what occurred.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Exactly what I was wondering. Can we just start executing murderers instead of assigning a jail term based on who the victim is?
You're not kidding. Most of the facts are there but it's as if the "writer" was inspired by Jackson Pollock and threw the words at the story instead of presenting a coherent narrative.
I'm glad you said that I had to go back and read it 3 times. Yet I'm still left wondering how the victim died on the flooe after fleeing and at age 36 how she is considered over 60. Except that I figured that the neighbors wife having been hit on the arm and being at least as old as her husband warranted the extra hate crime againts a geezer charge!
In my foyer I'd provide a qucik Japanese lesson:
WTF??? The time Ventrello wasted by warning the murderer--twice--probably cost Brewster her life. When someone is being beaten with a crowbar in your home, you get your gun and shoot the attacker. There is no time for delays or threats.
And a "quick" spelling lesson to myself. ( D'oh! )
So that's ... Ventrello? The boyfriend? Santa Claus?
That's no exaggeration. I had to read it 3 times before I figured out who was who, and I am STILL not sure I have it right.
Something on the order of a Mossburg 500.
Is that an Oleg Volk photo?
Maybe it carries a longer sentence than murder. I notice that murder isn't listed in the charges.
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