Johnny and Lana.
Posted on 09/01/2009 11:03:19 AM PDT by marktwain
No charges have been filed against a 21-year-old man who police say was trying to protect his mother when he fatally stabbed the woman's boyfriend during a fight.
Houston police said the woman's son stabbed Bruce Simmons, 49, about 9:20 p.m. on Friday in the 6300 block of Skyline Drive.
Simmons was taken to Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The case will be referred to a Harris County Grand Jury without charges.
The woman's son, whose name has not been released because no charges have been filed against him, was trying to defend his mother while she and Simmons were having a domestic dispute.
He stabbed Simmons once in the chest.
He and his mother were questioned about the stabbing and then were released.
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This mother shouldn't worry...abusive boyfriends are a dime a dozen, she should be able to find a new one in short order...
Good for the kid.
Didn’t this same scenario happen in Hollywood about forty years ago. Teen aged girl killed the boyfriend of her mother(actress). I can’t remember the names. Also the boyfriend may have been a gangster.
Lana Turner, 1958.
Her daughter stabbed Johnny Stompanato, alleged made guy.
The daughter was Cheryl Crane.
Johnny and Lana.
This I didn’t know:
The tumultuous relationship were marred by Johnny’s overbearing possessiveness of Lana and his abusive nature. During their short relationship he would physically abuse Lana on numerous occasions.
Many times she tried to end the relationship but his charm would win out. In one incident he followed her to England where she was shooting a film with the future James Bond, Sean Connery.
Johnny believed that Connery was making a move on Lana and pulled a gun on him in an attempt to threaten the Scot. In true 007 style Connery took the gun away from Stompanato, beat him up and then threw him off the set. Stompanato was promptly deported for violating the UK gun ban.
Thanks for the pic and the additional background on this incident.
I am glad you gave me cause to look it up.
Kinda cool that 007 kicked his butt!
Who knew Sean was THE man?
Maybe that incident helped to make him the leading candidate for 007 when the first James Bond movie was made just a few years later.
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