Posted on 03/06/2013 7:23:04 AM PST by Uncle Chip
A teenage boy who had been shot by his grandmother pleaded with a 911 dispatcher to send help as the 75-year-old shot him again, a prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday.
Sandra Layne is on trial for the first-degree murder of her grandson Jonathan Hoffman, 17, whom she is accused of shooting dead on May 18 last year at their shared home in suburban Detroit.
Hoffman 'thought he was safe... Sandra Layne walks up and shoots him again. This time in the stomach,' Paul Walton, Oakland County's chief assistant prosecutor, said during his opening statement today.
Defense attorney Jerome Sabbota countered that the diminutive Layne feared for her safety during the fatal confrontation in the West Bloomfield Township condo that Hoffman shared with his grandparents.
An autopsy revealed Hoffman was shot three times in the chest, once in the abdomen and once in his left arm. Tests showed the teen had traces of synthetic marijuana in his body.
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Real marijuana is safer than that “synthetic” stuff. If on the real stuff, he would have been quite mellow and no threat to granny. All this synthetic garbage will kill you. It’ll take longer than a bullet, but dead is dead.
Sounds like he was no longer a threat but she kept pumping rounds into him.Nine spent 9mm rounds found.Three bullets to chest,one in stomach,and one in left arm.I’m not going to try to defend the grandma,but it sounds like she finally went off the deep end and snapped.She’d called 911 once and i’ll bet there were other incidents as well.Very tragic.I wouldn’t want to be a juror.
Nah, wouldn’t have been ok, but it would have been a lot harder to disprove self defence. As it is, the the evidence of what she did seems to demonstrate that she was motivated more by anger than fear, which makes this an unlawful homicide.
Nah, wouldn’t have been ok, but it would have been a lot harder to disprove self defence. As it is, the the evidence of what she did seems to demonstrate that she was motivated more by anger than fear, which makes this an unlawful homicide.
Nah, wouldn’t have been ok, but it would have been a lot harder to disprove self defence. As it is, the the evidence of what she did seems to demonstrate that she was motivated more by anger than fear, which makes this an unlawful homicide.
I don’t think grandmothers are equipped to handle the juniville delinquent teen grandkids as they are abandoned by their failure face parents. I don’t intend to say that shooting feral family members is okay.
I would be interested to know about this kid and his interaction with granny. Why wasn’t he living with his parents?
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