Posted on 07/21/2015 2:50:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Target Suing 4 Men Who Stopped Knife-Wielding Attacker on Stabbing Spree Michael Turner and his three friends stopped a mentally ill man inside a Pittsburgh Target store after he stabbed a 16-year-old girl, but now the retail chain is suing them.
Two years ago, Michael Turner went after a homeless, mentally ill Pittsburgh man who stabbed his friend Jobe Wright in the shoulder for no apparent reason.
Turner and his three friends—Wright, Roland Smith and Tyreek Walker—learned that the man, 41-year-old Leon Walls, had gone inside a nearby Target, so they went inside to find the man and hold him there until police came.
"I entered Target, I run up the escalator, I make a right; that's when I encountered Walls in the store," Turner told CBS Pittsburgh.
Turner says that when he and his friends confronted Walls, the man grabbed 16-year-old Allison Meadows and threatened to stab her.
"He grabbed a little girl. He didn't stab her at that point. He was talking, saying ... he was trying to get out the store, and Jobe told him, 'You're not going nowhere 'til the police come,' " Turner told the news station. "And that's when he started saying, 'Y'all think I'm playing, y'all think I'm playing. I'm not playing.' And he stabbed her the first time. Then he stabs her again."
Turner and his three friends jumped Walls, stopping him from inflicting further damage. The police arrested Walls, who was found guilty but mentally ill.
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What officer?
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Your title has nothing to do with the story.
You’ve got a title/story mismatch going here...
Isn’t The Root site run by obama’s buddy Gates?
Hey, the stabber was only exercising his mentally ill privileges on the stabee. Besides, don’t the store be named “target”?
Another case of a black male attacking a white female.
Hmmm. Must have been an FR glitch?
Story matches fine now. Maybe the mods caught it/fixed it.
Anywhoo. I think Target might have HAD to sue. Their insurance regulations might be the reason. Who knows?
He reposted it.
I wonder if they were forced to sue because of insurance?
Wait, in this case a three black males SAVED a white female.
Wouldn’t that be some strange stuff...
I saw that.
Hoo boy!
Ya know... if ya mess up - alert the mods. They can (and did) fix this stuff.
So they chased the guy into the store, re-initiated the confrontation, and during that confrontation he stabbed another shopper? I don’t know if they should be sued, but they clearly misplayed the hand. The point of going after guys like that is to NOT let them injure more people. Turning it into a hostage situation where somebody gets hurt really isn’t helping.
“We have sued Target because they failed to keep Allison safe,” said the attorney for Meadows
In a nutshell, right here is the problem. It is not anyone’s job but your own to keep yourself safe.
The lawyer should be taken out back and beaten
I don’t think the article gives enough info to fully understand what happened. At least they stopped the girl from being stabbed. This guy could have hurt someone anyway.
Don’t you think Target should have a sign that says,
“Absolutely No Crazy Stabbers Allowed Entry.”
Well we don’t know what happened before. But the article makes it pretty clear he grabbed the girl after they confronted him, threatened to stab her unless they let him go, they didn’t, so he did. So no they most definitely did NOT stop the girl from being stabbed.
Suppose they did not go after the guy in the store and he then started stabbing people at random anyway? They were there and you were not.It seems to me it was making the best of a really shitty situation and I’m so glad the little girl is ok. Target needs their ass sued off for this.
A Target with an escalator? Shazaam!
I still wouldn’t go.
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