Posted on 03/02/2013 7:41:23 AM PST by EXCH54FE
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The grandmother of a man shot in killed Wednesday outside a Dollar General Store in East Knoxville is sharing her thoughts on the incident and how her grandson will be remembered.
Wednesday night just before 8 p.m. there was a shootout between a robber and a store manager.
According to the Knoxville Police Department, an armed robber went into the Dollar General Store on Asheville Highway and the robber demanded money from the store's safe.
The store manager complied. The shooting occurred seconds later outside the store. The shooting happened in front of the store in the parking lot.
Multiple shots were fired. The robber was killed. As of now, police are not revealing the shooting victim's identity.
Mary Robinson is the grandmother of the robbery suspect. She found out her grandson had been killed two hours after the shooting occurred.
"Oh the pain, I can't describe the pain when they told me that. I just froze I couldn't do nothing, I just froze," said Robinson.
According to the Knoxville Police Department, the armed robber did get money from the store, but then only a few seconds after the robbery both the store manager and the robber went outside when an altercation occurred.
The robber was shot, then ran away. His body was found a block and a half away on Holston Drive.
The robbery suspect's grandmother wishes the store manager didn't shoot.
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Yeah, he wanted to be a graphic designer.
Dollar General seems to attract lots of these types. I remember when two robbers were reduced to room temp after robbing a DG not long ago.
Think of all the stores and people that WON’T be robbed because the robbers won’t be around to rob them.
However, living in the south the past two years, I saw much of this. Strong, old-school, mostly in-tact, black families losing their youth to the thug culture.
Empty...just an emptiness in those eyes. Like there is no soul living in him.
Good riddance I say! The store manager should be commended, another little punk off the streets.
Good riddance I say! The store manager should be commended, another little punk off the streets.
I think the vice-prez should be suspended for pointing his fingers in an unsafe direction. Lord know our kids would be suspended from school if they acted so "stupidly" and performed such a stunt!
Where’s mom and dad?
Oh no, he will still be voting for years to come.
To get a good idea of what we Knoxvillians think of subhuman vermin like the one here that (”that” deliberately used instead of “who,” even though I’ll often use “who” in referring to loving, decent dogs) got a permanent dirt nap, just read the comments to the story.
Chances are probably good that it will be life. On the other hand, what if it is death.
In a situation like this, I'd assume the worst — shoot and ask questions later.
There are three traditional aggravations in this story:
1) “I felt like he shouldn’t have done it (shot her grandson). He should have left everything up to the police,” said Robinson.
2) Police recommend people give the robber what they want. “It’s certainly not worth losing your life over $20, $30, $100 or so, so we always tell people to comply.”
3) Isaacs also says you are not entitled to use deadly force if you are not in imminent danger.
From an Arizona point of view, only the grandmother’s opinion deserves any respect, but only from the point of view that she would be expected to prefer a live grandson to a dead one, no matter how heinous his crimes.
Of course it is not worth losing your life over $20, $30, or $100. But it is fine and dandy if the armed robber loses *his* life for the cost of a few bullets. It is not fair to the taxpayer that he should deprive them of a million dollars or two by his upkeep for a decade or more. His life isn’t worth a fraction of that.
Finally, HELL YES, you can use lethal force even if your life is not in imminent danger. You can use it in many cases just to prevent a felony. In fact, that is one of the big meanings of the word felony, that it is serious enough to lose your life over.
“At common law when the British and American legal systems divorced in 1776, felonies were crimes for which the punishment was either death or forfeiture of property.”
Granny, no parents I guess, you should have wished he had a Fing JOB. Then this punk wouldn’t have been out robbing people.
The problem — where were mom and dad? Grandparents are limited in what they can do.
However, this is typical of low income, broken families.
She tried her best in a tough situation, but unfortunately she failed.
Same BS advice they gave airline passengers pre-9/11. Comply, everything will be just fine. And the gungrabbers want these “authorities” to be the only people who are armed?
I say “Let’s roll !!!”
Agreed. Where were mom and dad? They created this monster spawn. The grandma tried to keep him from the dark side.
///The grandmother of a man shot in killed Wednesday outside a Dollar General Store in East Knoxville is sharing her thoughts on the incident and how her grandson will be remembered.
He will be remembered as a turd.
Mary Robinson? Maybe this really is Obama's son.
Unless the church was Black Liberation Theology based.
No sense of shame in our Obama underclass. You would think a relative would be ashamed to even talk about a young man who has used the threat of force to take something that was not his. Is there any hope for this crowd?
I wish grandma had taught her grandson right from wrong.
All I have to say to her is... that's one, grandma. Better get busy on the others before you lose them, too.
I doubt it. The perp had a criminal record but it didn't stop him from doing it again. The longer the individual gets away with criminal behavior, the more emboldened they become. They never think of the possibility of dying or getting arrested prior to, or during the criminal act. They think they're invincible. The article said the manager's identity has been withheld. I wonder if he is white or black. Chances are, the people who go to that store know the manager by sight. I hope he isn't targeted by one of the morons in the neighborhood.
Grandma looks a little like Maxine Waters.
Grandma, he's going to be remembered as a stupid low-life thug who tried to kill a store manager. Now he daid.
Give the manager a medal. He’s a hero.
No. If you break into my house and use no force against me, I will still shoot you or attempt to beat the crap out of you.
These criminals are going to be unionized pretty soon
Really? You think that won't encourage them to keep coming back?
What if they want your daughter? Should you leave the window unlocked for them?
Picky Picky/s
Trady mark is trademarked.
It's time to deport them back to their continent of origin if they commit any felony. They want to claim dual nationalities, let's let them have the benefits of such claims.
We learned all about those churches from Reverend Wright and Farrakhan
But something else was stronger. Peer influence? Public schools? Rap music?....Lack of paternalistic guidance?
The correct phrase is: "He was thinking about going back to school to get his GED and marry one of his baby mammas".
But magically, three more democRAT votes. Many of these misguided yutes are of more value to their community dead than alive.
The store I worked at was also in the neighborhood where the carjacking took place and a mile or two from the double murder torture to follow some have heard about.
I'm glad this guy didn't kill someone. According to our local paper he was becoming more and more agressive in his robberies.
Not necessarily. You know the cemetaries are active on election day.
Pet Peeve....;)
>>But something else was stronger. Peer influence? Public schools? Rap music? Whatever it was, he’s dead.
After teaching 3 years in a 99% black HS, I can say that it’s a lack of a father. My brother in law is black (my sister is white) and he is simply an awesome guy. His father and mother are still married and instilled in him the values that made him the successful father he is today.
The black males that have no father that I taught are listless and looking for SOME male figure to adhere to. Most of them choose whatever rapper is famous at the time because of rap’s false masculinity. Rap tries to act like a man, but a masculine man marries, cares for his kids, and loves his wife.
It’s sad that people can’t see this as vividly as I can.
“a masculine man marries, cares for his kids, and loves his wife.”
Well said.
I disagree unequivocally. Shoot the bastard at the first opportunity; all 17 rounds in the magazine.
He made the decision that his life was worth $20, $30, $100 or so. Who are we to disagree?
I am going to steal that line, even though it made me spit out a mouthful of coffee.
They already are.
You haven't heard of the SEIU?
Lol are we using FSA on FR now? First time I saw it was on arfcom.
Lol are we using FSA on FR now? First time I saw it was on arfcom.
First double post evar I think, oops.
I doubt anyone here would accuse me of being a defender of minorities
But that aint fair
Old woman may have done all she could and may have loved him
Some just go bad....we don’t know
He brought it on hisself no question though
Lol....i just posted sorta same thing without seeing yours
And neither of us are what i would call kneejerk on minority greivance crap
But here we are.....scolding the hardbitten
Are we going soft?
Lol
That's bad news. It implies her genes still propagate via younger siblings.
Be my guest! Happy to be of service...
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