Posted on 11/18/2024 7:41:07 AM PST by marktwain
On May 3, 2024, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier shot and killed a Chechen national. The incident occurred at the soldier’s rural home, about 15 miles from Fort Bragg (Liberty), North Carolina, after sunset. Sunset on May 3, 2024, occurred at 8:03 p.m. The initial 911 call to police was placed at 8:12 p.m. The shooting occurred shortly after 8:25 p.m.
The soldier’s wife was outside their residence with their children when she noticed a man dressed in a burgundy t-shirt, black shorts, and flip-flops who appeared to be taking pictures of her house, children, and herself. She informed her husband, who approached the individual to speak with them. There was a language barrier. The soldier asked the individual to leave. The individual became aggressive and refused to leave. The soldier retrieved a handgun from his home and returned to ensure his family’s safety. Another, more urgent call was made to 911 at 8:25 p.m. From the sheriff’s report, released on August 12, 2024:
The person shot was identified as Ramzan Daraev, a Chechnya national who had crossed the Southern border on December 16, 2022.The confrontation escalated when Daraev reportedly became agitated and lunged at the homeowner after repeatedly refusing to leave the property. The homeowner reported firing several shots in response to Daraev’s advance. Under the North Carolina Castle Doctrine, the homeowner’s actions are protected, providing legal justification for using defensive force.Investigators uncovered that the only identification associated with Daraev was an International Driver’s License found in his Chevrolet Spark, which was parked along Dowd Road and registered to him out of Chicago, Illinois. No items identifying him as a utility worker were found on his person or in his vehicle.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
I hope the Trump administration investigates this weird case. I suspect the Biden administration dropped the ball on it.
The Biden Administration dropped the ball on it when this guy illegally crossed the border.
Did any pay Social Security taxes? Were they working illegally? Was this an intelligence gathering operation?
The whole thing smells, and you wonder how much more is beneath the tip of this iceberg.
I wouldn’t exactly say the Biden administration “dropped the ball” here. More like “launched the ball to Pluto”.
First, he did his job as a soldier in defending these United States and his job as a husband and father in defending his family.
Second, though ... WTF is going on with Chechnyans crossing the border illegally? How did he get to be south of our southern border? Last time I checked, Chechnya was NOT in South America. Somebody paid good money to transport the late unlamented SOB across seas to Mexico.
Exactly. If you’re working for a utility and snooping around taking pictures and such, you better be easily identifiable, have documentation and ID ready to go. Several years ago a guy came onto my property and from the woods, looking at things, taking pictures of our power pole. He was dressed in bright orange, had a backpack with a GPS antenna, camera, hard hat; still made me testy.
Purportedly a utility worker, without ID or uniform. Also spoke no English.
I deal with ROW and whatnot on surface for oil and gas all the time. Before we send anyone, anywhere, the surface owner gets a letter or two that we are coming. If we have numbers to call, they are called.
The workers are in uniform, speak English AND Spanish, have a lanyard ID with a photo, go tell the ranch foreman they are coming, go knock on the door of any house, drop a letter and a business card, and ONLY THEN proceed to do their work, generally the next day or so.
We also only hire clean-cut, normal-looking, people to do this job. Prefer teams of two females, if possible, as they are less threatening.
And this is with ranchers and landowners that know oil infrastructure is all over the place and has the right to walk about.
The only people at fault are the utility company and the idiot worker for doing a job like that and not speaking English.
And, tangentially, looking forward to the name of his post being changed back to Fort Bragg, as Trump has promised
The person shot was identified as Ramzan Daraev, a Chechnya national who had crossed the Southern border on December 16, 2022. Daraev was employed by a subcontractor of Utilities One named Cable Warriors. Utilities One is based in New Jersey and is run by CEO Serghei Busmachiu. Serghei Busmachiu is an immigrant from Moldova.
An investigation by the Moore County Sheriff’s Office indicates other members of the subcontractor routinely took pictures and did surveys of utility lines in the area after dark, without any identifying uniforms or clothing and without notifying homeowners of the nature of their work. The work was explained as a legitimate survey prior to installation of fiber optic services.
The only item in Daraev’s possession was the cell phone he was taking pictures with. The sheriff’s office had not been able to unlock the cell phone at the time the report was written, but had made the phone and other evidence available to the FBI and the Army Criminal Investigative Division. Some images from Daraev’s phone were able to be retrieved from a Russian cloud server.
The operation is so far out of the ordinary, it begs to be investigated.
The really weird thing is, all Ramzan Daraev had to do to survive, was walk away. Instead, he had to charge at an armed property owner, on his own property, defending his family.
To me, it looks like an intelligence gathering operation.
Great points all. Lots of Administration fail all around, starting with the lack of border control.
But we spent lots of DOJ/FBI time on parents criticizing school boards/systems at school board meetings about their alphabet people policies! And what is really important here?
Me, too. A real cheap one.
Chechnyan’s intelligence got splattered all over the front lawn. Pity the homeowner didn’t have a pig to gather it all up.
How many hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands are still out there?
“The really weird thing is, all Ramzan Daraev had to do to survive, was walk away. Instead, he had to charge at an armed property owner, on his own property, defending his family.”
Par for the course for some idiot utility workers, actually.
Many are extremely heavy handed.
While my company does the exact opposite (described above), there are plenty that put their people in jeopardy like this. They frequently hire teams of people to move in front of pipelines (or utility lines) and who act like complete asshats.
My favorite story is the Targa crew that got their truck destroyed by cape buffalos being raised in a high fence area after being told not to go into the field. (Cape Buf are extremely mean animals raised for exotic hunting.)
“Pity the homeowner didn’t have a pig to gather it all up.”
I don’t think pigs are very good at “gathering up”, but they’d be able to recycle the material very effectively.
Sending a guy not in uniform with no ID or forewarning to do utility work is absolutely insane, but happens all the time.
The scummiest workers in the oilfield are the midstream/utility people. They are all fly by night dirtbags, though, so this doesn’t surprise me.
There is an important point that is not discussed here.
North Carolina law specifically refuses to allow a self defense plea in the event you leave the person attacking.or if he leaves you, and you leave for the purpose of obtaining a weapon.
I am not a lawyer, but I have read of several cases in this state where leaving and returning with a weapon resulted in a murder conviction.
Maybe the wife and children were not easily removed from the danger zone....that is not discussed and would make a big difference, but based on the facts given in the story, the shooter is very lucky that he did not have to face a hanging judge and jury.NC law is very clear that once you leave the scene, you must not return as you are considered to be out of danger long enough to wait for the cops.
The lack of a weapon on the body would have been a clincher in court.
I am not attacking, criticizing or in any way blaming the shooter. I am only pointing out that quoting the castle law is a serious error because the castle law does not allow you to break any other NC law and I wish to remind everyone who goes armed in NC to be aware of the legal traps and this particular trap has put quite a few otherwise justified shooiters in prison.
Be very careful.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.