Posted on 04/23/2018 12:28:21 AM PDT by Trillian
A Greenville, South Carolina, resident smelled a home invasion suspect’s cologne, followed the smell to a closet, and shot the suspect dead. The incident occurred around 8:25 a.m. Friday morning.
Greenville News reports that the woman took her children to school, returned to her residence, and sensed that someone was in her apartment. There was an “unusual smell, an odor, cologne or whatever.”
The woman’s uncle, Douglas Sweeney, said his niece began going room to room in the apartment then opened a closet door and “there he was.” The woman shot the intrusion suspect on the spot.
Responding officers discovered the suspect’s body in the closet of the master bedroom. The suspect was identified as 34-year-old Quentin Ramon Oliver and his cause of death was listed as “a gunshot wound to the chest.”
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Sweet.
Some comments on FR are just hateful.
Note to self: “Before heist, skip the cologne.”
The article presents few facts, but I doubt if this was a righteous shooting. The guy was hiding in a closet and not threatening the woman in any direct way. Once she determined where he was, she should have called the police while keeping her gun on him until they arrived. If he tried to attack her or escape, she would be perfectly entitled to shoot him. Use of force, whether by police or civilians, should be proportional to the danger faced. With a gun on him, she faced little danger. Race was not an issue, both were Black.
SMELL LIKE A DEAD MAN
You're kidding us, right? Then what does she do while she's focused on the phone trying to make the call when he comes charging at her?
LOL. Good point.
Maybe you can parse the meaning of the following ebnoics quote from the funeral home tribute page:
Love u homeboy pcity is gonna miss u so much bro rest on bro tell jugg wassup fam
For Old Spice or Smith&Wesson? :o)
What kind of a shower is that?
A Brut-al end
Ummm, sure. He posed no threat to her?
1. Just a guy who chose to break in AFTER the kids were taken to school when his targeted victim would be all alone.
2. Just a guy who chose to hide within his targeted victim’s master bedroom.
3. Just a guy whose intentions were robbing, raping, torturing, or killing... (take your pick of any combination.)
4. Just a guy whose physical size and physical capabilities would likely easily allow him to over power the smaller unarmed woman.
An intruder in a woman’s home (her bedroom) poses an immediate threat of bodily harm. That IS universally accepted.
She chose a gun, not a phone to protect herself.
Pause and hesitation to locate a phone, place a call, and pray for a speedy response while she held the intruder hostage could have easily resulted in her demise. And what if he had accomplices ready to harm her? How many is she required to hold at bay?
Good Hunting and Great Shooting Lady!
"...unusual smell, an odor, cologne, or whatever..."
In the abstract you are right. But, we don’t live in the abstract. We live in the World. And, here, we know that Mr. Thug has a clan of like minded folks at home. and, I don’t feel the tiniest bit sorry for them. Now, it is possible that momma is a nice church lady with no part in Mr. thug’s life. And, you go on living that dream if it works for you.
It may or may not have been a legal shooting.
But it sure as hell was righteous.
“The article presents few facts, but I doubt if this was a righteous shooting. “
Under the circumstances it is the woman’s call. The DA will likely take into account the disparity of strength between a man and a woman, the fact that he was in her home and the “feared for my life factor”. Barring any romantic relationship between the man and the woman she will almost certainly not be charged.
Some stories have a happy ending….like this one. His funeral home obituary.
He chose poorly …
NO $HIT......
LOL.....
I was thinking it could be the perfect murder. She invites the target of her hate home then kills him. She then lies with this story afterwards.
HA...! I'm of the opinion that ALL of America better wakeup and smell the invaders in our entire nation before it's way too late... We may find ourselves on the wrong of the stick.... :(
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