"IDOLATOR! You soul is required in Hell!"
Chasing them down is double murder anywhere.
This part of the article is too good not to share:
“Johnson [one of the carjackers], “a loving, caring, brother,” became the father of a boy last month, said his sister, Yanique Johnson, 26.
“The unidentified Mercedes driver was taken into custody and has been uncooperative, cops sources said.”
The victim is probably toast for having an unregistered weapon and no license to have it.
What he should have done is flee when his task was completed.
Amish steal cars in NYC? Who knew?
Johnson, “a loving, caring, brother,” became the father of a boy last month, said his sister, Yanique Johnson, 26.
Why the %^@#$! was he in an attempted armed car jacking then?
This is how justice should be handed out. On the spot, only cost is the clean-up, end of story.
Stupid and dead perps—should have taken Janis Joplin’s advice instead.
Jermaine Johnson and Kaiison Lewis
Nah, nutin but good old white Lutheran names there.
Wait a minute. Why were they trying to steal a car if they already had one.
Oh. Right. They like to perform good deeds anonymously.
The thing that struck me about the article is the emphasis on the brand of car. Yeah, some Mercedes-Benzes are expensive, so perhaps more worth car-jacking/fighting over. I drove one for my formewr employer for a while (s-class). This $75,000 (early ‘90s) car had the hardest plastic seats since the Honda Del Sol, the type you find stacked in a public school auditorium.
Why do you never see “Dodge driver turns tables on carjackers, shoots both men dead...”?
I’m going to love reading more comments from the relatives of these two dead idiots about how they were turning their lives around and were valued members of society.
carjacking was an “act of love” - Jeb Bush
...the libs will no doubt send him away for life for double homicide....
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Based on this excerpt, sounds like homicide to me.
Time to reread Bonfire of the Vanities
Without condoning it, what do you suspose would happen to the crime rate if laws were changed from “stand your ground” to “search and destroy”?
"IDOLATOR! You soul is required in Hell!"
On the one hand, this means there are 2 less criminals running around mugging people. However, the man did actually commit double homicide—he killed two men, which is the definition of double homicide. The question is whether it was justifiable homicide or not. At least based on the “facts” presented by the new report, it was not justifiable homicide since the carjackers were in the process of fleeing the scene, meaning that the threat to the citizen had passed.
Is it possible that there were extenuating circumstances that would have given him justification for chasing them down? Yes. Maybe they stole his wallet and keys and said something about breaking into his home and hurting his family. Maybe they gave him reason to believe that they would carjack someone else that night and hurt them. Maybe he has a basis for a temporary insanity plea due to the trauma of being attacked and almost carjacked—”I just lost my mind, officer! I didn’t know what I was doing!”
Any of those and more are possibilities, but we can’t know for certain without more facts.
If this part of the article is true, "Johnson and Lewis, who both lived in Mount Vernon, N.Y., tried to steal the SUV at gunpoint", I have no problem personally, at all, with what he did.
Thugs play by jungle rules, time we start playing by jungle rules too, it's eventually going to come to that.
Victim of attempted carjacking charged with murder for killing would-be thieves
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Jeffrey Pierre, 33, who has prior arrests for robbery and marijuana, was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon Saturday, cops said.
Pierre? Haitian ? Pure speculation on my part.
Queue Seinfeld Donna Chang.
Memo to self: If you ever decide to go carjacking in the Bronx in the wee hours...bring a weapon.
From the
Mr. Pierre was armed with a Smith & Wesson handgun when he went to get food at a deli near his home around 4:40 a.m. Friday, the police said.
So when the two men, Jermaine Johnson, 28, and Kaiison Lewis, 23, climbed into his Mercedes as he stood outside, Mr. Pierre did not hesitate to jump into the back seat, gun drawn, to confront them, the police said, describing surveillance video and witness accounts.
After a brief, close-quarter confrontation in the car, the two would-be assailants ran back to their parked Acura sedan, with Mr. Pierre in pursuit, the police said. He fired several times into the car, the police said, killing Mr. Johnson and Mr. Lewis, who was seated in the passenger seat with bullets in his pocket and a 9-millimeter handgun nearby.
Detectives said they believed that the men were not strangers to one another and that the attempted robbery might have stemmed from an earlier, unspecified affront.
From News 12 (Video at link:)
Candlelight vigil held in New Rochelle for 23-year-old Kaiison Lewis, fatally shot in Bronx
Also from News 12
Authorities say they have taken surveillance footage from a nearby gas station to aid in their investigation.