Posted on 04/25/2005 5:52:43 AM PDT by TaxRelief
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-- Police say one person is dead and two others are injured after an apartment break-in early Sunday morning on Mereview Court in southwest Charlotte.
Police say someone kicked down the door of the apartment and several people were inside. The suspect then fired a gun, hitting one person in the chest. That person was taken to Carolinas Medical Center.
Police say someone inside the apartment, who also had a gun, fired a fatal shot that hit the suspect. The suspect died on the back steps.
They say another person inside the apartment was hospitalized with stab wounds.
Police are still investigating
How about calling him the "home invader", the "perpetrator", the "robber", or something a little more descriptive?
Thank God these folks were armed and able to defend themselves before they were all killed.
Is he "dead," or is the "suspect" allegedly dead?
I could be jumping to a conclusion - but this sounds like a gang deal. Maybe not - mre details?
The alleged suspect is purportedly dead......completely and sincerely dead....
And I am NOT kidding!
They usually jump on labeling something "gang-related violence". I'll watch for follow-ups, but I'm guessing this was a genuine home invasion.
I'd be careful before hanging my hat on this as a testament to an armed defense of the home.
This smacks of something a little less innocent than a tenant and his family enjoying dinner...
We need some more facts.
"Suspect" sounds perfectly appropriate to me. They are undoubtedly still conducting an investigation.
Crackhouse, maybe? Drug transaction gone bad with no recourse to a lawsuit?
For argument's sake, let's say they were all drug-addicted losers who owed the "suspect" $100,000 from a drug deal gone bad. Should they then lay back and let themselves be killed?
At the very least, it looks like they brung a knife to a gun fight. The suspect has removed himself from the gene pool.
There's clearly something more going on here. The invader dies on the back steps after shooting someone in the chest, and the second injured person had stab wounds? Who stabbed them? It almost sounds like a domestic of some sort...
You exagerate. The estate of the criminal would only have gotten about 1/2 the residents' assets. The government would have taken the other half.
And justly so. It may have been wrong for the perp to enter the house in so brutish a manner, but it was also wrong for the occupants to respond with violence. Who knows, he might have been an aspiring doctor, poet, or scientist. He might have gone on to discover some miracle cure or written the great American novel, once he'd resolved his issues. We shall never know, his untimely demise robs society--that is each and every one of us-- of those benefits
They should have gone to conflict resolution two work it out. Two wrongs don't make a right, three wrongs do.(sarcasm)
Now is this any way to treat a house guest?
Yes, same thought. Could well be a drug thing.
"This smacks of something a little less innocent than a tenant and his family enjoying dinner..."
So what? If someone kicks a door down and shoots someone in the chest, he deserves to be shot dead. I don't care what the circumstances are. The apartment dwellers could all be dangerous escaped convicts for all I care. They still have the right to defend themselves.
The four-to-one decision, read by Chief Justice Frank F. Drowota, declares that citizens have the right to "strike, with an open hand, any and all persons, be it male or female, of sound mind and without distinguishable handicap, if that person or persons shall say or do something that would, by most accounts, be considered ignorant, arrogant, overtly feminine, hypersensitive, or whiny."
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I agree with both of you.
I'd hate to see this situation used as a poster-child for home defense, though, given the facts related here.
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