Posted on 09/13/2006 6:26:45 AM PDT by WKB
The woman who fought back during a carjacking believes her safety may still be at risk. This weekend the Copiah County woman shot and killed the man she said was trying to steal her car and possibly kill her.
It happened around 11:30pm Saturday outside a pool hall on Highway 51 in Copiah County.
Kennya Johnson is still shaken up. Saturday night she was leaving the pool hall in Copiah County when a man approached her, asked for directions, then pulled out a gun.
"I reached over to shut my door from my left, and he had a gun in my face, a silver gun in my face," said Johnson. "He told me to get out. I threw my hands up, and asked him what he wanted and he said, ‘I want to have this car."
Johnson says she offered to give the man her car, but as friends passed by, her attacker told her not to speak out. The gun was still at her chest. Johnson feared for the worst.
"I'm begging him and telling him that I have got kids," said Johnson. "He said, ‘b***h do I look like I have got a heart.' So I knew it was serious at this time."
Luckily, her attacker, Vincent Fleming, 19, of Jackson, got confused. He misheard Johnson and assumed she had a child in the back seat. He allowed her to remove the baby, but she took that opportunity to get her handgun. She reached inside grabbed the gun and shot once. Fleming fell to the ground
"At that time he came up with the gun pointed at me. So I just started back shooting because it was either me or him," said Johnson.
She shot the 19-year-old at about five times. She said three other men picked the teen up off the ground and drove away. He later died at the hospital.
But Johnson still fears retaliation. Johnson said she was told by investigators that one of those three men turned himself in on Sunday. She said he provided investigators with valuable information but was never arrested.
"So that means that there are three guys out there that know me, and I don't know them. Evidently the Sheriff's department is not concerned about my safety," said Johnson.
Johnson believes her 1992 Buick was not what her attacker really wanted. She said he mentioned how much he liked her 22-inch rims.
Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones would not address Kennya Johnson's concerns today. He says the investigation is still ongoing.
I sincerely hope that this lady doesn't run afoul of some career-building AG or state prosecutor who disagrees with this most fundamental of truths.
It will never get pass the Grand Jury stage.
pass =past
"I'm trying to picture 22in rims on a Buick,
.....trying........trying.......not working."
I take it you've never been to MS. :)
"I've only got 18" on my M3"
M3? Color me green with envy. :)
My G6 GTP has 18's, too. Good to know those are too small for the thugs. 22's jack a car up making it look like a 4x4.
(She said he mentioned how much he liked her 22-inch rims.)
He's probably enjoying 72 brand new 22-inch rims in heaven...
She saved 1) tying up the courts, 2) three-hots-and-a-cot costs for the perp for maybe twenty years, and 3) the cost of the chemicals to be pumped into the creep at execution.
Bully for her.
This idea that the police will be there to protect you is a myth. Just because we hire police to administer security does not mean that you give up responsibility or the right of self protection.
Somehow, I don't think she'll have to worry about the other three. They stopped thinking like a gang and started thinking like individuals when their homey received his toe tag.
I wonder if the 'perp was a Katrina "refugee".......
Just damn - The one I saw looked like that only it was jacked up a lot more and it was dark red
The M3 does get up and down the road and around the corners :)
No tickets yet in 4 years of "spirited" driving. Good on me :)
"He misheard Johnson and assumed she had a child in the back seat. He allowed her to remove the baby, but she took that opportunity to get her handgun."
Good for her!
That was very quick thinking.
She quite possibly saved her own life.
BTW, 22 inch rims are honking big!
No wonder he coveted them. ;o)
LOL, I used to work with a lady that popped her physically abusive (black eyes, broken nose, teeth knocked out) ex-husband. The ex would drink himself brave then show up for a round of "thump on Alice".
One day she'd had enough and emptied her .32 in his face. Alice said the cops asked her why she'd shot the guy 6 times and her answer was "Because I didn't have a 7 shooter, motha-******!"
LOL - good for her.
Hear, hear! When the recently room temperature Vincent Fleming pointed a weapon he resigned from the company of those entitled to any considerations of humanity.
I've seen too many lives shattered by violent crime to care a fig about what happens to the perps.
People raped, murdered, robbed, shot, stabbed, concussed, disabled/disfigured for life. People living in fear, people whose families were torn apart.
No, if anything the criminal got too easy an end.
If there is justice in the world, his compatriots will meet similar fates unless they learn from his lesson and quit the path they are apparently on.
Please send this woman to New Orleans and make her chief of police.
Already done long ago. My only worries if I ever have to actually drop the hammer are twofold:
1) The goblin has family and/or friends that will attempt something stupid later on.
2) Some unelected bureaucrat will seize the opportunity to make their career off of my just actions, civilized law and the Rights of Man be damned.
Twice in my life I have successfully defended myself with a firearm. Twice more I have drawn down on friendlies before they ID'd themselves. And on one occasion I talked a nutjob out of his intentions before I had to draw. So I know what I will actually do beyond training, since actual occurrences are the only true way we can be certain as to how we will perform.
Stay well.
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