Posted on 10/10/2006 3:28:17 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
14-year-old fires once, hits man in head
Police said a 14-year-old boy was defending himself and his mother when he shot and killed an intruder Monday afternoon at their home on Ocean Drive.
Capt. John Houston said the 14-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was home from school after becoming ill, and his 46-year-old mother, Rose Ann Kozlowski, had just returned from the grocery store when she was confronted by a man with a knife.
Cmdr. Jesse Garcia confirmed during a news conference that police received a call from one of the residents of 4221 Ocean Drive at 12:55 p.m. and responded to a report of a man tying them up and holding them at knifepoint.
The man, only identified as a black man in his 30s or 40s, led the mother and son to the upstairs master bedroom, where he bound their hands with men's ties and ransacked the house for valuables.
"He packed up her SUV in the garage with those items. He threatened to kill them repeatedly," Houston said.
After the robber caught the woman trying to untie herself once, she was able to free herself and her son and find her husband's pistol in a security box under the bed. She tried to shut double doors to the bedroom as the man tried to push them open and her son held the gun.
"She was using all her strength to push them," Houston said, adding that the boy aimed at the man through a space in the door and fired one shot.
"He shot once and hit him in the head, killing him instantly," Houston said. "He took a life-saving measure to save his mother and himself."
Soon after the incident, police cars lined Ocean Drive near the house, which is between Ocean View Place and Aberdeen Avenue, and neighbors stood nearby watching officers investigate.
Houston said police also are investigating the possibility the man had an accomplice because neighbors reported seeing two black men in a green 1970s four-door sedan, possibly a Lincoln Continental, driving slowly around the neighborhood a couple hours before the incident.
There is also a poll to Freep associated with this story.
Do you keep a gun in your home for protection?(1) Yes
64.2 % (224)(2) No
28.9 % (101)(3) No, but I will now 6.9 % (24)
Link to poll!
Wow only 9 posts in between this one and the same one below!
This must be a series story to get such a Hugh amount of duplicate postings!
Nice shot under stress. Bummer that they have to clean up after the Sh!thead.
the link dosent work...you have to go to the news source URL in the body of the thread to do it correctly.
This is really scary. This home invasion happened less than a mile from my parents' home.
I just hope that no one manages to make the boy feel bad about his actions. I'm sure there are people just waiting to tell him how he "really shouldn't have taken this on himself," etc.
Kid should get a medal.
I forgot. You have to be registered with the Caller-Times website to read their stories. Someone has a website with accounts and passwords to most of the news websites in the US. Hopefully someone will post a link to it.
That's the law most places. Case closed.
This is the website to bypass registrations:
http://www.bugmenot.com/
I am sure that the kid doesn't want a medal. Either he is cool with this, or he is haunted. If the former, he is just thinking he did what he had to do. If the latter, he needs to get with a police counselor to walk him through this.
Here in East Texas our kids have their own guns. This isn't a good place to be pulling dumb stunts like the dead criminal in the story tried.
bugmenot.com
Thanks.
According to this website, here is one to try.
Username: buggerhead@yahoo.com
Password: buggers
Threatening to kill them once is bad enough. He deserved to die for threatening to kill them repeatedly.
posted, sans poll:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716559/posts
(yesterday)
Hey that's cool thanks. Got any more?
That one is from a TV station's website and had fewer details.
So does this plugin automatically retrieve an account and password for a webssite requesting a password? How does Firefox compare with Netscape? I normally surf with Opera. How is it better than Opera?
Effective?
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