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Woman fears for life after son kills intruder
Post-Tribune ^ | 12/03/06 | KAREN SNELLING

Posted on 12/05/2006 11:31:20 AM PST by Hazcat

One day after an her son killed one of two intruders who forced his way into her house, a Gary mother says she fears for her life.

"I'm fearful because I don't know who that guy was and I don't know who his people are," she said.

Kevin Scott, 47, of the 2000 block of Central died Friday of multiple gunshot wounds after he announced he was going to kill everyone inside the Tolleston woman's West Garfield home, Detective Sgt. Michael Jackson, said.

The homeowner, a truck driver for the city of Gary, was eating pizza with her 21-year-old son and his friend about 5:40 p.m. Friday when someone knocked on the door.

When her son's friend opened the door to see who it was, two men forced their way and put a gun to his head.

Immediately, her son ran downstairs to grab a gun while she took refuge in a first-floor bedroom.

Scott asked where everyone was and then said he was going to kill everyone there.

That's when her 21-year-old son emerged from the basement and started firing his weapon, striking Scott. The second intruder fled.

Scott was pronounced dead at The Methodist Hospitals in Gary.

Jackson said no charges are being sought in connection with the killing. The detective said the homeowner's son was defending himself and his family during a home invasion.

His mother said neither she nor her son know Scott. They also say they have no idea why their home was targeted.

Contact Karen Snelling at 648-3106 or ksnelling@post-trib.com


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
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To: goldstategop
This family was lucky.

For the moment.

21 posted on 12/05/2006 12:40:13 PM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
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To: Hazcat
Detective Sgt. Michael Jackson


22 posted on 12/05/2006 12:43:02 PM PST by Pest (Attorneys are the larval form of politicians!)
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To: Bonaparte
His mother said neither she nor her son know Scott
her son's friend opened the door to see who it was

No mention about if the "friend" knew Scott?
Why was the friend answering the door, not the resident?

23 posted on 12/05/2006 12:46:09 PM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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To: Hazcat

Gary? your life is in danger if you stay. It is overrun by liberals and your life is worth nothing. Protect yourself and don't rely on the liberals to save your life.


24 posted on 12/05/2006 12:51:00 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Hazcat

Crack or Meth, nothing else really explains the dead intruder's actions.


25 posted on 12/05/2006 12:55:01 PM PST by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Condor51

Gary is where you end up if you get on the Chicago Skyway by mistake. Like anyplace, people DO live there and call it home. Hey--at least they are in Indiana and not Chicago Illinois (<20 miles away).

These folks had the means to resist and are not criminals for doing so. In Chicago, they would have been in jail for the pistol alone.

I hope they take a nice vacation away from Gary.


26 posted on 12/05/2006 1:24:56 PM PST by Neo-Luddite ("Don't believe your own bulls*hit, that's the first sign you're in trouble".)
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To: albie

..and suck it up, Mom! For God's sake, get comfortable with those guns your son could locate immediately and use appropriately!


27 posted on 12/05/2006 1:57:00 PM PST by jagusafr (The proof that we are rightly related to God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I suppose I should have made it crystal clear that I was being sarcastic, but then my comment would have sucked balls by being over-explanatory.


28 posted on 12/05/2006 2:41:02 PM PST by Solamente (Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
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To: Solamente
I suppose I should have made it crystal clear that I was being sarcastic...

I apologize.

29 posted on 12/06/2006 5:39:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Hazcat
That's when her 21-year-old son emerged from the basement and started firing his weapon, striking Scott

Right out of Pulp Fiction, but without all the Divine intervention stuff.

30 posted on 12/06/2006 5:46:08 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: goodnesswins
Yep....I had a great Uncle who was part of a lynch mob (quite accidentally, at age 17 - thought he was out for a joy ride on a Friday night) on the Montana/North Dakota state line......a father and son had murdered a family, and buried them on their farm.....we're awaiting trial in the local jail......they were hung....and NO, they were NOT BLACK! It was frontier justice in the late 1930's....

I have twice been present at lynchings that were very narrowly averted, both in South/Eastern Illinois. In one case the deserving recipient was white, in the other black, and I honestly do not think it made the slightest difference; I'm pretty sure the reaction would have been exactly the same had the perpetrators in either case been switched for the assembled *concerned group of citizens.*

31 posted on 12/07/2006 7:53:07 AM PST by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
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To: Larry Lucido
That's when her 21-year-old son emerged from the basement and started firing his weapon, striking Scott

Right out of Pulp Fiction, but without all the Divine intervention stuff.

Ever see Sean Connery's neat depiction of home defence in the film A Bridge Too Far?


32 posted on 12/07/2006 7:56:16 AM PST by archy (I am General Tso. This is my Chief of Staff, Colonel Sanders....)
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To: goldstategop

Has NBC declared a civil war in Gary yet?


33 posted on 12/07/2006 7:59:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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