He's DEAD, Jim!
Posted on 02/21/2007 6:25:44 AM PST by Rodney King
16-year-old kills home intruder Police say teen ID'd masked, unarmed man as high school acquaintance
By KATHY JEFCOATS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/21/07
Clayton County police said a 16-year-old boy was "in fear for his life" Tuesday morning when he shot and killed a masked, unarmed intruder who broke into his Riverdale home.
Interim Chief Jeff Turner said the alleged shooter, identified by neighbors as Wes Stephens, has not been charged in the shooting on Camp Road, off Flat Shoals Road near the Fulton County line.
Stephens told police he heard a window break about 11:30 a.m. in the garage of the house he shares with his parents.
"He got his father's pistol, a semiautomatic, and fired multiple times," Turner said. "The intruder went to some lengths to disguise himself, wearing black clothes and a black bandanna across his face."
After shooting the intruder in the garage, Stephens recognized the man as Marques Karun McGhee, 19, of Riverdale, a former North Clayton High School acquaintance, Turner said.
Wes Stephens' father, Wesley Howard Stephens, had withdrawn his son from North Clayton High School because of danger caused by gangs, Turner said.
Turner said police are looking for a second person who may have dropped McGhee off on Camp Road, a mostly black neighborhood of modest ranch homes on 1- and 2-acre lots, and then fled when shots were fired.
Obscene graffiti with racial overtones directed toward "Wes" is sprayed in white paint on the road in front of the Stephens home and along Camp Road. Stephens is white, McGhee black.
Neighbors Dan and Linda Harris said the graffiti showed up about 45 days ago.
"I don't know if it's gangs, a black and white thing or just stupidity," Dan Harris said. "I know we've known Wes since he was a little boy, he used to swim in our pool and we've never had any trouble out of him."
Turner said police are looking into claims that McGhee was a member of the Hit Squad, a local gang that figured prominently in the July 2004 shooting death of a toddler inside a Riverdale park.
McGhee was not a suspect in that shooting.
Clayton County court records show McGhee had two outstanding criminal cases — one involving misdemeanor possession of marijuana, the other a felony charge of theft by receiving stolen property.
'Doncha' just love happy endings? :-)
Nope--other way around.
And frankly, I needed to know the racial makeup? Bad guy breaks into house, good kid defends home and shoots bad guy dead.
End of freakin story.
Carolyn
CWAJGA? ROTFLMAO!
"RTFA" is a fracking JOKE, lighten up. There is a well known acronym "RTFM" (Read The F***ing Manual) directed at people who seek help or ask questions without doing the most basic thing first.
So "RTFA" would/should be instantly recognized as "Read The F***ing Article".
BTW, acronyms are hardly for "Freeper elites", most of them are common sense and way older than the internet.
Just a device to keep vulgarity out of print in a place where it doesn't belong, yet persons with thirty years of reading acronyms or with their minds always slightly in the gutter have no trouble with it.
I know Snafu, Radar and Laser too!
See #45. Very funny.
So now that I understand what RTFA I will have to say that you must be somekind of jerk.
"Stephens is white, McGhee black"
There has been some progress. The media actually stated the races when the perp was a member of a protected, specially priviliged group!
However, the media are always ready to stir up racial animosity, and this may be their intent.
Another ignorant jerk.
What an age we live in. /sarc
carolyn
1st, it is standard internet jargon. 2nd, you went and posted without even reading the article, and I am the jerk?
This is rich. Dustbunny posts without reading the article and then calls you ignorant, of all things, for telling him to read the article.
He's DEAD, Jim!
It was the way he told me to read the article, I had no idea what 'RTFA' stood for. I did not see in the article where it said that the shooter was black and the shootee was white.
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