Posted on 06/18/2007 10:15:24 AM PDT by OrangeDaisy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Monday morning police are looking for one of the teens involved in a botched robbery. Three teenagers plotted to rob a home of a 16-year-old peer and his mother.
According to police, one of the teenagers asked to stay the night with the victims, saying that he was having problems at home. The mother and her son agreed to let the young man spend the night.
Once invited into the home the teen left the front door unlocked, and in the middle of the night two other teens barged in with guns. They were armed with a shotgun and pistol.
While demanding money, the parent sneaked away to a back bedroom to call the police. She also called a neighbor. The neighbor, who had his own gun, came over and held the teenagers at gun point in the front yard until police arrived.
"He didn't participate in the robbery per say. He didn't display his pistol inside, and nobody knew he was armed until the officers where actually hand-cuffing him. Then when they were padding him down they found a pistol in his waist-pants," Rich Foley, Metro Police Captain, Rich Foley, said about the teen who talked his way into the house.
Two of the teenagers, which include the one who tricked the victims in letting him inside their home, are in custody as of Monday morning, but one got away.
They knew the perp-he was going to kill them. I am glad this story had a happy ending.
The burglars should be down on their knees thanking the armed neighbor, because if he hadn't shown up they would be serving bids for first-degree murder.
“He didn’t participate in the robbery per say. He didn’t display his pistol inside, and nobody knew he was armed until the officers where actually hand-cuffing him. Then when they were padding him down they found a pistol in his waist-pants,” Rich Foley, Metro Police Captain, Rich Foley, said about the teen who talked his way into the house.”
Per say? Padding him down?
Where are today’s journalists learning to spell?
Not to detract from the happy ending... but where does this news outlet get its writers?
“While demanding money, the parent sneaked away to a back bedroom” (entertaining visual)
“padding him down” (”patting him down” maybe?)
There should be a law specifically addressing those that take advantage of the good-will of another.
People that punish the charitable deserve special punishment.
What are “waist-pants”?
must be they feel a need to distiguish between pants worn at the proper place (around the waist) and pants hanging around or below their toosh.
I don’t know what waist-pants are but I’ll bet you $100 these “teens” wore their pants down significantly lower than their waists.
I suspect the reporter on the scene scribbled a note like "police discovered gun waist pants", and whoever wrote the article from the reporter's notes, just interpreted it literally.
This article is written horribly .
“neighbor BOTCHES robbery attempt” , was the perp a neighbor or do they mean the armed neighbor who foiled the attempted robbery “botched it” ?
Agreed. However government enforced charity such as "The War On Poverty" is designed to be exploited. It even encourages the kind of acts described in this article by eliminating the need to work for the objects of ones desire so if you want it just take it.
This article is written horribly .
I agree. Writer is definatly a product of a U.S. public school education.
Where in Nashville did this happen ? I’d like to know that it WASN’T in my neighborhood.
Here’s one for that Armed Citizen ping list that you keep... and that I would like to be on.
It happened in a subdivision that turns north is off of U.S. 70 near the Wilson County line. It’s a nice well-kept middle income neighborhood. The neighborhood is named either Sherwood Forest or Shiloh. I get them confused. It’s the one where all the streets are named after famous mountains (Matterhorn, Ranier, etc.) The happened on Kilimanjaro Drive.
“padding him down” (”patting him down” maybe?)
No. They’re wrapping him in cotton. He is going to prison and, after all, he is rather delicate.
http://www.wsmv.com/news/13521198/detail.html
Neighbor Rescues Family From Home Invaders
Neighbor Holds Accused Robber, Others Until Police Arrive
Reported By Tressa Bush
POSTED: 10:53 am CDT June 18, 2007
UPDATED: 12:55 pm CDT June 18, 2007
OLD HICKORY, Tenn. — Police said a neighbor in Old Hickory assisted a family who was being terrorized by home invaders early Monday morning.
The incident began when an acquaintance of a boy who lived at a home at 4905 Kilimanjaro Drive asked if he could spend the night.
When the teen arrived at the home, two other juveniles also came along with guns, pushed their way inside and demanded money from the family.
“I heard my son holler, ‘Don’t shoot me. Don’t shoot me,’ and I heard him say, ‘I don’t have any money. I don’t have any money.’ And then I heard a gun cocking,” said the teen’s mother Pam Myatt.
Myatt said that when she went to the room to check on her son, one of the other men held a gun in her face. She said she was able to duck into another bedroom and call her neighbor.
The neighbor, George Alcaide, said he grabbed his gun and ran outside.
“I basically told them to lay down or I’m going to kill you right there where you stand. I clicked back the handgun to let them know that I had one,” he said.
Alcaide said police arrived moments later. He said that was when he noticed that one of the intruders had a gun stuffed in his belt.
“The man’s a hero. If it weren’t for him, the boys, as fast as they could run, they would have been long gone,” Myatt said.
The juvenile that had the gun under his belt was a guest of the Myatts at the time. He has been charged with facilitating a robbery. Another juvenile faces the same charge, police said.
A third juvenile escaped.
No one was hurt and no shots were fired.
Authorities said they believe the incident may have been gang related.
OK, thanks. It sounded like something that would’ve happened in Antioch. Nice to hear it didn’t (but not nice to hear it happened at all).
For that matter, I don't know that I'd call this a "botched" robbery attempt? That term would seem applicable primarily to cases where the failure of the crook was primarily a result of his own incompetence, rather than the good fortune or effective response of his intended target.
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