Posted on 02/28/2008 9:08:44 PM PST by metmom
A Georgia man was arrested for murder after he allegedly shot and killed a motorcyclist who he said was following his teenage daughters home from a Target store, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Richard Harold Gear's two daughters, ages 17 and 19, called their 45-year-old father from their cell phones to tell him they were being followed, the paper reported.
When they got home their father was at the end of their driveway with a pistol, police told the newspaper.
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If that’s the case though isn’t the father still guilty of first degree murder?
This story just reeks of white trash stupidity all the way around.
Are they not public roads?Now that you mention it. I don't know, were they?...How is whether they're public roads or not relevant to why you would have to follow someone home before you reported them to the police?...How would you know where home is?
Lots of folks called into Neil Boortz’ show today.Did he say that if we had the Fairtax these things wouldn't happen?
I don’t know what really happened here, but my experience with the police dealing with minor accidents is that they don’t. It would be better for the motorcyclist to deal directly with their insurance company, and it might have been that information he was after.
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I’d say so!! On the one hand, you want to say the father overreacted and should be charged and tried. On the other hand, the jerk (sic) motorcyclist had had some sort of verbal altercation with the girls at the shoppind center parking lot and had FOLLOWED THEM HOME! That’s tantamount to stalking, in fact it IS stalking! Then, instead of driving off into the res tof his life, he ended it by turning around and going back past the house in an act of defiance. Now, one can certainly argue that he “didn’t deserve to get shot and killed”. I would argue that he frightened the girls and that, now knowing where they lived, he could return anytime and kill them, rape them or who knows what.
Hi Paleo!
NOT GUILTY!!!
So true, Heartland! So true!
It sounds like there was a hit and run. Police don’t deal with hit and run in Georgia?
If in fact the cyclist was harassing the teens, they could have called the cops and driven to the local police station . . . and if in fact the cyclist saw them talking on a cell phone he had awfully good reason to suspect the existence of a welcoming committee wherever it turned out that those girls were going.On that basis alone, you'd have to consider this cyclist for a Darwin.
OTOH it certainly sounds suspicious to claim that a cyclist intentionally hit the girls' car - which, in itself, could have been nearly as dangerous to the cyclist as following their car into the lair of said welcoming committee.
Being very protective of my daughters and the guy circles back suggests he plans to endanger them - I intercede.
been riding since '75, it's called "brake-checking". They jabbed the brakes, he then followed them home to get address. No way to write it down on bike. The "girls" didn't call 911, go to a police station, go to bright lit parking lot of 7-11, nope they called dad, Dad then decided not to call Police, not to take girls to safety...he just shoots.
Giving the gun grabbers yet one more reason to whine about how dangerous guns are.
Sorry, the dad was waaaay in the wrong, as were the girls, and sad to say the biker. He'd been better off shaking his head and going to police himself.
IMO he wanted insurance details, to which he was entitled.
The Shooter should get life.
“Shot in the back”, end of story.
That's what happens when you give cell phones to the masses :)
This i what happens when people don’t trust law enforcement to do their job.
Its possible they lived on a dead end street and had to turn around to get back out passing the house twice.
Yup. It’s too bad that a kid lost his life for a poor judgment decision.
I noticed that. I had friends who lived in GA for awhile while he was going to college. They took a wrong turn going somewhere and ended up on some back country road. They made a hasty retreat when they heard gunshots and realized they were getting shot at.
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