Posted on 07/18/2012 7:43:30 AM PDT by kevcol
Through media collaboration, The Taos News has learned that a 19-year-old man is clinging to life in a Santa Fe hospital after he was shot six times during a robbery Monday morning (July 16).
The Taos County Sheriff's Office failed to return a dozen phone calls from The Taos News about the incident. In addition, no report has been filed and no arrest made in the incident that occurred on Blueberry Hill Road — the same neighborhood where The Taos News reported last week that residents were turned away when asked for an investigation into a series of early morning break-ins over the past year.
According to KRQE News 13, 19-year-old Robert Carpenter was shot six times in the chest and torso area after he returned to the scene of a robbery between 5 and 6 a.m. Carpenter knocked on the door of an undisclosed house and robbed the homeowner at gunpoint, taking $150 worth of marijuana. [The homeowner had a license for medical marijuana.]
But Carpenter then, for unknown reasons, returned to the house and, finding the doors locked and the homeowner unwilling to answer the door, stuck his gun through the home's dog door. The homeowner — whose identity is not being released — then shot Carpenter six times.
Carpenter is currently being treated for his wounds in the ICU ward of St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe.
The Taos News published a report in its July 5 edition that residents of Blueberry Hill and the Las Colonias area were angry with the sheriff's office for what they viewed to be a lack of response to a number of break-ins last fall.
Homeowner Carolyn Johnson, whose home was burglarized through forced entry in October, told The Taos News that when residents asked about the lack of response at a homeowner's association meeting, officers from the department told her "This isn't 'CSI,' ma'am."
The Taos County Sheriff's Office has yet to respond to The Taos News' records request about how many homes had been burglarized.
Oh wait, that's my gun. Of course the perps rarely get past the Claymores lining the garden path from the alligator-moat.
Dude, who frickin' cares? For homebodies, hittin' the perp is far more important than fashionable big bores and hot rounds. A double-tap from your trusty .32 is way better than a miss from your .44 Magnum, plus the .44 miss is liable to go through the wall and kill the neighbor's pooch..
Good ladies gun? 32 H&R Mag, or 327 Mag. Manageable recoil encourages target practice. BTW, how did the perp know the homeowner was a medical marijuana user? Get me Miss Marple. More here than meets the eye.
BTW, Taos ain't had a good sheriff since Elfego Baca died. He was a Republican. This Romero sounds like your typical affirmmative action nincompoop anchor baby LEO that now infests La Zona de Tolerancia aka the border states.
Baca lived in Southern New Mexico. Close; but no cigar.
Not sure; but the word got out somehow.
Well, he should have lived in Taos.
I don’t think he deserves a hoodie. If he’d put the thug down, trayvoned him, I’d agree.
Ok, ok....but if we’re talking punch-through...I’ve got some 30’06 black tips that will punch through a telephone pole.
Guy was a good shot apparently and should be congratulated. I just know from experience about doors, furniture (2” soaked/treated Cargo Furniture) that some rounds will penetrate better than others, that’s all. I agree a wounded perp is better than none at all.....I’m just sorry about the wasted energy of keeping him alive.
I also agree about the marijuana...something funny here.
Perhaps you're right. What do you think of a smaller prize, like an Obama Tee Shirt? They're cheaper, too!
With any luck this will result in a nice long slow painful death, or at least lifelong paralysis
Congradulations to the homeowner on nipping another aspiring criminal career in the bud.
Media: "Why did you shoot him 6 times?"
Homeowner: "Because that's all I had"
There’s still Hope the perp’s status could Change...
OBTW for those in the liberal NorthEast What if the Sheriff's family has lived
here for over four hundred years ?
A Sheriff is an elected official.
It’s the oldest constitutional office in a state.
I wouldn’t take the chance of insulting the man like that.
When the citizenry can’t depend on the criminal justice system to take care of the problem they’ll just take care of business themselves.
Sheriff will probably be looking for a job during the next election.
The perp more than likely won’t be a recidivist if he survives and absolutely not a recidivist if he passes away.
The local crime rate will probably drop steeply now. I see more local Taos residents purchasing firearms. Whether it is Obama or the local thug, they both motivate the law-abiding to become armed.
No charges against the homeowner protecting his property. Chandra is the AA. Unless there is a written statement, The Sheriff did exactly what I expected him to do.
The Perp will be charged, if he lives.
she always gets the story wrong.
You really think that inept and ineffectual sheriff will get re-elected?
Based on inaccurate reporting ?Why do think this ?
Five wasn’t enough and seven would have been too much.
From another article it noted that the perp stole $150 and *medical marijuana* from the homeowner, who is licensed to have it.
“...the same neighborhood where The Taos News reported last week that residents were turned away when asked for an investigation into a series of early morning break-ins over the past year.”
If there is any truth to this the sheriff will be looking for a new job.
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