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Homeowner Shoots, Kills Teen In Backyard After Break-In Attempt
Fox2 Now ^ | Feb 15, 2013 | Cris Regnier and Dan Gray

Posted on 02/16/2013 6:47:30 PM PST by EXCH54FE

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – A teenager is shot to death and his friend is charged with murder, even though he didn’t pull the trigger.

The circuit attorney’s office issued warrants for second degree murder and attempted burglary against 17-year-old Michael Bryant.

Police say Bryant and 15-year-old Demetrius Murphy were trying to break into a home on Tennessee early Friday morning.

Investigators say the 33-year-old homeowner heard them, went outside, and confronted the suspects.

The homeowner then shot and killed Murphy.

The homeowner was questioned, but not arrested.

Under Missouri law, if someone is killed while a felony is being committed, other suspects involved in the crime can be charged with murder. That’s why the accomplice, Michael Bryant, was charged with second degree murder as well as 1st degree attempted burglary.

Murphy’s mother says her son was mentally disabled. She says he was coming back from the store with a friend and she has no idea how he wound up in the backyard of the home.


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1 posted on 02/16/2013 6:47:36 PM PST by EXCH54FE
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>>Murphy’s mother says her son was mentally disabled.

Obviously he was...he tried to rob someone.


2 posted on 02/16/2013 6:50:55 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: EXCH54FE

Don’t do the crime.


3 posted on 02/16/2013 6:51:01 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: EXCH54FE

Was the home owner a white hispanic? Then there might be some trouble.


4 posted on 02/16/2013 6:53:13 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: EXCH54FE

WOW...in OREGON the homeowner would likely be in jail


5 posted on 02/16/2013 6:53:49 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: EXCH54FE

Shoot his mother too!!


6 posted on 02/16/2013 6:53:49 PM PST by dalereed
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To: EXCH54FE
"...15-year-old Demetrius Murphy..."

Typical Greek Irishman.

7 posted on 02/16/2013 6:55:46 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: EXCH54FE

A memo needs to circulate around St. Louis maternity wards that the name Demetrius is now again available for use.


8 posted on 02/16/2013 6:56:02 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: EXCH54FE

A young thug. Too bad the community supports this.


9 posted on 02/16/2013 6:59:48 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

He was turning his life around... 3,2,1...


10 posted on 02/16/2013 7:09:19 PM PST by pingman (Trust a lib? Surely you jest!)
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To: EXCH54FE

Hope the homeowner didn’t use an AR (AKA, “Assault Weapon”) - Missouri Democrats will be coming to take that away from him soon...


11 posted on 02/16/2013 7:16:09 PM PST by grobdriver (Vivere liberi aut mori)
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To: EXCH54FE

The dead perp was 15 years old and mentally disabled. I would guess that he admired his older friend, and just went along with him on the burglary attempt. Probably sounded like an exciting game.

If so, then the police are probably right to charge the older boy as responsible for his murder, because the older boy, who should have known better, led the kid into trouble.


12 posted on 02/16/2013 7:16:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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“She says he was coming back from the store with a friend and she has no idea how he wound up in the backyard of the home.”

Did he go to buy skittles???


13 posted on 02/16/2013 7:21:11 PM PST by vladimir998
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" .. she has no idea how he wound up in the backyard of the home."

Uhhhh ... because he's mentally disabled and hangin' wit' bad people doin' bad things ?

14 posted on 02/16/2013 7:27:29 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: vladimir998

He was probably mistakenly looking for a midnight basketball court.


15 posted on 02/16/2013 7:29:27 PM PST by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: EXCH54FE

Another happy ending.


16 posted on 02/16/2013 7:47:53 PM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: FrdmLvr

Different play, but, same cast.


17 posted on 02/16/2013 7:56:16 PM PST by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Surely you mean Amish.


18 posted on 02/16/2013 8:23:26 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: dalereed

Based on what charge? What about due process and the right to a trial by jury? You know, the constitutional stuff...


19 posted on 02/16/2013 8:29:29 PM PST by mbj
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“Based on what charge? “

Raising a thief!!


20 posted on 02/16/2013 8:33:51 PM PST by dalereed
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