Posted on 03/02/2013 7:41:23 AM PST by EXCH54FE
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The grandmother of a man shot in killed Wednesday outside a Dollar General Store in East Knoxville is sharing her thoughts on the incident and how her grandson will be remembered.
Wednesday night just before 8 p.m. there was a shootout between a robber and a store manager.
According to the Knoxville Police Department, an armed robber went into the Dollar General Store on Asheville Highway and the robber demanded money from the store's safe.
The store manager complied. The shooting occurred seconds later outside the store. The shooting happened in front of the store in the parking lot.
Multiple shots were fired. The robber was killed. As of now, police are not revealing the shooting victim's identity.
Mary Robinson is the grandmother of the robbery suspect. She found out her grandson had been killed two hours after the shooting occurred.
"Oh the pain, I can't describe the pain when they told me that. I just froze I couldn't do nothing, I just froze," said Robinson.
According to the Knoxville Police Department, the armed robber did get money from the store, but then only a few seconds after the robbery both the store manager and the robber went outside when an altercation occurred.
The robber was shot, then ran away. His body was found a block and a half away on Holston Drive.
The robbery suspect's grandmother wishes the store manager didn't shoot.
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Chances are probably good that it will be life. On the other hand, what if it is death.
In a situation like this, I'd assume the worst — shoot and ask questions later.
There are three traditional aggravations in this story:
1) “I felt like he shouldn’t have done it (shot her grandson). He should have left everything up to the police,” said Robinson.
2) Police recommend people give the robber what they want. “It’s certainly not worth losing your life over $20, $30, $100 or so, so we always tell people to comply.”
3) Isaacs also says you are not entitled to use deadly force if you are not in imminent danger.
From an Arizona point of view, only the grandmother’s opinion deserves any respect, but only from the point of view that she would be expected to prefer a live grandson to a dead one, no matter how heinous his crimes.
Of course it is not worth losing your life over $20, $30, or $100. But it is fine and dandy if the armed robber loses *his* life for the cost of a few bullets. It is not fair to the taxpayer that he should deprive them of a million dollars or two by his upkeep for a decade or more. His life isn’t worth a fraction of that.
Finally, HELL YES, you can use lethal force even if your life is not in imminent danger. You can use it in many cases just to prevent a felony. In fact, that is one of the big meanings of the word felony, that it is serious enough to lose your life over.
“At common law when the British and American legal systems divorced in 1776, felonies were crimes for which the punishment was either death or forfeiture of property.”
Granny, no parents I guess, you should have wished he had a Fing JOB. Then this punk wouldn’t have been out robbing people.
The problem — where were mom and dad? Grandparents are limited in what they can do.
However, this is typical of low income, broken families.
She tried her best in a tough situation, but unfortunately she failed.
Same BS advice they gave airline passengers pre-9/11. Comply, everything will be just fine. And the gungrabbers want these “authorities” to be the only people who are armed?
I say “Let’s roll !!!”
Agreed. Where were mom and dad? They created this monster spawn. The grandma tried to keep him from the dark side.
///The grandmother of a man shot in killed Wednesday outside a Dollar General Store in East Knoxville is sharing her thoughts on the incident and how her grandson will be remembered.
He will be remembered as a turd.
Mary Robinson? Maybe this really is Obama's son.
Unless the church was Black Liberation Theology based.
No sense of shame in our Obama underclass. You would think a relative would be ashamed to even talk about a young man who has used the threat of force to take something that was not his. Is there any hope for this crowd?
I wish grandma had taught her grandson right from wrong.
All I have to say to her is... that's one, grandma. Better get busy on the others before you lose them, too.
I doubt it. The perp had a criminal record but it didn't stop him from doing it again. The longer the individual gets away with criminal behavior, the more emboldened they become. They never think of the possibility of dying or getting arrested prior to, or during the criminal act. They think they're invincible. The article said the manager's identity has been withheld. I wonder if he is white or black. Chances are, the people who go to that store know the manager by sight. I hope he isn't targeted by one of the morons in the neighborhood.
Grandma looks a little like Maxine Waters.
Grandma, he's going to be remembered as a stupid low-life thug who tried to kill a store manager. Now he daid.
Give the manager a medal. He’s a hero.
No. If you break into my house and use no force against me, I will still shoot you or attempt to beat the crap out of you.
These criminals are going to be unionized pretty soon
Really? You think that won't encourage them to keep coming back?
What if they want your daughter? Should you leave the window unlocked for them?
Picky Picky/s
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