Posted on 04/26/2013 2:39:38 PM PDT by BBell
A 35-year-old single mother came home from her evening criminal justice classes Wednesday about 7:15 p.m. and was startled to see a stranger wearing a hoodie inside her walk-in closet, according to statements she later told police and her family members. Panicked, the woman reportedly grabbed a knife from under her pillow, and stabbed the man several times.
The man died within the hour at a local hospital. The Orleans Parish coroner's office on Thursday identified him as Tyrone Scott, 17.
The family believes Scott hid in the closet at the house in the 3900 block of Gibson Street in Gentilly because he was secretly seeing the woman's underage daughter, who is 15, according to a family member.
The relative requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation; aside from the girl, none of the family members knew Scott, he said. The girl has been too distraught to give much information, he said.
"As far as we know, he was an extremely good kid," the relative said, "and it was just an unfortunate accident. We are hurting for their loss. Everybody's suffering."
The mother was taken to NOPD headquarters for questioning and was released. Homicide detectives are investigating the case to determine whether it will be deemed justifiable, NOPD spokesman Frank Robertson III said.
"It was a terrible incident and we regret that it happened," said George Blair, an attorney for the woman.
The woman's relative said she was hysterically crying Wednesday night and Thursday. "She is traumatized. She will never recover from this," he said. "We weren't raised to take people's lives. It was not intentional. She felt she had to defend herself and she did."
Efforts to reach Scott's family were not immediately successful. The woman's family said they would like to talk to Scott's family. "Our hearts really
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Yes, but they seemed far more sober-minded and mature back then. Kids today seem to be nothing more than trundling bundles of appetite and attitude.
He fit into the family a WHOLE lot better!
My youngest called me from Basic Training to say she scored expert with grenades... "Dad, it's so cool to blow s@#$ up!" because she got to throw a live grenade after scoring expert.
That's my baby girl.
/johnny
Multitasking while posting is a bad idea.
Indoors vs. outdoors. ;-)
That is different. She was expected to marry young and she was done with school, she was teaching school.
Now our 15 year olds can be completely manipulated by adult molesters and its not ok. I got the guy’s age wrong in my head though. I don’t actually have a problem with 17 and 15. I do with 25 to 15.
Let me inject....
Many a father wouldn’t have hesitated in shooting a fellow hiding in their walk-in closet.
Likely without stopping to interview them about some possible relationship with the daughter.
The quick and the dead?
He could have married Anoreth ...
They were 17 years old.
My post wasn’t saying what she did was wrong. She thought she was defending herself. I was questing the “oh well” attitude of the post I was responding to. Most people would wind up feeling bad if they figured out they killed their daughter’s boyfriend who was just trying to hide.
My point was that someone seemed surprised that 17 year olds could have girlfriends two or three year their juniors.
Then they are missing the point. They not only could have, they do!
15 will get you dead.
An obvious case of profiling. Call in the race pimps.
LOL! When hubby was in the Army, he got to shoot a self-propelled howitzer. He was absolutely thrilled. Blew up an old derelict truck on the range at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
That being the case, why was he boffing an underage girl when her mother was out?
That being said, and with all due respect to the difficulty of single parenting, the mother was negligent to leave her daughter this regular opportunity to go astray. She should have had a neighbor or relative stay with the girl, or send her to their house while she, the mother, attended classes. Kids, especially the children of single parents, are subject to too much pressure.
Did they hide in the parent's closet to avoid detection when they had been shagging the underage girls?
Sneaking around to avoid detection when you have entered a girl's house knowing her parent isn't home is NOT dating.
Dating between a sophomore and a senior is when the senior boy comes to the family's home for dinner and meets the parent(s) before taking the girl on a non-driving excursion to a parent-approved activity.
Awesome fathering, truly. Your daughters are lucky gals.
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