Posted on 08/26/2013 10:45:56 AM PDT by Darren McCarty
The game was called "point 'em out, knock 'em out," and it was as random as it was brutal.
The object: Target an innocent victim for no other reason than they are there, then sucker punch him or her.
But on this day in Lansing, there would be no punch. The teen-age attacker had a stun gun. He did not know his would-be victim was carrying a legally concealed pistol.
The teen lost the game
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The 17-year-old in gym shorts approached his target. The 28-year-old Lansing man was waiting for his daughter at her school-bus stop at REO Road and Ballard Street.
....The teen had two friends nearby - dropped off by a third friend in a van after they scouted their target. They knew what Marvell Weaver was going to do. They had discussed it.
Weaver approached his victim from behind, a black KL-800 Type Stun Gun in his pocket. It is capable of generating 1.8 million volts.
He passed him and turned back, pressed the stun gun into the victim’s side. Again and again, and … nothing. It had fired earlier when testing it, he would later tell police.
“The button was like stuck down … or something. I don’t know what caused it not to work,” according to a transcript of Weaver’s statement.
‘Please don’t kill me’
The intended victim moved quickly, pulling his stainless steel .40-caliber Smith and Wesson. It had a full 10-bullet magazine, and was worth about $900 police estimated.
He shot Weaver in his buttocks as the teen turned to flee.
“It happened so fast I wasn’t sure. I just know something was shoved into my side. I wasn’t sure if it was a knife, if it was anything,” he told police.
Weaver ran, sat down across the street, his leg going numb, bleeding. Pleading.
(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...
Lesson given - don't jump people.
A thug’s gotta know his limitations.
Score another point for civilisation.
Hang his body from a lamppost for all to see the shame of such a violent idiot corpse.
Bad shot...next time aim center mass.
he lived
Pity this story doesn’t have a happy ending: the punk survived. Enough punks get DRT, this crap will stop. . .
Wonderful news.
Great story, perfect ending...should be trumpeted from all mountain tops...do NOT be a victim....love it.
thanks for the good news
> Weaver approached his victim from behind, a black KL-800 Type Stun Gun in his pocket. It is capable of generating 1.8 million volts.
He passed him and turned back, pressed the stun gun into the victim’s side. Again and again, and … nothing. It had fired earlier when testing it, he would later tell police.
“The button was like stuck down … or something. I don’t know what caused it not to work,” according to a transcript of Weaver’s statement.
I would have said, “still don’t believe in God? Now go and never engage in this stupidity ever again!”
“It had a full 10-bullet magazine, and was worth about $900 police estimated.”
Not sure what the point of that comment is, strange.
Oh those wacky teens.
When will they ever learn?
However, I might have wiped my butt on a kleenex and given it to him to stop the bleeding. But probably not as it might leave DNA evidence to identify me by.
screw that. Aim for the groin and pelvis area.
read the comments at the end of the story, a bunch of people are blaming the victim. “If he didn’t have a gun then no injuries would have occurred.”
Ha Ha! He got shot in the fundament!
“shot Weaver in his buttocks”
creepy ass crackah shot me in the AZZ!
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