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 ...
I am so f’ing sick of the word “teens” being used to describe black scum.
“Youths”?
“Urban”?
“Rough” neighborhood?
“Teens” my sore white arse. I know teens. I have nieces and nephews who are teens.
This offal, this feral scourge...do they have to take the language down with them?
Probably trying to paint the victim/target as “rich” and therefore deserving of being attacked.
worth about $900
What does the worth of the gun have to do with the story? I’d say the gun is priceless if it defends someone’s life.
Victim “chosen at random” my a$$.
They picked the lone white guy.
Shot in the ass with a .40 pistol? It may take longer than that before he can sit down without flinching.
YO THUGS! Getting the message yet?
Well played. This is the kind of news we need to see more of around here.
You sir, have just won the “best post of the day” award. Kudos.
Not one for my list of black on white crime since the race of the victim is not listed. There are some on this site that seem awfully sensitive about getting all this right though the assumption is usually correct.
I’m sure now there is someone who will condemn the shooter and justify the perpetrator with the stun gun.
Thug nation. The libs don’t care like they don’t care about so many other things.
if you look at the mo’s of these stories that’s the four common facts.
black thugs
multiple thugs
solo victim
white victim
when the thugs are black females the victim is a solo white female
when the thugs are black males the victim is a solo white male
“he lived”
I know. I hate starting a Monday with such a tragic story.
This reporting of attacks by blacks as being "teen" attacks is despicable, irresponsible and sheer cowardice.
Thankfully in this case, gun control, aka a steady hand, led to "teen" control.
I’d wager a lot of people wouldn’t have realized what was going on.
Victim was lucky. He needs to work on his situational awareness.
We need more armed citizens, like this one.
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