Posted on 08/02/2007 10:03:39 AM PDT by Serious Capitalist
BENTONVILLE -- The father of a 17-year-old girl found his daughter's boyfriend hiding inside her bedroom closet Tuesday, beat him bloody with a pool stick, then left the room to fetch a gun. The daughter and boyfriend blocked the door with a dresser, so the father shot through the closed door, hitting the boyfriend in the back and paralyzing him, police said.
George David Reed, 48, posted a $150,000 bond and was freed from jail Wednesday afternoon as Michael Austin Guzman, 19, underwent surgery to treat a bullet lodged in his spinal cord.
Three of Guzman's vertebrae are fractured and doctors don't expect him to regain feeling or mobility below his waist, according to a probable cause affidavit released Wednesday after Reed's bond hearing. He was still in surgery Wednesday evening in Joplin's Freeman Health System, according to an intensive care nurse.
Benton County Circuit Judge Xollie Duncan set the bond Wednesday based on a request from Chief Deputy Prosecutor Shane Wilkinson. Reed was arrested on suspicion of a felony terroristic act, the most serious type of felony aside from capital murder, punishable by up to life in prison. He was also arrested on a charge of felony first-degree battery.
Defense attorney W.H. Taylor, who spent the morning consulting with his client at the jail, did not object to the bond. Reed is to be arraigned Sept. 10 before Circuit Judge David Clinger.
Taylor said that Reed has three children and lives with his wife, Sharon, at 13569 Vaughn Road near Highfill. Reed has been in Northwest Arkansas since 1962, owns a farm and rental properties, and has operated a moving and storage business since 1983.
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If the boyfriend of a daughter assaulted me in my house while I was armed, I can't see why using a firearm in self-defense would be wrong.
The difference in this case is that he used one deadly weapon, then decided to go get a different deadly weapon and then came back and fired that deadly weapon blindly - even though at that point it was obvious that his life was no longer in danger.
Had he been carrying a firearm while being assaulted by this lothario, those circumstances would be quite different.
Seems like when dad went to get the gun.... going out the window might have been a good idea. I mean as compared to trying to barracade yourself in the room with the object of dad’s passion. The kid was REALLY not smart....
As the father of 3 daughters, I vote “Not Guilty” up to and including use of the pool cue.
I prefer a shotgun loaded with ROCK SALT. :)
Sorry I didn't "see" it (i.e., catch that your post was sarcasm), but with some of the posters here actually approving of the father's actions, I'm afraid that on this thread you do...
The age of consent in Arkansas is 16 years. What charges could be brought?
I agree.
“Meanwhile, the young man should be charged with statutory rape and tresspassing.”
In Arkansas this is not statutory rape. Same in many other states. And the boy wasn’t trespassing because the girl invited him in.
Wanna try again?
You and I together would = a hung jury and a mistrial...
Some punk boinking my daughter, hiding in the closet, and then kicking me when I tell him to leave my home?
Sounds like some one daring me to revoke their oxygen license to me...
Uh, yeah, I think it would have been a good idea.
In this medium, the inflections of one's voice are usually not audible.
If you were not serious, then you may disregard my respone to that particular post. But really, you do need to make an effort here to indicate your emotional import when making a statement like that.
We'd need a diagram of the property.
He was probably thinking: "Do I have enough time to make it to my truck before he can get a round off?"
Tough call.
Re: It’s ole fashioned justice. If we had more of that, with the pool stick, maybe our kids would understand that this is not acceptable. The gun? Don’t know if I would go that far but it wasn’t my daughter
In what perverted world does this even resemble Justice?
If someone is beat bloody with a cue stick he would not be bouncing right back up.
As a veteran of ONE bar brawl, I can tell you that you can be hit in the head with a pool cue a number of times and keep fighting, and head wounds can be quite bloody. What finally put me down for good was a beer mug to the temple.
Mark
I guess not. See my later post. Sometimes it’s not as obvious as you expect it to be when you write it. Never mind, moving on....
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How do you know she was, as you say, a slut?
It's a tragedy that the kid got shot... but I'll bet he wasn't completely surprised by it. Really dumb choices in life sometimes return really bad outcomes.
How is it statuary rape?
Whether or not his daughter chose to have intercourse with an intruder on his property, the individual in question is still an intruder on his property.
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Um, wideawake, the girl invited him in. Where are you getting the intruder stuff from?
I have to agree with you. I am surprised, but I suppose that a lot of this is just bravado: "I'd do that if it were my daughter!"
This is a guy who left the room to get a gun, to use deadly force on an unarmed opponent, and he fired blindly through a closed door. All of this while his life (or the lives of his family members) were not in jeopardy. In fact, his actions put the life of his own daughter at risk. Plain and simple, this was a case of attempted murder. This is a guy who needs to spend a very long time in prison.
Mark
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