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Dad beats, shoots and paralyzes Teen daughters lover
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas ^ | 8-2-07 | Robin Mero

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nwaonline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: banglist; dad; fornication; fornicators; local; lover; nut; outofcontrol; paralyze; teen
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Would you shoot a gun through a closed bedroom door with your daughter on the other side? Answer that.

I gave my answer in post #4

181 posted on 08/02/2007 11:30:11 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: wideawake

I don’t believe anyone is saying that. Once you tell your son’s friends to leave, their invitation has been revoked. In this case, according to the article, Guzman was telling the father he would leave as soon as he was discovered.


182 posted on 08/02/2007 11:30:14 AM PDT by LanPB01
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To: wideawake
You are honestly claiming that I would legally have to sit around and wait for them to decide to leave my home? That as long as they were invited in by a minor who resides in my home, I have no legal say in the matter?

You can ask them to leave, and overrule your kids. But they are not trespassers.

183 posted on 08/02/2007 11:30:19 AM PDT by jude24 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: wideawake
So, say I had a teenage son who decided to invite some friends over my house without my permission and they were monopolizing my family room as they loudly played stupid videogames. Doing absolutely nothing illegal - just being nuisances.

You are honestly claiming that I would legally have to sit around and wait for them to decide to leave my home? That as long as they were invited in by a minor who resides in my home, I have no legal say in the matter?

I think that you can order them to leave, and have them removed by law enforcement if need be, but you can't beat them with a pool cue and then shoot them.

184 posted on 08/02/2007 11:31:23 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: Andrew Byler
His statement is that he fired warning shots above and below the door, not “aimed” through the door. That sort of evidence should be very clear and simple to present in court. No bullet hole in the door makes it an accidental shooting.

Um, the bullet hole in the back (lower) kind of proves the point, doesn't it? Either that, or that's one short door!

185 posted on 08/02/2007 11:31:30 AM PDT by piytar
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To: wideawake

“You are honestly claiming that I would legally have to sit around and wait for them to decide to leave my home? That as long as they were invited in by a minor who resides in my home, I have no legal say in the matter?”

Please show me where I said that. You have every right to tell them to leave and if they don’t, then they’re trespassing. But before you tell them to leave, they’re not because they were invited in by a resident of the house. The boyfriend was NOT trespassing.


186 posted on 08/02/2007 11:31:46 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: piytar
Absolutely completely 100% wrong: If your spouse or responsible kid (17 yr. old definitely counts) invites someone into your house, they are NOT an intruder and you cannot shoot them for being there. Sheesh.

And when the boy refused to leave when ordered to do so by the property owner, AND began a physical assault on the property owner he became an intruder / home invader subject to deadly force.

187 posted on 08/02/2007 11:32:14 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: Charles Martel
Thanks for enlightening me.
188 posted on 08/02/2007 11:32:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: stuartcr
Those are the types that need gun control.

Would you have felt better if had gone like the case in PA last year where the kid killed the man and his wife and took the daughter.

Turn Mr Reed lose, anyone that enters in to a man house in such a case should know he is taking his life in his own hands.

189 posted on 08/02/2007 11:33:49 AM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: gracesdad
And the boy wasn’t trespassing because the girl invited him in.

And the boy refused to leave after being ordered to by the owner of the property and began a physical assault on the property owner.

190 posted on 08/02/2007 11:34:01 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: RC2
That’s just plain stupid. He shot through a door and could have kill the kid or his own daughter. You condone that?
191 posted on 08/02/2007 11:34:31 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (Can I cast the second stone?)
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To: Centurion2000

It’s really easy to defend positions when you’re inventing facts from whole cloth.


192 posted on 08/02/2007 11:34:44 AM PDT by LanPB01
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To: wideawake
You are honestly claiming that I would legally have to sit around and wait for them to decide to leave my home? That as long as they were invited in by a minor who resides in my home, I have no legal say in the matter?

Challenge.

Classic straw man. Your earlier point up-thread was that he was an intruder and therefore could be shot. Now you are saying "I have no legal say in the matter." Appleas and oranges. You can, of course, tell the teenage friends to leave. If they refuse, you can call the cops. If they threaten you, you can defend yourself. However, you can't block their exit and then shoot them as intruders.

Nice try with the strawman, though.

193 posted on 08/02/2007 11:35:10 AM PDT by piytar
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To: Hydroshock

LOL


194 posted on 08/02/2007 11:35:31 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: org.whodat

Of course not, but this is not at all the same situation, is it? The man beat the boyfriend for hiding in his daughters closet. I don’t think that deserves a death penalty or even a shooting. The man’s life was obviously not endangered.


195 posted on 08/02/2007 11:37:18 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: Serious Capitalist

All 3 of them screwed up. Sad.


196 posted on 08/02/2007 11:37:28 AM PDT by subterfuge (Today, Tolerance =greatest virtue;Hypocrisy=worst character defect; Discrimination =worst atrocity)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s the thing that jumped out at me, too.


197 posted on 08/02/2007 11:37:38 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: GraceCoolidge
If you are the homeowner and your spouse/child invites someone into your home, I believe you have the right to demand that person leave or be removed.

Not necessarily true w/r/t spouse. In most states, each spouse has an equal right to full enjoyment of the property, so each person can invite someone in irrespective of the wishes of the other. Some states may be different. Of course, if you are in a house and one spouse says "stay" while the other says "get out," the course of prudence is to GET OUT!

198 posted on 08/02/2007 11:38:43 AM PDT by piytar
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To: piytar
Absolutely completely 100% wrong: If your spouse or responsible kid (17 yr. old definitely counts) invites someone into your house, they are NOT an intruder and you cannot shoot them for being there.

He ordered the man out of the house the guy refused, attacked him (by kicking) and then barricaded himself in his daughters room. Made himself a fair target. Note that the man ordered him out BEFORE going for a gun. As the home owner he DOES have veto power over everyone there. If a family member invited them in that only earns them a head start. The kid turned down the offer of a head start by barricading the bedroom door. Even if that boy was as pure as the wind driven snow he was still fair game to get shot at that point. The only thing this homeowner did wrong was shooting blindly through the door.
199 posted on 08/02/2007 11:38:49 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: NorthFlaRebel

“Wow, some of you folks are absolutely disgusting, cheering this on. Just wow. I feel sick just reading some of these responses and justification.”

There are truly some real nut jobs on this site sometimes. A lot of these clowns think this is how they used to do it in the “good ole days”. Their fathers and grandfathers would beat the snot out of them for assuming that they would act like the animal that this guy is.

Maybe they can all take up a collection for their new folk hero so he can buy some kneepads for his new home.

There wont be any closets to hide in where he’s going.


200 posted on 08/02/2007 11:39:50 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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