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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I gave my answer in post #4
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 Once you tell your son’s friends to leave, their invitation has been revoked.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.
You can ask them to leave, and overrule your kids. But they are not trespassers.
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.
Um, the bullet hole in the back (lower) kind of proves the point, doesn't it? Either that, or that's one short door!
“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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s really easy to defend positions when you’re inventing facts from whole cloth.
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.
LOL
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.
All 3 of them screwed up. Sad.
That’s the thing that jumped out at me, too.
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!
“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.
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