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 rather suspect he has done so many times. This father clearly has an "anger management problem", to use modern psychobabble.
Very comforting.
Next, speeding will be a terrorist act.
Yup, some of these posters are truly frightening. Makes me wonder about Free Republic and my participation here. Seriously.
“The paradox of fatherhood: no man wants his daughters doing what he once wanted other men’s daughters to do.”
How true.
Nope. He was invited by a legal occupant.
“He said a friend called that morning to say Guzman’s car was parked down the road. Reed called his wife and their youth pastor to say he was going to the house to check it out. Upon arrival, he got a pool stick from the garage to defend himself,’
Papa is toast.
Wow, some of you folks are absolutely disgusting, cheering this on. Just wow. I feel sick just reading some of these responses and justification.
“women” dont hide their lovers in the closet either.
Not so. Couple of good wacks to the right areas & you will bleed so much it will look like an artery was cut.
The girl AND the boy moved the dresser. And if you thought someone was going to kill you, I'll wager you'd find the reserve strength to do it.
Hype? A 17 yo girl is playing slap & tickle with her 19 yo boyfriend. How does that rise to the level of homicide? Because that's what the father was trying to do. Kill him.
An adult that has A) No more understanding of the consequences of attempted murder, and B) Has so little self control that he goes postal and starts shooting in such a manner that he could easily have killed his daughter, is not to be excused here.
As a matter of fact, for all we know he could have been trying to shoot both of them. Rationalize that.
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.
oh baloney - the problems that allowed her to make this decision in the first place began long ago and no amount of violence will fix them. the guy deserves a long jail sentence.
Escalation of force. Hitting the kid with the pool cue was response in kind... Shooting him was not.
Totally uncalled for and way over the line.
Does anybody doubt that the young guys life is ruined forever?
Can this jerk even comprehend that his daughter is gonna be royally screwed up for the rest of her life over this?
The only defense this guy could have is temporary insanity, cause nothin else is gonna cut it.
You don't beat your dog if someone steals it.
Any halfway comepetant attorney here in TX and the right jury would equal a walk for the Dad.
The good thing is, most of the young men with half a brain in this state know that.
Crime of Passion Defense.
Stupid 19 year old committing a crime in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Eagle Eye, compared to you, Howard Stern is one classy individual.
THAT is gonna have a serious effect on her social life...
Did I really need a sarcasm tag on my post?
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