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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: CDHart
He could just as easily have hit his own daughter.

I rather suspect he has done so many times. This father clearly has an "anger management problem", to use modern psychobabble.

81 posted on 08/02/2007 10:39:22 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: piytar
Probably went for the terrorism charge, though, because it carries the harshest penalty.

Very comforting.

Next, speeding will be a terrorist act.

82 posted on 08/02/2007 10:39:28 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: ChildOfThe60s
To destroy a 19 yo life because of mutual behavior between a 17 and 19 year old is unexcuseable. 60 years in a wheelchair is fair punishment for normal sexual desires of teenagers? Geez. Scary.

Yup, some of these posters are truly frightening. Makes me wonder about Free Republic and my participation here. Seriously.

83 posted on 08/02/2007 10:39:51 AM PDT by piytar
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To: Coronal

“The paradox of fatherhood: no man wants his daughters doing what he once wanted other men’s daughters to do.”

How true.


84 posted on 08/02/2007 10:39:56 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: wideawake
the individual in question is still an intruder on his property.

Nope. He was invited by a legal occupant.

85 posted on 08/02/2007 10:40:16 AM PDT by jude24 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Serious Capitalist

“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.


86 posted on 08/02/2007 10:40:18 AM PDT by gcruse (Let's strike Iran while it's hot.)
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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.


87 posted on 08/02/2007 10:40:52 AM PDT by NorthFlaRebel
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To: wideawake

“women” dont hide their lovers in the closet either.


88 posted on 08/02/2007 10:42:01 AM PDT by SwankyC
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To: oldbrowser
If he beat the kid bloody, how was the kid able to block the door with a dresser while the old man went to get his gun?
If someone is beat bloody with a cue stick he would not be bouncing right back up.

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.

89 posted on 08/02/2007 10:43:11 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: wideawake
an intruder on his property

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.

90 posted on 08/02/2007 10:43:56 AM PDT by piytar
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To: RC2

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.


91 posted on 08/02/2007 10:44:12 AM PDT by Frapster (Arrrgghhh - hands off me booty, mate!)
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To: Canali

Escalation of force. Hitting the kid with the pool cue was response in kind... Shooting him was not.


92 posted on 08/02/2007 10:45:13 AM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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To: Serious Capitalist

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.


93 posted on 08/02/2007 10:45:29 AM PDT by djf (Bush's legacy: Way more worried about Iraqs borders than our own!!! A once great nation... sad...)
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To: Serious Capitalist
I guess Dad didn't think his daughter had anything to do with it

You don't beat your dog if someone steals it.

94 posted on 08/02/2007 10:45:44 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Marko413

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.


95 posted on 08/02/2007 10:46:10 AM PDT by L,TOWM ("Protesting Clinton's wars was'nt cool..." - Jeneane Garafolo, 2003)
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To: gracesdad
I don’t know why expected to find folks on this thread who think what the father did was OK, but here they are. Sad.

Yep, these types of threads bring out the jerks.

This dad is a complete idiot. If I was king I'd shoot him in the back, severing his spinal cord, then throw him in prison for the rest of his life. Maybe then he would know the meaning of overreaction.
96 posted on 08/02/2007 10:46:58 AM PDT by Sirloin
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To: Serious Capitalist

Crime of Passion Defense.

Stupid 19 year old committing a crime in the wrong place at the wrong time.


97 posted on 08/02/2007 10:47:06 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Eagle Eye; ElkGroveDan
Lots of girls have sex before age 18....probably even yours.

Eagle Eye, compared to you, Howard Stern is one classy individual.

98 posted on 08/02/2007 10:47:12 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Serious Capitalist

THAT is gonna have a serious effect on her social life...


99 posted on 08/02/2007 10:47:16 AM PDT by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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To: piytar

Did I really need a sarcasm tag on my post?


100 posted on 08/02/2007 10:47:34 AM PDT by umgud ("When illegals are banned, only greedy businesses and welfare providers will have them)
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