Posted on 07/23/2009 7:34:31 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
BRISTOL, Fla. -- Authorities said a burglar with a fake gun was shot and killed by a Panhandle homeowner with a real gun.
The Liberty County Sheriff's Office reports that Octavious Barnes, 24, broke into the home of Bradley Harvil, 82, home and tried to steal about $1,100 in cash Sunday night. Authorities said Barnes was waiving around a toy pistol, colored black with a marker to look real, and assaulted Harvil.
The homeowner was able to get to his real .357 magnum and shot Barnes in the chest and in the eye.
Authorities later concluded that three women had helped Barnes plan the burglary. Deputies have charged Jessica Nicole Long, 19, Heather Marie Ammons, 22, and Mandy Allen, 43, with felony home invasion and second-degree murder.
“Since the accomplices were charged with murder, I doubt the homeowner will be charged.”
Agreed. The more so since this occurred in the Panhandle, where American natural law is part of the population’s weltanschaung.
“You girls in a heap o trouble”.
But, they brought it on their own pointy heads by their own acts.
Finally gun control worked!
Good shooting.
.357 to the eye is a good little way to say ‘hey, maybe that magic marking thing was not such a great idea’.
As an FFL, I always advise my clients that real guns are more effective than fake guns. :)
That is EXCELLENT advice!
You are obviously a very knowledgable and concientious firearms dealer.
;^)
LOL! I forgot my sarc tag.
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