Posted on 08/25/2010 3:42:53 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- For the first time in a year, the mother of 16-year-old Antwun Parker, who was shot and killed by pharmacist Jerome Ersland, is speaking publicly.
According to police, Parker and a friend tried to rob the pharmacist at gunpoint in May 2009. Investigators said Ersland knocked Parker to the ground with one shot to the head, grabbed a different weapon and fired five more shots into his chest and abdomen.
"A coward is someone who will kill someone when they're done," said Parker's mother, Cleta Jennings. "That's not a hero. The real hero here is Antwun."
Jennings said that while her son did go into the pharmacy with a gun, she believes other people put him up to it.
"I know he was scared to death," she said. "I know Antwun was scared to death when he had to go into that pharmacy not under his own will."
In an exclusive interview with KOCO, Jennings said she was angry when she found out two pathologists with the Oklahoma County Medical Examiner's Office filed conflicting statements, which call the former chief's ruling into question. That ruling could affect the District Attorney's decision to prosecute.
"That man literally shot my son down, had no remorse, went back, got another gun, reloaded it and came back and shot him five more times," Jennings said.
The interim chief said he's still reviewing the case. District Attorney David Prater said he's not prepared to drop the case against Jerome Ersland, but said it is his duty to listen to all evidence that's brought forth in every case.
Jennings said her son will never have a chance to prove his innocence.
"He still should have had a chance to go to court and defend himself," she said. "He's just like everybody else, innocent until proven guilty."
She said she will continue to share his story and remember his achievements as she carries the pain inside her.
"He was not a masked robber. His name was Antwun Parker. He was a human."
She said she may file a civil lawsuit against Ersland if she's not happy with the course of action in the criminal case.
The coroners report and the physical evidence say different.
Ersland is a compulsive liar that described a shoot-out that never happened and totally changed the order of the events, lied about his actions, and that even gave himself a bandaged wound that he showed to the media as he described exchanging fire and even a hand to hand fight that never happened.
He is also a phony combat vet, with made up war stories and injuries from a war that he was never in.
Sounds about right, but I’m not that impressed with Prater regardless.
Life’s tough. It’s tougher if your stupid!
—John Wayne
If it deters no one else it was worth it. It deters him from doing it again. He has learned his lesson.
No I didn’t, watch the video.
Now we know why Baby Antwun thought it was okay to walk into a store with a gun and attempt to rob the place. When Mommy defends that kind of behavior, Baby will learn.
Wrong. New coroner’s report says he might well have been moving, and it could have been interpreted as threatening. Maybe you should read up on this.
“He was not a masked robber. His name was Antwun Parker. He was a human.”
At the moment Parker entered the pharmacy with the intent to commit armed robbery he ceased to be anything other than a threat to be eliminated. And through his own tireless efforts he earned his very own toe tag, thus securing his place in history and boosting his street cred in one fell swoop. He gambled. He lost.
If he really had been a hero, he’d have told all those bad guys who coerced him to attempt to rob the pharmacy NO. Of course, if he had, THEY would have put him down. Puhleeze.
Sleep with dogs ....
Let’s not talk past each other.
The shooting prevented young Antwun from committing any more crimes.
It is to be hoped that Antwun’s “story” (of getting killed whilst committing a violent crime) will deter others from taking up violent crime.
Old video. Catch up on new developments, ansel12.
Just curious, does the mother of this deceased armed robber have a job? Does anyone on the couch in that picture have a job? Did the armed robber she raised ever have a job other than robbing taxpayers?
Just guessing, none of them have ever had jobs. We pay for them to exist while we work our asses off.
My cousin is a pharmacist. Last year he was robbed. They robber wanted drugs, not money. Cousin gave chase and got the tag number on the robber’s car. Perp was arrested.
The pharmacist who shot “Antwun” (nice spelling mom!) did all of society a favor.
Sadly, many AAs have suffered from “helpful” government intervention and race mongers like Sharpton and Jackson. As a result, they have become delusional.
This is why it is vital for Christianity to revive the idea of Hell. Hell, as a real place, full of torment and ceaseless, burning agony.
Damnation beyond redemption.
Up until about the 1940s, black American preachers had reputations based on how graphically and accurately they could describe Hell. The best could travel the land and be greeted with accolades by a full congregation, on the edge of their seats for his sermon.
The best of these preachers could have the entire room smelling the brimstone, and feeling the fire lick the bottom of the floorboards beneath their feet. Several women of weaker constitutions would pass out, overtaken by the heat and the passion of the service.
(Today a sham act, overused by Obama on the campaign trail. Just another lie.)
But the point is that a multitude of lives, not just souls, were saved with such preaching. Because there was no confusion in the congregation between petty sins and the crimes of damnation. And many people who could have turned to evil, were instead turned away from it.
In the case of this armed robber, though his mother would have still protested his innocence, no one outside of his family would doubt for a moment what his final destination was to be. And his death would long be remembered, as a warning to others, of the paths of evil.
Had he survived, and as often was the case, faced the hangman’s noose for murder, again the preacher would be summoned, but to this time reassure him that there could still be redemption, and a hope for heaven for him, if instead of being dragged to the scaffold, crying and cursing, he put his last ounce of effort into praying as hard as he could. Not to resist his fate, but to beg forgiveness, silently, with all his heart, until that final drop.
Yet everyone else would know and remember, that this redemption was unlikely, for the sin he had committed was grave. And it was altogether likely that he was soon to be suffering beyond suffering.
As a warning to all.
Oh my, I didn’t know this. Even worse. In light of that it sounds like she is trying to justify herself.
Look, once the punk walked into the store with a gun and the intent to rob it, he was dead. How it occurred is immaterial to me. If the kid had walked in waving the gun around, didn’t see anyone, and the pharmacist walked up behind him and shot him in the head, it would still be a legitimate case of self-defense.
Her logic has as many holes in it as her son.
IMHO, if someone comes at you with a weapon, whether he discharges it or slashes at you with it (depending on weapon type) or not, you have every right to be certain in your own mind that the individual has completely stopped being a threat to you.
If that certainty requires that you burn through 58 rounds in assorted calibers, so be it.
IMHO if you go into someone’s home or place of business threatening deadly force for any purpose whatever, you forfeit any right you might have had to leave that place alive.
If it takes the homeowner or other defender two or three tries to finish the job, than— sucks to be you. Should have gone someplace else.
Conversely, if the homeowner or whoever takes pains to keep you alive and hand you over to authorities, then you owe your life to that individual along with restitution for any loss or damage to him. The appropriate response is gratitude and an overwhelming sense of obligation.
What are the new developments?
“Hours after the robbery, Ersland told police he suffers PTSD “from being in the Gulf War,” a detective reported.
“He said, ‘I killed a lot of people there, but I had to do it. I dream about it every night.’ Ersland said he got hurt there (Gulf War) and that was why he was wearing the medical back and front brace,” the detective reported.
The detective quoted Ersland as saying, “So, I have killed a number of people with a .50-caliber” and “I was a platoon leader from Fort Bragg.” The detective reported Ersland said he was in the Army until he got hurt and then the Air Force let him join because there was a high demand for pharmacists.
Ersland left the Army in February 1989, well before the Gulf War, records show. His first assignment after joining the Air Force was the Altus Air Force Base hospital.”
“Instead, Jerome Jay Ers-land spent the war in 1991 as the pharmacy chief at the military hospital at Altus Air Force Base in southwestern Oklahoma, records show.”
Nothing more than another Black Racist spewing nonsense.
If her kid di not try to rob the pharmacist....her kid would be still alive.
Wonder if this woman is on welfare, government assistance...
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