Posted on 11/23/2010 6:00:49 AM PST by rellimpank
Hattie Louise James was sitting on her front porch in Charlotte, N.C., when two police detectives emerged from their car. There had been a shooting, they said. Two officers were dead. The gun had been traced back to her.
"I liked to had another heart attack," said James, 72, a retired hospital worker.
The .32-caliber revolver used to kill Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton in April 2007 started out as a legally owned weapon. James bought it in 1991 at Hyatt Coin and Gun Shop in Charlotte, but it was stolen a year later from her husband's car.
Fifteen years after that, it passed into the hands of 25-year- old Demeatrius Montgomery.
Last September, Montgomery was convicted of
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Agreed - I was quoting someone on that forum who had no idea.
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