A victim of multiple burglaries, we do not know if he had any evidence to connect the victim to those crimes.
Sounds like the script from Gran Torino.
I just don’t understand people who keep an array of valuable firearms in their house and won’t pay the tab for a substantial safe in which to keep them.
Ok - we want race to be taken out of the Trayvon/Zimmerman case (and rightly so) and make a decision of innocence or guilt to be based only on the facts (again, rightly so).
Take race out of this story - a man confronts an unarmed 13 year old kid (I am assuming unarmed as he made no defense with a weapon) and accuses him of theft.
The 13 yr. old says he didn’t do it, the man pulls a gun and shoots the 13 yr. old at point blank range in the chest, then fires again as the boy is attempting to flee.
The boy made no attack at the man, he did not pull a weapon, and as far as we know according to witnesses, he made no threat to the man.
Whether or not this kid actually stole anything is irrelevant to the fact that this man shot an unarmed human being. The mans frustration because of multiple thefts may be relevent to the punishment of the crime, but, as it stands, if this story is accurate and true - this is plain, bald-faced, cold-blooded murder in the first degree.
People who bring up race in this case are the same ones who complain about Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton for doing the same thing. Allow the process to work.
P.S. Marktwain, I wasn’t saying that you were bringing race into the issue, I just replied to the first post after the article, and, after reading a number of posts following that did inject race into the story.
Sorry if it looked like I was accusing you of that because you certainly weren’t.
It’s a good idea to have a rider on your homeowners’ policy covering your guns from theft or fire-loss.
I’m sorry to see the people on this thread who are making comments such as “there’s only so much you can be expected to take.” It sounds like Spooner did indeed feel terribly frustrated, and might be dying of cancer so he also had a “who gives a rip?” mentality. HOWEVER, in this country, theft is not a capital offense. If theft ever does become a capital offense in this country, I’m not sure I’d want to live here. The punishment should fit the crime. Even if the 13-year-old was guilty, he didn’t deserve to die for it. If he was not, in fact, guilty, then coldblooded murder is all you can call this.
Death penalty case as far as I’m concerned. No excuse for that.
Even if the shooting victim had previously burglarized him, this was murder. Unless his liar lawyer gets him off on an insanity plea.
Note to self: When the neighborhood starts getting hoodie, move.
First for this man who took the life of a 13 yo...
And then also, for the burglars who provoked this man into a likely false accusation and misdirected wrath.
Multiple burglaries?
This guy knew what kind of neighborhood he lived in. Why didn’t he have security bars and barbed wire around his house?