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Bride-To-Be Defends Her Pickup, Pulls Gun on Man Who Disrupts Wedding Preparations
ap ^ | 7/6/02

Posted on 07/06/2002 1:21:55 PM PDT by Ranger

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) - Florists were hanging wisteria at Charlotte Ann Neely-White's home for her wedding when a stranger drove up, claimed there was a bomb in his car, and made the mistake of demanding her beloved pickup.

Neely-White had her fiance get her pistol, and while she fought with the man, the gun went off, wounding the man in the chest.

A few hours later, Neely-White got married as scheduled.

"It was a long day," the former public school principal said Friday.

"This lady was as calm as a cucumber. She can withstand anything. I admire her guts," said flower arranger Linda Cassidy. "I don't think I'd want to make her upset."

Lawrence County Sheriff Doug Seneker said he had no doubt that Neely-White acted in self defense.

Witnesses said the confrontation started about three hours before Neely-White's Fourth of July wedding.

The stranger "went rushing by and then he slammed on his brakes, and then he came into the yard, and he said 'Somebody call 911 quick, there's a bomb in my car,'" Cassidy said. "He was scared and excited, and just kind of wired."

Then he demanded that Neely-White give him her pickup.

She refused.

"Have you ever had anything you really love? Well, I love that truck," said Neely-White, 55.

She said the man threatened to set off the bomb if she didn't give him her truck. "I said, 'No sir, you go ahead and set the bomb off. My house needs work anyway.'"

Neely-White said the man attacked her with a riding whip, so she yelled for her fiance, who had gone inside to call police, to grab her .22-caliber pistol.

"I probably mowed my fiance over," Neely-White said. As a former principal, it was in her nature to take control, she said.

Seneker said Neely-White and the assailant struggled for the gun, and it went off, hitting the man once in the chest. He managed to grab the gun from her, break a window in Neely-White's pickup with a piece of firewood and open the door. With the gun pointed at her, Neely-White backed off.

Police later arrested Jorge Luis Cecenas, 30, after he allegedly abandoned the pickup. He was charged Friday, while hospitalized with a chest wound, with first-degree assault and other counts.

AP-ES-07-06-02 1517EDT


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To: Ranger
Everyone is missing the basic "Moral of the Story."

If you have to shoot someone.....use enough gun.

In this case she was lucky the perp didn't shoot her after taking the gun away. Also, I was wondering the same thing? IF the hubby-to-be had a pair, he would have shot the guy himself.

41 posted on 07/07/2002 12:39:56 AM PDT by Pistolshot
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To: Ranger
You go, girl! Nobody gonna mess with Miss Charlotte's wedding!
42 posted on 07/07/2002 12:49:46 AM PDT by DaughterofEve
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To: Ranger
Lyrics please: Neely-White loves [to fight/her truck/her Ford truck/her Chevy truck/her wimpy man]. Neely-White fought [til he took the gun from her hand/Jorge and any third-world loser that drove on her lawn/domestic terrorism/for her right to party/bear arms]. Neely-White married [a wimp/a grass stained virgin/after shooting a Mexican and getting horse whipped/a man from north Arkansas most likely]. Feek free to add to the list.

...And tried to send the bastards to the Promised Land!

I've got kinfolk scattered all around Missouri. They are a bunch of onery critters. My own great uncle threatened to shoot me once, after I joined the Army. He said he didn't want no federals on his property. Of course, he was suspected of having a still down in the holler.

43 posted on 07/07/2002 3:46:58 AM PDT by Movemout
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To: Ranger
The ol' gal still has a little starch in her after all those years in the school system, but she's managed to find her a sissy from Kansas to marry. Wonder why she married him anyway after he let her fight this guy herself?
44 posted on 07/07/2002 5:52:53 AM PDT by Twodees
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