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Bruzilla

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http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/012505/met_17776648.shtml

Man kills attacking car burglary suspect

By DANA TREEN
The Times-Union

A Jacksonville man who pulled a handgun after he was attacked in his apartment parking lot early Saturday fired five shots that left a 16-year-old suspected car burglar dead, police said Monday.

Three other suspects, ages 15, 17 and 18, were arrested Monday and charged with murder and armed robbery in the shooting outside the Paradise Island apartments on Southside Boulevard.

Ronald Peterson, 27, told police he was pistol-whipped in the head by four attackers who he feared were going to put him in a car trunk. He was not charged in the shooting.

According to police, Peterson came home about 5 a.m. and saw four men trying to enter parked cars. After parking his car in his garage, he retrieved a handgun and went outside to see if they were still there before calling police, according to a police report.

When he tried to go back inside, he was stopped at gunpoint, told to empty his pockets and led to a car where he was ordered to clear out the car's trunk. When he balked, he was struck in the head and knocked to the ground.

Peterson told police the attackers saw the gun in his waistband as he fell and yelled a warning. He said he pulled the gun and opened fire.

David Ulysses McCray of the 6700 block of West Virginia Court was found dead behind an apartment building, according to police. Peterson's car keys, cell phone and knife were with McCray, police said.

Police learned Carl Aresenio Jones, 15, of the 5800 block of Soutel Drive, and Aaron Jamal Muhammad, 17, of the 3300 block of Almeda Street, had gone to Shands Jacksonville for treatment of a gunshot wound to Muhammad's arm. Both were interviewed by police and charged with robbery and murder. The interviews led detectives to Orren Alexander Louder, 18, of Jies Court, who was also charged.

Police said there was evidence three cars had been burglarized.

Notice there are no comments about why the guy couldn't just turn a blind eye and let these four thugs go about their business? No claims that it was his fault? No concerns that it didn't happen in the shooter's home. Just one dead thug, and three others facing murder charges for being involved in a crime that resulted in a death.
 

SmallTown

Football season!
I still like the story here in fairfax where the kid broke into the house and the owner came out with a gun and made the kid call the cops on himself :lmao:
 
SmallTown said:
I still like the story here in fairfax where the kid broke into the house and the owner came out with a gun and made the kid call the cops on himself :lmao:
Didn't hear about that.
 
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Bruzilla

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The first thing they teach you about shooting in the military, aside from not shooting yourself or your buddies, is that there will always be more sky than target. That's why even highly trained cops can shoot 40-odd shots at a guy and only hit him a couple of times. Not everyone is Josie Wales. The last time I ran outside to investigate something amiss down here in Florida, I had an AR-15 assault rifle that had been converted to selective fire, and that had a 30-rd magazine... why risk your safety with just a pistol? I don't know who was more surprised when I jumped up, yelled "freeze", and saw a uniformed Jacksonville Police officer through the sites. I immediately lowered the rifle and was like "Oh sh*t", and he threw down his clipboard raised his hands and was like "Oh sh*t". I can laugh about it now. :lmao:

By the way, he killed one and wounded another, which was how they caught the other three.
 
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willie

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Ponytail said:
5 shots and only one was killed? Slow bullets or he was shooting at "Mask". :lol:
He probably got nervous thinking about all the lawsuits against him.
 

Lenny

Lovin' being Texican
SmallTown said:
I still like the story here in fairfax where the kid broke into the house and the owner came out with a gun and made the kid call the cops on himself :lmao:

You just KNOW the defense lawyer will claim (1) unlawful imprisonment on the part of the homeowner (2) infliction of mental anguish (3) kidnapping (4) being meam and will sue the homeowner's a$$ off (and probably win)
 
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