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| 14 year old boy shoots armed intruder while protecting siblings | |||
| 2012-06-24 | |||
Soon after, the teen heard a bang on the door, rushed his siblings upstairs and got a handgun from his parent's bedroom. When he got to the top of the stairs, he saw a man breaking through the front door and point a gun at him. The boy shot the 37-year-old man, who is in critical condition but expected to survive and be booked into jail.
The woman who rang the home's doorbell got away. Holmes hailed the teen's actions and his parents for teaching the kids to never open the door to strangers. "The police and indeed our community does not ever want to see a situation where a teenager of that age has to take a weapon to protect his family ... but this young man did exactly what he should have done," he said. "I'm not sure he gave full thought about what he had to do. He just acted." Holmes said that the gun the teen grabbed was his father's, but did not know whether the boy had been trained to use it. He said the family, whose names were not released, is declining to speak to reporters about the ordeal, saying that they "are all pretty traumatized." "The dad was pretty much out of his mind with distress, officers couldn't even talk to him," Holmes said. "It's going to take them a while to recover mentally." He said police don't yet know what the suspect's intentions were and that will be one of the first questions they ask him when he is well enough to talk. "This was mid-block in a neighborhood, at 4:30 in the afternoon in summertime and children are there," he said. "They just took a heck of a gamble for this particular house, and we've got to try to figure out why." Holmes added that the family is lucky that the teen acted so swiftly and effectively.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 And one without a gun. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-06-24 17:38 |
| #8 A gun levels the playing field between a 14 year old and a 37 year old intruder, but: "did not know whether the boy had been trained to use it." Have they not seen the Combat computer games 14 year olds play these days for hours? One intruder/one shot is not uncommon in Combat Mission:Shock Force. |
| Posted by: Clith Sleng8612 2012-06-24 16:08 |
| #7 I don't know, well enough to talk sounds like a good shot to me. Make sure the kid knows its not his fault, its the perp's. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-06-24 14:55 |
| #6 Holmes said that the gun the teen grabbed was his father's, but did not know whether the boy had been trained to use it. The "training" was not obviously not extensive. Only one shot fired. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-24 12:15 |
| #5 The kid just earned a Combat Meritorious promotion to adulthood. Sign him up to vote, and buy him a beer. |
| Posted by: Matt 2012-06-24 11:56 |
| #4 My bet is his babysitting services become very much in demand. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-06-24 02:49 |
| #3 Charges might be for a"loaded" gun in easy access of a child, mine, my kids how to load the family house guns. |
| Posted by: Steven 2012-06-24 00:57 |
| #2 Chris, more likely charges against the parents for leaving a gun where children could get it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-06-24 00:37 |
| #1 good for him!!!! Wonder how long the MSM starts yelling for charges too be filed against the young man? Like they wanted too do with the man in texas who killed the an molesting his daughter but they didn't want too come right out and say it. |
| Posted by: chris 2012-06-24 00:31 |