“Hard to believe two, so-called friends, would take turns shooting at each other wearing a kevlar helmet, inside a house in a residential neighborhood, while using a rifle,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote.
“I mean, this is Texas, not Florida!”
OTOH Houston having notoriously loose-to-nonexistent zoning, they may have self-declared the house an indoor range.
I liked this part,
It was not clear eactly why he died while wearing the helmet, though the headwear is not supposed to provide 100% protection.
Yes, clearly he should be less than 100% dead.
My local TV station’s FB page has the story, and a lot of people are blaming the victim. A common response is “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”. Apparently, people think that ringing a doorbell is a capital offense.
I would charge it as assisted suicide.
The part I liked was where it said they were doing this inside the house. That demands a special sort of teh crazy – a deaf-wish, if you will.
It may have taken a few days, but they did arrest the shooter of the 11 year old and charge him with murder.
The shooting did not seem to involve self-defense because the shooting “wasn’t close to the house,” Houston police homicide Sgt. Michael Cass said, according to CNN affiliate KHOU.
The autopsy report indicates the boy was at least 20 feet away when he was shot — far enough not to be a threat, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare told CNN.
That jackass thinks he’s Burt Gummer.
Cass said a search warrant was served on the home, and a significant number of weapons were found inside the house.
It was only a matter of time before he killed someone.
The math on this one bothers me. The kid rang the doorbell and started to run away. He was twenty feet away from the house when the man shot him. Twenty feet might take two seconds to cover. Reacting to the doorbell takes at least a second, if you are just hanging out in your house, then at least another second to get to the door and open it.
Those numbers sound like the homeowner was aware of the kid’s approach before he got to the door. The door would have been closed (no one would ring the bell of an open door in that game). It sounds a lot like the homeowner was shooting from a window or something.
He was waiting in the shadows outside his house.
Houston ‘ding-dong-ditch’ shooting suspect ‘waited’ for children to return; charges to be upgraded, D.A. says
This is no longer a stupid gun news of the day story, but rather an evil MFer in the news story.
“Play stupid games, go to jail for life as a child murderer.”
I have no doubt the ACLU and the NRA will come galloping to his rescue.
I have no idea what stake the ACLU would have in this. I cannot recall their ever having defended a cold-blooded child murderer.
The NRA has been characteristically silent about any gun deaths, except for their utterly self-satirical response to the Sandy Hook mass murder.
Yeah. If the police or the prosecution screw up this case somehow, the ACLU might get involved, but there’s no sign of that yet, is there?
A student in a Lansing school was concerned (perceived a threat), so he took away another student’s gun, took it apart and threw away the bullets. It is wrong to fuck with someone else’s property, especially holy firearms, so naturally the offending student has been expelled.
I picture the kid doing an Elliot Spencer in Leverage - taking the gun and in three seconds completely disassembling it.
The article is strangely silent on what happened to the kid who brought a loaded gun to school.
They probably know better than to try to crack that can of worms open. They can only lose any arguments regarding gun deaths when they advocate against any gun control policies whatsoever. And that’s coming from someone who vigorously supports gun ownership and gun safety.
Just because I don’t like guns doesn’t mean I don’t know how to use them.
Beer, whiskey, blindness, all fine, but pot-heads? Never!