Senior Citizen attacked by teens...shoots two

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:22:22

Three teens knocked the 65 year old off his bike on a bike trail and then attacked him. He shot two killing one. I am guessing this is one of those cases that can go either way as far as him being procecuted. If you read the story you will note that they dont mention the attack until near the end of the article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46143485/ns ... nd_courts/

scott9050 · Post by **scott9050** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:35:53

They aren't prosecuting the man, he was attacked 3 on 1 with them trying to rob him. There was a numbers disadvantage, they are much younger, they were committing a felony etc. etc. etc.

skeeterss0 · Post by **skeeterss0** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:36:45

Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams and Cumru Township Police Chief Jed Habecker will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. at the Berks County District Attorney’s Office to discuss the fatal shooting that occurred Wednesday in the township.

The District Attorney’s decision on justification will be announced at that time

Hopefully we will hear more on this

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:40:52

skeeterss0 wrote:
Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams and Cumru Township Police Chief Jed Habecker will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. at the Berks County District Attorney’s Office to discuss the fatal shooting that occurred Wednesday in the township.

The District Attorney’s decision on justification will be announced at that time
Hopefully we will hear more on this

And hopefully he walks. These cases always worry me as you never know how they will turn out.

Hocktl · Post by **Hocktl** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:41:31

Man, sad story but I would have done the same if my assumptions on what led up to it are true.

Rays197 · Post by **Rays197** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:49:06

Title should have been " Three teens attack 65 year old man"! Msnbc will spin some stuff and make the punk ass kids seem like the victims.

Remington · Post by **Remington** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:53:57

I agree that this is a sad and sobering story. And I agree that the title was misleading. The shooting seems to have occured during an attempted robbery and not just because the three thugs knocked the man off his bicycle.

Sometimes I wish that Paul Harvey was still with us and able to inform us with "the rest of the story" along the lines that the grand jury decided that the attempted-robbery victim was justified for the shootings and opined unanimously that the third thug was lucky to not get shot too because the legally armed citizen was only carrying a double barreled derringer and that he was legally blind in an eye.

Riposite · Post by **Riposite** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:08:20

yeah that is kind of biased the misleading way they frame it at first to sound as if he just shot them for bumping him. I wonder how many people just skim the headlines and never read the story go away thinking "just a gun nut"

Kreutz · Post by **Kreutz** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:21:43

Reading is a multicultural paradise, how can these "teens" have done such a thing?

OleMan · Post by **OleMan** » Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:05:45

Perhaps a hopeful sign for the for the victim (the 65 yr old man) - the police released him after consultation with the District Attorney, who according to Wikipedia, is a Democrat. Perhaps there was physical evidence or there were witnesses that confirmed the he was subjected to a violent assault and therefore will not be prosecuted.

Diomed · Post by **Diomed** » Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:26:58

Kreutz wrote:Reading is a multicultural paradise, how can these "teens" have done such a thing?

It was at 11am on a Wednesday, right? I figure they're honor students who didn't have any classes at the time and were excused from school. That mean old man fell off his bike and the honor students were just trying to help him back on it when he shot them, totally unprovoked.

Kreutz · Post by **Kreutz** » Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:07:34

Diomed wrote:It was at 11am on a Wednesday, right? I figure they're honor students who didn't have any classes at the time and were excused from school. That mean old man fell off his bike and the honor students were just trying to help him back on it when he shot them, totally unprovoked.

Lemme fix this for ya....

Diomed wrote:It was at 11am on a Wednesday, right? I figure they're honor students who didn't have any classes at the time and were excused from school. That mean racist white devil man fell off his stolen from indigenous people bike and the honor students were just trying to help him back on it when he shot them with a machinegun he bought at a gun show/Klan convention, totally provoked by his hatred of "teens".

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