Phoenix Babysitting Sibling Shoots Armed Intruder
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(The Blaze/AP) — A 14-year-old boy shot and nearly killed an intruder who broke into his Phoenix home and pulled a gun on him while he was watching his three younger siblings, police said Saturday.
The teen and his siblings, ages 8, 10 and 12, were at home alone when a woman rang the doorbell on Friday. A common enough occurrence, the boy still chose not to open the door because he didn’t recognize the woman.
Quickly escalating into a far more dangerous situation, the 14-year-old rushed his siblings upstairs after he heard a loud bang on the door, grabbing his father’s handgun on the way.
When he got to the top of the stairs, he saw an armed man break through the front door and point a gun at him.
Acting swiftly, he reportedly shot the 37-year-old man, who was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition to undergo surgery. However, he is expected to survive and will be booked into jail within the week on counts of aggravated assault and burglary, police Officer James Holmes said.
The suspect did not get a shot off, according to police. He also declined to release his name until he is booked into jail.
While the woman who rang the doorbell got away, Holmes hailed the teen’s actions, and his parents for teaching the children 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.”
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.
“As ugly as this is, and as much as this family is going through, we don’t have injured children on our hands,” he said.
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/03/05/boy-13-fatally-shoots-brother-10.html
Tit for tat. I bet you find a whole lot more stories like the one I posted than the one you did.
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As Carole King says, " and on the whole it was a very good year, for the undertaker".
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Posted Today, 02:04 PM
http://www.dispatch....brother-10.html
Tit for tat. I bet you find a whole lot more stories like the one I posted than the one you did. Cysko
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The 14 yr old and his siblings had their lives saved. and the ten year old was a victim of extremely irrespoinsible gun handling,
not to mention extremely dangerous, and sadly, in this case, fatal.
I don't get your response. My link is indicative of the excellent need for proper training in the handling and respect of guns that includes training children.
Your link is indicative of the dire consequences that occur when no training is done. Which, I assume because you never use the gun in the home
for play, and you never point it at anyone.
etc etc etc. Your link is very, very sad. But I could come up with links deaths of children by one playing with a lighter. @@
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You really think that robber was going to shoot 4 children?
Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody! -
Posted Today, 02:04 PM
http://www.dispatch....brother-10.html
Tit for tat. I bet you find a whole lot more stories like the one I posted than the one you did. Cysko
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The 14 yr old and his siblings had their lives saved. and the ten year old was a victim of extremely irrespoinsible gun handling,
not to mention extremely dangerous, and sadly, in this case, fatal.
I don't get your response. My link is indicative of the excellent need for proper training in the handling and respect of guns that includes training children.
Your link is indicative of the dire consequences that occur when no training is done. Which, I assume because you never use the gun in the home
for play, and you never point it at anyone.
etc etc etc. Your link is very, very sad. But I could come up with links deaths of children by one playing with a lighter. @@
Posted Today, 02:04 PM
http://www.dispatch....brother-10.html
Tit for tat. I bet you find a whole lot more stories like the one I posted than the one you did. Cysko
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The 14 yr old and his siblings had their lives saved. and the ten year old was a victim of extremely irrespoinsible gun handling,
not to mention extremely dangerous, and sadly, in this case, fatal.
I don't get your response. My link is indicative of the excellent need for proper training in the handling and respect of guns that includes training children.
Your link is indicative of the dire consequences that occur when no training is done. Which, I assume because you never use the gun in the home
for play, and you never point it at anyone.
etc etc etc. Your link is very, very sad. But I could come up with links deaths of children by one playing with a lighter. @@
I wouldnt trust you to train an ape to peel bananas, much less train a child to use a firearm.
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What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
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What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
Obviously a smart one
duh
He saved his stuff
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You really think that robber was going to shoot 4 children?
Well, even though stuff like that never ever happens, at least we won't have to find out at least in this 1 situation.
WSS
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What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
A smart one. Many gun enthusiasts teach their children young, gun safety. They understand the importance, just like anything else. While living in Wisconsin at 12 years old, I had access to a .22 and a shotgun. Our house was frequented by black bears, although I never had to use one, my step father did a couple times and had to shoot to scare the bear away, yes trying to break in. Before even shooting we sat and talked about safety.
Luck is Tim Couch. Big, Dumb Goofy, slow thinking QB - Ghoolie, 2-28-12 -
So sex ed at 17
Gun handling at 6
got it
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What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
A smart one. Many gun enthusiasts teach their children young, gun safety. They understand the importance, just like anything else. While living in Wisconsin at 12 years old, I had access to a .22 and a shotgun. Our house was frequented by black bears, although I never had to use one, my step father did a couple times and had to shoot to scare the bear away, yes trying to break in. Before even shooting we sat and talked about safety.
A smart one. Many gun enthusiasts teach their children young, gun safety. They understand the importance, just like anything else. While living in Wisconsin at 12 years old, I had access to a .22 and a shotgun. Our house was frequented by black bears, although I never had to use one, my step father did a couple times and had to shoot to scare the bear away, yes trying to break in. Before even shooting we sat and talked about safety.
I'm just very skeptical about entrusting a child that young with a gun. Then again, maybe I'm biased because I grew up with an idiot that loaded a shotgun then pointed it at us as a joke.
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A smart one. Many gun enthusiasts teach their children young, gun safety. They understand the importance, just like anything else. While living in Wisconsin at 12 years old, I had access to a .22 and a shotgun. Our house was frequented by black bears, although I never had to use one, my step father did a couple times and had to shoot to scare the bear away, yes trying to break in. Before even shooting we sat and talked about safety.
I'm just very skeptical about entrusting a child that young with a gun. Then again, maybe I'm biased because I grew up with an idiot that loaded a shotgun then pointed it at us as a joke.
I'm just very skeptical about entrusting a child that young with a gun. Then again, maybe I'm biased because I grew up with an idiot that loaded a shotgun then pointed it at us as a joke.
Yea I would be biased too. It is very important for them to learn at a young age.
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What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
What kind of parent makes a handgun easily accessible to a bunch of unsupervised kids less than 14 years old?
When we grew up, you knew not to touch dads guns or you would get your ass kicked. Plus he showed all of us how to use them safely. This was before states passed laws that you have to buy a gun safe.
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I'm just very skeptical about entrusting a child that young with a gun. Then again, maybe I'm biased because I grew up with an idiot that loaded a shotgun then pointed it at us as a joke.
Yea I would be biased too. It is very important for them to learn at a young age.
Yea I would be biased too. It is very important for them to learn at a young age.
It's important, if you're going to have guns around, to teach a child responsibility. However giving them free access to the firearms unsupervised is another matter.
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You really think that robber was going to shoot 4 children?
Well we know for sure 'that' robber won't kill 'those' 4 kids.
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Good for that kid.
And nobody is suggesting that Americans shouldn't be allowed to own guns and keep them in their homes and use them to protect themselves. Only cranks think that.
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A smart one. Many gun enthusiasts teach their children young, gun safety. They understand the importance, just like anything else. While living in Wisconsin at 12 years old, I had access to a .22 and a shotgun. Our house was frequented by black bears, although I never had to use one, my step father did a couple times and had to shoot to scare the bear away, yes trying to break in. Before even shooting we sat and talked about safety.
I'm just very skeptical about entrusting a child that young with a gun. Then again, maybe I'm biased because I grew up with an idiot that loaded a shotgun then pointed it at us as a joke.
I'm just very skeptical about entrusting a child that young with a gun. Then again, maybe I'm biased because I grew up with an idiot that loaded a shotgun then pointed it at us as a joke.
I don't blame him with your attitude.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
I wouldnt trust you to train an ape to peel bananas, much less train a child to use a firearm.
Cysko
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hardy har har.
Truth is, I have. I've taught several friends' and a neighbor's kids gun safety. They were all at least ten yrs old.
I've gotten great compliments from the parents. Those kids even carried their toy guns differently, like a real one.
I told em that's good practice. Like when we teach them to ride a 4 wheeler.
Safety safety, common sense, safety, proper handling, forget peer pressure to take dangerous chances.
It only takes one mistake to be fatal, or permanent injury and permanent heartache.
A couple are now eighteen, and one was out riding 4 wheelers down southern ohio way.
One of the kids in the group got badly injured by not opting to ride smart. He ended up with a broken shoulder, and
hip, knee and back damage. At least he was only one of two who were wearing helmets. The guy I taught convinced him to wear his helmet,
as he was wearing his..
The kid I taught, refused to take the dangerous jump. I'm proud of him.
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I'm just very skeptical about entrusting a child that young with a gun. Then again, maybe I'm biased because I grew up with an idiot that loaded a shotgun then pointed it at us as a joke.
I don't blame him with your attitude.
I don't blame him with your attitude.
Loaded gun pointed at my face, hilarious.
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