Local news reports
A Huntington, W.Va., woman accused of shooting and wounding her
father during an altercation late last month was arraigned in the Common
Pleas Court of Gallia County on Friday.
Sophia N. Chattin, 28,
pleaded not guilty to a second-degree-felony felonious assault charge
during a hearing on Friday before Common Pleas Judge D. Dean Evans.
When he arrived, the victim
reported that both his wife and daughter were at the Prospect Church
Road residence, and, after an argument ensued, he was allegedly attacked
by Waneta Myers with a baseball bat and he was subsequently allegedly
attacked by Chattin with a golf club.
The victim further reported
that he was shocked with a taser before Chattin produced a gun and
threatened to “blow his head off.”
Reportedly, after Waneta Myers
told her daughter not to shoot Carl Myers, Chattin allegedly lowered
her aim and shot her father in the hip with her .38 caliber pistol.
After
their arrival, deputies secured the suspects, as well as the firearm
which reportedly contained five live rounds and one spent round.
Mike,
ReplyDeleteFederal Law alone contains so many factors that disqualify one from possessing any firearm that it is rather unlikely that the suspect in question was in fact a "Lawful" gun owner.
It is also likely, based on the facts of the incident that the suspect had committed a Felony by carrying a concealed weapon even before the assault began. There is no evidence that the suspect was a concealed carry permit holder (you would have prominently stated so if such were true), and therefore it must be assumed that her carry of the firearm -and taser- was unlawful.
Actually, you reminded me that she may have been a concealed carry permit holder as well.
DeleteThe reason I called her a lawful gun owner is because the charges did not include "felon in possession" or anything like that.
Forgetting, as you often do, that not all charges are filed immediately.
DeleteLocal news tonight: Guy calls police, say's he's feeling depressed and having suicidal thoughts, plus homicidal thoughts about his girlfriend. Cops come and find him in the street, along with a backpack he says has a bomb in it. He's been subjected to an emergency commitment on suicide watch--no word on if the bomb was real. News announcer's commentary: "Police said that charges could be filed in the future, but right now, the man is not being treated as a suspect."
DeleteHow could they not have filed charges against him yet? And why did someone tell the reporter he wasn't being treated as a suspect? Are they just going to release him from the hospital and not charge him? Fat chance. There was just some miscommunication and bad reporting.
But according to MikeB, this doesn't happen in gun cases. They always report everything in perfect and exhaustive detail. If there's not a felon in posession charge, they are a lawful owner, and probably a concealed carry permit holder, but the reporter failed to ask this as part of a conspiracy to keep the crime stats down with regards to Concealed Carriers.
Sure guys. They probably need a good couple weeks to determine if she was a disqualified person.
Delete1: The cops may not have determined that yet--it may take a day or so for them to run a full check to see if they can find anything.
Delete2: My point in my post is that the reporters do shoddy reporting and don't know enough about how the system works to get everything right at every time. An article's silence regarding prohibited person status or carry permit status proves nothing. Maybe the person was a lawful owner, maybe they even had a permit--maybe neither is true. Either way, the reporter didn't get that information, so we don't know.
Isn't this more an argument to license and register families? After all, families are the number one cause of domestic abuse.
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