John Henry Spooner, left; Patricia Larry, right, holds a photo of her slain son, Darius Simmons (AP)
Yahoo News further to our earlier post
In a case that bears some striking similarities to George Zimmerman's, a 76-year-old Milwaukee man is set to stand trial this week in the 2012 shooting death a 13-year-old boy he had accused of stealing from him.
Police say John Henry Spooner confronted Darius Simmons, who lived next door with his mother, as the teen took out the trash. Spooner, who is white, had suspected that Simmons, who was black, stole $3,000 worth of shotguns from him, and demanded that the sixth-grader return them. Simmons denied stealing the guns, and his mother, Patricia Larry, told Spooner to go back inside.
Instead, prosecutors say, Spooner pulled out a handgun and shot the 13-year-old in the chest from near-point blank range.
"When police arrived, Spooner was still on the sidewalk, holding the gun," according to the criminal complaint. "When told to drop the weapon, he placed it on the ground and told police, 'Yeah, I shot him.'"
Sorry, but I fail to see the similarities to the Zimmerman case. Spooner was a gun owner who believed in taking the law into his own hands, racially profiled the black kid who lived next door and killed him even though he was unarmed.
Wait, on second thought,...
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Did the child attack Spooner? I don't see the similarities here.
ReplyDeleteExcept for the part about the kid being 4 years younger, not assaulting the person who shot him, and the shooter not calling the police for help, it's pretty similar.
ReplyDeleteSerious culture problems! Godless living, Godless Gov, horrible activist media, Rap messages, thuggishness, sports idolatry, crime, fear, one-sided civil rights laws, ignorance, hatred of whites, rioting over anything/everything while acting like crazed animals and many more problems keep racial tensions high. Especially the NAACP, New Black Panthers, SPLC (the lowest), Al Not-so-Sharpton, and all of these activist groups are there simply to keep the tension high. Most of this is taught at an early age. Teams have formed once again and its Us v Them once more. After much progress, now, division. Shame.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's all their fault. Spooner had no choice faced with all that.
DeleteOne case has accusations made followed by cold blooded murder, followed by defiant bragging.
ReplyDeleteThe other involves calling the police to investigate a potentially suspicious person, following them to tell the police where the person had gone, a fight occurring, a shooting that was either an escalation of the fight or an act of self defense, and then a cooperative attitude with police instead of a defiant and bragging one.
Your conflation of two scenarios, so different from each other, based on superficial similarities (older v. younger, black v. other race) and your assumptions about the motives of the individuals (things that you cannot know about any of the parties involved) is a dishonest ploy to try to manipulate the truth and score points with people incapable of rationality.
It's beneath you.
You're right, of course they're very different.
DeleteThese articles conveniently keep omitting whether the kid actually stole his property. I think this will come out later on and will be a game changer.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter if the kid did. It would still be Murder One.
DeleteIn every state that I know of, you cant use deadly force to protect property. Or to prevent escape unless you can sell that the escape will result in death or great bodily harm of another.
DeleteI don't think that's right. I believe in some states you can use deadly force to protect property. I know it's sick, but I think that's the way it is in some of your true gun-lovin' States.
DeleteIn those cases, you can protect property that is being stolen at the moment. You can't legally go after just anybody days later.
DeleteMILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man who suspected his 13-year-old neighbor of breaking into his home and stealing weapons was convicted Wednesday of fatally shooting the boy as the teen's mother looked on. Now, jurors will decide whether the 76-year-old defendant was mentally ill at the time.
ReplyDeleteA jury deliberated for about an hour before finding John Henry Spooner guilty of first-degree intentional homicide. Surveillance video from his own security cameras showed him confronting Darius Simmons in May 2012, pointing a gun at him from about 6 feet away and shooting him in the chest.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/18/wisconsin-man-76-guilty-in-fatal-shooting-13-year-old-neighbor/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz2ZSKOo95K