From Birmingham, AL
he shooting happened at about 2 a.m. at a home on 3rd Avenue North in the Eastlake area. Police said a man was breaking into a house when the homeowner shot him in the stomach.
The homeowner told police he did not know the suspect. Police said they are still investigating the shooting, but they did not arrest the homeowner.
The man who was shot was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
From Jacksonville, FL
A homeowner was defending himself during an armed robbery in his St. Augustine home. It’s new insight into the deadly shooting yesterday near the St. Augustine Outlets.
An affidavit for arrest warrant says four people have been charged with first degree murder because the shooting death happened during the commission of a felony. 24-year-old Paul Pettigrew died in the shooting on Cowan Road. Four men between the ages of 18 and 21 are now in custody, facing murder charges. St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Commander Chuck Mulligan says the homeowner has not been charged with any crime, and the investigation is ongoing.
The four suspects are identified as Christopher Pettigrew (who is the brother of the deceased), Zared Matthews, Jeffrey Balcom and Xavier Williams. In addition to the felony murder charge, all four suspect are charged with attempted robbery.
On Thursday, St. Johns County Undersheriff Matthew Cline said their early investigation revealed that five individuals traveled from Duval County to this part of St. Johns County for something drug-related.
“Whether their presence was known by the residents on Cowan Road as being consensual or as a robbery, we’re not quite sure yet. Everyone is being interviewed as we speak. Obviously, things didn’t go very well. There were shots fired and an individual… is deceased on scene,” says Cline.
All four suspects were arrested through the day on Thursday. “We had deputies that have suffered heat exhaustion. We’ve got deputies that are being treated at Flagler Hospital, as we speak,” says Cline. But in the end, Cline says it was a citizen tip that led to the capture of the remaining two individuals.
From Logan County, OK
A man is facing felony charges after he was caught allegedly breaking down someone’s door to steal a water bottle, according to KFOR. Deputies arrested Derrick Dumas just after they say he broke into a home near Edmond, Oklahoma and stole the bottle.
According to deputies, the homeowner woke up to a noise and discovered Dumas in front of the refrigerator with the door open. He told Dumas to “get the hell out” but Dumas replied that he was thirsty and needed water. Then Dumas grabbed some bottles of Pepsi and walked out the way he came in. The homeowner got his gun and told his wife to call 911, then followed Dumas out to the side of the house. Dumas continued wandering around the property, stopping at one point to sit and drink his Pepsi.
Dumas finally sat down on the house’s air conditioning unit and started hitting it. The homeowner told him to stop, and Dumas again said he was thirsty and needed water. This time, the homeowner gave him a bottle of water.
When police arrived, Dumas was still holding that bottle. “Probably not usual when somebody breaks into somebody else’s house just to grab a Pepsi bottle or a water bottle,” said Sgt. Alex Poe with the Logan County Sheriff’s Office. Dumas never gave police a reason for breaking in. In fact, deputies said he wasn’t speaking logically at all when the caught him. He did, however, give them a different name when they arrested him, calling himself “Derrick Boyles.”
Deputies said Dumas was lucky the homeowner didn’t try to take stronger action. “That definitely could have happened,” Sgt. Poe said. “The victim even said he grabbed a gun during the incident while it was occurring.” Dumas is charged with felony burglary, obstructing an officer, and malicious injury to property.
The homeowner told police he did not know the suspect.
“Do you know him?”
“Sure, he’s the guy with one of my bullets in his gut.”
I always get a kick out of the application of the felony-murder rule. In the FL case, one bad guy was killed and his brother is one of the knuckleheads now charged with the killing. I’m guessing that Cris Pettigrew will be unavailable to attend Paul Pettigrew’s funeral.
“stopping at one point to sit and drink his Pepsi”
HIS Pepsi? He just stole it!
“Derrick Dumas”.
Geez, it would be nice if reporters could get names right. They misspelled this tool’s last name.
Here are the missing letters: b s
I trust everyone can locate the proper place for them. (smile)
And here boys and girls are several examples of why they call it dope. Let’s see .d u m b a s s.
Do I get cookies? Cigar? Cheap Scot’s Whiskey? You know it’s cheap cause it sat around for 24 years before some one would buy it.
Dave, Good to see you are back, any damage report as to you and yours.
I just went sailing for a few days. I took my rubber ducky and my old friend Capt. Morgan. We be just fine.
Pepsi Cola hits the spot, makes you vomit in the pot. Circa 1958.
All I want is a Pepsi and she wouldn’t give it to me
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi,
And she wouldn’t give it to me, just a Pepsi!
Cheeburgur! Cheeburgur!
Too bad the AL homeowner didn’t apply the One More Taxpayers Savings Shot. Now the perp will be given hospital care, a trial, a defense attorney, and jail time……..all on the taxpayers dollar.
Hell, I’d even spring for the cost of the extra rounds expended to bring this perp to his DRT reward. Cheap enough for the ROI.
Instead the perp escaped being given what he so richly deserved, a cheap and hasty funeral.