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On 2/18/14, 4:41 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/18/2014 11:51 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 2/18/14, 11:34 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:33:32 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

(CNN) -- A 15-year-old girl in Little Rock, Arkansas, is dead, police
say, because of a prank that went horribly and tragically wrong.

Adrian Broadway was shot in the head and died early Saturday morning.

She was with a group of teenagers who had gone to a house to do a
"retaliation" prank on another teen who'd done a prank on them on
Halloween, according to the Little Rock Police Department.

The teenagers told police they had thrown toilet paper, eggs and
mayonnaise on a car parked there.

As they were leaving, a man came out of the house and opened fire.

Broadway was struck in the head and died.

Another teenager, the driver, suffered injuries to his right arm. He
was
transported to a hospital, where he was treated and released.

Police have identified the shooting suspect as 48-year-old Willie
Noble.
He was charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of a
terroristic act and five counts of aggravated assault, they said.

Bond was set at $1 million.

"I got the news from my mom who said that Adrian had got a gun wound to
the head, and I just dropped the phone immediately and started crying,"
Broadway's friend, Laguyia Bland, told CNN affiliate KARK.

"They was trying to be teenagers," Bland said. "As you know teenagers
make mistakes, and this was one of those mistakes."

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Thank goodness they all didn't teepee the trees of some insane gun
owner.

They are over charging again. This may be second degree murder but
going for murder one is simply grand standing and they have a real
chance of being "Corey'ed" by the jury.

If you are going to charge 1st degree murder for "heat of the moment"
killings, what do you use for Mafia hit men, serial killers and Dick
Cheney? (the last one was just a bone for you Harry)

;-)

I thought I heard the charge in the Arkansas case was felony murder, and
he was charged with several of the crimes that add up to felony murder,
which include killing someone while committing an act of terrorism and
aggravated assault.

But, hey, it's Arkansas. Who really knows?

I think that all the media attention given to firearms in the past few
years (including the Zimmerman trial) has served to embolden some
irresponsible gun nuts who really shouldn't own one. The vast majority
of gun owners would never respond to a teenage prank by shooting at them.

Precisely. The SYG bull**** laws have convinced feeble-minded gun owners
that they can act out their aggressions and shoot people for any reason
they can conjure and then claim they felt threatened.