Home invasion

Glad to read when the good guys win. Kid apparently has good aim! I hope they charge the other guy with attempted murder considering they shot at the kid.

I noticed non of the big media seemed to report on it.
 
jonnyghost said:
Glad to read when the good guys win. Kid apparently has good aim! I hope they charge the other guy with attempted murder considering they shot at the kid.

I noticed non of the big media seemed to report on it.
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Yeah I didn't see this on the news, and I agree I am glad the good guy win and that the boy kept his cool and knew how to use a gun . He most likely saved his life .
 
Update:

Targeted by teen resident’s gunfire, Ladson burglary suspect says he was just helping a friend

A suspect in a Ladson burglary that prompted an alleged accomplice’s shooting death said Wednesday that he was only helping out a friend when he somehow wound up in jail.

Ira Jerome Bennett, 28, said during a bond hearing that he knew nothing about the break-in at a home on Elderwood Drive, where a 13-year-old boy grabbed a pistol often used by police and opened fire Tuesday afternoon to fend off the burglars.

“All I did was take a friend to the hospital,” Bennett said from a room in the Charleston County jail, “and I ended up here.”

But sheriff’s deputies said that his friend, Lamar Anthwan Brown, 31, of Summerville, had been the target of the boy’s gunfire and that Bennett drove a getaway car to Trident Medical Center. With three bullet wounds, Brown died there.

Both men have criminal histories.

At the court proceeding a day later, Bennett pleaded with Magistrate Thomas Lynn for a chance to be freed. But in denying bail, Lynn told Bennett that he should stay in jail “until this stuff is sorted out.”

No new details of the shooting were revealed as a result of the hearing. The boy’s mother had told The Post and Courier earlier that she had urged the teen to defend himself if he ever found himself in peril. The family members on Wednesday quickly left the courtroom as one of them shielded his face from television cameras.

Deputies from the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said the boy was alone when a car pulled up behind his house shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday.

The boy looked through a back window in the brick house and saw a man with a gun, Lt. Chris Brokaw, a sheriff’s spokesman, said Wednesday. The teen fetched his mother’s pistol, a 9 mm Glock 17. The full-size semi-automatic pistol is common among law officers worldwide.

When the armed would-be intruder started breaking in, the boy started shooting through the back door, Brokaw said. The man returned fire. As he retreated, the perpetrator was thought to have dropped a .45-caliber Colt pistol in the backyard.

The boy kept shooting as the car pulled away.

Investigators were still uncertain Wednesday about how many shots were fired, Brokaw said. They also were still looking into whether the burglars had a specific reason for targeting the house.

Bennett showed up at the hospital in a gray Chevrolet Sonic that was riddled with bullet holes. The boy’s neighbors identified the small sedan as the burglars’ getaway car that was seen leaving their community, arrest affidavits stated.

None of the witnesses were said in the documents to have identified Bennett or Brown as the culprits.

Bennett told authorities at the hospital that he was driving on the interstate when someone fired at his car.

When he appeared through a video link for the bond hearing, Bennett said he had just recently earned his commercial driver’s license and had been contracted to do repairs on flood-damaged homes. The resident of Kent Avenue in North Charleston wanted to get out of jail so he could continue that work.

“I don’t know what’s going on,” he said after raising his right hand and swearing to be truthful. “I just don’t understand the charges.”

The fear that the ordeal caused in the boy’s family was apparent in the courtroom.

The loved ones were there, but they chose not to stand up and speak, victim advocate Easter LaRoche said. LaRoche asked the magistrate to consider the crime’s seriousness and bar Bennett from contacting the family.

“They’re very, very distraught right now,” she said.

Sheriff’s Detective Mitchell Wilson also hinted at the emotional impact on the boy who had been forced to open fire to protect himself and the property.

“Unfortunately, a 13-year-old lost his innocence,” Wilson said. “He had to defend himself.”

Investigators had “probable cause” to believe Bennett’s car was the one in the boy’s sights, Wilson said without hinting at further evidence against the suspect.

But Bennett pleaded with the magistrate and insisted that his car wasn’t there. When Lynn ordered him to be held behind bars, Bennett huffed and quickly walked out of the room.
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His car wasn't there but was riddled with bullet holes? :hmm:
 
The neighborhood where this happened, Woodside Manor, is notorious for crime. It's lower income suburban housing; simple one-story ranch houses, rundown. Everyone knows it's a "not safe" neighborhood. I have friends who live there.

It's about seven miles, 18-minute drive from my house.
 
Reba said:
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His car wasn't there but was riddled with bullet holes? :hmm:
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He said he was shot by someone on the freeway , yeah right then by wasn't there any reports called in to the police if that really happen .
I agree this sound fishy to me too.
 
I thought this town was surpposed to be one safest in America,can't see how myself
 
Hmm... But what of the arguments that kids should never have access to guns?
 
Uncomfotable about 13yr old knowing about guns someone is dead after after all
 
Teach gun safety, kids as young as 5 have them in the country, its a way of life...try Texas, ND/SD, Wyoming....ect...
 
Reba said:
It's been extensively covered in our local news.

Front page of the paper:

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20151111/PC16/151119880

TV news:

http://counton2.com/ap/authorities-identify-would-be-burglar-shot-killed-by-teen/

http://www.live5news.com/story/30486621/authorities-say-would-be-burglar-shot-killed-by-13-year-old

http://www.abcnews4.com/story/30484...eged-home-invader-in-neighborhood-near-ladson
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I can see it being extensively covered in your local news , we been having a lot things happening out here so there may not be enough time to cover
news from other states all the time. Crime is happening in towns that are well off too. I been seeing towns I grew up here that were very wealthy
on the news for some crime . I don't any town is immune crime today.
 
There is nothing wrong with kids having guns, its kids that havent been taught about guns... I shot my first, a 44 Mag at 7 years old. Been around them all my life. Ive never killed anyone and I sure respect them, why? Because My dad, uncles in the military, and hunting... I was shown to respect them and life.

Now, this is something schools and parents both are lacking in todays world. I am already talking to my daughter about a CCW and my son is 5 but he know the drill if he see's a gun at a friends house or another kid with one.... its common sense, which a lot of people lack in todays world and well, you know where the government and cry babies are trying to take this.... educate those kids again, bring them up right and the government will follow ( because really, who's scared of who? )
 
I'll give the kid a 10 out of 10 for his part. The dispatcher rates about a 2. Six minutes in she asks if he is injured? Outrageous!
 
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