Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon
A 71 year old resident of New Haven, Connecticut had to use deadly force to defend himself at around 8am on Sunday morning when his neighbor allegedly attacked him with a knife.
According to WTNH, the suspect in the case is identified as 23 year old Leroy Brown.
We’re reasonable sure it’s not the same Leroy Brown from Jim Croce’s 1973 song, ‘Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown’. Although the name all of sudden became quite ironic for the suspect.
Police aren’t yet saying what started the altercation, but they did take the 71 year old in for questioning. He was later charged on Sunday with first-degree assault in the shooting.
The elderly man was the person who called 911 and police say he is cooperating with the investigation. The suspect is listed in critical condition at an area hospital after being shot in the head.
The elderly resident is not believed to have been harmed during the incident. He is claiming he fired in self defense in the incident.
We’ll update this post as more information is made available. We aren’t yet classifying this one as a defensive gun use until we get more details.
According to what’s written here, the 71 year-old man should never have been arrested, but we don’t know all the details because we don’t know what he said to the cops during his “questioning”. It may be just a slip of the tongue that got him charged. (the cops will use any excuse to lock someone up)
The lesson here is that he should never have spoken to the cops at all, and I’m willing to bet that he did so without talking to a lawyer first.
Yeh, take a lesson from the boys in blue. All one should say if anything, is I was in fear of my life, I thought he was going to kill me! Rule #1. Shut up. Don’t say anything. Rule #2, 3, etc, shut up. Everything, did you get that? Everything CAN and WILL be used against you in a court of law. Duh!