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Posted: 8/19/2006 5:06:42 PM EST
Intruder fatally shot
Fatality third in Escambia since 'Stand Your Ground' law passed Amy Sowder PensacolaNewsJournal.com Law enforcement and attorneys say the local nurse who fatally shot an intruder at her Navy Point home Saturday would have been protected by state law before the “Stand Your Ground” law passed. Rhonda Eubanks, 57, a Baptist Hospital nurse, was alone at her home on the 100 block of N.W. Gilliland Road, in a neighborhood southwest of Sunset Avenue, Sgt. Mike Ward said Tuesday. The woman used a .38-caliber handgun to shoot Vincent Demond Wesley, 29, of Pensacola, in the head as he charged toward her, Ward said. Investigators have no evidence that Eubanks had any formal training in shooting a firearm. Assistant State Attorney David Rimmer was at the scene Saturday and saw the location of the body of the intruder, Vincent Demond Wesley, 29, of Pensacola. “Preliminarily, it looks like a justifiable shooting,” he said. “He was laying face-down, under the carport, only a few feet from her door. "His head was closest to the door.” Early evidence indicates that he was shot in the head approaching the woman’s front door, Rimmer said. The woman was alone at her home -- a mauve-shuttered house with a manicured lawn -- about 7:45 p.m. Saturday when Wesley twice tried to enter her house, Escambia deputies said. By the second attempt, she was armed and ready. "It's pretty crazy," said Sgt. Mike Ward, a Sheriff's Office spokesman. "(She) shot and killed the intruder." Deputies are not releasing the woman's name in order to protect her. However, through neighborhood interviews, investigators have pieced together a series of events that ended with Wesley's death outside the house on the 100 block of N.W. Gilliland Road near Jardine Road. The neighborhood is southwest of Sunset Avenue. Starting about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Wesley argued with someone whom investigators and neighbors could not identify. Neighbor Debbie Palmer, 27, said she heard a gunshot as she was eating spaghetti at her neighbor's apartment on Jardine Road, which is next door to Wesley's apartment. Before the gunfire, she heard someone beating on the shared wall and throwing items. About 7:45 p.m., Wesley entered the backyard of the N.W. Gilliland Road home, deputies said in a report. Wesley attempted to enter the home, startling the woman. Then he left and attempted to carjack a vehicle driving past the house, the report stated. Neighbors confirmed that scenario, saying Wesley attempted to steal several empty vehicles before the attempted carjacking. "I believe he got what he had coming to him," Palmer said. "He had no right to steal anybody's vehicle or anything." When the carjacking didn't work, Wesley returned to the Gilliland Road home and began charging at the woman, who had retrieved a firearm, the sheriff's report stated. Fearing for her safety, the woman shot him dead. The shooting death is the third of this type in Escambia County since the "Stand Your Ground" law was passed Oct. 1, Ward said. The Florida statute -- the first of its kind in the United States -- allows the use of deadly force when a person reasonably believes it's necessary to prevent the commission of a "forcible felony." Richard Piovesan, 44, of Pensacola died in a shooting on Oct. 12, which was 11 days after the law passed. He was shot following an argument with a neighbor over money and a piece of wood. Tyrone Fyoungious Preyer, 29, of Pensacola died in March by gunfire as he broke into an occupied home. The most recent event has at least one neighbor thinking about protecting himself. Since March, Charles Robbins, 50, has resided across the street from Saturday's shooting. "I've been considering buying a gun ever since I moved here," Robbins said. "This kind of tilts it in that direction. I've had my eye on a .45 (caliber handgun) in a pawn shop." Link |
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beat me to it |
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me too. I was like, WTF? |
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Well good for ol' Vincent!
Nice to see he managed to leave this earthly coil while providing a good lesson to those still here |
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The police didn't release her name. The paper found out her name and then published it. They've received a full ration of shit from members of the public as a result. In the meantime, they've checked the bad-guy and he's still dead. |
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Gotta love the media. Let's ID the poor lady for all the scumbag's friends. I've dealt with those jackasses for so long I have difficulty controlling my urge to vomit.
Good shoot BTW: who says .38's are ineffective? |
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Oddly enough, the scumbag's family started harassing the poor woman the very next day. One such encounter involved a woman driving by her house and making a shooting motion with her hands. Our elderly nurse called the police. The police chose to pay a visit to Scumbag's relatives to discuss their behavior. I don't know what the police told them, but there have not been any other reported incidents. In all fairness though, the Scumbag lived very close and the family would have known who shot him without the paper's assistance. |
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For the 125th time since passage of Florida's "Stand-Your-Ground" law, which relieves crime victims of the duty to retreat before defending themselves with deadly force even outside their homes (provided the victim is lawfully at the scene of the attack), a Florida news outlet (in this case the Pensacola News Journal) has made mention of the law in a story which is entirely unrelated to the new statute.. "I don't know exactly why we do it, but we all do," said Clive Codfondler, editor-in-chief of the News Journal. Florida law has always allowed anyone - even a bystander - to use deadly force to terminate a forcible felony no matter where it occurs. "The new law allows the use of deadly force in a vanishingly small category of cases where it wasn't already permitted, but I guess the thinking is that mentioning the law in every self-defense case in the State will give the editors of The New York Times and The Boston Globe more Lexis-Nexis hits when they decide to write their next Wild West / Blood-in-the-Streets piece for the Sunday supplement." "Our readers," Codfondler concluded, "tend to think that if good people killed more bad people, the world would be a better place. I tend to agree, but if I want to keep my wire service feeds, I have to play ball with the big boys." |
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Pretty much spot-on. We live in a redneck suburbia and nobody (other than the Scumbag's relatives) have any issue with the shooting. "Scumbag attacks woman. Woman shoots Scumbag. Period." We're all happy when we hear things like that. However, a journalist is a journalist is a journalist. It's their job to wring their hands, moan about the plight of the Scumbag and how it is society's fault that the event happened. |
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Let us know if there is any change in his condition. |
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That right there folks is sig line material!! vmax84 |
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Oh, and he still has a hole in the front of his melon. |
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Nice friggin' shot! Head shot on a moving target, under extreme stress and panic and she nailed it the first time! I don't care if the dude was three feet from her when she took that shot, that was still excellent shooting. At that range, no sense and waiting to run a failure to stop drill...just drill the scumbag in the head! Like the cherry on the sunday! KOTB |
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Don't sound like she needed any, either. |
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I am not aware of anyone makin such claims. Certainly not Vincent Demond Wesley, 29, formerly of Pensecola
Is this the home defense equivilent of making sure that you have clean underwear on in case you are in an accident? |
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Neighbors may have gave up the name. |
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here is our dirt bag:
www.dc.state.fl.us/InmateReleases/detail.asp?Bookmark=1&From=list&SessionID=1013092838 non violent drug offenders my ass! |
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No zombification with a headshot. |
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Funny, I didn't see his name listed anywhere in the PNJ masthead. t |
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By the way, her next move might be to file suit against the dead man's estate. That way, as long as she gets hers filed first, his survivors will be at an extreme disadvantage if they try to sue her.
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He's non-violent now. |
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It's hard to be violent when Granny has turned your head into a canoe. |
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for no formal training, that's a pretty good shot to get a head shot on a guy charging at you.
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Word |
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oh man you kill me! |
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I wonder if they could mention "stand your ground" any more times? Was the headline by any chance "STAND YOUR GROUND LAW PASSED: STREETS RUN RED WITH BLOOD".
Shit that would've been a legal shoot in NY. |
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Good Shot Lady! Another bit of bleach in the gene pool. Well done!
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But this cannot be! It defies arfcom logic that an untrained woman can kill a mighty burglar with, of all things, a friggin' .38 revolver! And yet these news clippings show up here all the time... If only she had a m4gery, he would have been deader. |
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Codfondler? I think I've written pro- RKBA Letters to the Editor aginst that MF'er's articles... |
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owned |
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Doesn't she now have immunity from civil liability that she did not have before the law?
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If the shooting is no-billed before a grand jury or is ruled a righteous shooting, she has civil immunity. |
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Na na na na... Na na na na... Hey hey hey... He'll fry.... Thank God that this 57 year old woman was armed. |
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Hopefully positive press like this will cause other states to adopt the same law.
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Hmmmmn, let's go print her name AND address in the paper! No don't worry about retaliation from angry family members or anything.
The media is not your friend folks. |
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LOL. Enjoy your dirt nap. Remember to send us postcards. |
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Codfondler
Codfondler Codfondler Bet they never made fun of him during rollcall! |
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