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Posted: 8/23/2006 11:09:28 AM EST


Worthington man charged with shooting cheerleader near cemetery
By Matthew Marx
The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:15 AM

A Worthington man has been arrested on charges that he shot into a group of teens near a cemetery, leaving a 17-year-old girl critically injured, police said.

The victim, Rachel Barezinsky, was at Ohio State University Medical Center this morning with gunshot wounds to her head and shoulder, a hospital spokesman said.

Allen S. Davis, 40, of 141 Sharon Springs Dr. is charged with five counts of felonious assault. He is in the Franklin County jail and is scheduled to appear in Municipal Court Thursday morning.

The shooting occurred shortly after 10 last night on Sharon Springs Drive, north of W. Lincoln Avenue. Barezinsky was in a car with several other teens who had driven to Walnut Grove Cemetery, Worthington Police Chief Mike Mauger said.

The teens got out of the car and heard what they thought were firecrackers, Mauger said. They jumped back into the car and circled the block, then heard more of what turned out to be gunshots, he said.

Mauger said the shots came from a house at 141 Sharon Springs Dr., where Davis lives. The house sits across from the cemetery, and local teens consider the house "spooky."

"Kids come down this street for the thrill of being scared," Mauger said. According to police, teens have occasionally run up the driveway of the house off Milton Avenue.

The teens realized that Rachel had been shot and drove north on N. High Street until they spotted police officers Jim Moran and Steve Nette in a parking lot at the corner of N. High Street and New England Avenue. Paramedics took Rachel by ambulance to OSU Medical Center.

Rachel is a cheerleader on the Thomas Worthington High School Cardinals squad. Classes start Thursday.

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I think the guy was in the wrong but I kind of understand.  This would also be treated much differently in country than in the city.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:11:13 AM EST
[#1]
So, was it some kind of accident or was he shooting at their car? I'm not sure I understand how this went down.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:11:48 AM EST
[#2]
Give me an O, give me a U, give me a C, give me an H
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:12:07 AM EST
[#3]
So,did he think they were zombies or what??
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:14:13 AM EST
[#4]
weiddddddoooooooooooooo
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:14:43 AM EST
[#5]
Maybe he thought it was a zombie horde and started popping at 'em. I mean the cemetary is a good excuse to start shooting figures in the dark, right?




Damn beat to the punch.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:15:25 AM EST
[#6]
He probably thought they were zombies... Hell I would!
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:15:27 AM EST
[#7]

Quoted:
Give me an O, give me a U, give me a C, give me an H




I'm waiting for the "full" story.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:19:11 AM EST
[#8]
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:19:56 AM EST
[#9]
I don't get it - what's the "prank" referenced in the title of the thread?  The story makes it sound like the kids:

-went to the cemetary across from this guy's house
-got out of the car
-heard firecrackers, got back into car
-drove around the block
-got shot at.

Where's the prank?  And why would psycho guy shooting into a car full of kids be treated differently in the city v. the country?
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:22:32 AM EST
[#10]

Quoted:
So, was it some kind of accident or was he shooting at their car? I'm not sure I understand how this went down.


From what I understand the guy is a bit off.  Kids were frequently going to his house and banging on the windows and doors because the house was spooky.  It is not the greatest area but not the ghetto either.

The kids bang on the windows he goes outside and fires in the air, the kids get in the car and leave.  The car goes a little way down the street turns around and comes back and as the car get close he shoots the car hitting the girl.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:24:04 AM EST
[#11]

Quoted:
I don't get it - what's the "prank" referenced in the title of the thread?  


Guessing the trespass into the closed cemetary.  Unless the cops found a few cases of eggs and TP in the teens car and some toppled grave markers.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:26:32 AM EST
[#12]
Details are still unfolding.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:28:40 AM EST
[#13]

Quoted:
OH yea, that one is a one sider story for sure!

Ok, you posted it.  The least you can do is tell us what really happened when it comes out.

Tj


I am curious as to how this will turn out too.  I will update the story as details come out.

I hope the kids get charged with trespassing.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:29:28 AM EST
[#14]
Here's a better link:  LINK

Here's a snip:  


A teenager was shot in the head and critically wounded after she took part in a dare while looking for ghosts with friends at a house considered spooky by local teens, police said Wednesday.

A man who lives in the house, Allen S. Davis, 40, was charged in the shooting and told reporters Wednesday from jail that he was trying to drive off trespassers and didn't intend to hurt the teen girls, whom he called juvenile delinquents.

He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.

"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said. "In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder."



Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:30:16 AM EST
[#15]
These things happen!
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:30:36 AM EST
[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
OH yea, that one is a one sider story for sure!

Ok, you posted it.  The least you can do is tell us what really happened when it comes out.

Tj


I am curious as to how this will turn out too.  I will update the story as details come out.

I hope the kids get charged with trespassing.


Looks more like they got charged with death to me........I guess they got what they deserved huh?
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:31:09 AM EST
[#17]
A damn unlucky shot...I bet
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:31:10 AM EST
[#18]
We could really use some more information.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:32:40 AM EST
[#19]

Quoted:
Here's a better link:  LINK

Here's a snip:  


A teenager was shot in the head and critically wounded after she took part in a dare while looking for ghosts with friends at a house considered spooky by local teens, police said Wednesday.

A man who lives in the house, Allen S. Davis, 40, was charged in the shooting and told reporters Wednesday from jail that he was trying to drive off trespassers and didn't intend to hurt the teen girls, whom he called juvenile delinquents.

He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.

"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said. "In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder."





I pray that she lives and I hope they burn the shooter.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:33:02 AM EST
[#20]
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:37:22 AM EST
[#21]

Quoted:

He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.

"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said. "In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder."


What's his screen name?
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:39:45 AM EST
[#22]

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?


I would try to verify my target if possible.  If I see Lootie then I set some ammo free, if I see a bunch of high school cheerleaders then I put some Boone's Farm on ice and start the Jack Johnson CD.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:41:50 AM EST
[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:

He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.

"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said. "In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder."


What's his screen name?



Dang, beat me to it.

Doesn't it just sound EXACTLY like so many in GD?
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:46:10 AM EST
[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:

He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.

"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said. "In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder."


What's his screen name?



Dang, beat me to it.

Doesn't it just sound EXACTLY like so many in GD?


AGNTSHA!!

Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:47:53 AM EST
[#25]
Hmm, if this was in Texas I could see the case going either way.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:49:12 AM EST
[#26]

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?


I dunno - someone with enough neurons firing to think "Gee, maybe I should ID my target before I start blasting"?
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 11:53:48 AM EST
[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:

He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.

"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said. "In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder."


What's his screen name?


Damn, I thought the same thing.  Just not laughing.  I hope that girl will be ok.  
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:08:17 PM EST
[#28]

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?


It's generally a good idea to know who/what you are aiming at before you start squeezing off rounds.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:11:28 PM EST
[#29]

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?

BINGO!!!DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner!!!
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:13:40 PM EST
[#30]
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:14:17 PM EST
[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?


I dunno - someone with enough neurons firing to think "Gee, maybe I should ID my target before I start blasting"?


You would think this was self-evident and pretty much a universal truth, but we just had a multiple page thread about three weeks back about folks arguing the other way.

"Recon by fire" just isn't a good self-defense strategy.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:19:47 PM EST
[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?

BINGO!!!DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner!!!


I wouldn't.  Window banging  (and the large amount of girlish giggling in this instance) does not equal threat.

Of course, we all know how deadly mutant cheerleaders with secret ninja skills can be.  
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:28:06 PM EST
[#33]

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?


Anyone who wants to stay out of jail.

shooter
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:28:58 PM EST
[#34]
This is what happens when you don't have enough school spirit.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:30:37 PM EST
[#35]

Quoted:
Here's a better link:  LINK

Here's a snip:  


A teenager was shot in the head and critically wounded after she took part in a dare while looking for ghosts with friends at a house considered spooky by local teens, police said Wednesday.

A man who lives in the house, Allen S. Davis, 40, was charged in the shooting and told reporters Wednesday from jail that he was trying to drive off trespassers and didn't intend to hurt the teen girls, whom he called juvenile delinquents.

He said he fired his rifle out his bedroom window Tuesday night after hearing voices outside the home, which is across the street from a cemetery and blocked from view by overgrown trees and shrubbery.

"I didn't know what their weaponry was, what their intentions were," he said. "In a situation like that, you assume the worst-case scenario if you're going to protect your family from a possible home invasion and murder."



Nutjob.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:31:18 PM EST
[#36]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?

BINGO!!!DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner!!!


I wouldn't.  Window banging  (and the large amount of girlish giggling in this instance) does not equal threat.

Of course, we all know how deadly mutant cheerleaders with secret ninja skills can be.  


He didn't fire at them until they drove off and then came back. If a group of people were attempting to break into my house (by banging through the windows), ran when I fired some warning shots, then turned around and CAME BACK, I'd think they had regrouped and assumed that they had superior firepower if they were returning AFTER they had been giving warning shots.

How was he to know they were teenage cheerleaders instead of a group of thugs about to do a drive by on a house that had just fired warning shots at them?

I would have handled the situation a lot differently, but I understand his thought process.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:31:54 PM EST
[#37]

Quoted:
This is what happens when you don't have enough school spirit.
"Who's that Spartan with a sucking chest wound?"

"It's ME! It's ME!"

Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:33:38 PM EST
[#38]
Hope he enjoys the ass pounding for being an dumbass.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:35:55 PM EST
[#39]
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:36:14 PM EST
[#40]

Quoted:
Hmm, if this was in Texas I could see the case going either way.


I would not bet the family farm on that one.

Shooting a teenage cheerleader in a car at random is "frowned upon" by most people.

You might want to avoid shooting a neighborhood Grandma collecting for United Way also.

Just some food for thought.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:40:06 PM EST
[#41]
I wonder how different this thread would be if it was "black teens" instead of "teen cheerleaders".
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:51:12 PM EST
[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who wouldn't fire at someone banging on your house windows in the middle of the night?


I dunno - someone with enough neurons firing to think "Gee, maybe I should ID my target before I start blasting"?

Agree.  He violated a cardinal rule of shooting, you ID your target.  Just shooting randomly into something is inviting disaster.  In this case, he was lucky, no one died.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 12:57:25 PM EST
[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
This is what happens when you don't have enough school spirit.
"Who's that Spartan with a sucking chest wound?"

"It's ME! It's ME!"

americasbestonline.net/peoplemagspartans.jpg



BRAVO!!!
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 1:11:08 PM EST
[#44]

Quoted:
I wonder how different this thread would be if it was "black teens" instead of "teen cheerleaders".


quite different....


...but his story would be different too...perhaps...

...who can say?
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 3:10:27 PM EST
[#45]
One thing is for sure.  If this young "lady's" parents had taught her to respect others privacy and property she would not have been shot by that man that night. Of course the paris hilton generation does not learn those things.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 3:12:49 PM EST
[#46]
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 3:14:15 PM EST
[#47]
Meh.
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 3:16:52 PM EST
[#48]
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 3:31:05 PM EST
[#49]
Link Posted: 8/23/2006 3:42:57 PM EST
[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Hmm, if this was in Texas I could see the case going either way.


I would not bet the family farm on that one.

Shooting a teenage cheerleader in a car at random is "frowned upon" by most people.

You might want to avoid shooting a neighborhood Grandma collecting for United Way also.

Just some food for thought.


Shooting someone after dark banging on your door and windows is legal in TX if you think there were damaging your house (criminial mischief under cover of darkness).  We have only their word she was shot in the car.  More likely she was shot at the house and the rest is a story made up by teens when they realized the cops would be involved.
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