A crazy story


An Ohio man has been charged with murder after he admitted to shooting an Uber driver who had been tricked by a scammer to pick up a package at his home.

The fatal incident, which was captured on the female driver's dashcam, took place in the town of South Charleston on March 25 at around 11:25am.

William Brock, 81, told police he had been receiving fraudulent phone calls from scammers demanding money and had been threatened by them in the weeks running up to the altercation.

One of the suspected scammers is believed to have messaged Uber delivery driver Letha Hall, 61, through the app to tell her to pick up a package at Brock's home.

Hall showed up at Brock's home and according to police, 'made no threats or assaults' toward him and just asked about the package.

Fearing she was going to hurt him, Brock shockingly whipped out a gun and demanded she identify who had sent her.


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Much of the scene was captured on the video camera in Hall's vehicle and released by the Clark County Sheriff's Office.

Brock also allegedly took her phone and wouldn't let her leave, though he never dialed 911 or called for help, police said.

Hall tried to get back to her car when Brock shot her. Afterward, Hall can be heard screaming in pain, while Brock threatens to 'shoot the other leg.'

There was apparently a 'scuffle' between the two, during which Brock asked Hall who she worked for, then he shot her again and then a third time after a 'further exchange.'

She was shot in the upper left side of her torso, one to the upper front of her left leg, one on the inside of her left knee and one in the center mass of her sternum.

Hall was taken to a local hospital but died while undergoing surgery, authorities said.

Brock, who himself suffered injuries to his head and ear, only called 911 after he had shot Hall.

He told deputies - 'without being asked' as they put it - that Hall was there to 'take my money.'














Brock said that Hall attacked him after he shot her by slamming his head into the door of her car and then tried to escape, so he shot her again, thinking she was going to get a gun of her own.

'He provided he didn't want to shoot her but he thought she was going to kill him,' the incident report said.

Brock is being charged with murder because he didn't call 911 and because there was 'no active threat presented by Ms. Hall at any time during the encounter.'

He posted a $200,000 bond but could face further charges after the incident is investigated further.


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Bad shoot.  Very bad shoot.

Bad shoot, but the whole situation is tragic.

Scammers need to be fire-boarded!

Poor woman.

He's guilty as f*ck but the scammers should be tracked and charged.

Tragic.  I wish we had the whole audio for the whole altercation.  

They need to find the scammers and charge Them with murder.

Have they interviewed any neighbors? I'm guessing it's "He was a nasty, old guy who would yell at kids who might stray into his lawn. He never had any visitors, etc etc...."

My parents are in their 80s. They fall for shit, and we've told them MULTIPLE times to be careful and ALWAYS run things past us before giving out money or personal info. They get bitter and take it really personally, then a couple months later it happens all over again. I hate scammers as much as the next person, but good God, do stubborn old people make it easy.

Ohio has excellent castle doctrine and stand your ground laws, neither will apply here nor should they.  This was outright murder not self defense.

It is a case of an old man needlessly killing an innocent person.

If only we had federal law enforcement agencies that had the capabilities to deal with scammers..

Unfortunately, we had an insurrection on Jan 6, and that has consumed our federal law enforcement time. Oh, and some maga parents complained at school board meetings.

Fuck that old bastard.  

I hope that his remaining days on this earth are miserable.

Wow she could barely hobble about

Looking pretty fuckin bad to me

Sorry, pops, but if you feel threatened enough to shoot someone, put it between their eyes.

Thats what I'm wondering. What if you post up a good job for a guy with a truck. I say "Go to this construction site and pickup this trailer with $25k worth equipment and deliver here, we'll pay $250 extra because we need the equipment here overnight, you can get this stuff at midnight, make sure it makes it here before sunrise"

I wouldn’t vote for the one who says things lying all the time.

Dementia does that. Parts of the brain start to become nonfunctional. As that happens the results can be bizzare. Think about rabies affects on Old Yeller.

Watching my mom go from being my mom to an Alzheimers victim was horrible. In the early stages, she could switch from being my mom to being Alzheimers and back again in a short period of time.

I actually think that's where the story of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde cane from.

Yea, the way the article focuses on the timing of the 911 call when there's so much else is rather puzzling.

No she wasn't.
No he can't

Bad shoot.

If someone is sent to an address to pick up a box for a courier service I think that most people could assume that it's a consensual arrangement between sender and recipient

almost as if you order from a delivery service and a representative from said service delivers the items you ordered.................

Hope he sits in jail scared and alone for his final days, as such it shouldn't be too long now.

No. Never heard of it, but that might be a thing in the ghetto, to hire some schmuck to be your drug mule.

The folks doing uber typically need the money.

Journalism USED to mean you wrote up well edited stories... not so much anymore.

Not too hard to trace a phone location, they did it for the J6 folks without any problems.

In for the “muh GA” people talking out of their asses.
Switch to “muh NC” and you’ll nail it.

That would be a great start.

Paranoia is a common symptom in older folks who suffer from dementia - even in people with no history whatsoever of any paranoia.

No excusing his actions tho.  RIP lady just doing what she was asked to do.

Well our useless congress could enact a law to disable number spoofing.  A good start anyway.  Blocked number staying blocked.

The Space Force should be dropping rods from God on these fucking scammer call centers.

They'd kill 100 slaves and not the shot callers, though I'm still not opposed to the idea.

let me guess? and she argued with him?
"tricked by scammers"...uh huh....  

i mean, she didn't look like a threat...poor lady could barely walk...

i bet we're not being told some shit tho....

old white guy they can paint as racist, so any exonerating evidence will be told 100 years from now

I'll bet the old dude flicked the revolver forward to throw the bullets as he shot. He got the drop on her, alright.

murder for sure.  Sad events that led to this but the old guy is responsible and ought to be put away.

Damn dude

I'm thinking dementia played a role in this.  Old dudes remaining years are f---ed and the woman's life ended.

And the FBI is still busting people from Jan 6.

I wish reading comprehension was part of education now days.

Careful there pilgrim!  You just opened a can of rancid shit!

Crazy old fucker.

I'm going with good shoot.
She was trespassing.

Call the police and let them handle it.  Save the "shoot" for last resort.  That way you don't end up with your life fucked up like old mans now is.

There are legitimate reasons to push a number that isn't technically the one you're calling from or on the block of numbers for that system. Especially if you do tech support for multiple organizations.    Where I work we have multiple incoming numbers and everyone has a DID.  What's the "real number?  In this day of IP phones how do you determine the real number?   Unless you're presenting a number that doesn't belong to you can have a legitimate number from any place in the world and it would be a real number which you could use from any place in the world.

Ummmm.

I hope this is a badly articulated joke, because otherwise you probably should have your adult kids come and take your guns away.

Definitely not. A lot of them have an "I'm old so I can whatever I want" attitude to begin with. Now, you mix that with dementia, and a firearm...

Because he's 81.  The guy is going to cost to support one way or another.  SS + Medicare or prison.

Sometimes, you read shit in GD that is so derpy, you know it's sheer luck that the people who wrote it aren't dead or in prison.

Is the mailman trespassing? LE responding to a call for service? The paperboy? Mere presence on property is not trespassing by any legal standard.

The fact that normal productive people allow unhinged people to vote and own firearms is a testament to how much we value freedom.

This guy makes us all look like homicidal maniacs, he was beyond wrong and you are seriously misguided to think lethal force against a non threatening trespasser could possibly be justifiable.

This guy is how I imagine boomer arfcommers