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Posted: 4/30/2009 9:15:57 PM EDT

(Fort Worth, TX) –– A Fort Worth 18-year-old who was killed Tuesday was apparently shot in self-defense. That's the way detectives explain what happened to Derek Splawn who died from a shotgun blast to the head. Investigators determined that Splawn was armed with a baseball bat when he forced his way into an apartment near the Fort Worth-Keller line. When a man in the apartment saw him approaching, he feared for his life and fired one blast from his shotgun, killing Splawn at the scene. Police say Splawn knew the apartment's occupant but they're still asking questions to learn what the dispute was all about.

http://wbap.com/news.asp?c=NaN&contentId=3917341

Glad I don't have to clean up the mess.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:17:55 PM EDT

[#1]

A shotgun couldn't possibly do that. I read it here.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:19:08 PM EDT

[#2]

Takin' care of business...

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:20:20 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
A shotgun couldn't possibly do that. I read it here.

+1

Everyone knows from the experts here that shotguns are completely ineffective for self defense.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:22:03 PM EDT

[#4]

[unreal tournament] HEAAAD-SHOT [/unreal tournament]

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:22:47 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:
A shotgun couldn't possibly do that. I read it here.

+1

Everyone knows from the experts here that shotguns are completely ineffective for self defense.

Especially when loaded with birdshot.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:22:53 PM EDT

[#6]

God bless Texas.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:37:35 PM EDT

[#7]

That poor, misunderstood Yute. He had his whole life ahead of him. Now he'll never be the head of a corporation. He may have had problems in his past, but he was trying to get his head on straight and live a virtuous life. There was no reason, NO REASON this murderer should get off. That poor boy was shot over nothing, he was just inviting the guy in the apartment for midnight baseball down at the Y.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:47:44 PM EDT

[#8]

MY BABY DI'INT DO NUTTIN WRONG!!! HE WAS A GOOD BOY!!!

Good shoot.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:52:35 PM EDT

[#9]

Hell, I'd have had to shoot him twice. Once for the baseball bat and once for cleaning up the mess.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:54:50 PM EDT

[#10]

I heard it was rat shot.

Posted: 4/30/2009 9:55:36 PM EDT

[#11]

Sounds like a good shoot.

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:01:16 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
MY BABY DI'INT DO NUTTIN WRONG!!! HE WAS A GOOD BOY!!!

Good shoot.

Yep....

Obvious case of self defense vs an armed assailant....

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:02:44 PM EDT

[#13]

No pics? I'm remebering yet another reason I do not like the American media.

I would say a baseball bat is a serious enough threat to justify deadly force. Good call not to prosecute.

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:08:15 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:
A shotgun couldn't possibly do that. I read it here.

+1

Everyone knows from the experts here that shotguns are completely ineffective for self defense.

Especially when loaded with birdshot.

Oh yeah, there's NO WAY he used 00... Or if he did, the perp HAD to be in the next apartment. It's a proven Arfcom fact that buckshot is guaranteed to miss the intended target & go through several walls before hitting the neighbors. I might have to call Arfcom shenanigans on this story.

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Posted: 4/30/2009 10:09:26 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I heard it was hoodrat shot.

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:09:34 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
God bless Texas.

that would have been a clean shoot in almost every state. (it sure would be in cali.)

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:19:57 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
A shotgun couldn't possibly do that. I read it here.

+1

Everyone knows from the experts here that shotguns are completely ineffective for self defense.

Especially when loaded with birdshot.

You've got it all wrong....Birdshot is instant death.

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:29:28 PM EDT

[#18]

what it didn't say is that it was a Taurus judge.

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:31:50 PM EDT

[#19]

+1 for the good guys

Posted: 4/30/2009 10:58:58 PM EDT

[#20]

He actually shot him?????

I read here that all you had to do was rack the slide.

Posted: 4/30/2009 11:07:25 PM EDT

[#21]

Just like HCI says: A firearm in the home is likely to be used to shoot an acquaintance

Posted: 4/30/2009 11:23:16 PM EDT

[#22]

wow, this is about ten minutes from my house...

Posted: 4/30/2009 11:28:05 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Just like HCI says: A firearm in the home is likely to be used to shoot an acquaintance

Watch those sneaky bastards use this incident in their statistics as a "firearm used to shoot a friend/family" since he apparently knew the guy

Posted: 4/30/2009 11:34:13 PM EDT

[#24]

if you google shotgun wound you'll see what he has to clean up

in this situation a zombie might be handy to clean up the brains

Posted: 5/1/2009 12:03:45 AM EDT

[#25]

needs more pics, but cool nonetheless

Posted: 5/1/2009 3:04:25 AM EDT

[#26]

Birdshot?

Posted: 5/1/2009 3:08:37 AM EDT

[#27]

Sticking his head in where it didn't belong...

Posted: 5/1/2009 3:13:16 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
He actually shot him?????

I read here that all you had to do was rack the slide.

"I racked the slide and he kept coming right for me officer. Any normal person would have ran away at the sound of a shotgun getting racked, but this guy didn't. I was afraid he was going to kill me. I had no choice but to shot him"

Posted: 5/1/2009 3:36:27 AM EDT

[#29]

He needed killin'.

Posted: 5/1/2009 3:42:27 AM EDT

[#30]

don't bring a ball bat to a gun fight

Posted: 5/1/2009 3:44:15 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
if you google shotgun wound you'll see what he has to clean up

in this situation a zombie might be handy to clean up the brains

Posted: 5/1/2009 4:05:21 AM EDT

[#32]

From about 7 yards headshots are more than possible with a shotgun. Getting beyond that with a cylinder bore the pattern opens up.

Posted: 5/1/2009 4:14:28 AM EDT

[#33]

ADIOS, MOFO!

Posted: 5/1/2009 4:35:46 AM EDT

[#34]

Good shoot...

Posted: 5/1/2009 4:42:14 AM EDT

[#35]

Posted: 5/1/2009 4:47:26 AM EDT

[#36]

Mind Blowing!

Posted: 5/1/2009 4:48:12 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Just like HCI says: A firearm in the home is likely to be used to shoot an acquaintance

They will also count it as another child killed.

Posted: 5/1/2009 4:59:41 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
He actually shot him?????

I read here that all you had to do was rack the slide.

"I racked the slide and he kept coming right for me officer. Any normal person would have ran away at the sound of a shotgun getting racked, but this guy didn't. I was afraid he was going to kill me. I had no choice but to shot him"

If I were the officer, I'd have believed this story. It's obvious the victim was stressed; his subject/verb agreement went completely to hell.

Jane

Posted: 5/1/2009 5:11:02 AM EDT

[#39]

Before my father was a firefighter they made them run along with the ambulances. He always tells people the story of him and this other guy responding to a call in the projects where this lady over heard her guy talking to some chick on the phone, came in and shot him in the face with bird shot. Shit was everywhere. He said this guy didn't even have a head left. When you walked through the room there was almost a wake of blood behind you. I believe he still keeps his HD shotguns loaded with bird shot. The farthest shot in the house is not more the 10-20

Posted: 5/1/2009 5:32:39 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:
God bless Texas.

that would have been a clean shoot in almost every state. (it sure would be in cali.)

It WI, you would have to convince the jury at your trial there was no way for you to escape AND that the decedant had verbalized a threat of deadly force ie. "I'm gonna kill you!".

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