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Re: Teen mom shoots and kills 24-year-old intruder as she "stands her ground"!
Although I do not like how this has gotten sidetracked, I am going to put in my 2 cents worth here.
About 6 years ago, I was working as a delivery driver to a company in Alabama. Now I normally worked the night shift, which meant regularly going into some of the worst areas of town after 9pm at night. One night I was making the last 2 deliveries of the evening, and had a funny feeling. I pulled up into a bad area of town, and saw 2 teens hanging out in a vacant lot across the street. And the porch light of the house I was supposed to deliver to was off. Having a "funny feeling", I took my 4 D-cell MagLight with me to the door (the first time in a year I had ever done that).
A lady answered me through the door, saying they had not ordered any pizza. As I walked back to my car, the kids that were in the parking lot jumped me. Both armed with metal pipes, and both proceeded to start swinging. I managed to run fast enough that they only got in a few swings, but only got a few bruises. In short, these kids were cousins, the mother-aunt owned 2 businesses next door to where I was robbed, and they thought they were emulating the "Thug Life" by doing this (and apparently did the same thing to at least 5 other delivery drivers in the year prior).
They were both 16. The 16 year old (son) turned evidence, and got a 5 year sentence. The 16 year old (nephew) pled guilty to 1st degree robbery, and was given a 21 year sentence without parole. Both were convicted as adults because of the violence against myself and the previous drivers.
This blather about "adult", "teen", it is all nonsense. If somebody knows what they are doing, they are an adult.
And they are both very lucky it was me that did the delivery. While pretty much all companies have a policy about delivery drivers being armed, there are exceptions. One of our drivers was a Deputy Sheriff in the next county over, and he was required to have his gun with him at all times. He told me after that he wished he had been the one to take the call, "Cause those guys would have looked stupid bringing metal pipes to a gun fight."
Dothan man gets 21 years for pizza robbery
By: Dothan Eagle | NBC 13
Published: April 03, 2009 Updated: April 03, 2009 - 10:47 AM
A judge sentenced a Dothan man to serve 21 years in prison for the theft of a pizza during an armed robbery of a pizza delivery man.
According to court records, Lashun Cortez White, 18, of East Burdeshaw Street, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the robbery of XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX a delivery man for Domino’s Pizza. Circuit Court Judge Butch Binford handed down the sentence as part of the plea agreement. White faced 10 to 99 years or life in prison for first-degree robbery, a class A felony.
Investigators arrested White in July 2007 for the robbery.
Assistant District Attorney Gary Maxwell said White called for a pizza, which was delivered to an address which did not belong to him.
“As the delivery guy comes up he hits him with a pipe,” Maxwell said. “The pizza guy dropped the pizza and takes off running. The defendant picks up the pizza and goes back to his aunt’s (house) and eats the pizza.”
Maxwell said there was no cash taken during the robbery only the pizza.
This happened to me about 2 months before I left for the Army. And one of the last things to happen before I left was that the DA called me in, to ask tell me that there had been an arrest, and if I was interested in taking "Victim's Restitution" funds in exchange for a lesser sentence. He told me how much it was (it was a decent chunk of change), and I told him flat out I was not interested. I did not want any money, and I was not interested in any plea deal, I wanted them both to get the max, and do some hard time. ANd that is exactly what happened.
Although I do not like how this has gotten sidetracked, I am going to put in my 2 cents worth here.
About 6 years ago, I was working as a delivery driver to a company in Alabama. Now I normally worked the night shift, which meant regularly going into some of the worst areas of town after 9pm at night. One night I was making the last 2 deliveries of the evening, and had a funny feeling. I pulled up into a bad area of town, and saw 2 teens hanging out in a vacant lot across the street. And the porch light of the house I was supposed to deliver to was off. Having a "funny feeling", I took my 4 D-cell MagLight with me to the door (the first time in a year I had ever done that).
A lady answered me through the door, saying they had not ordered any pizza. As I walked back to my car, the kids that were in the parking lot jumped me. Both armed with metal pipes, and both proceeded to start swinging. I managed to run fast enough that they only got in a few swings, but only got a few bruises. In short, these kids were cousins, the mother-aunt owned 2 businesses next door to where I was robbed, and they thought they were emulating the "Thug Life" by doing this (and apparently did the same thing to at least 5 other delivery drivers in the year prior).
They were both 16. The 16 year old (son) turned evidence, and got a 5 year sentence. The 16 year old (nephew) pled guilty to 1st degree robbery, and was given a 21 year sentence without parole. Both were convicted as adults because of the violence against myself and the previous drivers.
This blather about "adult", "teen", it is all nonsense. If somebody knows what they are doing, they are an adult.
And they are both very lucky it was me that did the delivery. While pretty much all companies have a policy about delivery drivers being armed, there are exceptions. One of our drivers was a Deputy Sheriff in the next county over, and he was required to have his gun with him at all times. He told me after that he wished he had been the one to take the call, "Cause those guys would have looked stupid bringing metal pipes to a gun fight."
Dothan man gets 21 years for pizza robbery
By: Dothan Eagle | NBC 13
Published: April 03, 2009 Updated: April 03, 2009 - 10:47 AM
A judge sentenced a Dothan man to serve 21 years in prison for the theft of a pizza during an armed robbery of a pizza delivery man.
According to court records, Lashun Cortez White, 18, of East Burdeshaw Street, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the robbery of XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXX a delivery man for Domino’s Pizza. Circuit Court Judge Butch Binford handed down the sentence as part of the plea agreement. White faced 10 to 99 years or life in prison for first-degree robbery, a class A felony.
Investigators arrested White in July 2007 for the robbery.
Assistant District Attorney Gary Maxwell said White called for a pizza, which was delivered to an address which did not belong to him.
“As the delivery guy comes up he hits him with a pipe,” Maxwell said. “The pizza guy dropped the pizza and takes off running. The defendant picks up the pizza and goes back to his aunt’s (house) and eats the pizza.”
Maxwell said there was no cash taken during the robbery only the pizza.
This happened to me about 2 months before I left for the Army. And one of the last things to happen before I left was that the DA called me in, to ask tell me that there had been an arrest, and if I was interested in taking "Victim's Restitution" funds in exchange for a lesser sentence. He told me how much it was (it was a decent chunk of change), and I told him flat out I was not interested. I did not want any money, and I was not interested in any plea deal, I wanted them both to get the max, and do some hard time. ANd that is exactly what happened.