A Milwaukee man spent two nights in jail for fatally shooting two teens involved in brutally beating him with a baseball bat last Wednesday. After the teens began beating him in the stairwell of the apartment building where he works, the 39 year-old maintenance worker fatally shot two of his assailants. Now he faces possible homicide charges for what some believe was a straightforward act of self-defense. Others are upset over the shooting death of the two teens involved.
The afternoon of the incident in question, the 39-year-old maintenance worker, whose name has not been released, was changing the locks on an apartment in which the resident was being evicted when three suspects happened upon him.“Apparently, these people were mad that a friend of theirs was getting evicted. They thought – apparently – that he was the manager,” Bob Braun, who lives in the apartment building and is a friend of the maintenance worker, told a local Fox affiliate the day after the incident occurred.
Apparently the trio was so outraged that two of them held the man down while the third began beating him with a baseball bat. It was at that point that the man, who has a valid concealed carry permit, pulled out his legally owned handgun and shot two of the three suspects.
A man who was at a nearby furniture store told reporters that he went inside when he heard the commotion, but when he heard screams he ran to the apartment building where he saw two of the suspects, 17-year-old Anmarie Miller and 19-year-old James Bell Jr., lying in the stairwell. The man said the maintenance worker’s face was covered in blood and he looked confused.
Miller and Bell, who were a couple with two small children, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The maintenance worker was transported to a local hospital where he received treatment for the injuries he sustained during the attack.
But once released from the hospital, the man was taken to the Milwaukee County Jail where he faced two possible counts of first-degree intentional homicide.
The third suspect involved in the beating, a man in his early 20s whose name has not been released, was also taken into custody for a possible substantial battery charge.
Miller and Bell, who were a couple with two small children, were pronounced dead at the scene.The District Attorney is still considering evidence before deciding whether to press charges against the surviving assailant and his intended victim. The incident was captured on video, so there may be some concrete evidence to confirm the facts of the case.
Source: Guns.com
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It would be interesting to know if the district attorney is running for re-election this year. This sounds from the facts presented in the story to be a clear-cut case of self defense.
1. He had a valid concealed firearms permit.
2. The assailants had the ability or apparent ability to kill him or to inflict serious bodily injury.
3. The assailants had the opportunity to kill him or to inflict serious bodily injury.
4. The assailants presented an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.
5. The only question is “Did the victim exercise all reasonable alternatives to lethal force that existed at that time and place before shooting and killing the assailants?”
The district attorney may be grandstanding to appear “tough on crime” or to placate the good folks in Milwaukee who oppose the private, civilian ownership of guns. Or he may be a Michael Bloomberg sympathizer.
I HOPE I’M WRONG, BUT, I HAVE A FEELING THAT THE THREE ATTACKERS WERE BLACK AND THE MAINTENANCE MAN WAS WHITE…IF IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, THE NEWS WOULD NOT BE ALL OVER THE INTERNET…
he was defending his life what you want
Wow! Against the law to defend yourself.
it is called self deffince they should not have been beating the man he had the right to protect himself.
guess he was supposed to let them beat him to death!!! maybe the judge will have some common sense and throw this out!
This is so wrong, what was he supposed to do let them beat him to death?
id have shot the sondabiches too
sounds like self defense to me…. he is in jail for defending himself?? Insane!!
Dam Yankees !!