Man Shoots Neighbor With Rifle, Police Say
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A dispute between neighbors ends in a shooting early Thursday, according to police.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A dispute between neighbors ended in a shooting early Thursday, police said.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
CPD was called out to the 1900 block of Denune Avenue on the city’s North Side close to 1:30 a.m.
Earsell Jimmy Brown, 30, was disputing with his neighbors outside his apartment: neighbors were banging on his door and threatening him, CPD said.
Brown became agitated, stepped outside with rifle and started firing his weapon at the neighbors, police said in a report.
Enrique J. Curry, 30, was shot twice, according to CPD.
Curry was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
Brown was arrested and was charged with felonious assault.
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disputing LOL yes my deeeeer donna… need some skooling an reporting degreez? LOL… thank you room y’all sooo kewl today…
I just hope that channel 4 prints the truth once Earsell tells the truth of what occured that evening.
I’m not saying he was totally wrong, maybe he felt his life was in danger at the point. Personally, I would not have felt in enough danger to kill at that point because there is still a door between them and me. As I stated earlier I would get my shotgun and have it chambered and ready to fire then I would call the police. If they forced the door open before the police arrived then yes, I’m in danger at that point and I would fire but if not then I would let the police do their job and deal with the situation
I have a concealed weapons permit, I own firearms. I am fully prepared to take someone’s life in defense of my own or another life however if I am put in that situation I want to be able to honestly tell myself there was imminent danger and I had no choice. Once someone is dead, they are dead there is no taking it back so I want to know that my actions were justified and I don’t want to spend the rest of my life wondering if I had to kill that person
scooldude you are correct but it is a little more complicated. In the examples you used it was a one on one confrontation and the individuals were armed with screw drivers which a screw driver is considered a deadly weapon so that is justified because your life is in danger. Thankfully Ohio has gotten rid of the duty to retreat law which makes it easier to defend yourself against an attacker. I’m not saying I disagree with what this guy did I’m just stating from what I was taught in CCW class as well as my classes in firearm combat how the law interprets the situation. As far as the law sees it he opened the door and attacked the group he was not yet in danger. Your life has to be in imminent danger or you have to be at imminent danger of serious bodily harm, neither of these technically described him. He was provoked but not yet in danger
mike there have ben two cases in ohio one was in southern ohio and one on the west side where home owners caught a suspect breaking into thier cars and shot them. the new law says the car has to be occupied but as far as i know neither guy was charged with anything as the thief threatened them with screw drivers they were using. im not sure but i dont think either of them have had ccw charge as one wrote about this guy that would have prevented him from having a gun anyhow. but the home owners also had the safety of thier house or could have retreated as the carry permit classes teach. but the key for it is being in fear for you or your families lives and a group of people beating on my door and threatening me at 1 am would make one to claim fear of our lives regardless of the amount of fire power i had, in this area for sure. and the cops would have to prove i wasnt in fear of my life also. that was another change to the self defence law.
Unfortunately scooldude as far as the law is concerned he still had the protection of the door between him and them. As I stated earlier it is not legal to open fire until the force their way into your residence, personally I keep a 12 gauge loaded and ready for just such an occasion. If my door is breached I don’t care if it is one intruder or one hundred, I’m going to empty that shotgun then reach for one of my pistols
my thought is that the group was banging on the door and threatening him was out to do him harm, and he has a right to defend himself. if it were only one person then the shooting is out of line. however this area has had serveral murders, or dead bodies found. the drive through where the clerks shot two people is four streets away, armed robbers of a credit union among others where managers where kidnapped at thier home was on this street. ghetto is very accurate of this area.
Im sorry, i was not trying to b funny, but my father corrects my language all the time, and just wanted to point out that it is a word before Donna’s feelings get hurt. :0)
dis·pute (dĭ-spyôôt’)
v. dis·put·ed, dis·put·ing, dis·putes
v. tr.
To argue about; debate.
To question the truth or validity of; doubt: Her friends disputed her intentions.
To strive to win (a prize, for example); contest for: Our team disputed the visitors’ claim to the championship.
To strive against; resist: disputed the actions of his competitors.
v. intr.
To engage in discussion or argument; debate. See Synonyms at discuss.
To quarrel angrily.
n.
A verbal controversy; a debate.
An angry altercation; a quarrel. See Synonyms at argument.
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