Has anyone heard about this guy?
I'm from Oklahoma so I've heard all about it.
He is the pharmacist who got life in prison for shooting and killing the 16yo who was attempting to rob his pharmacy.

Opinions?

I sudgest looking up the story/watching the video before commenting. It's an interesting case.

http://mingle2.com/topic/show/303854

Thanks, but I missed all the good discussion. That and the article posted is BS, missing a lot of facts and poor wording. Oh well, my opinion is usually best left to myself anyways.

so post another one

I agree with this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHshsgpsxFg&playnext=1&list=PL2CB0034637C38F40

gunman ran, victim ran after him ,, that I understand

unarmed robber already laying shot on the floor,

victim walks PAST him to retrieve another gun and walks back TOWARD him to shoot him five more times


its beyond reasonable or necessary force in this case, he may get sympathy from peers if he pleads temporary insanity


no gun found yet? Id love to hear his explanation for returning to shoot this boy five more times,,,


they brought on a certain karma committing this crime, but I dont want to see us become a land of vigilante justice (dare I say, especially when there are so many underlying bigotries going on)

I agree that he went too far. If the kid had died as a result of the first shot to the head, no problems from my view. When he came back and got another gun to finish the job, that's where the ole shawshank prosecution comes to play. If you take the time to reload or get another gun then you are taking the time to think about what you are doing. That's where he moved past the crime of passion/adrenaline rush, it was simply anger that was clouding his mind.

His reasoning for shooting the unarmed robber is that he was moving. In the video he is out of view, so you can't tell if he was moving or not. I'm sure he was moving...being shot in the head will do that to ya, conscience or not.

The pharmacist was also caught in a couple lies with his story. In his first report he said he shot him before chasing after the other robber and then when he gave statement to OSBI he said it was after. He also said something about another person outside pointing a shotgun at him, witnesses outside the store say they never saw the car or man he was speaking of.

I totally agree about not wanting us to become a nation of vigilates. This isn't the wild west anymore, there is more than enough law enforcement to go around, if not too much. You don't get to be judge and jury for someone who has commited a crime against you. Everyone deserves due process.

There are so many articles about this case out there, it would be hard to find one that summed it up entirely and unbiased, since it is still being covered. I've been watching it on the news for a long time. Thats why I simply said to research it before posting.