Minnesota man guns down teen girl after she asks him to stop riding lawnmower in her yard

[savalez]

Last edited Thu Jul 24, 2014, 01:54 PM - Edit history (1)

A Minnesota man who admitted shooting a 17-year-old girl multiple times because she asked him to stop trespassing on his riding lawnmower has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by The Associated Press, 40-year-old Chad Pickering shot the 17-year-old girl in the chest, right thigh and left ankle while she was standing on the deck of her Bemidji home on Monday night.

“The victim herself was able to describe what had happened and talk to us and tell us that she’d simply been shot when she stepped out of her house to check on her dogs,” Sheriff Phil Hodapp explained to WCCO.

The teen told investigators that she had asked Pickering not to ride his lawnmower through her yard. She also said that he often carried a pistol with him on the lawnmower.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/24/minnesota-man-guns-down-teen-girl-after-she-asks-him-to-stop-riding-lawnmower-in-her-yard/


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[JNelson6563]

1. WTF?

[bigdarryl]

4. For real!!!

Is that state a stand your ground state?

[bigdarryl]

8. If its a law in that state HELL YEH!!!

he will use it

[bigdarryl]

12. he will get some slick ass lawyer to say the girl attacked him first

Leaving reasonable dough to a jury

[sarisataka]

9. No, no SYG in MN

Not that it would help. We do have castle doctrine but that didn't stop a double murder conviction of the man who killed two teens that broke into his house last year.

[IronGate]

13. Even if MN had a SYG law, which it doesn't,

it wouldn't apply and no judge would consider it.

[get the red out]

2. He shot her

as one would shoot an animal they were hunting. I guess since he had a gun, he was not going to take any disagreement with anything he did. DON'T TREAD ON ME! Right..............

[TwilightGardener]

3. Aw c'mon, he looks perfectly sane.

[Atman]

5. STAND YOUR GROUND, AMERICA!

We cannot allow non gun wielding citizens to intimidate innocent heat-packing tresspassing lawn mowers!

[bigdarryl]

7. Anyone noticed the Confederate flag hung up

[progressoid]

11. Yep.

Wanna bet the girl was a Native American or other non white? There is a large Native Am population in that area.