Knock on door leads to shooting death

[moroni]

11-1-03

By Amy Wolfford Staff Writer
News & Record

GREENSBORO -- Thomas Earl Alston told police he was watching television with his girlfriend Thursday night when there was a knock on the door.

The man at the door -- 28-year-old Chester Kendale Lane -- asked Alston, 32, for a ride, then pulled a handgun, Alston told Greensboro police. The pair, who apparently didn't know each other, wound up exchanging gunfire about 9:15 p.m. outside Alston's apartment at 1008-E Rucker St., Greensboro police Sgt. Jane Allen said.

Neighbors in Brevard Park heard eight to 10 gunshots. Lane dropped to the sidewalk, with two gunshot wounds, one to the chest and another in the right thigh, said Dr. Thomas Owens of the state medical examiner's office. Lane, who has Randolph County ties but whose address is unknown, died minutes later at Moses Cone Hospital.

The investigation continues and no charges have been filed while police investigate Alston's claims of self-defense. Allen said once the investigation is completed -- she's not sure how long that will take -- the case will be presented to the district attorney, who will decide if charges should be filed.

Alston could not be located Friday for comment.

Police are checking to see if Lane was involved in a breaking and entering of a nearby house minutes before the fatal shooting. Officers had been called to the Brevard Park neighborhood and heard gunfire when they were taking a report of a man who broke into a house at 3939-A McIntosh St. and shot at two female residents as they ran off to call police.

The women, whose names have not been released by police, were uninjured. A woman at the house Friday said the victims did not want to comment.

Lane is listed on the state's sex offender registry -- with his address listed as unknown -- for being convicted of taking indecent liberties with a 13-year-old girl in Randolph County in 1994. He
served 2.5 years in prison for that charge.

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http://www.news-record.com/news/local/gso/homicide_110103.htm

[TXlib]

1. Good fucking riddance to the creep.

Sounds like he was killed by his own gun.

That's poetic justice.

[MrBenchley]

2. Uh-HUH....

So this criminal out of the blue, knocks on somebody's door, asks him to give him a ride. The criminal then pulls his gun, fires a couple of shots, and HANDS the gun to this stranger who then shoots the criminal?

Yeah, nothing at all suspicious about THAT.

Incidentally, thanks to the corrupt gun industry and the GOP, this sex offender could walk into any gun show in the state and buy guns without a background check.

[TXlib]

3. Great Signature quote.

I should remember that.

[MrBenchley]

5. Thanks.

FDR is a great American hero.

[Wcross]

4. Your ASSumtions again MrBenchley.

Where in the story does it say the victim was unarmed? Do they HAVE to say the victim had his own weapon? They exchanged gun shots, not the gun. Don't you think the writer would have included that little twist if it had happened?

Yes he could make a private purchase of a firearm although he was a prohibited person. Why wasn't he better supervised by his parole officer? Why was he let out of prison before he was reformed? Why are you so hung up on gun show private sales, why don't you complain about the "newspaper" loophole or the "flea market" loophole or the "family" loophole or the "bulletin board at work" loophole or the "christmas present" loophole? Hell, Sarah Brady did a straw purchase for her own son a year or two ago. Is that not odd?

[MrBenchley]

7. Go snivel to somebody else, cross

"Yes he could make a private purchase of a firearm although he was a prohibited person. "
Thanks to the GOP and the corrupt gun industry.

[slackmaster]

6. Leave it to MrBenchley to give the benefit of the doubt

To a convicted sex offender who has served time in prison, while assuming that a person who used a gun in self-defense is in the wrong.

[MrBenchley]

8. Gee slack....

I see your reading skills have not improved with age.

Guess that huffy claim that I was on "ignore" was just so much hooey, too.

[MrBenchley]

10. By the way, who is it trying to get guns for sex offenders

like this guy? Oh yeah, that would be the RKBA crowd, fighting hard to keep that gun show loophole open and advance the innterests of the corrupt gun industry..

[otohara]

9. Locking - Dupe

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