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“Oh s---, my gun went off, I want to speak with my lawyer."
A homeowner saw strangers on her property. She assumed they were trespassers. She called LE and her boyfriend who is a local government official. Boyfriend got to scene first. Shot an innocent young man, a teenager in the face.
This to me is what happens when people who fear everyone and everything, who see others as a danger, who have a horrible view of the world are armed and act before they can possibly know information about what is happening, why, how...
snippets:
Around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Littleton, Colo., the teenager who would end up getting shot picked up another boy from Dakota Ridge High School in his white Audi S4, Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy Caleb Harman wrote in a sworn affidavit for Metz’s arrest. The two have known each other since they were children since their parents are good friends.
The teens drove to the idyllic Ken-Caryl Ranch before heading southwest up Deer Creek Canyon...There they saw a house with a lake and a dock that caught their eye and decided to ask the homeowner for permission to take pictures near the lake.
The boys...walked up the driveway to the house to knock on the door and, when there was no answer, returned back down the driveway to the car, Harman said...one got ...a piece of paper from a notebook and write a note to the homeowner pleading their case, he added.
What the boys didn’t know was that even though nobody was home, the property owner had called Jefferson County emergency communications and her boyfriend to report them as trespassers, and both Metz and deputies were on their way, authorities said.
Harman arrived at the property at 4:28 p.m. to find one of the boys was “bleeding heavily from his face and had blood running down his arm.” One of the boys told him that Metz had fired the gun, and when Harman checked with Metz, he didn’t answer, saying he wanted to speak with his lawyer...
Metz and his lawyer did not immediately respond Friday to requests for comment from The Washington Post.
The teen survived and has been released from the hospital.
“Oh s---, my gun went off, I want to speak with my lawyer."
A homeowner saw strangers on her property. She assumed they were trespassers. She called LE and her boyfriend who is a local government official. Boyfriend got to scene first. Shot an innocent young man, a teenager in the face.
This to me is what happens when people who fear everyone and everything, who see others as a danger, who have a horrible view of the world are armed and act before they can possibly know information about what is happening, why, how...
snippets:
Around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Littleton, Colo., the teenager who would end up getting shot picked up another boy from Dakota Ridge High School in his white Audi S4, Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy Caleb Harman wrote in a sworn affidavit for Metz’s arrest. The two have known each other since they were children since their parents are good friends.
The teens drove to the idyllic Ken-Caryl Ranch before heading southwest up Deer Creek Canyon...There they saw a house with a lake and a dock that caught their eye and decided to ask the homeowner for permission to take pictures near the lake.
The boys...walked up the driveway to the house to knock on the door and, when there was no answer, returned back down the driveway to the car, Harman said...one got ...a piece of paper from a notebook and write a note to the homeowner pleading their case, he added.
What the boys didn’t know was that even though nobody was home, the property owner had called Jefferson County emergency communications and her boyfriend to report them as trespassers, and both Metz and deputies were on their way, authorities said.
Harman arrived at the property at 4:28 p.m. to find one of the boys was “bleeding heavily from his face and had blood running down his arm.” One of the boys told him that Metz had fired the gun, and when Harman checked with Metz, he didn’t answer, saying he wanted to speak with his lawyer...
Metz and his lawyer did not immediately respond Friday to requests for comment from The Washington Post.
The teen survived and has been released from the hospital.
“Oh s---, my gun went off, I want to speak with my lawyer."
