(AR) Teenager Killed in Pine Bluff Break-In

[Drizzt]

Teenager Killed in Pine Bluff Break-In


Police in Pine Bluff tell us that a teenage boy who was shot while breaking into a person's home has died. It's an update to a story we brought you first Thursday night. Pine Bluff detectives say 14-year-old Winston Walls had a gun when he was shot and killed by the homeowner.

He’s the second teenager in a week to be killed during a break-in. Last week you remember a 16-year-old was killed breaking into a pawn shop here. This time it's a 14 year old killed when police say he kicked open the backdoor of a person's home. That back door is now boarded up broken glass still scattered on the ground.

Police say Winston Walls was shot in the stomach by the owner of this home Jimmy Shaw. The 14-year-old died in the hospital. Detectives say they found the teen's gun inside the house and evidence where he may have shot the weapon. Dwight Kates and his five children live next door just a few yards from the door that was kicked in. "It was frightening, frightening, because it easily could have happened to me," says Kates.

Kates pointed out other homes that have been broken into over the last month or so and said sadly gunshots are something he has quote, gotten used to. They have an aggressive neighborhood watch program. He says it may be time to get a handgun to protect his family. "No, I'm not armed, but I think I need to be. If it had happened to me, I would have done the same thing. I would have shot to protect what's mine," says Kates.

According to police a 16 and 17 year old may also have been involved in the break-in maybe serving as look-outs. Witnesses say they saw someone running from the home after shots were fired. Those two teenagers were brought in for questioning, but were released pending further investigation

http://www.fox16.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=2731cb80-4a52-47cf-98bb-a48870267bca&rss=315

 

[fletcher]

"No, I'm not armed, but I think I need to be. If it had happened to me, I would have done the same thing. I would have shot to protect what's mine," says Kates.

Reality scores another convert.

It's a shame a kid, or anyone, does this sort of thing, but he got what was coming to him.

 

[Standing Wolf]

According to my old pal Jim, there are three kinds of people:

1. Those who learn from others' mistakes
2. Those who learn from their own mistakes
3. Those who don't learn

 

[hksw]

I guess he'll make it into the '~50,000 or so kids killed by guns annually' statistic. 'If only there were stronger gun control laws, this child's death would have been prevented.'

 

[CountGlockula]

Good for defended one's life and home. Sad for a young life stopped short.

 

[James T Thomas]

tale of degeneration

Read into the reporting agenda.

No mention whether the "kid or child" had a past criminal record.
The overtone is that a 14 year old was killed.

So what does a past criminal record have to do with it?

This "kid" with his history, most likely, would have gone on to other crimes, and in the passage of time, the victims would be injured, etc. until sometime in his adult life this "kid" would be involved in a homocide.

Yes, quite pessimistic, but I believe, realistic, none the less.
Just an awareness of what is "going on" today.

 

[pax]

Fourteen years old.



My 14-year-old son still collects Legos.

It sounds like a justified, righteous shoot -- but what a tragedy!

Fourteen years old. Breaking and entering. Armed.

Dayum.

pax

 

[Desertdog]

'If only there were stronger gun control laws, this child's death would have been prevented.'

Or, if the child had gone to play baseball or the movie, instead of kicking in somebody's door with a gun in his hand, this child's death would have been prevented.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

They have an aggressive neighborhood watch program. He says it may be time to get a handgun to protect his family. "No, I'm not armed, but I think I need to be. If it had happened to me, I would have done the same thing. I would have shot to protect what's mine," says Kates.

Ya think?

It really is sad that a kid this age would even have to resort to doing something like this. He was defiantely justifiably shot and killed, but at such a young age with all that life to live.

Where is this kids family? Who lets their 14 y/o out in the middle of the night?

My 14-year-old son still collects Legos.

Who doesn't like lego's?

 

[xpun8]

What a tragedy...only 14. I can't imagine my son's life being cut short, certainly not in these circumstances. How or why a kid this age is out doing this sort of stuff is beyond me.

Pax,
Lego's are great regardless of your age.

 

[El Tejon]

Bazooka, if you like Legos, no wonder you like ARs.

What do ya want to bet that the 14 year old was raised without a father in the home?:banghead:

 

[30 cal slob]

dayum

i'm just shaking my head. stupid, stupid kids.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Where's the obligatory weeping grandma saying how "he was such a good boy"?

If you want to stay vertical, don't break into other people's domiciles. What about that concept is so hard to understand?

"No, I'm not armed, but I think I need to be.

Even more so now that you just announced that you are unarmed.

 

[Jimmie]

Pine Bluff... small town with big city poverty and crime. Good on the homeowner for being prepared. God have mercy on the kid.

 

[Scorpiusdeus]

I used to think it was such a shame when kids were killed doing crimes. Like they never had a chance to row up and get squared away...

Now I see it as a preemptive strike. There are just too many young folk out there with no honor, not morals, and no respect for anything. They have the fatalistic view of life that it's cool to do drugs and get killed in the process. To be shot down doing a robbery.

Somewhere there is a disconnect in so many of todays youth.

Give this little bastard a few years and he'd be killing people.

Bury him and forget him.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

Bazooka, if you like Legos, no wonder you like ARs.

What do ya want to bet that the 14 year old was raised without a father in the home

I'm not taking that bet...Not even with odds.

Give this little bastard a few years and he'd be killing people.

Bury him and forget him.

As harsh as that sounds, you are probably right. Its still a shame nonetheless.

 

[Engel]

Low road comment edited out by Moderator.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

According to my old pal Jim, there are three kinds of people:

1. Those who learn from others' mistakes
2. Those who learn from their own mistakes
3. Those who don't learn

Will Rogers put it a little differently. There are three kinds of people:

1. Those who can learn from books
2. Those who can learn from others
3. Those who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves

 

[lawandorder]

14 ,old enough to rob, old enough to die.

14 is old enough to shoot someone and the young thugs of central Arkansas are running rampant robbing ,raping and killing.Save your sympathy for the poor home owner that had to defend his home and family from the young thug.

Start reading the Arkansas Democrat Gazette online and you will see what is going on with these poor young teenagers on pretty much a daily basis.

 

[FieroCDSP]

Clean shoot. If there is anything like here, the homeowner will have his property vandalized and be run out of his own home because he killed a kid. Nevermind the kid was armed (knife, gun, ball bat, it's all the same) and breaking into the person's home.

Some people forget that there is in fact crime in this world, others simply ignore it.
Hopefully the home owner can put this aside enough to go back to normal life, and that he has support on the way. I also hope the neighbor keeps the lesson learned in his head. That's what 2A is all about. We never know who is next, but maybe we'll be ready for it if it's us.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Under Arkansas law, this is a good shoot. The law here says any force used to repel a home invader is considered reasonable, and if there is a trial, the judge is required to read that law to the jury.

 

[wideym]

The homeowner should sue the parents for clean up and repair of the door.

 

[TacoMalo]

Age of the offender should be no excuse for what he or she did, in my hometown three teenagers were robbing a house just outside of town when the homeowners came home and interrupted the robbery they beat them and then shot them in the back of the head execution style. The kids were in their early teens and the husband and wife were in their sixties, they were given life in prison because they could not be charged as adults due to their age but from what these losers did I didn't agree with that verdict at all, after they killed that couple they sat and raided their refrigerator and watched them die. Cold hearted sh** and no remorse, the only reason they were crying the day they were sentenced was because they got caught. Makes me sick to think about it.

 

[thexrayboy]

The age of the decedent is irrelevant. The age is only a factor in reporting if it has "spin" value. I don't care if the BG is 4 years old or 94 years old. If they have the physical strength to kick open a door and the moral bankruptcy to do so they are a clear and present danger. PERIOD. The age of the potential murderer coming through that door is meaningless. All that counts is their intentions as evidenced by their actions.

 

[kurtmax]

The homeowner should sue the parents for clean up and repair of the door.

I agree. I have no sympathy for people that break-in to others' houses. 'Kid' or not.