college student shoots home invasion team

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Saw this on WTA, I don't see it here yet, and figured it would be good to spread.

Basics of the story is 10 college students at an apartment for a birthday party. 2 masked gunmen enter, demand valuables, seperate men from women, and then discuss amongst themselves if they brought enough ammo to kill 10 people.

One student grabbed a handgun from backpack, engages the thug who was assigned to guard the men. Thug flees. Student then goes and finds the 2nd thug about to rape one of the women. Student fires, Thug #2 jumps out window but is found dead a short distance away.

One student was injured in the crossfire.

If 10 students on campus were killed by a gunman this would be getting national attention. 1 student saving 10 is not nearly as newsworthy I guess.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19365762/detail.html

Edit to add: Guys, please click on that link. Newspaper sites are judged by how much traffic a story generates. Reading my copy-and-paste version here does NOTHING. Reading it there means the paper is fairly compensated, AND it means that newspaper and other newspapers are more likely to run similar stories. Newspapers and TV stations show news that sells.

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.

Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident.

“Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all,” said student Charles Bailey.

TOM JONES: College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader


Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.

“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.

Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.

That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.

The student then ran to the room where the second gunman, identified by police as 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, was holding the women.

“Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting. The guy jumped out of the window,” said Bailey.

A neighbor heard the shots and heard someone running nearby.

“And I heard someone say, ‘Someone help me. Call the police. Somebody call the police,’” said a neighbor.

The neighbor said she believes it was Lavant, who was found dead near his apartment, only one building away.

Bailey said he is just thankful one student risked his life to keep others alive.

“I think all of us are really cognizant of the fact that we could have all been killed,” said Bailey.

One female student was shot several times during the crossfire. She is expected to make a full recovery.

Police said they are close to making the arrest of the second suspect.
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Holy crap that is close to me! Good job for the student. I wish media would cover that!
 
But college students are too irresponsible to own guns!!!!!!!!!
:rolleyes:

“Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting. The guy jumped out of the window,” said Bailey.

A neighbor heard the shots and heard someone running nearby.

“And I heard someone say, ‘Someone help me. Call the police. Somebody call the police,’” said a neighbor.

The neighbor said she believes it was Lavant, who was found dead near his apartment, only one building away.
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One of the best parts of the article
 
That's great news, sometimes the media will pick it up if the good guy takes a bad guy's gun, you see that's okay, because only bad guys are supposed to have guns because guns are evil.
 
Hooo-AHHHH!!!!
now if it was in NY, the kid would have been arrested for at least aggravated assault, the perp would have a Crime Victims advocate assigned and the anti's would be holding rally's to support the perps rights. AND that his livelyhood was being infringed upon. Then the college student would have been sued for breaching the perps civil rights!!
WAY TO GO!!!! Chalk one(on the ground) up for the good guys in this world!!!!
 
Its a positive outcome for law abiding citzens using a firearm. So it will be quickly covered over by how the criminals where such good people and its all just a misunderstand crap that usually comes when the bad guys get whats coming to them.
 
The media simply does not like to "advertise" when good samaritans with firearms prevent crime.
Their agenda is much the same as the governments, to disarm the citizens.
 
I'll bet there was drugs there or the BG though there was drugs there.
 
+1 tab.

Specifically hitting a party of collegians? Gotta be lookin for either sex or drugs, because kids in college sure as hell don't got alot of money.


Regardless of the MO, they got what was coming. I'm glad the victims came out alive.

I love a happy ending.
 
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