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Tikki

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50. Probably....but there is a truth in this..A man shot and killed an unarmed teenager.

Sat Jul 13, 2013, 03:39 PM

Jul 2013

In my town, a deaf man shot and killed a teenager who was standing at the bottom of the man's lawn.

He said he was scared because the teenagers were loitering in a threatening way. He asked them to leave; they did not leave; he got his gun; he shot in their general direction; he hit a teen with a bullet; the teen died.

He was convicted of manslaughter..did very little time.

The teenager did a long time, though...dead.

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Probably....but there is a truth in this..A man shot and killed an unarmed teenager. Tikki Jul 2013 #50

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