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In reply to the discussion: 17 year old Summer Moody has died. Her assailant is now known, but still not charged. [View all]pnwmom
(110,318 posts)The fishermen weren't "lucky." They were suspicious because there had recently been other burglaries on the island.
Dassinger, who is quoted below, is the attorney for one of the adult fishermen. It isn't clear yet which one of them shot Summer Moody.
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/04/attorney_describes_gravine_isl.html
Dassinger said the couples were asleep in their camp house when the generator malfunctioned shutting off the air conditioning.
"Someone got up to fix it, and it happened again so things were quiet while they were working on it and someone heard a boat motor. Later they heard crashes and people talking. So eventually the men got in a boat and went over."
He said the 3 had a spotlight, a .22 rifle and a .17 rifle. When they shined the light toward the camp where the noises were coming from, "they saw what they thought were grown men that turned out to be teenagers."
The campers yelled at the teens to stop and then fired two warning shots as they scattered "to get them to stop" so the campers could call authorities. The campers then returned to their boat and headed away only to hear a young man screaming for help.
http://www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com/area_news/county_government/article_60ba2524-8d58-11e1-a82b-0019bb2963f4.html
Baldwin County Sheriff Huey Hoss Mack said noise at 4 a.m. prompted two of the three men in the camp to fired rifles in the darkness at the intruders. One shot hit Moody in the head. She was 15- to 30-feet from the dwelling.