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Old November 30th 03, 09:44 PM
Carol Saxton
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Police: Man shoots at noisy teenagers, killing one

Saturday, November 29, 2003 Posted: 10:11 AM EST (1511 GMT)

CASAR, North Carolina (AP) -- A man
who said he was angered by his son's
teenage friends driving up and down his
road, spinning their wheels and honking
the horn, is charged with fatally shooting
one the boys and wounding another,
authorities said.

The shooting happened early Friday when
Jonathan Perry Beck, 16, Paul Allen, 15, and
Allen's 11-year-old brother, stopped at the
house of Ricky Van Mellon, officials with the
sheriff's department said.

Cleveland County Sheriff Raymond Hamrick
said Mellon was angry because the boys had
been making noise.

Mellon, 44, fired three shots from a 9mm
pistol, hitting Beck in the head. The car rolled
200 yards from the house and into an
embankment.

Allen was in serious condition at a hospital
late Friday after emergency surgery to remove
a bullet from his ear canal.

"Speeding up and down a road caused one of
(the boys) to lose their life," said Capt. Bobby
Steen of the sheriff's office said. "There are a
lot of questions that have to be answered.
Something had to have happened. Maybe he
just wanted to scare them."

Mellon, 44, reported the shooting, Steen said.
He was charged with murder, assault with a
deadly weapon inflicting serious injury,
assault with a deadly weapon and discharging
a weapon into occupied property.

He was held in jail without bond.
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Old November 30th 03, 10:58 PM
Anon
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Police: Man shoots at noisy teenagers, killing one

Saturday, November 29, 2003 Posted: 10:11 AM EST (1511 GMT)

CASAR, North Carolina (AP) -- A man
who said he was angered by his son's
teenage friends driving up and down his
road, spinning their wheels and honking
the horn, is charged with fatally shooting
one the boys and wounding another,
authorities said.

The shooting happened early Friday when
Jonathan Perry Beck, 16, Paul Allen, 15, and
Allen's 11-year-old brother, stopped at the
house of Ricky Van Mellon, officials with the
sheriff's department said.

Cleveland County Sheriff Raymond Hamrick
said Mellon was angry because the boys had
been making noise.

Mellon, 44, fired three shots from a 9mm
pistol, hitting Beck in the head. The car rolled
200 yards from the house and into an
embankment.

Allen was in serious condition at a hospital
late Friday after emergency surgery to remove
a bullet from his ear canal.

"Speeding up and down a road caused one of
(the boys) to lose their life," said Capt. Bobby
Steen of the sheriff's office said. "There are a


(snip)

Uh-Oh . . . I can see it coming now. This will be counted as a speeding
related death. Oh, and people will want to ban hand guns because a criminal
named Mellon used one. -Dave


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Old November 30th 03, 11:44 PM
AlexT
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Default Man shoots at noisy teenagers, killing one

Carol Saxton wrote:


"Speeding up and down a road caused one of
(the boys) to lose their life," said Capt. Bobby
Steen of the sheriff's office said.


I love this comment.

I'd say that boy lost his life due to the actions of a 44 year old adult
who was so angry about something, that he did not stop and think before
taking action. Had he paused a moment before pulling the trigger, he
might have thought "what I'm about to do could end someone's life, ****
I better not do it, I'll call the cops, or get their rego number instead".

The cause of the death was not "speeding", it was yet another irrational
person using and abusing their right to own a gun in the US.

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Old December 1st 03, 03:39 AM
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Default Man shoots at noisy teenagers, killing one

DTJ, how much did the bond cost you?


On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:44:56 -0500, Carol Saxton
wrote:

Police: Man shoots at noisy teenagers, killing one

Saturday, November 29, 2003 Posted: 10:11 AM EST (1511 GMT)

CASAR, North Carolina (AP) -- A man
who said he was angered by his son's
teenage friends driving up and down his
road, spinning their wheels and honking
the horn, is charged with fatally shooting
one the boys and wounding another,
authorities said.

The shooting happened early Friday when
Jonathan Perry Beck, 16, Paul Allen, 15, and
Allen's 11-year-old brother, stopped at the
house of Ricky Van Mellon, officials with the
sheriff's department said.

Cleveland County Sheriff Raymond Hamrick
said Mellon was angry because the boys had
been making noise.

Mellon, 44, fired three shots from a 9mm
pistol, hitting Beck in the head. The car rolled
200 yards from the house and into an
embankment.

Allen was in serious condition at a hospital
late Friday after emergency surgery to remove
a bullet from his ear canal.

"Speeding up and down a road caused one of
(the boys) to lose their life," said Capt. Bobby
Steen of the sheriff's office said. "There are a
lot of questions that have to be answered.
Something had to have happened. Maybe he
just wanted to scare them."

Mellon, 44, reported the shooting, Steen said.
He was charged with murder, assault with a
deadly weapon inflicting serious injury,
assault with a deadly weapon and discharging
a weapon into occupied property.

He was held in jail without bond.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/29/te....ap/index.html


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Old December 1st 03, 02:50 PM
Maryilee
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Default Man shoots at noisy teenagers, killing one

And he was pushed into doing so... he could have chosen not to, and I
agree that would have been the right choice, but it wasn't like he didn't
have provocation. It's not like the teens are 100% innocent.

Alice


Yes, what the teens were doing was wrong, but that man took matters into his
own hands and committed murder. He could have called the police BEFORE he
pulled the trigger instead of afterwards.

I get plenty of speeders going past my house and, since I live right by a stop
sign, I get lots of people peeling out from the stop. It's very annoying, but
not so annoying that I'd consider murdering the drivers.
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Old December 1st 03, 02:52 PM
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All comes back home to the homefront. Parents not there for their kids or
not knowing whats going on in their lives.


Yes, where were the parents of that 44 year old man? Why didn't they teach him
some self-control? Why didn't they teach him that there are options to
violence?
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Old December 1st 03, 04:19 PM
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AlexT wrote in message ...

I'd say that boy lost his life due to the actions of a 44 year old adult
who was so angry about something, that he did not stop and think before
taking action. Had he paused a moment before pulling the trigger, he
might have thought "what I'm about to do could end someone's life, ****
I better not do it, I'll call the cops, or get their rego number instead".


What planet are you living on? I'm not saying that he should have
killed the kid, or used his gun, but calling the cops or "asking"
nicely often backfires when the ones who got their rists slapped by
the cops escalate, and start doing it at 3am, and running before the
cops can get there.

We don't know the whole story. Maybe this had been going on for
months, at all hours of the day, and they were doing it to torment
him.

The cause of the death was not "speeding", it was yet another irrational
person using and abusing their right to own a gun in the US.


And you are another irrational person who uses a tragedy like this to
take away the right to own a gun. Guns kill far less kids per year
than many, many other means, and I don't see many crusades against
those means.

Cathy Weeks
Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01
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Old December 1st 03, 05:01 PM
Banty
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In article , Cathy Weeks
says...

AlexT wrote in message
...

I'd say that boy lost his life due to the actions of a 44 year old adult
who was so angry about something, that he did not stop and think before
taking action. Had he paused a moment before pulling the trigger, he
might have thought "what I'm about to do could end someone's life, ****
I better not do it, I'll call the cops, or get their rego number instead".


What planet are you living on? I'm not saying that he should have
killed the kid, or used his gun, but calling the cops or "asking"
nicely often backfires when the ones who got their rists slapped by
the cops escalate, and start doing it at 3am, and running before the
cops can get there.

We don't know the whole story. Maybe this had been going on for
months, at all hours of the day, and they were doing it to torment
him.


Oh, pulllleeze.

The best you can argue is that this isn't murder one. This is a good-old
fashioned case of stupidly killing someone in anger. The man who shoots his
wife caught en-flagrante is still a murderer, the gang member who shoots another
banger because 'he was in my face' is still a murderer. Bernie Getz was a
murderer. There really aren't that many murders which are truly cold and
unprovoked. This is like blaming road rage on traffic.

We're responsible for our actions, including reactions - there's little
difference in practice between the two anyway. If it were a problem - he should
have taken it to the authorities. And it's completely possible that, if you're
anxious to blame things on who has irritated whom, the man had irritated the
teens by previously registering trivial complaints and yelling at them for more
normal car activities. Which doesn't excuse the teens either, but I put
disturbing the peace and murder on whole different planes of evil. I'm
wondering if certain respondants here really find them comparable. Do you??

Although I'm with you that we needn't be blaming this on guns, though it suits
some folk's agenda nicely to do that.

Banty

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Old December 2nd 03, 01:56 AM
Cathy Weeks
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Banty wrote in message ...

And it's completely possible that, if you're
anxious to blame things on who has irritated whom, the man had irritated the
teens by previously registering trivial complaints and yelling at them for more
normal car activities. Which doesn't excuse the teens either, but I put
disturbing the peace and murder on whole different planes of evil. I'm
wondering if certain respondants here really find them comparable. Do you??


Who is to say he hadn't called the cops about it before, and had the
cops done nothing? But.... point taken. I suppose the fact that I've
had too many experiences with jerks who turn the music *up* when you
ask nicely to turn it down made me make some assumptions that I don't
have.

However, I can just see someone getting sick of drag racing outside
their home happening once too many times and taking matters into their
own hands. I'm not condoning it, as I said in my original note. Just
saying that I sympathize just a bit. And I do feel sorry for the kid.

Cathy Weeks
Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01
 




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