Double Shooting in Greer Update – After His Guns or Really Really Stupid
Article by Evan Will
Well as it turns out the sign above was posted on the front door of the owner’s house in the Greer Double Shooting. Now personally, I’m not a fan of advertising gun ownership to the outside world. Maybe it’s my mom that always told me, “Don’t tell your friends or anyone about dad’s gun closet, people will want to come and steal them.” And she’s right. You can’t really trust anybody – especially criminals. And this is notice to all you hot shot hunters out there with that nifty Browning sticker on the back windshield of your truck. It advertises to bad guys you have guns – come break into my truck or home.
Ok…you’ll be ready but there’s something about being discreet to me that gives you an advantage. Always. As Sun Tzu said in The Art of War – let your enemy think you are weak, as for him to let his guard down and feel confident in his attack, then
strike with surprise force and vanquish him. Or something to that degree. You get the idea.
I’m not blaming the older man that died – I blame the criminal. But Tamika came armed…expecting a fight. Were they after this guy for his guns? Or just a little money. I think they were after his guns. Or really really stupid to knock on this man’s door and pull a gun on him. I only wish he had saved himself. He damn well got her. Out of my cold dead hands, indeed.
Full Article per WYFF
http://www.wyff4.com/news/30358697/detail.html
Second Guessing the Double Shooting in Greer
Article by Evan Will
Per WYFF today, the double shooting that happened in Greer:
“Greer police said late Tuesday afternoon that a double shooting on Monday morning happened during an armed robbery in which the homeowner fired back, wounding the suspect before he was killed. Greer police Lt. Jim Holcombe said the shooting, in the 200 block of Pelham Street, was reported at 9:18 a.m. Monday Police said the investigation revealed that the homeowner, 62-year-old Douglas Burgess, answered the door at his residence and the suspect, 34-year-old Tamika Yvette Weatherspoon, asked for some money. Police said when Burgess refused to give Weatherspoon any money, she pulled a gun, and he then pulled a gun. Burgess and Weatherspoon each fired one shot, police said.”
Now unfortunately, the assailed did not survive the exchange of gunfire. Neither did the assailant. But it would appear the female pistolero had the immediate drop on the aging man. He got his in the chest. Hers in the leg, per the report online:
“Dill said Weatherspoon was shot in the upper leg. Dill said Burgess died from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.”
I can’t help but wonder – what would any of us do in the exact same situation. When a bad guy has the drop on you…do you reach….do you run…I’d like to say I’d stall and do what they said and look for an opportunity to even the odds or at least strike first. But we weren’t there. We can’t ever know exactly. He answered his door armed, which means he sensed needing it when he answered the door. A shame and a reminder to be vigilant and as ready as you can be for that moment we all hope never comes. Lets all hope. But train so when hope doesn’t work out…we win.
Bad guys really suck.
James Ruston Thinks We’re All Stupid
50-year-old James Byron Rushton had a bad reputation in the trailer park he lived in, so it surprised no one when he claimed 33-year-old April Smith died in his home of a drug overdoes. After all, it would be the second time a woman died of a “drug overdose” in Ruston’s trailer home. Of course, the drug these women overdosed on was Ruston himself – an autopsy proved that April Smith was raped to death.
Raped to death.
From The Republic:
Investigators arrested 50-year-old James Rushton on Monday and charged him with murder in the death of 33-year-old April Dawn Smith.
Deputies responding to a 911 from Rushton’s Greer home around 5 a.m. Sunday found him giving CPR to Smith.
Investigators say Rushton told them he picked up Smith on Saturday night after she argued with her boyfriend, and she must have suffered a drug overdose.
But authorities say an autopsy Monday found she had been killed during a violent sexual attack.
Thankfully this soulless monster was denied bond. It’s my understanding that the neighbors of Ruston were so scared of him that even though witnesses saw him man-handling Smith they did nothing.
That a man with this reputation who sexually assaults a woman so violently she dies could then think he could con the world into thinking she overdosed says something about what he thinks of the rest of us. That same disdain and arrogance was why he raped and murdered April Smith, and likely the first woman who died in his house.
Ruston thinks we’re stupid, and if he gets anything less than life in prison he’s right. But if we were really smart we’d execute him because he simply doesn’t deserve to live.
Jeffery Brockman Really Likes Attention
Something tells me this guy is lonely:
GREER, S.C. — Authorities said a 48-year-old Greer man was arrested after he called 911 at least 20 times, refusing help from paramedics on many occasions.
Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputies said Jeffery Brockman was arrested Tuesday night after his latest 911 call.
Investigators said medics found Brockman on the ground outside his home when they arrived. He told them he had fallen. When the medic ordered Brockman to stand, he did, saying he was sorry and wouldn’t call 911 again.
Deputies said 13 of the 20 times Brockman called 911, he refused to go to the hospital.
Maybe he needs a dog.
Victimless Crime File: Shiftless Stoner Kills Mother
According to his brother 39-year-old Walker Manning Hughes had a “turbulent” relationship with his 64-year-old mother mainly because she disapproved of his drug use. So it comes as no surprise to me that, despite the myth of the mellow stoner, that when Karen Hughes was found dead in her home and her car missing that the main suspect was Walker. Walker was coincidentally found in the same area that Karen Hughes’ stolen car was found. He was also found a weapon which is a no no since he has an arrest record that stretches back to 1990 and includes:
Six counts burglary
Three counts grand larceny
One count of receiving stolen goods
18 counts forgeryOne count possession of marijuana
One count of parole violation
One count of sale of a weapon
One count of fraudulent check
One count of breach of peace
I guess getting high really does mellow you out.
I will point out now that Karen Hughes didn’t die because weed was illegal, she didn’t rat out her son or get killed in a deal gone bad. She objected to her shiftless 39-year-old son spending what little money he had on getting high and that is no doubt why she got her head caved in. Let me use my psychic powers here and deduce that Walker, at 39, lived with his mother and had no job. His record shows that when he needed money instead of working he stole or conned himself some money then went back to mamas.
The drug culture is a by-product of Americans inflated sense of entitlement. Karen Hughes is dead because her 39-year-old son never wanted to grow up, take responsibility for his own life and stop getting high. Now he’s claiming he’s being framed – framed by the police for no real reason. Even when getting caught almost red handed he can’t man up and plead out.
I have a collection of death threats from the supposedly mellow pot smoking community and I’ll surprise you by saying it isn’t the pot that caused them. Getting high is a symptom of a larger problem. People think they’re entitled to live judgment free, consequence free and criticism free and worse they think those of us who do criticize them are doing something wrong. This is why a lovely older woman, who by all accounts was a good mother and neighbor, died at her own son’s hands. His sense of entitlement led him to live a life of criminality that allegedly ended in beating his own mother to death.
The argument for the legalization of any drugs must not rely on the myth that it “lowers crime’ because drug legality is literally irrelevant to crime. Drug users are drug users and there are reasons they’re getting high instead of growing up.