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Homeowner charged after shots fired at sign vandals
WARREN — A pair of teen-aged boys thought they were playing a prank by knocking down a John McCain campaign sign Saturday afternoon and yelling, “This is for Obama” to the homeowner.
But the homeowner, Kenneth Rowles, 50, was sitting on the front porch and didn’t think it was funny, especially since this was the second time vandals had damaged his campaign signs.
Rowles went into his 1237 Dover St. home in Warren Township, got a .22-caliber rifle and went back to the porch to confront the boys at about 2 p.m.
Rowles said he fired the rifle three times “to scare them” but never pointed the rifle at the boys or the car.
Nonetheless, at about 11 a.m. Sunday, the mother of one of the boys called police — saying her nephew, Kyree Flowers, 17, of 1205 Dover had been shot once in the arm, and that her tan GMC SUV had been hit by two other bullets.
Flowers received a minor injury from the bullet wound and was treated at a local hospital on Sunday.
Read more in Tuesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com
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Wow - only in the Mahoning Valley? Drive up, get out of the car, vandalize someone's property while antagonizing them verbally, and then have the nerve to complain when they respond as if THE HOMEOWNER had done something wrong???
With two guns
blazing and a bull whip swinging,
a John McCain supporter tamed the whole neighborhood!
(Never mind the rules of force law enforcement has to abide by)
And the Final Score.............
Homowner 3
Vandals 0
A One-Hitter, too!
This is the Mahoning Valley. who's to say the bullets in the car were actually from that firearm? Hell, i see bullet holes in cars every day just driving around; they are like little trophies. Was any testing done? It's a safe assumption that none was. About the bullet wound on the teen, who's to say that it was actually a bullet wound?
I was shot at before as a teen while riding motorcycles in places i shouldn't have been (my old-ass neighbor's property). thats some scary stuff (i can't say s--t?!?). definitely a deterrent from riding there again. Looking back i'm sure that neighbor (fully capable of picking rabbits of at ~100 yards with an old school open sight .22LR; i eventually bought the gun after his passing) could have taken my head clean off but used discretion and thankfully didn't hurt me. It was very effective without causing harm or getting my parents involved. We lived in a rural area, things were done that way.
However, if the gentleman that wielded the firearm in Warren intended to cause serious harm on the teens, shame on him. A silly sign (or in this case his pride) is not worth someone's life, especially a teenage neighbor's. I personally don't believe that this falls under the jurisdiction of the castle laws. If they were attempting to set his house on fire for political reasons, I could justify.
They were challenging his political views. Not in a productive or right way but hell, they're teenagers. The gentleman's actions have worked against him and against John McCain's. How many people in that neighborhood will change their vote to Obama due to his actions?
-again, just a digest of thoughts ;)