I recently heard this story from a friend of mine who is a
lawyer who does criminal defense work.
One recent night in Columbus, Ohio, a driver was about to deliver a
pizza. When he arrived at his
destination, a young black man stepped out from an alley and said, “Deliver the
pizza here.” The delivery guy did not
like the looks of things, so he refused to step into the alley. At that point, the young man pulled out a gun
and said, “Give me your money and the pizza.”
The delivery guy dropped his pizza and emptied his pockets, but said as
he stepped away, “You know, the police are going to be down here.”
At that point, the kid swore at him and started firing his
pistol at a distance which was described to me as a little more than five
feet. The pizza man began to run until
he heard a repeated CLICK-CLICK-CLICK.
Either the gun was empty or it had jammed. The driver reversed course, tackled his
assailant and beat the hell out of him. When
my friend got the case, he met with the kid, who was seventeen years old, the
kid’s mother and the kid’s father showed up (now there’s a surprise). My friend informed the family that the
prosecution had made an offer of six years in prison for aggravated
robbery. (The seventeen-year-old has
been bound over as an adult.)
I like to think that it takes a lot to shock me, but when I
learned of the boy’s mother’s response, I was flabbergasted. Apparently, Mom said, “That’s bull****; I
killed somebody and I only got two years.”
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