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No good deed goes unpunished! Remember the sad story of Renisha McBride who was shot in the head when she knocked on a stranger's door in the middle of the night asking for help after her car broke down?
Here's the flip side to being a good samaritan. When stuff like this happens it's no wonder that some people shoot first and ask questions later when a stranger comes asking for help.
A 69-year-old Minnesota grandfather has been shot dead after opening his door to a 20-year-old man who claimed he was being chased.
Thomas Sonnenberg called 911 at 11:46am Friday for 20-year-old Devon Derrick Parker who police say told him he was being pursued by assailants with baseball bats.
When police arrived at the home on the 3700 block of North Aldrich Avenue in north Minneapolis, they found Sonnenberg dead.
Parker was apprehended inside the house.
'He was shot in the head,' said the victim’s brother, Darrell Sonnenberg told the Star Tribune.
No where does it say this person was a stranger. He wasn't a stranger according to the article, the victim apparently knew the killer. Maybe not well enough to know about his multiple arrests for assault, trespassing, and drugs. He didn't appear to be on anything but according to the article they can't seem to get from him why he was even there...let alone shot some one.
However, making the leap without reading the article that people should be afraid of the world at large because some stranger will come shoot you is pretty well expected for those already afraid of the world. Without constant reinforcement that the world is mean and scary some people might actually go out into it and see what the world is really like.
No good deed goes unpunished! Remember the sad story of Renisha McBride who was shot in the head when she knocked on a stranger's door in the middle of the night asking for help after her car broke down?
Here's the flip side to being a good samaritan. When stuff like this happens it's no wonder that some people shoot first and ask questions later when a stranger comes asking for help.
A 69-year-old Minnesota grandfather has been shot dead after opening his door to a 20-year-old man who claimed he was being chased.
Thomas Sonnenberg called 911 at 11:46am Friday for 20-year-old Devon Derrick Parker who police say told him he was being pursued by assailants with baseball bats.
When police arrived at the home on the 3700 block of North Aldrich Avenue in north Minneapolis, they found Sonnenberg dead.
Parker was apprehended inside the house.
'He was shot in the head,' said the victim’s brother, Darrell Sonnenberg told the Star Tribune.
I would have told him to keep running and pulled out my own gun. LOL I could make other comments, but I've had enough infractions on here to last me a while. LOL
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No where does it say this person was a stranger. He wasn't a stranger according to the article, the victim apparently knew the killer. Maybe not well enough to know about his multiple arrests for assault, trespassing, and drugs. He didn't appear to be on anything but according to the article they can't seem to get from him why he was even there...let alone shot some one.
However, making the leap without reading the article that people should be afraid of the world at large because some stranger will come shoot you is pretty well expected for those already afraid of the world. Without constant reinforcement that the world is mean and scary some people might actually go out into it and see what the world is really like.
"Police spokesperson John Elder earlier indicated that Parker and Sonnenberg were acquaintances, but Sonnenberg's daughter Raina Baldwin says that was not the case.
'No. Absolutely not,' she told the Mail Online through tears."
No good deed goes unpunished! Remember the sad story of Renisha McBride who was shot in the head when she knocked on a stranger's door in the middle of the night asking for help after her car broke down?
Here's the flip side to being a good samaritan. When stuff like this happens it's no wonder that some people shoot first and ask questions later when a stranger comes asking for help.
A 69-year-old Minnesota grandfather has been shot dead after opening his door to a 20-year-old man who claimed he was being chased.
Thomas Sonnenberg called 911 at 11:46am Friday for 20-year-old Devon Derrick Parker who police say told him he was being pursued by assailants with baseball bats.
When police arrived at the home on the 3700 block of North Aldrich Avenue in north Minneapolis, they found Sonnenberg dead.
Parker was apprehended inside the house.
'He was shot in the head,' said the victim’s brother, Darrell Sonnenberg told the Star Tribune.
How bout we dont shoot the person at the door or let them in either. How bout we cut on the porch light and call 911.
"Police spokesperson John Elder earlier indicated that Parker and Sonnenberg were acquaintances, but Sonnenberg's daughter Raina Baldwin says that was not the case.
'No. Absolutely not,' she told the Mail Online through tears."
Oh, bless your heart. You actually think The Mail is a real newspaper?
However it happened, if it did or not, what is the real intention of posts like these, if not to imply that being cold and selfish is smart while doing good toward others is foolish?
OP posted it first. You sayin' the whole thing never happened?
Nope, just that the original article it cites has more truth. It's not two choices, that it never happened or The Mail is right. That's a false dichotomy.
Another one would be either you agree with me...or you are a pedophile. Just a demonstration why two options are not always the correct ones.
I feel like I am explaining this to a child. Things like yes New York exists, but the movie The Avengers isn't real. Just like the stories on the Daily Mail might be true, maybe, but what they add to it likely is not. She has an excuse being 4 and wandering in when I was re-watching The Avengers on Netflix. You are an adult (at least assuming you didn't lie on the TOS)...what is your excuse?
Suspect said someone is chasing him, and once he's in the house he just kills the guy? And after commiting a murder, he was going to rape a woman? He was going to rob a house but the fact that a WOMAN was there somehow ruined these plans?
This story makes no damn sense, but don't let logic get in the way of a good, "don't trust *****s" narrative.
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