Teen Seeking Help After Car Accident Rang Doorbell, Was Shot In The Head

Xenji

Renisha McBride, 19, went looking for help in the middle of the night after she got into a car accident last weekend, but was shot dead after ringing the doorbell at a nearby home.

When Renisha McBride, 19, crashed her car in the middle of the night in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights, her phone was dead, her family says. So she went to the nearest home in and knocked on the door.

It was the last thing she did.

The person who answered the door shot McBride in the head, The Detroit News reported. Police confirmed that she died moments later on the suspect’s front porch. The wound was to the back of the head, leading investigators to believe she was leaving the porch when the shot was fired.

McBride’s aunt Bernita Spinks believes it was a case of racial profiling.
“He shot her in the head … for what? For knocking on his door… If he felt scared or threatened, he should have called 911.” Spinks said on Tuesday.

The Dearborn Heights Police Department released a statement on the shooting that said they had identified the person who fired the shot and killed McBride. The statement added that a final report will be forwarded to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office for review in the near future. The race of the shooter has not yet been released.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/teen-seeking-help-after-car-accident-rang-doorbell-was-shot?bffb

Just another is a long line of mindless slayings, the perpertator will probably get off scott free as well.

Seaneh

****ing hell.

There really is only one thing to say here.

'Murika.

theblaqueguy

Thats crazy why would you shoot someone that just knocked on your door its not as if she was trying to break into the house
Hope whoever did it gets locked up for the rest of their life

pharmaton

Knew a couple in Vegas who had a caller knock on their door in hysterics one night having been chased down the street by a junked up bf, they let her in and whatever happened (their story goes) she went and took a carving knife from the kitchen drawer so the hubby shot her at point blank and killed her. She was 21 and had a young child. The cops arrived and he got a pat on the back, was offered counselling and that was the end of that.

dxhound2005

I remember reading about this other case in September. The police shot a man after a traffic accident.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/charlotte-north-carolina-car-crash-victim-shot

MadsL

Seaneh wrote: »

****ing hell.

There really is only one thing to say here.

'Murika.

Only one thing to say when you have vision that selective. I failed to find AH threads on these stories...

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/child-shooting-eightyearold-fired-gun-29728247.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1103/484354-ballymun-shooting/

http://www.independent.ie/videos/world-news/teenage-girl-shot-in-sydney-29731764.html

pablomakaveli

MadsL wrote: »

Only one thing to say when you have vision that selective. I failed to find AH threads on these stories...

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/child-shooting-eightyearold-fired-gun-29728247.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1103/484354-ballymun-shooting/

http://www.independent.ie/videos/world-news/teenage-girl-shot-in-sydney-29731764.html

Do you have some sort of alarm that goes off every time someone posts a gun thread on AH?

Riddle101

Kind've Reminds me of Oscar Pistorius, when he shot his girlfriend. The guy who shot Renisha McBride probably got spooked out at someone ringing his doorbell in the middle of the night. I mean Detroit does have a high crime rate so some people are probably a bit edgy. Just like in South Africa which has a high crime and murder rate too, and people over there are almost always armed with a weapon.

But I don't know, it's just a theory.

SparkySpitfire

MadsL wrote: »

Only one thing to say when you have vision that selective. I failed to find AH threads on these stories...

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/child-shooting-eightyearold-fired-gun-29728247.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1103/484354-ballymun-shooting/

http://www.independent.ie/videos/world-news/teenage-girl-shot-in-sydney-29731764.html

That's what happens in a country where guns are NOT freely available.

This story from the US is the tip of the iceberg and those links are not helping your cause.

EDIT: To elaborate, they're not available to the public here and those awful things happened, they're available to the American public (after getting licences obvs) and we're seeing story after story of senseless murders like this one.

Seaneh

Seaneh wrote: »

****ing hell.

There really is only one thing to say here.

'Murika.

You just had to do the MadsL batsignal, didn't you?

MadsL

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

That's what happens in a country where guns are NOT freely available.

This story from the US is the tip of the iceberg and those links are not helping your cause.

Those three links were from countries with strict gun controls, from the past few days. No-one starting threads on them. Someone gets shot in the US...'Merika.
Change the record ffs. Really old now.

SparkySpitfire

MadsL wrote: »

Those three links were from countries with strict gun controls, from the past few days. No-one starting threads on them. Someone gets shot in the US...'Merika.
Change the record ffs. Really old now.

The record will change when a new song comes out. So far, hearing nothing.

KwackerJack

And we call ourselves Civilised

ScumLord

Riddle101 wrote: »

I mean Detroit does have a high crime rate so some people are probably a bit edgy.

She could have gotten quite aggressive if he told her to F-off ringing his doorbell in the middle of the night. Even so, she was shot in the back of the head, I don't think there's any way of defending that.

MadsL

Deleted User wrote: »

You just had to do the MadsL batsignal, didn't you?

What can I say, I'm very sensitive to kneejerk idiotic reactions.

donvito99

When we shoot people, they're gangsters, not people involved in road traffic accidents.

Xenji

It was in a very affluent suburb of Detroit as well, as her mother said, if the person felt threatened he could of called 911 and the cops would be there in 2 or 3 minutes.

SparkySpitfire

ScumLord wrote: »

She could have gotten quite aggressive if he told her to F-off ringing his doorbell in the middle of the night. Even so, she was shot in the back of the head, I don't think there's any way of defending that.

Even if he was on the "defensive" and fearful of whatever threat he thought she posed, a shot in the head is no warning shot.

pharmaton

Riddle101 wrote: »

Kind've Reminds me of Oscar Pistorius, when he shot his girlfriend. The guy who shot Renisha McBride probably got spooked out at someone ringing his doorbell in the middle of the night. I mean Detroit does have a high crime rate so some people are probably a bit edgy. Just like in South Africa which has a high crime and murder rate too, and people over there are almost always armed with a weapon.

But I don't know, it's just a theory.

I had the privilege (if you could call it that) of meeting the hubby I described above on a couple of occasions. Had a run in with him on one of those occasions and he went ape over something trivial about people who believed in God. I would have described him as a very very angry person before hand. Granted it was Vegas and it can be a crazy place itself but I genuinely don't think that man was an innocent victim at all.
He went all religious after it though which I thought was the best kind of karma.

Nabber

America has a large population. These things are bound to happen when you combine large population with easy access to guns.

Good luck to them.

P_1

Right I do understand that things are meant to be a bit on the Mad Max side of things in Detroit but surely people aren't so frightened of things that they answer a knock of the door in the middle of the night with a loaded shotgun.

MadsL

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

To elaborate, they're not available to the public here and those awful things happened, they're available to the American public (after getting licences obvs) and we're seeing story after story of senseless murders like this one.

Almost everything about that sentence is factually incorrect.
There are 220,000 firearms in Ireland.
And Detroit, Illinois remains the only state in the US with no provision to let private citizens carry guns in public.

So, of course all four new stories totally reflect each countries attitude to gun control. Could you all just try thinking for a minute?

Timmyctc

MadsL wrote: »

What can I say, I'm very sensitive to kneejerk idiotic reactions.

So in order to counter them... you form some idiotic reactions of your own... quite the cunning plan young MadsL.

I think the reason this one has a thread is because the girl was purposely shot in the back of the head as she sought aid after finding herself in a car accident. Not two scummers getting shot over heroin or a nissan micra in ballymun.

Riddle101

ScumLord wrote: »

She could have gotten quite aggressive if he told her to F-off ringing his doorbell in the middle of the night. Even so, she was shot in the back of the head, I don't think there's any way of defending that.

Maybe you're right. Maybe she just knocked at the wrong house that night.

Femme_Fatale

KwackerJack wrote: »

the perpertator will probably get off scott free as well.

Why?

Tin Foil Hat

MadsL wrote: »

What can I say, I'm very sensitive to kneejerk idiotic reactions.

Like when someone blows a hole in someones head for ringing a doorbell?

MadsL

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

Even if he was on the "defensive" and fearful of whatever threat he thought she posed, a shot in the head is no warning shot.

He's a marksman too as well as disoriented and scared homeowner.

I'm not justifying this at all, but lets not bring movie antics into this...

Xenji

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Why?

George Zimmerman has set a precedent, plus they will go with the whole self defense angle regardless of what actually happened.

SparkySpitfire

MadsL wrote: »

Almost everything about that sentence is factually incorrect.
There are 220,000 firearms in Ireland.
And Detroit, Illinois remains the only state in the US with no provision to let private citizens carry guns in public.

So, of course all four new stories totally reflect each countries attitude to gun control. Could you all just try thinking for a minute?

1. Didn't know that, I still don't hear of people getting shot on doorsteps. (Apart from in gangland of course, but every country has their own version of that)

2. Nope, didn't know that either, but it's hardly relevant in this case since the girl was shot on the man's property?

SparkySpitfire

MadsL wrote: »

He's a marksman too as well as disoriented and scared homeowner.

I'm not justifying this at all, but lets not bring movie antics into this...

What are you on about? A reasonable reaction is NOT to shoot someone in the head, even if you are scared! there's nothing film-eqsue about that!

And (hands up I don't know all the facts) if he shot her in the back of the head, that suggests she was leaving, so the shot doesn't seem to be a "quick defend myself before she can attack me" action. But you probably are gonna just disagree with everything I'm saying now cos you took that stance at the start.

If you're not trying to justify him, I dunno why you made that comment in the first place.

diomed

Shot in the back of the head?
The homeowner was defending himself and his property. Its in the constitution.
From reading these threads week after week I'm learning how to call it the way middle 'Merica calls it.