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More on 11 year old from Michigan · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Talking about this eleven year old kid out of Lancing,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan as well. I want to tell you about the
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  Speaker 1: kid out of Florida too. It was Florida. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was Arkansas, Arizona, but it was Florida where this
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old kid, you know, stepped up and saved
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  Speaker 1: his family. It's a teenager with a gun story that
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  Speaker 1: actually was a good story. But the eleven year old,
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  Speaker 1: a male black Lancing, Michigan eleven year old boy has
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  Speaker 1: been expelled from school. That means kiketh out it an
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  Speaker 1: entire year. Not only can he not go to school,
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  Speaker 1: he can't go to any school functions, no sports games,
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  Speaker 1: nothing expelled and the reason, quite frankly to me, seems silly.
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  Speaker 1: Because he kept one of his classmates from doing any harm.
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  Speaker 1: His classmate brought a loaded weapon to school. This kid, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: according to his mom's story, has a hunting experience at
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  Speaker 1: eleven years old, bless his heart and took the gun
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  Speaker 1: from the classmate. He broke down the gun, removed the ammunition,
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  Speaker 1: got rid of the ammunition, did not rat out his friend,
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  Speaker 1: kept anyone from getting hurt, kept bad things from happening,
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  Speaker 1: and in return, he got expelled. Now I get the fact,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he should have told a teacher and administrator.
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  Speaker 1: I get that, but he's eleven. He did the best
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  Speaker 1: he could with what instinct and knowledge an eleven year
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  Speaker 1: old boy might have, and he messed up. There's people
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  Speaker 1: out here five times his age mess it up every day.
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  Speaker 1: This kid messed up. But he did the right thing
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  Speaker 1: for the right reasons. He just didn't tell anybody. And
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  Speaker 1: when they found out that he knew about the gun
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  Speaker 1: and he took away the gun and he unloaded and
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  Speaker 1: broke down the gun, they expelled him for a year.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just wrong. I've told the story be four
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  Speaker 1: years ago when I was doing a morning show and
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of violence happening in Columbus. This
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  Speaker 1: was back in the nineties. It was really getting bad quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and it was an alien thing because Columbus just had
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  Speaker 1: not been that kind of city. And one morning we
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  Speaker 1: had a kid call and my news director actually picked
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  Speaker 1: it up and he said, I need you to get
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  Speaker 1: in on this call. So I picked it up too,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a kid from a Columbus city school
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  Speaker 1: who wanted to tell someone but didn't want to get
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  Speaker 1: in trouble. And didn't want to get himself beat up
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  Speaker 1: or worse for ratting somebody out. So he called the
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  Speaker 1: station because he listened to us every morning, and he
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  Speaker 1: needed to tell somebody about the kid who had a
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  Speaker 1: gun in his locker at school. And we got off
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  Speaker 1: the air that morning, and we went to the school
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  Speaker 1: and the situation was handled. His name was never brought
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  Speaker 1: into anything. He reached out in his way. I think
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  Speaker 1: he was fourteen, if I'm not mistaken. It's been twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years ago. It's hard to remember. But he reached
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  Speaker 1: out to someone he believed he could trust to fix
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  Speaker 1: this problem, and we weren't going to let him down
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  Speaker 1: by today's standards. I don't know. Maybe he get in
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  Speaker 1: trouble for that too. Well, you called the radio station
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  Speaker 1: guides instead of telling the teacher. Yeah. Well, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to know who to trust, I guess, but to
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  Speaker 1: to do your best, and at eleven years old, this
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  Speaker 1: was this kid's best to keep everybody safe, including the
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  Speaker 1: kid that brought the gun to school. And to get
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  Speaker 1: expelled for a year, that is truly unjust. They've got
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  Speaker 1: the go fundme page out there for I guess legal
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  Speaker 1: expenses and so forth, and I hope mom is a
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  Speaker 1: good and decent person. I believe she probably is because
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  Speaker 1: she seems to have raised a good and decent eleven
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  Speaker 1: year old son. I hope that money is used wisely
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  Speaker 1: and in some way benefits the greater good down the road.
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  Speaker 1: This kid should not have been expelled. Home intrusion in
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  Speaker 1: Florida ends with two dead, two wounded. Random act of violence,
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  Speaker 1: they say, against a family. This is just this is
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  Speaker 1: a crazy story, Okay. The intruder shows up. Just before
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  Speaker 1: six thirty am on Monday, September fifteenth, forty five year
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  Speaker 1: old Mercurial Vasco Lopez barged into a home in Middleburg.
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  Speaker 1: He began shooting anybody in sight. The shooting stopped when
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen year old boy grabbed a shotgun and started
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  Speaker 1: firing back at Lopez. Investigators so far no link between
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  Speaker 1: Lopez and the victims, other than the fact his car
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  Speaker 1: stalled in front of their home. The suspect and his
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  Speaker 1: wife left their residence in Jacksonville, Florida, after midnight. They
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  Speaker 1: drove through Clay County for several hours. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: the front tier of the vehicle was damaged. The suspect
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  Speaker 1: continued driving until the vehicle became disabled in front of
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  Speaker 1: the incident location. According to the sheriff, he then walked
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  Speaker 1: through the fence yard of the residence came across James Magruder,
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  Speaker 1: who was standing outside the house armed with a handgun.
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  Speaker 1: The suspect ordered James inside the residence. Once inside, he
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  Speaker 1: shot the twenty one year old female. Suspect then encountered
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  Speaker 1: Vincent Checkone junior, fired around, striking him. Samantha Chickhone armed
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  Speaker 1: herself with a shotgun. However, the suspect shot her multiple
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  Speaker 1: times before she could fire a shot. Sixteen year old
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  Speaker 1: male was able to grab that shotgun fire two rounds,
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  Speaker 1: critically injuring the bad guy. And eleven year old girl
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  Speaker 1: had hidden from Lopez in a bedroom, while Linda Peeples
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  Speaker 1: forty seven, Ashley People's nineteen, and Magruder eight teen fled
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  Speaker 1: to a neighbor's home for help. Samantha Chacne thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: died at the scene. Vincent Chacun Junior, forty eight, was
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  Speaker 1: treated at a hospital and released. Twenty one year old
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  Speaker 1: woman remains hospitalized in critical condition. Her identity has not
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  Speaker 1: been released. Shootings happened at the suspect's wife sat outside
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  Speaker 1: in the car, unaware of her husband's intentions. The identity
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  Speaker 1: of the boy who shot Lopez not released. The Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: office did laud the courage shown by those who acted
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  Speaker 1: to protect their loved ones during the tragedy. Middleburg is
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  Speaker 1: a small town about thirty mile drive southwest from Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: We see these stories maybe twice a year. They get
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  Speaker 1: some exposure where you know, a minor, a teen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a child picks up a weapon in the home and
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  Speaker 1: defends a family. This should show you it's the people,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the weapon. These people had a gun, at
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  Speaker 1: least a shotgun in the home, and thank god they did,
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  Speaker 1: because the bad guy, for apparently no reason, just decided
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  Speaker 1: to come in the house and start shooting people. What's
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  Speaker 1: the phrase, only thing that stuffs a bad guy with
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  Speaker 1: a gun is a good guy with a gun. Case
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  Speaker 1: in point, is this sixteen year old kid in Middleburg, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to think, I would like to think
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  Speaker 1: that I raised kids that would do that, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. One of them is a
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  Speaker 1: loud mouth, and usually a louder people talk, the more
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  Speaker 1: unlikely they are to actually take action When it needs
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  Speaker 1: to be taken. One of them not so much a
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  Speaker 1: loud mouth, but a little over a confident. He could
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  Speaker 1: probably win a couple of gold medals in the Olympics
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  Speaker 1: right now if they let him. I don't know for what,
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  Speaker 1: but that's just how his head works. One of them
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  Speaker 1: exactly like me, largely silent, sometimes a little scary him.
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  Speaker 1: I'd put my money on. And one of them actually
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  Speaker 1: went into the military. I still don't know that i'd
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  Speaker 1: expect him to do it. But out of the four
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  Speaker 1: I raised, yeah, one that I think, yep, if it
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  Speaker 1: hit the fan, I'm in the fox hole with this one,
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  Speaker 1: and they all the rest of them wouldn't need us
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  Speaker 1: in there. It's great that this kid, sixteen year old kid,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he obviously had some experience with weapons. Otherwise
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  Speaker 1: he would not have known how to use the shotgun.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to teach them. And for everybody out there
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  Speaker 1: who's thinking, well, that's a different idol. That could be
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  Speaker 1: a log farm town for all I know. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what this town in Florida is like you
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  Speaker 1: have you ever heard of it? Middleburg? No idea, but
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  Speaker 1: I know Lansing, Michigan is not a rural community. Teaching
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  Speaker 1: your children how to use the weapon is what makes
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  Speaker 1: it a tool instead of an instrument that could cause
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  Speaker 1: you problems down the road, And in both these cases,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's proven. I took the grandsons up to
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  Speaker 1: l EPD. Eric worked with them, and I was so
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  Speaker 1: proud of him, even the younger one. The younger one
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  Speaker 1: quite an impressive target when he got done. So if
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  Speaker 1: my own kids, I don't know, but with the grandsons,
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  Speaker 1: I got a couple I can count on. Some people
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  Speaker 1: are natural shooters, some people takes a while. Body is different, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to train even if you're natural, so
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're doing.