Couple recount fatal fray at their Tierra Verde home
TIERRA VERDE — Meghan Brown had fired her pink .38-caliber handgun only inside a shooting range. Even there, she said, she wasn't very good.Fortunately for her and her fiancé, she was able to turn a goblin into a dead goblin - using a pink .38 Special snubbie...The 2009 Miss Tierra Verde, 25 and a slender brunet, had trouble pulling back the trigger. When she did manage, she said she almost never hit the target.
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"Hill's girlfriend, Arielle Hope, said after the shooting that he was changing his life.
"It's a shame everything went down the way it did," Hope said. "Al's future was bright and everything was looking up for him and me and our life together.""
Give me a break. The scumbags are always "changing his life". If he was so busy changing his life, what was he doing breaking and entering at 3 AM?
I think the way his life has been changed is just fine... by four .38 slugs, that is.
a) Good for her. Sounds like a good shoot, and she may have saved her fiance's life.
b)
"The 2009 Miss Tierra Verde, 25 and a slender brunet, had trouble pulling back the trigger. When she did manage, she said she almost never hit the target."
Sounds like she needs a different gun. This is a perfect example of the core of the "snubbies for women or not" debate that keeps coming up. She has problems pulling the trigger (probably too heavy for her) and that throws off her aim. It's not the gun for her.
Anybody else think it is suspect that comment are disabled on the story? Or am I just paranoid?
Nothing like a little high velocity lead to complete a thug's turnaround.
He'll never commit another crime.
Reading the story, it seems like they were leading a pretty high risk lifestyle. Letting drunk people into your home at 3am is not the best way to stay out of trouble.
Still, good for her.
That is a very nice looking house. If the room-temperature choirboy was in fact changing his life, surely his girlfriend wouldn't mind if his estate received a bill for the cleanup?
I don't know, for all the snubby hate, it seemed to work out. I wonder what range the goblin was at?
Even there, she said, she wasn't very good.
The Dead Goblin would disagree.
If he weren't dead.
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Good enough to put the bad guy at room temperature!
But yeah, letting people into your home at O'dark thirty when you're not expecting anyone is a BAD, BAD move.
"I don't know, for all the snubby hate, it seemed to work out."
True, it did work out. But her own admission is that she misses the target more often than not when at the range. Snubbys are good guns, but it's probably not the right gun for her.
"I wonder what range the goblin was at?"
That's a very good question, and I wish I knew the answer, too. Just a WAG, but I would say probably about 3-4 feet based on the situation, maybe even 6-8 feet based on the pictures of the house that are in the article. She's at least done enough practice with her gun to hit a man-sized target at that range, even with the issues she says she has with it.
Although Hill was no doubt a creep, there seem to be a lot of gaps in the victims stories.
Being the cynic I am, I think there is more to this story than they are letting on.
Most suspicious is that Hill has no previous history of violent crime. He's done burglaries, sold drugs, been disorderly, been drunk in public, but no record of assaults. That would be featured quite prominently if he had ever been arrested for it, but thee is no mention of it.
I wonder what the investigation will reveal?
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