Trespassers will be shot. Survivers will be reshot!! Smile I will."

Boy, 7, dies in apparent trespass shooting



HOUSTON - A 7-year-old boy who was allegedly shot in the head by a couple who thought he and three other people were trespassing on their property died Saturday, authorities said. Donald Coffey Jr. died Saturday morning at a Houston hospital, less than two days after the boy was struck in the head by shotgun pellets, Sheriff's Cpl. Hugh Bishop said.

Sheila Muhs and her husband, Gayle Muhs, both 45, were charged with second-degree felony counts of aggravated assault in the shootings Thursday. They were being held at Liberty County Jail with bail set at $25,000 each and had not yet retained an attorney, Bishop said

Bishop said the district attorney could upgrade the charges to murder on Monday, but investigators were "still trying to get the circumstances behind the incident." The boy, his 5-year-old sister, their father and a family friend were off-roading near a residential area about 40 miles northeast of Houston when they were shot after stopping so the children could go to the bathroom.


Authorities said the couple fired after they mistakenly thought the group was trespassing on their property.
Bishop said the area includes a dirt road, trees and overgrown brush and that it wasn't uncommon for people to go off-roading there. The Houston Chronicle reported that a sign in front of the suspects' home reads: "Trespassers will be shot. Survivers will be reshot!! Smile I will."


Liberty County Chief Deputy Ken DeFoor said Sheila Muhs fired a 12-gauge shotgun once, then handed it to her husband, who also fired once.DeFoor said Sheila Muhs then called 911 and told the dispatcher: "They're out here tearing up the levee, so I shot them."
DeFoor said the levee belonged to the subdivision and was not private property.


Bishop said there was no indication the unarmed victims did anything threatening toward the Muhs.
Donald Coffey Sr. suffered a pellet wound in his right shoulder and his daughter, Destiny, suffered a wound to the elbow. The family friend, 30-year-old Patrick Cammack, was in serious condition Saturday with a head wound, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center spokeswoman Alex Rodriguez said.

I smell another "right to bare arms debate"

 

..Hmm...
I hope they get the book thrown at them!
Houston have some "interresting" stuff...
I lived there from Jan 94 to end of 05...
Lived right inbetween The Third Ward and the whore district on Main (before it was cleaned up) - could be "interresting" at times.
I later moved back to the same area but it was completely different from when I lived there in 94-96

We had that dentist wife that ran over her cheating hubby on the parking lot like 6 times, we have that crazy woman that drowned all her kinds and I think Lorena Bobbitt and hubby also was from Houston...
Hmmm......

I still acctually miss Houston a lot (minust the cooks).

 

I also say "throw the book at them".

I consider myself a progressive-minded individual who supports the 2nd Amendment. However, I do believe that the gun laws should have the same sanctions that apply to EVERYBODY and not just certain groups of people.

You all know what I mean.:smt045

 

I agree... This sounds more like sniper-type shootings....
It pisses me off th emore I think about it.

 

Yeah, that sounds like the kinda crazy shit these texans be doing. I haven't picked up a Chron in a minute, but I really need to start doin so. All this shit in my backyard, like damn.

 

Hmmm, can't blame this on video games, now can you America? Execute those mufuckas. Dumb bastards. Really now. Firing the gun, then passing is for the other to shoot? What the hell is this, a smoke session? They wanna share the excitement of that? And damn, that dude is one ugly mufucka.

 

sad.