24-year-old burglar meets 92-year-old vet

[ReynardMuldrake]

I bet you can guess what happens next.

VERONA — Earl Jones had just turned off his new TV shortly after 2 a.m. Monday when he heard a bang in the basement.

The 92-year-old Boone County farmer walked eight paces to get his loaded .22 caliber rifle from behind the bedroom door. He unwrapped a beige cloth and returned to the living room, sitting in a chair with clear view – and shot – of the basement door, waiting with the gun across his lap.

Some 15 minutes later, when he heard footsteps moving closer up the stairs, he raised the rifle to his eye. The intruder kicked open the door. Jones fixed his aim on the center of the man’s chest and fired a single shot. The Boone County Sheriff later announced the death of the intruder, Lloyd (Adam) Maxwell, 24, of Richmond, Ky.

“These people aren’t worth any more to me than a groundhog,” Jones told the Enquirer. “They have our country in havoc. We got so many damned crooked people walking around today.”

In Earl Jones’ mind, his actions are justified, as well. He said he was completely within his rights to defend his life and ranch home on the 500-acre farm he has worked since 1955.

“I was hoping another one would come up – I aimed right for his heart,” Jones, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1941 through ’46, told the Enquirer Monday afternoon. “I didn’t go to war for nothing. I have the right to carry a gun. That’s what I told the police this morning.”

Not long after the shooting, Kenton County Police responded to a call on Courtney Road of a man who had been shot. There they found Maxwell’s body and two uninjured men in a 2001 Chevrolet Impala who later, during questioning, would admit to being at Jones’ home on Violet Road.

The break-in was the third Jones has experienced on his farm this year. In April, thieves stole 90 head of cattle from the field behind his house. In August, burglars took from his house a television, a few thousands dollars cash and a personal check they unsuccessfully tried to cash and ripped his phone out of the wall.

“I can’t leave the damn house to do my work outside,” said Jones, removing his World War II veteran cap with his right hand and running his left through his thin white hair.

Jones has lived alone since his wife, Virginia Pearl, died in 2006. The couple had no children. Jones grew up hunting squirrels in Boone County and volunteered for the forerunner to the U.S. Air Force in 1941. He went through weapons training in the military.

He is not happy that police took the rifle used in the shooting.

“How am I going to protect myself if they come back looking for revenge?” he said.

Maxwell fell back seven steps onto a landing. Jones didn’t pursue them into the basement.

He called a neighbor and calmly said, “I need help. I just shot a man,’” he said.

At the same time, the two unhurt intruders, Dalton and Inabnit, fled Jones’ property with Maxwell’s body. Not long afterward, having driven across the county line, they called Kenton County Police with a bogus story of how Maxwell had been shot.

When Boone County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at Jones house, they found the basement door ajar and no one except Jones in the home.

Jones didn’t like how deputies treated him. “They stood down there with their guns on me, yelling, `Get your hands up! Get your hands up!’” he said. “I told them, `I’m not putting my damn hands up.’”

Finally, he did. Police approached up the long gravel driveway, flanked by a field of tobacco that Jones rents to another farmer, and questioned him.

“Was I scared? Was I mad? Hell no,” Jones said. “It was simple. That man was going to take my life. He was hunting me. I was protecting myself.”

http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB...xt%7CFRONTPAGE

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

You started the name calling. Go enjoy your pathetic life, alone.

HoneyBadger?



CUT!

[HoneyBadger]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

HoneyBadger?



CUT!

Cut?

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

Cut?

JFC.

Are you not visiting a football site?

[Predarat]

Shoot a hollow point in their ass and they won't rob again.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

You started the name calling. Go enjoy your pathetic life, alone.

Alone? Don't tell my wife. And you started the obtuse, passive aggressive dumbassery. If you don't want to be called a reerun, don't act like one. Fairly simple concept.

Maybe one day when you grow up you'll be able to afford a real gun. Until then, have fun with your .22.

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I agree. He was well within his rights for sure. I'd feel a lot less weird about it if he showed at least a little remorse, though.

The guy had been hit several times for some huge losses so he’s frustrated that his ability to sustain his farm is being stolen and he finally got one of the mother****ers. I don’t blame him at all for his attitude.

[Dayze]

so much win by the old guy.

heard a noise.
got up
got his gone.
SAT back down and waited
lol

and the part where the cops were yelling at him, and he basically told them to .
surprised the cops didn't mace, tazer, and pistol whip him due to his 'resistance'

[Aries Walker]

If the police tell you to put your hands up, you put your damn hands up. I don't care how grumpy or entitled you feel.

[Old Dog]

Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake

.......fired a single shot. The Boone County Sheriff later announced the death of the intruder..............

Now, THAT'S my idea of gun control

[Bump]

I'm picturing Clint Eastwood with this old man. Good thing he had that rifle or he'd be dead. But a few people here that you find in the DC section will tell you he'd have been better off without the gun. Dumbasses.

I'm kind of pissed that the cops took his rifle though.

[qabbaan]

Originally Posted by Bwana

I won't even go into the number of deer I have killed with a .22 over the years. A .22 will do more damage than most people think. It also sounds like old gramps was aiming for the heart.

I wasn't really referring to the fact that it was a .22, more that he got a bang/flop out of it.