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Sixth home shooting bloodies thief
N. Memphis woman gives $200, then 2 shots from .32
A woman gave a home invasion robber $200 before dawn Friday, then pulled a gun from her china cabinet and shot at him twice when the robber demanded even more money.
Police found a trail of blood inside and outside the house at 906 Meagher in North Memphis and were looking for a suspect at local hospitals Friday.
The shooting is at least the sixth incident since June in which a Memphis homeowner or resident has shot or shot at attackers. Like the other incidents, it will be reviewed by state prosecutors.
A wave of shootings involving confrontations at people's homes began June 13 when David Ronald Washington, 44, was shot to death after breaking into a home at 3980 Wildwind Cove. He was the man police have identified as the East Memphis "cat burglar."
That same day, Kevin Martrell Humphrey, 19, was shot to death and a second suspect was injured when they tried to force their way into a home at 2959 Lark.
On July 9, William Ronnie Payne, 45, was shot and killed after trying to force his way into a home at 4212 Warbonnet.
Ricky Ricardo Wilborn, 21, was killed and Ali R. Ford, 24, was critically wounded July 11 when a man police say they robbed at an East Memphis ATM shot them as they took him by force back to his house at 4555 Dunn to get more money.
All of those shootings were ruled justified after a case-by-case review by the District Attorney General's Office.
One didn't turn out so well, but there's probably more to it.
How in the hell do you miss with six blasts from a 12 gauge?However, police on Tuesday charged Joseph Jones Jr., 22, with two counts of reckless endangerment after he fired six blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun at a man he caught breaking into his shed at 1427 Leflore Place.
Jones didn't hit the burglar, but one of the shotgun blasts shattered a bedroom window at the house next door, narrowly missing two children who had been asleep in the room.
Jones claimed the burglar was armed and that the burglar shot at him as he fled.
The cops found no evidence that a gun had been fired at the guy.
Over at the THR boards, the consensus is that there was no burglar and the guy made up the story because he and his brother were either horsing around with the guns or they had an argument that got out of hand.
Even if there was a burglar breaking into the shed, you aren't justified in blowing him away because he's stealing your weed-eater.
Now if he breaks into your house, feel free to open fire.
Lesson from this incident: Use birdshot if you live in an urban area and use a 12 gauge for home defense.
bad for the idiot who shot without checking where is damn gun was pointed,asshole could have killed those kids. 
