Paul Shockley:
"Derrill Rockwell told police he grabbed his rifle, the .22-caliber he kept handy to kill rodents around the house, about 5 a.m. Oct. 5 and walked outside to confront it.
The bird.
Possibly, he told police, the same fowl he suspected of harassing his cats recently around his home near Orchard Mesa Cemetery.
It was red, sitting at the top of a hill about 90 feet away from Rockwell.
“His intent was to spook it away,” Deputy District Attorney Jason Conley told District Judge Richard Gurley on Friday.
Rockwell shot once but said he didn’t see the bird fly away. Soon after, he heard a woman’s voice, moaning in pain. Rockwell discovered a 23-year-old woman, with a large red mohawk, with a gunshot wound to the head.
“In 15 years in law enforcement, this was one of the more interesting cases I’ve worked,” Grand Junction Police Department detective Sean Crocker told the judge Friday...." (Read more? Click title)
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2 comments:
personally, I think this is nanny's best post ever.
darn kids. must have been a priceless look on cops faces when they investigated this one.
bummer that the guy lost his 22 privileges though.
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the guy must have felt terrible.
what do you do? at 90' that mohawk had to have been 24" high or higher. And flaming red.
I'll run with you on this one, hammer.
best post ever. well, except for maybe the times when nanny was all hepped up over the "murderous coward Richard Kendall that "slithered" on his belly into the bear cave". never saw her so upset. lol.
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