Florida Woman Shoots 7-Year-Old Grandson She Mistook For An Intruder
Options
1CK1S
Members Posts: 27,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
A 7-year-old boy in Tampa, Florida is hospitalized after his grandmother mistook him for an intruder and shot him.
The associated Press reported that around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of shots fired.
Linda Maddox, 63, said that she and her twin grandsons were sleeping after the boys’ father had gone to work for the night. Maddox had propped a chair against her bedroom door handle, she told police, for extra security.
When the woman heard someone rattling the chair as they attempted to open the door, Maddox thought it was an intruder at the door and fired one shot from a .22-caliber pistol she kept by the bed.
Her grandson Tyler Maddox was struck in the upper torso and fell to the ground screaming. Linda Maddox called 911 for help.
Paramedics took the boy to a nearby hospital where he remains in critical condition.
Comments
-
Guns
-
"? !!!......granny its mee!!.....i had a bad dream!!.....but nevermind im goin back to bed!!.....shaat!!!"
-
The user and all related content has been deleted.
-
What a ? .
-
she fired without even first checking on the kids to make sure they were still where they should have been??
-
so her door opened in the middle of the night, knowing her two grandsons were home, and she immediately thought it was an intruder instead of her grand kids?
? is paranoid -
Give Florida to Cuba.
-
this belongs in that rachet thread. Some families don't have these problems. It is florida, tho...
*10 years from now*
kid: Big Momma, remember when you shot me?
woman: ? , you should have knocked and identified yourself, how am I suppose to know who you is, janglin door handles in the middle of the night and ? , now come on in here and eat. -
she was standing her ground
-
Maddox had propped a chair against her bedroom door handle, she told police, for extra security.
? this was one paranoid ? . i'm willing to bet they don't give her 20 years for discharging her gun in her house though. -
..........? you old ass woman!
-
Black_Samson wrote: »Wow!
How the ? u gon shoot first and ask questions later in a house fulla kids?!?!
? ur senile ass knew you had youngins in ur home!!!
How the ? "who is it?" Never cross ur damn mind?
Its a lot of home invasions in fla, eepecially on the elderly -
That boy made a threatening gesture, ergo, he deserves to die.
-
Smh @ her having a chair behind her door.
If an intruder did come in them kids was on their own. -
These people never learn from their mistakes, not even after putting a hole through her grandson's chest.
-
Florida.
-
A 4'5 intruder.
? did that on purpose. -
Damn, so she just forgot that she had a whole other grandson in the crib besides the twins?
-
RIP.
-
-
so she keeps loaded guns in her house on the bedstand with young kids in the house.
this situation was not to end well and all things considered could've been alot worse -
-
The problem is there aren't enough guns
If we had more guns this wouldn't have happened
![[Deleted User]](https://w1.vanillicon.com/v2/15efd8efe08bb34aae25f1808aaf5018.svg)
