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Showing Original Post only (View all)Teen's lawyer: the fishermen intentionally shot at the teens, resulting in Summer Moody's death [View all]
A radically different story about Summer Moody's fatal shooting is emerging, after the DA has decided not to press charges against the shooters -- or even to name the man whose gun fired the bullet that killed her. The DA said it was nothing but a "tragic accident."
It's impossible to know which of the two stories is correct -- which is why I think there should have been a trial: to determine the facts. A trial not just of the alleged teen burglars, but of the men who, at the very least, recklessly fired their weapons into the darkness at some teens who may or may not have been involved in burglarizing an empty cabin on property that belonged to none of them.
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/04/attorney_for_burglary_defendan.html
BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- An attorney for one of the teenagers charged with burglarizing a Baldwin County fishing camp in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta said today that the shooting of a 17-year-old girl in their group was intentional.
Donald D. Wayne Doerr Jr., who represents Daniel Parnell, said his client described a sequence of events that radically contradicts the version offered by law enforcement authorities when they announced Thursday that they would not file charges against any of the 3 men who had come from a neighboring camp on Gravine Island to investigate noises in the wee hours of April 15.
Doerr said his client talked to investigators the night he was arrested and told them that all 4 of the teens were together when the men shined a spotlight on them and fired a shot that hit former Baldwin County High School student Summer Moody. He said that after the shooting, the men yelled at the youths to put their hands up and put their faces on the ground.
Doerr said one of the men immediately said at the time that he knew he had shot the girl, contradicting the account by law enforcement that he could not see her. If true, Doerr said, the scenario would indicate more than mere recklessness on the part of the shooters.
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Doerr disputed other parts of the official account. He said the teenagers had a rifle in their boat but were not armed during the shooting. He said the teens were frog gigging and never went into a building. He said they were not even on private property, but land owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, when the shooting occurred.
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