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" LEXINGTON, South Carolina (AP) -- A South Carolina man shot an unarmed teenager to death after a scuffle at a weekend party thrown by his children and then shot two teens involved in a retaliatory shooting at his home, authorities said Tuesday. Francis Marion Reeves III, 62, is charged with murder in the Friday shooting death of 17-year-old Deshaun Rashad Clark and was released on $125,000 bond after a Tuesday court hearing. The shooting is under investigation, but prosecutors and authorities described a chaotic scene at the small party hosted by Reeves' children at the family's lake house in Lexington County, just west of Columbia. Reeves' children claimed that a cell phone was stolen. Someone accused Clark of taking it, and he scuffled with another person and was struck several times before leaving and threatening to return with friends, police said. Reeves' son went to the family's other nearby home to get his father, who brought a loaded pistol and unloaded shotgun over to the lake house. The father was told that his daughter had been attacked at the party and watched as his son was attacked by three people. After Clark returned with friends, Reeves shot him, prosecutors said. Partygoers scattered, and friends took the injured teen to a fire station. He died at a hospital. "He literally bled to death," prosecutor Rick Hubbard said. Reeves' attorney, Dick Harpootlian, said his client acted in self-defense, fearing that he and his children were in danger. "This is a tragedy. Any time somebody dies, anytime somebody's killed, that's a tragedy, but one has a right to act in self-defense," Harpootlian said. Reeves returned to his home afterward and was sitting on the front porch when one of the slain teen's friends drove by and shot at his home in retaliation, police said. Reeves fired back with a shotgun, police said, striking two teens who were in the car. They were not seriously injured. One of the slain teen's friends has been charged with assault with intent to kill in the drive-by shooting. Breon Jacoby Mayers, 17, remained in jail Tuesday after his bail was set at $100,000. When deputies arrested Reeves on Saturday, he appeared intoxicated, authorities said. "He was traumatized and upset about what had happened and had been up all night long. And he had several drinks," Harpootlian said. Reeves did not speak about the shooting during the hearing Tuesday but nodded to family members as he left the courtroom. About two dozen family members of the slain teen also attended. Family members described Clark as a soft-spoken and sensitive teen who planned to play sports at Chapin High School this year. Family members and some residents of the community have speculated that race was a factor in the shooting -- the dead teen is black, and Reeves and his children are white -- but authorities say that wasn't the case. Clark's uncle, Corinthea Stack, 49, said he feared that Reeves' release could cause more violence in the town just 22 miles from the state's capital."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/19/party.shooting.ap/index.html




He's fucking rambo. His house was getting shot at, so he goes outside firing.

8/20/2008 8:59:19 AM

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"Deshaun Rashad Clark"

hmmm...

8/20/2008 9:05:18 AM

Summary


black kid gets his ass beat at a party because they thought he stole a phone

black kid leaves and threatens to bring friends

white kids call parent

parent brings gun

black kid shows up with friends (and guns)

dad shoots and kills black dude

the rest try to shoot up his house later that night

dad goes rambo and shoots the car, injuring two of them.

8/20/2008 9:05:29 AM

balls to the wall!!

8/20/2008 9:06:21 AM

and after all is done


dad goes home and gets drunk



cops pick him up the next morning and are like "wtf rambo?"

8/20/2008 9:09:42 AM

And that, kids, is why you don't throw parties at your parent's lake house.

8/20/2008 9:11:23 AM

USA #1

8/20/2008 9:13:44 AM

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"and after all is done dad goes home and gets drunk"

it's a legal strategy. probably what his lawyer advised.

8/20/2008 9:15:13 AM

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"Reeves returned to his home afterward and was sitting on the front porch when one of the slain teen's friends drove by and shot at his home in retaliation, police said. Reeves fired back with a shotgun, police said, striking two teens who were in the car. They were not seriously injured. "

rule #1: do not attempt drive by if intended target is known to have guns.

shooting from a moving vehicle<<<<shooting from porch


[/hillbilly]

8/20/2008 9:19:36 AM

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"wtf rambo?"

8/20/2008 9:27:08 AM

if the kid came back with guns, i dont see what the problem is with the father shooting him in self defense when he came back armed under aggressive circumstances

8/20/2008 9:27:27 AM

He killed a minor.


I'm sure that's what's making the big stink.



They let him out on bail. I have a feeling he'll get off.

8/20/2008 9:28:17 AM

I'm predicting a smack on the hand for him.

He will not get jail time.

8/20/2008 9:30:45 AM

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"The father was told that his daughter had been attacked at the party and watched as his son was attacked by three people."

So the father watched the son get beat and then shot someone at the party? I wonder if the dead kid is one of the one's who was attacking his son.

I wonder how long before a video of the party shows up on Youtube

8/20/2008 9:33:18 AM

The defense probably had a good case until the other kids drove by the house shooting.

8/20/2008 10:00:30 AM

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"Dick Harpootlian"

8/20/2008 10:05:57 AM

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"black kid shows up with friends (and guns)"

I don't see anywhere that the kid came back armed.

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"After Clark returned with friends, Reeves shot him, prosecutors said."

8/20/2008 10:20:05 AM

maybe he meant that the kid had arms?

8/20/2008 10:22:08 AM

prosecutors said

8/20/2008 10:22:46 AM

We had an incident like this years ago in my home town of Henderson.

A white kid had previously been beaten by a group of black kids so he decided to get a gun to protect himself. The group of black kids again came after him uptown with baseball bats and he ended up shooting one of them in self defense.

Shit went pretty crazy in town for a awhile and all of the black people were pissed off and some of the white kids family members had to leave public school because they were receiving threats. He did eventual get off but it would have never been an issue if the shooter was black.

8/20/2008 10:36:49 AM

this guy is a great model for what a parent should be. Involved in his kids lives & takin' care of bit'ness

8/20/2008 10:48:17 AM

This makes me so glad I had enough sense not to throw parties when my parents went out of town. I remember going to parties where guns were pulled, people got stabbed, cut with razors, smacked with beer bottles/mag lights, etc. No way I'd want any of that mess at my own home.

The bad thing is that it was always the same crowd of folks pulling that shit. There would have been almost no problems if we could have just gotten rid of about 15 people. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Deshaun Rashad Clark and his friends were no different than the troublemakers that always ruined things when I was in high school.

8/20/2008 11:06:09 AM

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" I don't see anywhere that the kid came back armed."

Assuming the same group of kids showed up when their boy got shot were the ones that did the drive by in the same car


I'd put money that the guns were there from the beginning.



But you're right, i dont think it has been proven that the kid that got beat up immediately came back with a gun.

8/20/2008 11:27:19 AM

all over a (probably free) phone...did they ever find it?

I remember someone in Selma getting shot over a piece of fried chicken, no one was killed but damn.

8/20/2008 11:37:10 AM

i don't know too much about making bail but the Reeves must have some bank to make a $125,000 bond...


i think the dad will walk free at the end....kind of reminds me of Jena 6. Big stink at first but quickly forgotten.

8/20/2008 11:50:03 AM

you can put up property, doesn't have to be cash

and does it say the bond was even secured? unsecured bond means you dont have to put up anything, just owe that much if you don't show

8/20/2008 11:51:48 AM

Why did he let his kids have a party with a bunch of apparent thugs anyway?

8/20/2008 11:57:20 AM

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"Shit went pretty crazy in town for a awhile and all of the black people were pissed off and some of the white kids family members had to leave public school because they were receiving threats. He did eventual get off but it would have never been an issue if the shooter was black."

I think it's clear that the answer is to hire Mexicans

8/20/2008 12:33:21 PM

^^^^ they had two houses, one lake house and one other house.

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 12:34 PM. Reason : .]

8/20/2008 12:33:34 PM

No one needs an essay

8/20/2008 12:34:13 PM

why isn't Reeves being awarded a medal instead? Murder? really? What bullshit...

8/20/2008 1:34:27 PM

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"Deshaun Rashad Clark"

oooh, let me guess which demographic this is!

8/20/2008 1:35:39 PM

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"all over a (probably free) phone...did they ever find it? "

according to the Sun News here in myrtle beach today... the cell phone which belonged to the daughter was later found...she discovered that it actually had been in her back pocket the entire time.

8/20/2008 1:47:24 PM

thugs.

Columbia is a shitty city in an even shittier state. Fuck SC.

8/20/2008 1:48:00 PM

ethugs?

8/20/2008 2:08:52 PM

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"Deshaun Rashad "

ned i say more

8/20/2008 2:18:37 PM

Why would you need to guess the demographic?

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" Family members and some residents of the community have speculated that race was a factor in the shooting -- the dead teen is black, and Reeves and his children are white -- but authorities say that wasn't the case."

8/20/2008 2:29:36 PM

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"according to the Sun News here in myrtle beach today... the cell phone which belonged to the daughter was later found...she discovered that it actually had been in her back pocket the entire time."

wtf?

8/20/2008 4:53:48 PM

lol women

8/20/2008 5:06:42 PM

i see no problem with this

8/20/2008 5:38:08 PM

that girl had her dad kill a guy cause she can't keep track of her phone

8/20/2008 5:41:39 PM

regardless of the circumstances surrounding it, if i throw you out of my house and you come back with the intention of "getting even"--you're gonna get shot...

[Edited on August 20, 2008 at 5:48 PM. Reason : tense]

8/20/2008 5:44:00 PM

mother

fucking

cell phones

8/20/2008 5:46:41 PM