California Is Releasing Inmates Early,...Guess What Happened? FAIL!

[twyacht]

Glad to see the California Jails & Prison Review Folks are really scrutinizing all the early release records of inmates. To determine if they have been "rehabilitated", and will be "productive members of society".

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/very-afraid-66-year-old-woman-shoots-and-kills-home-intruder/

‘Very Afraid’: 66-Year-Old Woman Shoots and Kills Home Intruder

    Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:20pm by Christopher Santarelli Christopher Santarelli

An elderly Northern California-woman woke early Friday morning to hear an intruder attempting to break into her home. CBS 12 reports that the 66-year-old Donna Hopper is still shaken after shooting the 37-year-old intruder dead:

    “The 66-year-old Donna Hopper was visibly upset when Action News spoke with her outside her home this morning.

    She did not want to talk on camera but says even though she does not know that man, she feels horrible that someone died at her hands.”

Hopper says she was terrified when she heard the intruder at her her door, firing two warning shots through her window to scare the man away. When 37-year-old Jesse Edward Theis persisted, attempting to come back in, Hopper fired a fatal shot in his abdomen, killing Theis on the scene.



Hopper told CBS 12 that she never wanted to hurt anyone, and that she was just acting on instinct.

The Record Searchlight of Redding, CA, where the crime took place, writes that prosecutors say Hopper’s actions were justified:

    “‘He meant her lethal harm,’ Shasta County Chief Deputy District Attorney Josh Lowery said. An official determination won‘t be made until the DA’s office has a chance to review police and autopsy reports, Lowery said. An autopsy will likely be performed Monday.

    Local officials say the shooting is yet another example of how inmates at the continually full Shasta County jail are being released early and going out and committing more crime, sometimes within hours of their release.”

The Searchlight reports that Theis had been released from jail the morning before the shooting took place.

Hopper’s chilling description of the events on CBS News with the 9-1-1 dispatcher who was on the line with her during the ordeal:

Audio at link...,

Thankfully, this was outside the "gun free zones"...and liberal bastions of Kalifornia.

[crusader rabbit]

Poor woman should have had her

CRIMINAL FREE ZONE

sign posted so all this could have been avoided.  /sarc off

[tombogan03884]

Thankfully, this was outside the "gun free zones"...and liberal bastions of Kalifornia.

Not really TW, Redding is part of the "Bay Area" dominated by San Francisco and Oakland.

[crusader rabbit]

Not really TW, Redding is part of the "Bay Area" dominated by San Francisco and Oakland.

While I am loath to disagree with someone I admire as much for the accuracy of his statements as well as the philosophy behind them, I find I have to call you on this one, Tom. 

Redding is at the northern end of the state, near the Oregon border, and has nothing to do with the Bay Area.  It is considerably more pro-gun.  Most Redding residents would call you out if you accused them of being anything like the Bay Area nutbags. 

As recently as 2005 it was still common for Reddingites to get concealed carry permits --though I do not have any information after that date. 

Up until then at least, when a citizen applied for a carry permit, said citizen would have to answer the question:  Why do you require a concealed carry permit?  The sheriff instructed applicants that the answer to said question was, "To comply with the law."  Said sheriff would then routinely grant the petition.

[Timothy]

While I am loath to disagree with someone I admire as much for the accuracy of his statements as well as the philosophy behind them, I find I have to call you on this one, Tom.  

Redding is at the northern end of the state, near the Oregon border, and has nothing to do with the Bay Area.  It is considerably more pro-gun.  Most Redding residents would call you out if you accused them of being anything like the Bay Area nutbags.

As recently as 2005 it was still common for Reddingites to get concealed carry permits --though I do not have any information after that date.  

Up until then at least, when a citizen applied for a carry permit, said citizen would have to answer the question:  Why do you require a concealed carry permit?  The sheriff instructed applicants that the answer to said question was, "To comply with the law."  Said sheriff would then routinely grant the petition.

I can agree with that as I lived in the north though it was several decades ago.  Redding is 300 miles north on US 5 in the middle of the state about due east of Eureka on the coast.

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[tombogan03884]

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?state=CA

You're right, I was wrong, I would have sworn it was near Richmond north of Berkley.

[Timothy]

It's still pretty much part of the golden triangle of marijuana production though.  I stumbled into a local grow back in the seventies.  The stalks were as big as my thigh.....I was a bit skinnier then but you get the point!