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60-Year-Old Shoots Teen Robber

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60-Year-Old Shoots Teen Robber1 Robber Rushed To Hospital; Another Arrested

http://www.wsmv.com/news/20633145/detail.html

POSTED: 12:01 pm CDT August 30, 2009UPDATED: 11:06 pm CDT August 30, 2009NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Police said a 60-year-old man shot a teenager who tried to rob his home Saturday night.Metro police said the break-in happened on Lindy Murff Court in south Nashville.The 60-year-old resident shot one of the two robbers in the chest. Later, the two robbers showed up at the Shell station on Haywood Lane in Antioch, asking for help, police said.The wounded man claimed he had been robbed and shot during the robbery. Paramedics rushed the wounded man to the hospital, and he is expected to survive.:cry: The other man has been arrested. Police have not released their names.
 
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Wow I hate to say it, but it's too bad the BG who was shot survived. The way things have been going lately, the BG will now sue the armed citizen in civil court for emotional and physical damages. How backwards is that
 
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John Wolver wrote:
really backwards, makes it hard to remember you shoot to stop... not to kill...
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Yeah, but it's too bad that the best places to hit to "stop" is also very difficult to recover from.

The real problem IMO is that there is any allowance in the system for a BG to sue his victim.
 
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PrayingForWar wrote:
John Wolver wrote:
really backwards, makes it hard to remember you shoot to stop... not to kill...
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Yeah, but it's too bad that the best places to hit to "stop" is also very difficult to recover from.

The real problem IMO is that there is any allowance in the system for a BG to sue his victim.
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Tennessee code gives the 60 year old man immunity from civil liability in this case.


[align=justify]29-34-201. Injuries suffered in committing or attempting to commit felony on property of another — Recovery barred — Scope of immunity for one injuring a perpetrator of a criminal offense. —[/align]
[align=justify](a) Any person who is injured while committing a felony or attempting to commit a felony on the real property of another is barred from recovery of actual or punitive damages resulting from injuries, either accidentally or intentionally inflicted by the owner, lawful occupier or tenant of such property, which the person receives while committing or attempting to commit a felony.[/align]

[align=justify](b) (1) A person who accidentally or intentionally causes property damage to or inflicts injury or death upon the perpetrator of a criminal offense is absolutely immune from civil liability for or the payment of monetary damages from such person's actions if at the time such damage, injury or death occurred:[/align]

[align=justify](A) The person was preventing or attempting to prevent the perpetrator from committing the offense or was apprehending the perpetrator of the offense; and[/align]

[align=justify](B) The perpetrator was committing one (1) or more of the offenses specified in subdivisions (c)(1)-(9) or was attempting to commit one (1) or more of the offenses specified in subdivision (c)(10).[/align]

[align=justify](2) The immunity conferred by this subsection shall only apply to property damage caused to or injury or death inflicted upon a perpetrator of an enumerated offense and only under the conditions set out in this subsection. Such immunity shall not be construed to extend to property damage caused to or injury or death inflicted upon a bystander or other person who is not the perpetrator of an enumerated offense.[/align]

[align=justify](c) The offenses for which such immunity applies are:[/align]

[align=justify](1) Any criminal homicide;[/align]
[align=justify](2) Aggravated rape;[/align]

[align=justify](3) Kidnapping;[/align]
[align=justify](4) Aggravated kidnapping;[/align]

[align=justify](5) Especially aggravated kidnapping;[/align]

[align=justify](6) Especially aggravated burglary;[/align]
[align=justify](7) Aggravated robbery;[/align]
[align=justify](8) Especially aggravated robbery;[/align]
[align=justify](9) Carjacking; and[/align]
[align=justify](10) Attempt to commit first or second degree murder.[/align]


[align=justify][Acts 1971, ch. 177, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 23-3003, 29-34-103; Acts 1999, ch. 268, § 2.][/align]

The teen was commiting a crime when he was shot.
 
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