hey everyone, Thanks for all the kind words and best wishes, I'm gonna be fine. Can't really talk about anything until my lawyer says I can, but I appreciate all the support everyone has given me. It really makes you feel like your part of a real community and I can't thank you enough... allot of legal crap going on right now so I can't really comment or say anything... For everyone looking for an article the only thing i could find was a small section in the Burleson Star newspaper back on Nov 27th that my best gal found... It all happened back on the 17th and fox 4 news actually said a 45 second thing about it, just showed a map of Arlington area and a star by my neighborhood saying a shooting had taken place and 1 man was dead and 2 injured. That was like on the 18th when fox 4 said it. After I woke up the day after there were reporters from ABC and Fox there and they were just slamming me with questions, basically trying to make me look like a gun toating madman, plus i had just woken up so my girlfriend, fixing to be wife
cussed them out the room hahaha, she has been looking for articles and stuff like that too but all she could really find was an article in my hometown paper of burleson, i live in alrigton now, and have for the past year.... For everyone that sent there best wishes i say again THANK YOU SOOO much... And Yaeger, guess what I don't care if you don't believe me, I guess I could take a picture of my shoulder, or better yet my whole upper right torso area and show ya, but you know what I really don't care if you do or don't brotha.... For everyone else, I really appreciate the kind words, i don't think i'll have access to the BBS again for quite a bit, I have a laptop to keep in touch with email wise, but its my company's so its all firewalled up and i can't get on the BBS, my home computer was trashed, it took some un friendly fire hahaha. I went home for the 1st time today, omg what a mess, my house is just trashed in the living room. The bad part about this whole thing is they poisoned my dog, i have a doggy door on my back door and the police said they must have scoped it out for a few nights, cause they threw a hambuger with rat poison in it over my fence and came in thru the doggy door apparantly. anyways i'm really upset at the arlington PD for the way they handled things, I can't really say allot for legal reasons, but i will say the ambulance got there a good 20 minutes before the cops did, it took them 37 minutes from the time my neighbor who is a fort worth detective called 911 for them to get there, the paramedics couldn't approach my house until the police arrived, luckily I live next door to 3 cops hahahaha, just goes to show you, these gang banging punks are just that dumb, luckily they were dumb enough to use small caliber .25 's that were converted to auto, if they would have used something bigger i would be in allot more trouble lol.... and for whoever said i should have used a shotgun, it was in my gun cabinet in the other room
but i have a full tactical .45 glock with acp rounds, it did the job just fine
The following was in the Burleson paper on the 27th, its a good article, wish they had a link on Burlesons Paper but I couldnt find one, I'll try and get scanned and post it when i get a little more feeling in my shoulder, I'll try and post more if I find it, but net access is hard to come by, especially when i was having to bribe a nurse to get off of yahoo instant messenger just to check my emails, thats tough enough LOL... Once again I appreciate everything, I couldn't ask for better bud's or a better community.
Former Burleson High School Athlete shot
On November 17th 28 year old former BHS football star and later Texas Longhorn Derek Bearden was involved in a horrific shootout at his home in Arlington, TX. The incident took the life of 1 unidentified hispanic male, and left Jorge Mescina 33 of Dallas in critcal condition. Bearden class of 96 was listed in stable condition after being shot several times. Local reports are that Bearden and fiance Mindy Bentley 24, also a Burleson High graduate, were asleep around 2:30 am early Friday morning when they were awoken by what Bentley described as the sound of shuffling and then a glass breaking. Derek Bearden who as his fiance stated "frequents the gun range often" grabbed a .45 caliber glock pistol which happened to be in his shoulder holster slung around the back of a desk chair. Bearden then went to his closet and removed another pistol, this one he gave to his fiance and told her to get under the bed and gave her a 9mm ruger pistol that he had shown her how to use. Records show that both Bentley and Bearden have concealed handgun permits. Bearden then approached the 1st bungler which Bearden claims was rummaging through a desk drawer when he clicked on the flashlight of his pistol and yelled freeze, don't move. Bearden says the person turned at him and he could clearly see some type of handgun in his hand, Bearden fired 6 shots from his .45 hitting the unidentified hispanic male in the chest and upper abdomen fatally wounding him. Bearden claims it all happened so fast he doesn't recall what happened next, he believes that another assailant was in the adjacent bedroom heard gunfire and that's when Bearden turned and was shot 5 times, Bearden was hit in the shoulder 3 times, and in the bicept and upper left chest area once, he returned fire, firing several shots, critically wounding the other perpetrator. After being shot 5 times, Bearden returned to the bedroom where his fiance was and threw a chair through the bedroom window, telling her to run over to neighbor and Fort Worth Police Detective Dave Walter's house and call 911. Walter's already awakened by the shots had already called 911 and was already outside the Bearden residence by the broken window when Bentley came out, he states that Bearden said, I got 2, don't know if there are any more, get her out of here !. Detective Walters rushed Bentley next door and told her not to come outside. When Walters arrived back, he claims that Bearden was in another room looking for more intruders. All of a sudden Walters said, "Derek, you have been hit !" Bearden then slumped down onto the couch. Walters says ." I don't even think he knew he was shot !" Bearden was transported to Hugely Hospital in South Fort Worth and was listed in stable condition. On another note and a more happy note, Bentley and Bearden have been together nearly 10 years, since they met in highschool, he was a senior and she was a sophomore. Bentley says that the 1st thing Bearden did when he woke up was to ask me to marry him, which I replied of course !!! She also says she used to nag him about going out hunting all the time and out shooting, and for even teaching her how to shoot. Now she says she is just so proud of him and understands why, "Its a crazy world out there, you never know, anything could happen".
Only reason that I let this guy even write the story was because he was the only media person that actaully called me, the rest were just trying to make me look like it was my fault asking crazy questions like why did you do this, and why that... DANG I hate the media !
