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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tac on December 05, 2007, 01:29:11 PM
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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071205/METRO/712050396
Girl, 7, shot 6 times saving mom
Norman Sinclair, Santiago Esparza and Jennifer Mrozowski / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an "angel from heaven" and a hero for jumping in front of an enraged gunman, who pumped six bullets into the child as she used her body as a shield to save her mother's life.
Alexis Goggins, a first-grader at Campbell Elementary School, is in stable condition at Children's Hospital in Detroit recovering from gunshot wounds to the eye, left temple, chin, cheek, chest and right arm.
"She is an angel from heaven," said Aisha Ford, a family friend for 15 years who also was caught up in the evening of terror.
The girl's mother, Selietha Parker, 30, was shot in the left side of her head and her bicep by a former boyfriend, who police said was trying to kill Parker. The gunman was disarmed by police and arrested at the scene of the shooting, a Detroit gas station. Police identified him as Calvin Tillie, 29, a four-time convicted felon whom Parker had dated for six months.
Parker, who was treated and released at Detroit Receiving Hospital, is now at her daughter's bedside. She declined to comment Tuesday.
The drama began to unfold just before midnight Saturday, when Parker called Ford and asked if she and Alexis could spend the night at Ford's home.
"She said she had no heat and they were very cold, and I said , sure I'll come and get you," Ford said.
Ford said she drove her burgundy 1998 Ford Expedition to Parker's home on Dwyer. She said as Parker and Alexis walked up to her vehicle she saw a man on the porch, who she assumed was a furnace repairman. She said Alexis, who walks with a limp, slipped momentarily on the icy sidewalk and as she helped the girl up, she saw the man and recognized him as Tillie. He was holding a gun.
Tillie ordered them into the vehicle, cursed at the women and angrily told Ford to drive him to Six Mile Road, she said.
"He looked like he was enraged and didn't care what he did. I knew if we went to Six Mile, he would kill us," Ford said. Instead, she told him she needed gas and drove to the Fast Stop Gas station in the 5000 block of East Seven Mile Road, a station that requires customers to pay the attendant inside.
"I figured if he got out to pump the gas, I was going to take off," Ford said.
Instead, Tillie gave her $10 and told her put in $5 worth of gas.
Ford said she dialed 911 on her cell phone as she walked into the station.
"The first operator clicked off and I dialed again and told that operator a guy with a gun was holding me hostage with a mother and baby and threatening to kill us. I told her the name of the gas station and then she said they didn't have a unit to send."
Ford said she paid for $5 of gas and slowly returned to the vehicle, stalling for time as she handed Tillie the change. She said she kept stopping and starting the pump, hoping the police would show up.
"I told him I needed more gas and took money out of my purse and went back into the station," she said. The attendant, Mohammad Alghazali, 30, said he noticed Ford was crying and she told him what was happening. He called 911 as he heard shots coming from the vehicle.
"It was very scary. She (Ford) was scared and screaming when the guy was shooting. I was scared, too. I was on the phone talking to the police when he started shooting," he said
Parker told police that Tillie said Ford was taking too long
She said she pleaded with him but he pointed the gun at her and shot her in the side of the head. She told police she was shot in the arm as she lunged at Tillie.
Before Tillie could fire again, Alexis jumped over the seat between her mother and the gunman and begged him not to shoot her mother.
The police report said Tillie "without hesitation" pumped six shots into the child.
As police arrived, they saw Parker, covered in blood, running from the truck, screaming, "He just shot my baby."
The officers said Tillie came out to the vehicle holding a blue steel 9 mm semi automatic and dropped the weapon when ordered to do so. Officers said they found Alexis huddled on the floor under the steering wheel, covered in blood, surrounded by spent cartridge casings, a spent bullet on the floor and teeth on the seat. There were bullet holes in the windshield and blood inside.
Alghazali said a police car on a street nearby arrived in less than a minute after his call.
Marvin Bodley, a Detroit Public Schools attendance agent, spent two days at Alexis' hospital bedside and said it's miraculous that she's alive.
"What a courageous, courageous little girl," he said. "You see more bandages than child," he said. "It's a horrific sight."
Bodley said Alexis receives special education services at school, in part because of a weak left eye, which is the result of a massive stroke she suffered as an infant.
Ford said doctors at the time had predicted that when Alexis got older she would have trouble with tasks such as writing, but she is now able to write her name.
"She is a good little girl who is very protective of her mother," said Tonya Colbert, Parker's cousin.
Tillie is being held in the Wayne County Jail facing kidnapping, assault with intent to murder, child abuse, felony firearms and habitual criminal charges.
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Police identified him as Calvin Tillie, 29, a four-time convicted felon whom Parker had dated for six months.
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Typical. Kid should have ducked for cover and learned a valuable lesson about who NOT TO DATE!
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That's what we get for a governor. Chitload of "Talk", but nothing in return. She's driven tens of thousands of jobs out of our state. She also is very lax on "who gets out of prison".
I'm a Moderate, so some can save themselves the "typical Rep." response. I hate both parties.
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911 hung up on the first call and the second operator said they didn't have a unit to send to help save 3 hostages from a criminal with a gun? thats just ludicrous!
what a brave girl for trying to save her mother and what a sick twisted man to shoot a little girl. wonder how he got the gun being a felon and all.
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he should have kept holding the gun then the police could have shot him dead and save the tax payers a whole lot of money.
A brave little girl hope she recovers ok
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What kind of a peashooter was that since the bullets didn't go through and carry on?
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Originally posted by Angus
What kind of a peashooter was that since the bullets didn't go through and carry on?
A 9mm.
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I'm wondering what kind of police force they have when a 911 call is hung up on, then basically ignored the second time, all the while there is a unit 1 street away. Amazing.
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A 9mm.
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Wow....any decent 9mm should have punched clean through the kid. Unless we are talking about one of those gigantic 9 year olds you see at the mall.....
I'm glad she looks ok to recover but I think women that date violent ex-cons got whats coming to them. Pathetic really.
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It's a damn shame that the hugahunk dropped the gun so fast. It would have saved a lot of hassle if he had been dropped instead.
The first 911 call could have simply been a dropped call on the cell. Not too uncommon. I wonder if the second call didn't get routed to another jurisdiction rather than the local 911 center. It depends on where the cell service is based at times. She should have told the clerk to call 911 as soon as she got in the store the first time too. Multiple calls get more attention to a situation.
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With expanding bullets like soft-tips and hollowpoints (which are quite common in 9 mm) the bullet will not over-penetrate; even if fired at a child. Over-penetration is wasted energy.
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Hang him high.
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Originally posted by McFarland
Hang him high.
They really should bring back public hanging.
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I prefer a good burning myself.
Hanging is just too.. boring. No message gets through other than 'the neck snaps in a split second' or 'you suffocate in 1 minute'.
Burning though... ahh.. that one takes a good while and is heard for a loong time.
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I have seen women time and time again date the scummiest guys they can find. Guys they know have serious anger and control issues. Its just a shame when kids get hurt because of their (the mother's) bad decisions.
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
They really should bring back public hanging.
Hanging is the most carbon neutral method of execution.
Hanging is non-poisonous, so the condemned can be parted out and save the lives of donees.
The equipment is recyclable and/or reusable, and if the rope is made of hemp...
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Originally posted by Yeager
A 9mm.
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Wow....any decent 9mm should have punched clean through the kid. Unless we are talking about one of those gigantic 9 year olds you see at the mall.....
I'm glad she looks ok to recover but I think women that date violent ex-cons got whats coming to them. Pathetic really.
What a fount of human kindness you are...unbelievable.:(
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I tend to think that if it was a hollowpoint it would have killed the kid. well, 6 of them.
They must have come through and missed the mum, an angle issue perhaps?
Anyway, for hanging, the option is rope from linen. That's what the Chinese use and they do lots of it :D
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Originally posted by Angus
Anyway, for hanging, the option is rope from linen. That's what the Chinese use and they do lots of it :D
Flax and hemp are both ancient fiber crops.
Which has a lesser cultivation carbon footprint? How does the cultivation of either effect endemic species? Will large scale cultivation of either require low wage foreign workers? Will fiber farms in northern latitudes displace tropical farms and cause widespread hunger of dispaced farmworkers in the third world? If grown in the tropics, how will we justify the destruction of rainforest, and how does that effect the carbon cycle?
These and many more questions need to be answered before we finally decide which rope is best for hanging.
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9mm performs in odd ways... it can do an outstanding job or a truly dismal one depending on placement and if the bullet expands or not. It is not to be trusted in my opinion.
As for the situation? I would venture to say that it would be hard for an unatractive lower middle class negro woman to find a negro man in detroit that was not a convicted violent felon.
lazs
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
That's what we get for a governor. Chitload of "Talk", but nothing in return. She's driven tens of thousands of jobs out of our state. She also is very lax on "who gets out of prison".
I'm a Moderate, so some can save themselves the "typical Rep." response. I hate both parties.
But how can this guy only be 29 years old and walking the streets as free as a bird, yet he is a 4 time convicted felon?
Some other states have a three strikes and your are out rule, where after only the 3rd felony conviction, you get sent away to prison for a very long time.
Here is a photo of the man that shot the child. This photo was taken shortly after someone punched him in the eye. There must be other reasons to not like him also.
(http://[IMG]http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s272/lanceJOregon/man.jpg)[/IMG]
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Over-penetration is wasted energy.
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Not if who you are trying to kill is hiding behind something.....or someone ;)
What a fount of human kindness you are...unbelievable.
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I'm long past tired of stupid people and people treating each other like animals. You could call me cynical and I might waste my time arguing with you.......NOT.
Like others have said here: Execute the scum.