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Man kills cougar ready to pounce
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Man kills cougar ready to pounce
By CHRISTINA VANCE, Californian staff writer
e-mail: cvance@bakersfield.com
Thursday September 26, 2002, 10:54:25 PM
Two coyotes, a bobcat and a handful of squirrels met their doom on Augustus Smithee's Glennville property.
Now the mountain lion, that was a first.
Smithee killed the 5-foot-long female cat Wednesday night as she chased his wife, Joanne, and their dog, he said.
"The lion was about two steps from being in the house," he said.
The couple were watching television around 9:45 p.m. when they heard their border collie "a-barking and a-screaming," Augustus Smithee said.
As Smithee ran for his shotgun, his wife grabbed a chunk of wood and flung it at the cat, he said.
The lion let go of the dog. As it began to chase his fleeing dog and wife, Smithee said he killed the cat with two birdshot shells -- the only two he could find and load in the rush.
He figured the entire thing happened in less than a minute.
The couple took their dog, Cassiar, to the veterinarian. The collie came back with a lot of stitches and a $403 bill.
The state should pay the bill because the lion is the state's protected animal, Smithee said.
"We're going to lose some kids here one of these days," he said.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to keep rural children and pets inside at dusk, said Bill Asserson, a biologist for the Department of Fish and Game.
"There are a lot of lions in California. They are showing up in places where they were customarily unheard of, in city parks or even here in Bakersfield along the riverbed," he said.
The big cats got state protection decades ago, and their population has climbed to between 5,000 and 6,000 across California, Asserson said.
The Glennville area was what Asserson described as "good mountain lion country," along with other mountainous ranges across the state.
Areas like Glennville have more reports of pets missing from yards or porches, he said.
Wildlife officials picked up the lion's carcass Thursday, and Smithee said that was fine with him.
"It's their lion," he said.
http://www.bakersfield.com/local/story/1849180p-1963844c.html
Edited by - josey1 on 09/30/2002 07:23:21
By CHRISTINA VANCE, Californian staff writer
e-mail: cvance@bakersfield.com
Thursday September 26, 2002, 10:54:25 PM
Two coyotes, a bobcat and a handful of squirrels met their doom on Augustus Smithee's Glennville property.
Now the mountain lion, that was a first.
Smithee killed the 5-foot-long female cat Wednesday night as she chased his wife, Joanne, and their dog, he said.
"The lion was about two steps from being in the house," he said.
The couple were watching television around 9:45 p.m. when they heard their border collie "a-barking and a-screaming," Augustus Smithee said.
As Smithee ran for his shotgun, his wife grabbed a chunk of wood and flung it at the cat, he said.
The lion let go of the dog. As it began to chase his fleeing dog and wife, Smithee said he killed the cat with two birdshot shells -- the only two he could find and load in the rush.
He figured the entire thing happened in less than a minute.
The couple took their dog, Cassiar, to the veterinarian. The collie came back with a lot of stitches and a $403 bill.
The state should pay the bill because the lion is the state's protected animal, Smithee said.
"We're going to lose some kids here one of these days," he said.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to keep rural children and pets inside at dusk, said Bill Asserson, a biologist for the Department of Fish and Game.
"There are a lot of lions in California. They are showing up in places where they were customarily unheard of, in city parks or even here in Bakersfield along the riverbed," he said.
The big cats got state protection decades ago, and their population has climbed to between 5,000 and 6,000 across California, Asserson said.
The Glennville area was what Asserson described as "good mountain lion country," along with other mountainous ranges across the state.
Areas like Glennville have more reports of pets missing from yards or porches, he said.
Wildlife officials picked up the lion's carcass Thursday, and Smithee said that was fine with him.
"It's their lion," he said.
http://www.bakersfield.com/local/story/1849180p-1963844c.html
Edited by - josey1 on 09/30/2002 07:23:21
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Passenger shot when Hidden Valley resident fires back at gunmen in drive-by
MELISSA MANWARE AND GARY WRIGHT
Staff Writers
Arthur Taylor won't be prosecuted for fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who was in a car whose occupants fired at his home last month. But police have charged three teenagers -- who also were in the car -- in the drive-by shooting.
Mecklenburg Assistant District Attorney Marsha Goodenow, after reviewing the case, decided that Taylor, 44, will not be charged in the killing of William McArthur Bulls.
Goodenow concluded that the shooting was justified.
William was shot when Taylor fired back at a car whose occupants had shot into his house on Bannister Place in the Hidden Valley neighborhood, police said. William, who was in the back seat, was shot in the head and died inside the car.
The three other teenagers -- Bryan Xavier Johnson, 16, DuJuan McNeil, 16, and a 15-year-old boy -- were charged with shooting into an occupied dwelling and assault and battery with intent to kill, said Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Detective Bill Ward.
Johnson and McNeil were in the Mecklenburg jail late Saturday.
It was unclear whether the juvenile was still in custody.
Taylor called 911 on Aug. 14 at 1:49 a.m. and said four people in a white Chevrolet Lumina were shooting at his house, according to a police report.
Taylor told police he fired back with his handgun, the report said.
About 15 minutes later, officers were called to another northeast Charlotte neighborhood, about 5 miles away, where they found William dead in the back seat of a white Lumina. The three others in the car were not hurt.
Ward said the teens had been in a fight in the Hidden Valley neighborhood earlier in the night.
One of the young men involved in the fight lives in Taylor's house.
The investigator said the teenagers cooperated after the shooting.
Ward said they drove by the Bannister Place house three times:
The first time they did not shoot.
The second time they fired at the house, waking Taylor, who grabbed a gun and ran outside.
The third time, the teens fired at Taylor and he fired back.
At least one rifle and one shotgun were used, police said.
Four people, including two teenagers, were inside Taylor's home, but none was hurt.
Taylor declined to talk about the shooting Saturday.
Police said the Lumina had been reported stolen weeks before the shooting.
William, who lived with his mother in northeast Charlotte, was a student at Morgan School, an alternative public school for children with emotional and behavior problems.
His family said he liked to play video games and football and described him as "a good kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/4174193.htm
Melissa Manware: (704) 358-5041; mmanware@charlotteobserver.com.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
I think they have it backwards...
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