The article below my comment is from a fox news article today.

In NJ, the 65 year old probally would have been beaten to death and the punks would have gotten enough dough to party up for the day.

I live near the western side of Jackson, NJ (very rural), we have had consistent robberies taking place over the last few years including (4) in my immediate neighborhood since New years eve. The cops say it is all for drug money. Every one jokes about the "Zombie Apocolypse",but I think it has already started, my wife even made a statement to the same effect without me even making mention of my thought. Take a look at the video the guy posted yesterday where the cops whacked the guy at Carls Jr in California, that dude looked like one of the walking dead. I'm curious if there is any corelation between habitual drug abusers and kids that were brought up taking ritalin (methylphenidate), adderall (amphetamine; dextroamphetamine), dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) etc. We had to learn how to drink beer, stealthfully, when we were kids.

I hope the guy that shot those kids can find the strength to deal with that. I also hope the family of the kid that died can come to positive terms with what has happened. What I mean by that is that they don't hold the victim in contempt and they can educate others as to what led up to this tradgedy.

Here is the article

READING, Pa. – A 65-year-old man shot one teenager dead and wounded another after they pushed him off his bicycle and tried to rob him in Pennsylvania, police said.

The man was cycling on a trail in Reading, Pa., shortly before 11:00 am local time Wednesday morning, when a group of teens pushed him off the bicycle and two of them assaulted him, investigators said.

The 65 year old then took out a handgun and shot them both, the Reading Eagle reported.

One of the teens -- a 16 year old from Reading -- was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:17 p.m. local time.

The second teenager was taken to the hospital but his condition was unknown, according to the newspaper.

Cops arrested a third boy at the scene and took him in for questioning. The 15 year old was later taken to a county youth center in nearby Bern Township where he was held on unspecified charges.

Police decided to release the 65 year old and charge the juvenile after consulting with District

Attorney John Adams, who attended the scene with forensic detectives, the Reading Eagle reported.

Authorities did not release his name or the names of the teenagers.

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/26/pennsylvania-man-65-fatally-shoots-teen-who-pushed-him-off-bicycle/?intcmp=trending#ixzz1kbJWTna6

Good for him. I live with my grandparents who are 85 (still young). If anybody caused them harm well.... Leave it to imagination.

Mike

One more for the good guys!! I love stories like this.

I live in Jackson as well and this place is going down the tubes. Glad to see people protecting themselves and whats theirs.

I wonder how quickly our CCW laws would change if something happened to the law makers where CCW would've saved them..

 

Not wishing that or anything on anyone but if they had a "first hand experience" it would help our cause lol

We've got a name on the dead perp. Already this guy had a probation officer and he was 16. Thus ends his crime spree permanently.

 

http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/DA-Robbery-victim-65-justified-in-shooting-of-teens-on-trail/-/121418/8505702/-/3s906uz/-/index.html

CUMRU TWP., Pa. -

A 65-year-old man was justified in shooting two of three teenagers who were attempting to rob him as he rode his bicycle along a popular river trail Wednesday morning, authorities announced Thursday.

The ordeal unfolded shortly before 11 a.m. on the Thun Trail in Cumru Twp., Berks Co.

 

The teens knocked the man off his bicycle and onto the ground in their third random robbery attempt in about an hour's time, said Berks County District Attorney John Adams.

 

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Two of the teens were assaulting the man when he pulled out a gun and shot them, police said.

"While I don't condone violence, the bike rider had no choice," said Adams. "He was in danger of death and serious bodily injury. The bike rider did not provoke the situation."

The man is licensed to carry a gun, said Adams.

One of the alleged assailants, Julius Johnson, 16, a student in the Reading School District who skipped school Wednesday, died at the scene of a gunshot wound to the chest, officials said.

Another teen, a 15-year-old student in the Governor Mifflin School District, was also shot and taken to a hospital for surgery. He is expected to be charged when he's discharged from the hospital, Adams said.

 

The third teen, a 16-year-old boy, was uninjured and committed to the county's Youth Detention Center.

Johnson had previous run-ins with the law and skipping school violated his probation, Adams said. Probation officers went to his home Wednesday morning, placed an electronic monitoring device on him and told the other two teens to go back to school, Adams said.

 

"Mr. Johnson and the two other juveniles did not go back to school, and Mr. Johnson did not obey his probation officers."

Instead, Adams said, the teens went into West Reading and assaulted an elderly man and another man before targeting the bicyclist.

I wonder how quickly our CCW laws would change if something happened to the law makers where CCW would've saved them..

 

Not wishing that or anything on anyone but if they had a "first hand experience" it would help our cause lol

 

Lawmakers have no problems getting a CCW.

I thought the headline of the article was extremely misleading. The teens did a lot more than just push him off his bike.

Can't wait for national CCW, so I can carry here!

We've got a name on the dead perp. Already this guy had a probation officer and he was 16. Thus ends his crime spree permanently.

 

http://www.wfmz.com/...uz/-/index.html

CUMRU TWP., Pa. -

A 65-year-old man was justified in shooting two of three teenagers who were attempting to rob him as he rode his bicycle along a popular river trail Wednesday morning, authorities announced Thursday.

The ordeal unfolded shortly before 11 a.m. on the Thun Trail in Cumru Twp., Berks Co.

 

The teens knocked the man off his bicycle and onto the ground in their third random robbery attempt in about an hour's time, said Berks County District Attorney John Adams.

 

Related Info

• Police: Man shot teens in self defense
  

Two of the teens were assaulting the man when he pulled out a gun and shot them, police said.

"While I don't condone violence, the bike rider had no choice," said Adams. "He was in danger of death and serious bodily injury. The bike rider did not provoke the situation."

The man is licensed to carry a gun, said Adams.

One of the alleged assailants, Julius Johnson, 16, a student in the Reading School District who skipped school Wednesday, died at the scene of a gunshot wound to the chest, officials said.

Another teen, a 15-year-old student in the Governor Mifflin School District, was also shot and taken to a hospital for surgery. He is expected to be charged when he's discharged from the hospital, Adams said.

 

The third teen, a 16-year-old boy, was uninjured and committed to the county's Youth Detention Center.

Johnson had previous run-ins with the law and skipping school violated his probation, Adams said. Probation officers went to his home Wednesday morning, placed an electronic monitoring device on him and told the other two teens to go back to school, Adams said.

 

"Mr. Johnson and the two other juveniles did not go back to school, and Mr. Johnson did not obey his probation officers."

Instead, Adams said, the teens went into West Reading and assaulted an elderly man and another man before targeting the bicyclist.

 

This story gets better and better. Good riddance. Must be nice to live in a free state.

I also read somewhere that this was their 3rd assault for the day.

Please tell me PA has felony murder doctrine... Give the two surviving dirtbags a murder charge as well for their dead friend.

I wonder how quickly our CCW laws would change if something happened to the law makers where CCW would've saved them..

 

Not wishing that or anything on anyone but if they had a "first hand experience" it would help our cause lol

 

Pretty sure they are exempt and do carry anyhow.

Pretty sure they are exempt and do carry anyhow.

 

Hmm... we can't be trusted to defend ourselves, but they can. It's sickening.

 

Good, I'm glad he blasted that punk. I don't even feel bad for the family.

 

As for habitual drug use, you may have a point. My brother took ridalin, and later on started smoking pot, then eventually getting into oxycontin, and finishing off with Heroin. Of course, there might be correlation without causation, it might even be to what age you are, I stopped taking adderol in 8th grade because it depressed the hell out of me.

 

It's funny, drugs like adderol and ridalin are EXTREMELY prevalent in college. I know quite a few people who regularly use them at Rowan. I think only one of them actually has a prescription for it.