Friday’s feel good story
From the Huffington Post comes our Friday feel good story about Robert Vann Marshall who thought an order of protection is just a piece of paper;
At 1:27 p.m., he was released from jail. At 1:38 p.m., officers received a call from Marshall’s wife at their McMinn County home, during which she claimed her husband was forcing his way inside the home. Police said he was irate, suicidal and possibly armed.
“His wife called 911 and was telling our dispatchers that he was trying to break into the residence,” McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy told WRCB. “She retreated into the back bedroom, and at some point fired a shot and he was killed.”
As police descended on the home, Marshall’s wife told dispatchers that she had shot him. The Huffington Post is withholding the woman’s name because she is a possible domestic violence victim.
It took Marshall just 15 minutes after being released from jail to turn his life around.
Category: Feel Good Stories, Guns
Well, the order for protection that he was issued after he got out of the jug worked better than the one written on a piece of paper, eh?
I’m surprised that there wasn’t more gnashing of teeth at Huff Po over this.
Well, that lady won’t need a restraining order now, after all. Damn shame she needed one in the first place.
I’m in a state of shock that the Huff Po posted an article about a gun owner defending herself.
Love it when we don’t have to look forward to the expense of a trial. I pray that the lady can feel relief rather than guilt over doing what needed to be done.
Jail time did not help him “turn his life around?”
Too bad!
Proof positive that neither protective orders nor LEO’s provide any level of protection. Protective orders are useless, IMO – but LEO’s can only respond insofar as time/distance allows, usually when it’s too late.
@ #4: Twist! That’s an easy one to explain. See, in this instance, the big, bad bully of a husband was an evil which needed to be eradicated from society, so whatever means the poor widdle helpless wife needed to use to protect herself from the mean ole man is justified. She is a victim and victims need to be protected, even by those bad, bad guns.
The rest of us are all bullies, so we don’t need guns to protect ourselves. Got it??
@4 If it’d been the other way around — a man protecting himself from a violent wife — you’d have never seen the article in HuffPo. They will insist on political correctness every time.
No
One less oxygen thief in the world.
So it him 11 minutes to get to her house and get dead. I wonder how long he was dead before the Police arrived. Did it take them 5 minutes to respond, 2 minutes? However long it took, that would have been the time the woman would have been dead.
Another reminder for everyone that “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”
Another dead wife beater…what a great day!!
No additional range time required for her!!!!
One more puke is gone from the face of the planet !!!
Nice shooting Ma’am !!!
Goodbye, Earl.
There’s always time for the range. I wonder if it had been the other way around and she was black and he was white?
Surprised everyone is missing the elephant in the room on this one. The guy’s name is Robert Vann Marshall and they live in McMinn County.
Gee I wonder who his wife, who’s name is not being released, is?
jonp: published accounts elsewhere on the Internet give her name. But it’s a fairly common name, and I don’t think she’s the famous lady by the same name. She appears to be a manager at a local loan company.