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Cops: Bay Shore man kills burglar seeking drugs
BY EMERSON CLARRIDGE | [email protected] 9:37 PM EDT, August 17, 2007 http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/trb....ewsdaycom;pos=1;sz=88x31;tile=5;ord=22147922?
Neighbors remember Bobby Stone as a nice kid who grew up with his grandparents in a modest blue house on a quiet street in Bay Shore. Yet, they say, as he grew older, Stone fell in with a rough crowd. And after his mother moved out, police say, he began selling drugs out of the house.
Thursday night at about 10:10, Suffolk police said, two armed men who wanted to rob Stone of drugs and money knocked on the front door of his Penataquit Avenue home.
"They walked in. He didn't try to stop them... .They were aware he was selling marijuana out of the house," said Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick, commander of the Suffolk Homicide squad.
But minutes later, one of the would-be burglars was dead after Stone, 20, shot him.
He had been able to retrieve a loaded rifle from his bedroom, after he told the men that he had to go there to calm down two pit bulls that were in that room.
The burglars kicked down the bedroom door and one of them shot one of the dogs in the face. A gunfight erupted and Stone shot Lawrence Walker, 37, of Queens Village, multiple times in the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The second man fled the house in a red sport utility vehicle and may have been injured, Fitzpatrick said. Police were searching for him Friday night.
Stone was not injured, and the pit bull was being treated at an animal hospital.
A spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney's office said detectives and prosecutors were reviewing evidence and had not yet made a decision about whether to charge him. Police found a small amount of marijuana in the house, Fitzpatrick said.
No one was at Stone's home Friday. Neighbors said he lived there alone, though his mother would drop by.
Walker's relatives could not be reached.
Stone's neighbors said police cars were often seen at the home, which Fitzpatrick confirmed.
Chip, 69, a neighbor who declined to give his last name, said he was watching television with his wife, Sarah, 68, when they heard two or three pops they thought were fireworks.
"We just kept watching TV," Sarah said, though they peered out to see police cars swarming and officers putting up crime scene tape.
Groups of young people would gather at Stone's house at all hours, Sarah said. An ice cream truck would sometimes linger at the house for 15 minutes at a time, which she considered suspicious because no children lived at the house.
Sara said the shooting added to her fears that stray bullets would fly into her house. "It makes us very nervous," she said. "You never know."
BY EMERSON CLARRIDGE | [email protected] 9:37 PM EDT, August 17, 2007 http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/trb....ewsdaycom;pos=1;sz=88x31;tile=5;ord=22147922?
Neighbors remember Bobby Stone as a nice kid who grew up with his grandparents in a modest blue house on a quiet street in Bay Shore. Yet, they say, as he grew older, Stone fell in with a rough crowd. And after his mother moved out, police say, he began selling drugs out of the house.
Thursday night at about 10:10, Suffolk police said, two armed men who wanted to rob Stone of drugs and money knocked on the front door of his Penataquit Avenue home.
"They walked in. He didn't try to stop them... .They were aware he was selling marijuana out of the house," said Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick, commander of the Suffolk Homicide squad.
But minutes later, one of the would-be burglars was dead after Stone, 20, shot him.
He had been able to retrieve a loaded rifle from his bedroom, after he told the men that he had to go there to calm down two pit bulls that were in that room.
The burglars kicked down the bedroom door and one of them shot one of the dogs in the face. A gunfight erupted and Stone shot Lawrence Walker, 37, of Queens Village, multiple times in the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The second man fled the house in a red sport utility vehicle and may have been injured, Fitzpatrick said. Police were searching for him Friday night.
Stone was not injured, and the pit bull was being treated at an animal hospital.
A spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney's office said detectives and prosecutors were reviewing evidence and had not yet made a decision about whether to charge him. Police found a small amount of marijuana in the house, Fitzpatrick said.
No one was at Stone's home Friday. Neighbors said he lived there alone, though his mother would drop by.
Walker's relatives could not be reached.
Stone's neighbors said police cars were often seen at the home, which Fitzpatrick confirmed.
Chip, 69, a neighbor who declined to give his last name, said he was watching television with his wife, Sarah, 68, when they heard two or three pops they thought were fireworks.
"We just kept watching TV," Sarah said, though they peered out to see police cars swarming and officers putting up crime scene tape.
Groups of young people would gather at Stone's house at all hours, Sarah said. An ice cream truck would sometimes linger at the house for 15 minutes at a time, which she considered suspicious because no children lived at the house.
Sara said the shooting added to her fears that stray bullets would fly into her house. "It makes us very nervous," she said. "You never know."