DEAD ZONE
May 12th, 2005, 07:46 PM
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArti cle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031782558263&path=%21news&s=1045855934842
BY ALAN COOPER
Lloyd Jamal Whitaker Jr.'s departure on Sept. 29 from the home he had shared with Carolyn Taylor did not go smoothly.He had made several trips to his car with boxes of belongings from the house in the 1300 block of Enfield Avenue.
But Taylor, 33, told police that he had choked her during one of his trips back to the dwelling, and she had locked the door behind him and put a .22-caliber pistol in her pocket.
When Whitaker, 28, kicked in the door and choked her again, she fired a shot downward to get him away from her, she said. The bullet lodged in Whitaker's pelvis, and he bled to death from what appeared at first to be a superficial wound.
Taylor pleaded guilty in January to involuntary manslaughter, and Richmond Circuit Judge Richard D. Taylor sentenced her yesterday to serve three years and four months in prison.
Before she was sentenced, Carolyn Taylor apologized to Whitaker's family and added, "I never meant for him to die. . . . The gun that I had took his life, but I feel that it might have saved my life."
Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Diane Abato told the judge that Taylor could have left the apartment or called police to keep the confrontation from escalating.
"But as so often happens in this city, people arm themselves and think that solves the problem," she said.
Yes she should have called the cops ASSUMING he announced his arrival ahead of time. Yes she should have armed herself in case he did not or the cops were late and No there is nothing and was nothing wrong with defender her own life. This is pure BLAME THE VICTIM CRAP!!!!!
BY ALAN COOPER
Lloyd Jamal Whitaker Jr.'s departure on Sept. 29 from the home he had shared with Carolyn Taylor did not go smoothly.He had made several trips to his car with boxes of belongings from the house in the 1300 block of Enfield Avenue.
But Taylor, 33, told police that he had choked her during one of his trips back to the dwelling, and she had locked the door behind him and put a .22-caliber pistol in her pocket.
When Whitaker, 28, kicked in the door and choked her again, she fired a shot downward to get him away from her, she said. The bullet lodged in Whitaker's pelvis, and he bled to death from what appeared at first to be a superficial wound.
Taylor pleaded guilty in January to involuntary manslaughter, and Richmond Circuit Judge Richard D. Taylor sentenced her yesterday to serve three years and four months in prison.
Before she was sentenced, Carolyn Taylor apologized to Whitaker's family and added, "I never meant for him to die. . . . The gun that I had took his life, but I feel that it might have saved my life."
Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Diane Abato told the judge that Taylor could have left the apartment or called police to keep the confrontation from escalating.
"But as so often happens in this city, people arm themselves and think that solves the problem," she said.
Yes she should have called the cops ASSUMING he announced his arrival ahead of time. Yes she should have armed herself in case he did not or the cops were late and No there is nothing and was nothing wrong with defender her own life. This is pure BLAME THE VICTIM CRAP!!!!!