A Prairie Township, Ohio woman heard noises at 4a.m. Sunday and grabbed her boyfriend’s .38 Special revolver to go investigate. To her absolute horror, she was confronted by a knife-wielding intruder wearing an Insane Clown Posse mask.
She screamed in terror at the sight of the figure and fired a shot.
The intruder quickly retreated out of the same second-floor window he had come in through and was gone into the night. Given how the intruder fled the scene and didn’t stagger or fall down, the homeowner believed she missed with her shot.
The woman locked the window and went back to bed, without calling the cops. She would later tell police she didn’t call because she didn’t think she had hit the intruder and given that he was wearing a mask and gloves, there wouldn’t be any evidence for police to collect.
Turns out Mr. Insane Clown Posse did get hit – in the upper back.
It also turns out that the masked bandit was but the first of a quartet of teens there. Given his knife, gloves, mask and the fact he came through a second-story window at 4 a.m., none of them were probably there to deliver Girl Scout cookies.
It gets better though.
The stupid is thick in this story among the insane posse of clowns. The quartet ran a quarter of a mile back to the mask-wearer’s home.
Of course, the family gives the media an angelic eighth grade school picture of the 17-year-old mask-wearing, knife-wielding home invader.
Nobody called 911. Not until an hour later, at 5:14 a.m. when Adam Pickens picked up the phone.
“Uh, I have a shot friend,” the 18-year-old told the dispatcher. “I really don’t know what to say.”
Pickens claimed he didn’t know what happened.
“I didn’t want to get him in trouble,” Pickens said.
Medics took Barbee to OhioHealth Doctors Hospital. He was pronounced dead there just after 6 a.m.
Nobody answered the door at Barbee’s house yesterday afternoon. He was a student in Tolles Career and Technical Center’s welding program.
Their friend dead, Pickens and two other youths, Brandon J. Hamilton and Tyler R. Blazer, both 17, were arrested. Hamilton and Blazer are facing delinquency counts of murder and complicity to aggravated burglary. Pickens is facing those same charges in adult court and is being held on $250,000 bond.
“If they would have got him help, we wouldn’t be talking about murder charges,” Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott said. “It was a bad decision on top of a bad decision.”
Thank God mom had a gun.
It might have been a grisly murder scene if she hadn’t.
Nice shootin’, ma’am.
Might I suggest a gun training class for you so you’ll know to call the cops next time you find an intruder in your home?
Sam
Still looks like a thug in that pic.
Looks like he ain’t all there in that pic.