Prank turns deadly for Arkansas teen

[urfvrtweapon]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Police say a 48-year-old Arkansas man shot and killed a 15-year-old girl Saturday in a prank gone wrong, reports CBS affiliate KTHV.

Adrian Broadway was fatally shot just before 1 a.m. Saturday after police say she and six other teens dumped leaves and other trash on a car outside the Little Rock home of 48-year-old Willie Noble

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[maladaptive]

I don't really see where any property was damaged. "Leaves and other trash" suggests it was trash similarly harmless as leaves. Given that they're friends with Noble's teenage son especially, I can see this happening in my circle of friends as a teen. If Noble had been any of our fathers, it'd end with "son, you clean that shit up right now." Not gunfire.

And this generation isn't any more prank-driven than any other. In fact, kids now are more straight-edge than ever, the crime rate's been dropping for years. It's more that teens are still teens than any new problem.

Sorry for all the edits, the correction I made was to a totally irrelevant factoid I tossed out there and realized I was derailing the point of my own comment.

[leaf_kunoichi]

Another story mention they used mayo and eggs while can cause damage to the paint. (Or remove any sap on the car. Lol). Still not that bad.

I think teens today are seen as causing more damage and pulling more stupid pranks because they are able to, and are dumb enough to, record it and put it on the web.

[hammersxstrings]

yeah i was gonna say, about the generation thing...i think it appears maybe more prevalent, because of social media and what not, but i doubt it is. i would even be willing to wager that sometimes, the video stuff backfires on them (like the case of that football player's home, with the party the kids threw). it'll get them caught...

[alicephilippa]

That is so sad for her family and friends.

[evildevil]

one count of terroristic acts

really?

[hey_spectrum]

Seems excessive to me too. I can't imagine they'll charge him with that ontop of first degree murder and four counts of assault.

[sassalicious]

that's kind of what i thought . . .

[moonshaz]

Yeah, that seems kind of weird!

[meadowphoenix]

I feel for her family and that community. I hope they can find peace after this incident.

And I would just like to note the speed and breadth of the charges being filed here versus the speed of charges in other area of the country for differently colored men.

[maladaptive]

I was thinking that. "Oh, well, this guy was just acting in defense of his property under the castle doctrine. Of course he's gonna get... off... he was charged? ...Oh, hmm. It sounds like everyone involved was black. That explains it."

[bnmc2005]

Yup.

[amyura]

That's where my mind went too. When I saw that Adrian was black, I cynically thought that if the perp was white he'd end up acquitted, and was impressed that they actually charged a white guy. But they didn't.

[mastadge]

This is awful but I . . . don't understand the details.

Adrian Broadway was fatally shot just before 1 a.m. Saturday after police say she and six other teens dumped leaves and other trash on a car outside the Little Rock home of 48-year-old Willie Noble as part of prank.

In the midst of the prank, Noble allegedly ran out of his house and started shooting at the vehicle which held Adrian and the six others. According to the station, none of the other teens in the car were seriously injured.

Were she and her friends in their own car after dumping debris on another car? Were they inside the car they had been dumping debris on?

Also, first degree murder and terrorism? How does running out of the house firing at people vandalizing your property, wrong and awful a response as it might be, constitute first degree murder?

[sihaya09]

It seems to me like they had finished the prank and were in their own car.

[peace_piper]

When I was in high school, one of my friends was sick and had just come home in the evening. Me and some friends decided we wanted to "prank" her by giving her enormous bouquets of sunflowers. So we went over to her house in the dead of night and dragged several pots of sunflowers onto her lawn, so the first thing she'd see when she woke up that morning was a ton of sun flowers and a banner we 'd made that said "We love you 'Megan'". One of her neighbours saw us and assumed we were up to no good, and started yelling and ranting at us, and then we left, he chased us around, screaming out of hte side of his car at us. My friends and myself were afraid to go home, not wanting him to know where we lived, and we drove around with him following us for over an hour before we finally ditched him and ran out of gas a few minutes later. Megan later told us that he was drunk and pissed cause people kept leaving religious literature on his door and overreacted.

Thinking on it now, I'm glad he didn't have a gun.

[idemandjustice]

It's too bad that guy did that. What a sweet thing for you and your friends to do.