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Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 | 7:30 p.m.
Laurice Brightman was shot in the buttocks during a Tuesday evening robbery at his apartment, but he was able to fight off one of the three armed assailants, escape and call for help. His friends, Anthony Anderson and Evin Russell, did not.
Just before 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Brightman and his friends were in his 370 E. Harmon Avenue apartment when they heard a knock at the door, Metro Police said in a report. Sasha Williams, 20, a frequent visitor to the apartment, was there with her boyfriend Maurice Sims, 22, and his friend Brandon Range, 23, and a third man. Williams wanted to collect a debt she thought was owed to her, but Anderson and Brightman would not let the three men in, police said. That’s when the assailants each drew a gun, forced their way into the apartment, and began to beat Brightman and his friends.
The three victims were forced to sit on the floor and the couch as Williams instructed her cohorts to look for money and take other valuables like the TV, iPhones, a Sony PlayStation, and a MacBook Pro, the report said.
After about 15 minutes, Anderson suddenly leaped up and attacked one of the gunmen, police said. Brightman followed and began punching another gunman, police said. He later identified the man he fought as Range. During the fight, Brightman was shot in the buttocks but he was able to escape to the bedroom, and jump out the window, police said. He heard at least four gunshots as he made his escape, police said.
Just after 8 p.m. Brightman reached the front office of his apartment complex, Harbor Island Apartments, where an office attendant called Metro. Shortly after, Brightman was transported to Sunrise Hospital for treatment.
When police arrived at his apartment, they found the bodies of his friends.
Police went to Sims' apartment at 2101 Warm Springs Road at 5 a.m. Wednesday, the morning after the killings.
The three suspects were all booked on charges of home invasion, conspiracy to commit robbery, murder, attempted murder, robbery and burglary. The whereabouts of the fourth suspect was unknown.
If Brightman, Anderson, and Russell had guns, 2 of them might be alive and the invaders might have been carried away in a meat wagon. Instead, 2 of the victims are dead and one injured.....meanwhile, the invaders are alive and will be wasting tax payer money for the next 50+ yrs.
Nah. All 5 of them would be dead as a good Ol' western shoot em out ensued. Ergo the problem of having everyone under the sun armed and willing to shoot. Bullets in 50 different directions hitting bystanders next door, people in the street, grandma sleeping in the next room. The death count rises with every extra gun.
@TomD - I'd rather have that situation than pay for the prosecution and livelihood of these criminals for the rest of their lives. You're hilarious. One day, you'll need a gun and be left hanging....
You're ok with innocent bystanders getting hit? Google the shooting at the Empire state building and you can witness for yourself the trouble when multiple people have guns and are firing at a perp. Don't think I'll need a gun. I can't live in paranoia walking around my house eating potato chips and having a Glock strapped to my boxers. It's a choice. Hasn't affected me so far. Besides, the chances are greater for gun violence with a gun in the house vs. not. It's a myth that a gun in the home increases personal safety. In fact the chances of a homicide are 2.7 times greater for those in the house...not the perp.
Things were bad enough already, but since the Colorado and Connecticut shootings, every thread I read on the internet seems to revolve around gun control and the pros and cons. Ugh.
Cute mental picture with the Glock and the boxer shorts, Tom. At least that got a smile out of me. (No snark intended)
Harbor Island has always been a cesspool for drugs and crime. Roll the bulldozers in.
@TomD1228- it's bad enough you don't think the populace deserves the right to protect themselves from bodily harm (yet here you are expressing your first amendment right- funny how you pick and choose the "rights" people should be allowed), but your reference to the bystanders being hit at the Empire State Building is even more perplexing. You do realize that the 9 bystanders were all shot by the police, right? Is your argument that the police shouldn't have guns either?
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/...
I never said anything about taking away 2nd amendment rights. If you want a handgun, go buy one. Go thru a background check. Get training.
My point about the Empire State shooting is regardless how many have guns, this will be the likely result in these cases. The fact that it was 2 cops or 2 CCW citizens is meaningless. The point is 35 people armed in the Aurora theater would likely see not 12 dead by the gunmen but 5 by the gunmen and another 20 by 35 people firing like a shooting gallery.
Name one thing that provides for home security without endangering others: home ownership, single family homes. Who wants to live in an apartment with neighbors like these? At lease in a SF home, the neighbors are a few yards further away, AND there seems to be a correlation in that those successful enough to own and keep a house TEND to NOT be such deadly personalities.
Gun Up people...before the government shuts you out of protecting yourself! If you had 35 people trained in using guns with guns in the Aurora theater you'd have 2 or 3 innocent dead and 1 gunman with 350 bullets laying 6 ft deep....saving innocent lives and injuries and taxpayer money.