That almost answers one of my questions
How did the kid in the local standoff get the guns? KNS:
It has not yet been determined exactly how the youth gained access to the safe in which the guns were stored, Guider said.
“It had not been not pried open,” Guider said.
He said the safe does not open with either keys or a combination lock, but by some other means at the base of the safe. He said that “the carpet around the base of the safe was ripped back.
March 18th, 2004 at 9:44 am
safe does not open with either keys or a combination lock, but by some other means at the base of the safe.
Why the hell is it called a safe then? Maybe he used twine to keep the “safe” door secure?
March 18th, 2004 at 10:15 am
You know I have tried to keep mum on this issue given the emotional fervor that has so gripped the community for almost a week now, but like most things we have to find out what went wrong.
Not to show any disrespect to law enforcement or the deceased but I have to think the parents share the majority of the blame here with the teenager. The domestic calls prior to this one indicate a kid out of control and the parents didn’t seem to be able to enforce discipline. Tim Hutchison’s remarks that “we think he has as much in there as we do out here” also seems off the mark. That dispatch call was confusing, and according to the article the ambusher’s mom seemed to mislead. There is a heck of a lot of difference between one gun with a lock and a weird ‘safe’ full of them.