Quanterry Alvin Whitley learned first-hand how the FAFO concept can go very badly when you try to steal someone else’s hard-earned possessions. In the Richmond Heights neighborhood of Miami last weekend, he and three of his thug friends fooled around, committing a home invasion.
By John Boch for Shooting News Weekly
A neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera recorded the sounds of Quanterry and his buddies reaping the whirlwind. Yes, it captured Whitley screaming like a little girl after getting shot and before he assumed ambient temperature.
As for the homeowner, he says that he was terrified during the ordeal. He also said it was the first time he ever shot his gun.
Congrats to him then. He did pretty well, all things considered. It probably wouldn’t have ended well for him if he’d frozen… or not had a gun at all.
CBS News has the story:
The homeowner, who didn’t want to share his name or face, said he didn’t know any of the suspects and that he only pulled the trigger when one of them entered his house.
CBS News Miami obtained ring camera video that captured the moment shots were heard while the four suspects were trying to enter a home on Southwest 110th Avenue.
The homeowner said he told the men outside his property to leave, but they didn’t. And when one of the men entered his home, he fired, admitting it was the first time he had ever used his gun.
“Never, never. Never pulled it out, never used it. Ever like ever,” the homeowner said. “I’ve never been in trouble, like I don’t bother anybody. Nobody bothers me. This was just the worst day of my life, the worst night of my life.”
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue came to the scene and rushed the injured suspect, later identified as 26-year-old Quanterry Alvin Whitley, to the hospital, where he later died.
Meanwhile, Whitley’s mother is upset over the homeowner’s defensive actions. Local 10 caught her denying that it was her son who broke into the home.
If you want to know the upbringing (or lack thereof) that led Quanterry down the path of stealing other people’s stuff and ignoring lots of other long-held societal norms, her reaction to the incident is telling.
More from CBS:
CBS News Miami spoke with Lashundia Jackson, the mother of Whitley. She said the homeowner should never have fired his weapon.
“I would like to say he did not do a home invasion. That is inaccurate. That is not who he is. That is not who he was. He would not do that. He was not that type of person,” Jackson said of her son.
The evidence — including her son’s body inside the man’s home — suggests otherwise.
She said, “The way he (the homeowner) said his mother came out and said they better get off the porch or she is going to call police. Then why shouldn’t they call the police at that moment if that was what they needed to do to avoid shooting him and killing him? Why shouldn’t they call?”
Jackson continued, “I want to know why? Why? Why. What really happened and what is going on?”
Why? Because Whitley and his three pals decided they were going to commit a home invasion…and they suffered the sudden consequences of an error in victim selection. It’s not like the now-dead home invader had suddenly chosen to dabble in crime.
Police records show Whitley had been arrested before for burglary and aggravated assault. But his mother said, “He was a father. He was a son. He was a brother. He was a cousin. He was everything. Did he have run-ins with law enforcement? He did, but a home invasion was not one of them.”
He was a thug. He FA’d and then he FO’d. He learned the hard way that not everyone is meek and mild and will submit to being victimized. And in this case, Whitley’s intended target also likely saved the taxpayers of Florida hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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