7-Year-old Boy Dies in Trespass Shooting

Source: AOL News

HOUSTON (May 9) - A 7-year-old boy who was allegedly shot in the head by a couple who thought he and three other people were trespassing on their property died Saturday, authorities said.

Donald Coffey Jr. died Saturday morning at a Houston hospital, less than two days after the boy was struck in the head by shotgun pellets, Liberty County Sheriff's Cpl. Hugh Bishop said.

Sheila Muhs and her husband, Gayle Muhs, both 45, were charged with second-degree felony counts of aggravated assault in the shootings Thursday. They were being held at Liberty County Jail with bail set at $25,000 each and had not yet retained an attorney, Bishop said.

Bishop said the district attorney could upgrade the charges to murder on Monday, but investigators were "still trying to get the circumstances behind the incident."


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.............I hope these two pieces of shit get the death penalty. You know they're for the death penalty (especially for "dark" skinned people), pro gun, probably fucking religious as all hell, and were for W both times EVEN though they didn't vote. I am starting to think like Bill Maher these days. AND, since I was "scolded severely" (post deleted) regarding this very topic a few days ago for taking a somewhat vocal stance against the state, I'll simply let this statement stand (if it doesn't get deleted).

At the moment Republicans outnumber Democrats in Texas - I guess we could just shoot Republicans to make you happy. We could have a "Shoot a Republican Day" and every Democrat would agree to shoot one Republican. But then there still be more Republicans than Democrats because all of the Democrats would be in prison.

You want to help turn Texas blue? Move here and register to vote and then vote. Put up or shut up as they say.

Just lay off using tragic individual incidents like this one as an opportunity to trash the whole state of Texas. Texas DUers are sick to death of such hateful, brain-dead behavior from people who are supposed to be supportive Democrats, and we're taking action against it. Find a new outlet for your prejudices....

They're the ones who decided it was ok to shoot people for trespassing. Plenty of other states don't allow this.

Let's bash PA, then.

Every state in the union has dumb-ass regulations on its books, so we have no shortage of targets if we're going to hunt for the "most trashable."

................I consider the town I live in in Arkansas my true home, and I love it where I live EVEN with the things I DON'T like, that I speak up about. There is no fucking reason for a country like ours NOT to educate its citizens up to at least some kind of minimum standard. THAT is the main cause of shit like this story, whatever region of the country.

Texas allows you to use NONLETHAL force to eject a trespasser, under certain conditions. But no state, including Texas, allows you to shoot someone for merely trespassing.

A person is either for the death penalty or against it. If a person is "for the death penalty in certain situations," then that person is explicitly for the death penalty.

Any principle that can be abandoned at the drop of a hat isn't much of a principle.

I am, and have always been against the death penalty.

Hope you don't get caught. You'll become the poster boy for voter fraud.

...........I live in the same "region" you live in, whether you like it or not.

....blanket stereotypes and hatred directed against an entire region are against forum rules. Just because Bill Maher gets away with it, doesn't mean that you can here at DU. Try to keep that in mind in the future.

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Get deleted, that is.

These people are fucked up and did fuck up, but not every conservative is prone to the level of violence these two demonstrated.

If they were the 2nd civil war would be well under way by now.

Exterminate the brutes

ugly ass, retarded-looking white trash motherfuckers. I'd guess the victims were white too, if they were offroading. These two scum will probably get the death penalty.

"We dint mean to kill the boy. We thought they wuz tearin' up the levee, so we each took a shot. An don't pay no attention to that sign. It don't mean nuthin."

My money's on manslaughter. It would be awfully hard to prove that they intended to kill a seven-year old. Unfortunately.

Edited for germatical correckniss.

(Yes, I am making fun of teh ignant rednecks, from which I know many)

over their heads.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic, but I think we all know that people get away with murder all the time. And it's usually reduced to a manslaughter charge.

Who knows. Maybe since it was a child who was murdered the jury will see it as murder.

The "we shoot trespassers" sign, the fact that these idiots already fired their shotgun at someone else in the past, AND the call to the sheriff after the fact ("these people were tearing up the levee so we shot them"), all make it clear that the shooting was not accidental.

They didn't know that there was a 7-year-old boy there, true. But they know there was SOMEONE there, and they were most assuredly trying to shoot them.

Me and my friends used to play manhunt while running through all sorts of yards in New Jersey. I can say that none of us ever imagined being shot and killed while 'trespassing'.

And in New Jersey!
We were all over the place.
Only thing we had to worry about were dogs. :)

giving us away. We knew them all. I go on about our manhunt days too often on DU, but only because it comes up so often when someone is shot and killed. It was in the early 80's that we did this, and nobody thought anything of a pack of kids running through their backyards, or hiding in them.

I suspect that if I ever moved back there, and bought the house I grew up in, I'd have to talk to every neighbor in the area and tell them that kids would be running through the area and "having fun" before organizing something like that. So sad.

and don't give me that 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' bullshit. a gun killed this child.


"still trying to get the circumstances behind the incident." Huh? The circumstances are that these idiots shot and killed an innocent child.



we absolutely need much stricter gun control.

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Only the military should have guns

on their home. 2nd picture in the slide show at the link.
2 wastes of oxygen. It pains me that I have to share air molecules with foul, disgusting scum like this.

this is what you get for stupid public policy...

What? Stereotypes suck, yah?

That won't even go over in Massachusetts. Get a grip.

The gun used here is legal even in England, AFAIK. Though I'm sure that won't stop the gun-ban vultures from trying to leverage this tragedy for political points.

Damn! I was gonna post this exact link myself.

Umm...would it really be so bad if TX leaves us? ;) Take it easy, holmes! I'm not saying ALL Texans are like this.

I'm not a Texan, but I do live in the South, and the stereotyping gets old after a while.

What a waste of oxygen.