CA: Walnut Creek boy set out to hunt sex offenders with his BB gun
The then-17-year-old boy was armed with two things: his BB gun and a list of local registered sex offenders, available through a public statewide database that tracks them, according to authorities.
The teen proceeded to travel around town, accosting and threatening people convicted of sex crimes, and occasionally shooting at them with the BB gun. On March 15, he was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a weapon and assault with a firearm, according to police and court records.
The alleged targeting of sex offenders is reminiscent of a more serious incident last year, in Fremont, where a 29-year-old man allegedly posed as an accountant, went to the home of a convicted child molester, and killed him, later allegedly bragging to police how good it felt to stab the victim.
In both cases, the sex offenders were targeted through Megan’s Law, a site that tracks people convicted of various sexual offenses and publicly lists their photographs and addresses.
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I have stood up to a bunch of these creeps. I mean if an entire group of them surround me, I would pretty much be dead meat, but if I have to go back to jail, I am able and willing to protect myself. The cowards who got me the first time shot a bullet through my window, but it was not in the room I was in at the time and seemed to be a .22 round from the size of the hole in the glass.
It went right over my roommate’s head and into the wall above him while sleeping. After that he moved out and I do not blame him as nobody should have to deal with that. And repeating what I said in the past, when I called the cops, they said if I do not have a suspect, the only thing I could do was file an online incident report. So, I did, and never even got a follow up.
The media and law enforcement is radicalizing the ignorant.
Charges should be upgraded to attempted homicide and brandishing a weapon. 17 years old and making idiotic choices. What a waste!
Just one more in a long list of reasons the registry only does harm and benefits no one.
The shooter, predictably, also drugs teenage girls, according to the article.