http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1256064,CST-NWS-trick02.article

Trick-or-treater, 12, killed when man feared robbery

SUMTER, S.C. — An ex-convict who thought he was being robbed gunned down a 12-year-old trick-or-treater, spraying nearly 30 rounds with an assault rifle from inside his home after hearing a knock on the door.

Quentin Patrick, 22, is accused of killing T.J. Darrisaw on Friday. T.J.’s 9-year-old brother and their father were injured but were treated at a hospital and released.

The family attended a Halloween celebration in downtown Sumter, then stopped at Patrick’s house because the porch light was on. The boys’ mother and a toddler stayed in the car nearby.

Patrick emptied his AK-47, shooting at least 29 times through his front door, walls and windows after hearing the knock. He told police he had been robbed and shot in the last year.

”He wasn’t going to be robbed again, and he wasn’t going to be shot again,” Police Chief Patty Patterson said.

And just WHAT THE FUCK is an EX-CONVICT doing with an AK-47?!? Also, if he was so afraid of getting robbed or shot, why didn’t he, oh, I don’t know, INSTALL A FUCKING PEEPHOLE IN HIS DOOR? Sure, I can understand being afraid of being robbed and shot, especially if it’s happened before; however, it was Halloween and his porch light was on. Mr. Patrick should have exercised a little more common sense and either shut off his porch light or checked to see who was at the door before opening fire.

Now a child is dead due to this ex-convict’s paranoia. The guy is only 22, and now he’s back in jail for murder. His paranoia and lack of common sense have denied T.J. Darrisaw his life and Quentin Patrick his freedom, if not his own life.