Coryell faces preliminary charges of intimidation with a deadly weapon and pointing a firearm.
Bloomington police were called to the 500 block of Granite Drive at 12:30 a.m. Police said a man told police he allowed Coryell to test his subwoofer that was for sale.
When Coryell didn’t return the subwoofer or pay for it, the man went to Coryell’s home and demanded the item be returned or paid for. The two argued outside before the man saw some friends. The man spoke to his friends about the dispute, then went into Coryell’s home. When he entered the foyer, he later told police, Coryell pointed a gun at him and told him to get out of he’d shoot.
Hold on just a second here. What is wrong with this picture?? Let me look at this again. Ok, the guy is approached by someone who wants to test out a speaker (oh, sorry sub woofer) before he buys it. The guy ok's this teenager (19) to install the subwoofer in his car. When the guy fails to pay for the sub woofer or return it, rather than call police to report an obvious theft he goes to the teenagers home and gets into an altercation. Then finds a 'group of friends' to report instead of police to discuss it with. After this 'discussion' the friends wait outside while he forcibly (assuming forcibly because it doesn't sound as if he was going to be invited) enters someone's home. Sounds about right
So now looking at it from the teens side. You have just had an argument with the guy only to find him breaking into your house with a mob waiting outside for you. Do you not have a right to defend yourself and your home? I think yes and can guarantee you that if someone breaks into my home there is gonna be at least one armed resident prepared to repel boarders, if you know what I mean. ;) The problem in all of this is that this 19 year old stole property and rather than let the police do their job this guy went vigilante and decided to take care of his own business. I guess I can understand that in principle but if you go so far as breaking the law yourself by trespassing in a threatening manner (I fully believe unwanted entering of someones home and leading a gang to be seperate threatening manners) then you should fully expect to have a gun pointed at you.
This is NOT intimidation with a gun that should result in the 19 year old sitting in jail. Rather this is breaking and entering with intent to do harm, resulting in someone being forced to defened themselves and their home. What should have happened is the police should have been called and arrested the 19 year old for theft, not for defending his home from a vigilante and his gang...err discussion group.
Free Coryell now or charge him with theft, but do not charge him with intimidation for protecting himself.
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