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Title: Aspiring rapper killed when he drunkenly entered the wrong house
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ABC News
URL Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-cr ... ome-invasion/story?id=21474534
Published: Jan 10, 2014
Author: GWEN GOWEN and ALEXA VALIENTE
Post Date: 2014-01-11 19:00:41 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 169
Comments: 9
The parents of a teen who was shot and killed when he drunkenly entered a neighbor's home and was mistaken for an intruder believe it was murder, not self-defense. After a night of drinking, Caleb Gordley, 16, was killed when he entered a home near his own in Sterling, Va. The homeowner believed Gordley was a burglar and fired his gun at the teen several times. Gordley's parents initially forgave the shooter, Donald West Wilder, but new details in the police report, released to them nearly five months after the incident, have changed their minds. “At no point, from the homeowner's...testimony, the account of the events, did he ever describe Caleb in any way being aggressive,” Shawn Gordley, Caleb Gordley’s father, told ABC News’ “20/20.” An autopsy report also confirmed that Caleb Gordley died from a gunshot wound to the back. “He shot him in the back,” Caleb Gordley’s mother, Jennea Gordley, who is divorced from his father, told “20/20.” “If you're really in fear of danger of your life and your family's life, why would you allow a person...that appeared to be dazed to you, walk right past you and then you shoot him in the back?” Caleb Gordley had just been grounded for a week several days before he was killed in March 2013. The popular student-athlete and aspiring rapper was never much of a partier, but was itching to get out of the house by the end of the week. He even tweeted throughout the day saying, “Honestly who’s throwin a party tonight?!” and “Somebody make a party right now. I’m tryna to have fun tonight no lie.” “He’s not much of a drinker, but he just wanted to try some that night,” Kory Carico, Caleb Gordley’s good friend, who was with him the night he died, told “20/20.” At midnight on Saturday night, Caleb Gordley slipped out of his father’s upscale suburban home and headed for a friend’s house a few blocks away. For two hours, the teens tossed back vodka shots. By 2 a.m., a woozy Caleb Gordley decided it was time to go home before his dad noticed he was gone. “He got pretty drunk,” Carico said. “I took him back to my house, and I was going to make him stay there, but...He knew he had to get home. I knew that for sure. He kept bothering us about it.” Carico helped a seriously impaired Caleb Gordley walk home to the quiet cul-de-sac where the houses look nearly identical. “I’ve never come in the back way before, but the houses look similar, so I figured it was his house because he thought it was his house, too,” Carico said. Caleb Gordley climbed in through the window of the house he thought was his. “The alarm went off, and then I saw the light come on,” Carico said. “Then I heard yelling, which I thought was his dad, so I started running because I thought I was going to get in trouble.” But it wasn’t Caleb Gordley’s house. It was the home two doors down from his own, where Donald West Wilder, 43, lives with his girlfriend. Startled, Wilder grabbed the 40-caliber pistol equipped with a laser and flashlight that he kept next to his bed, thinking a thief was breaking into his home at 2:30 a.m.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
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I see this idiot climbed thru the window. What a nutjob. One more thing. He was 16 y/o and DRUNK? That sounds like he was underage to be in that condition. The cops need to investigate where he got the booze and take action. But, that will never happen. They will just close the case as an accidental shooting. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Yeah, what's with letting a street-level window be accessible to a wandering minstrel?? :)
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
Check out my edit.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
Trayvon with a vodka twist, yo dawg......
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
Here is a picture of the poor, misunderstood ute. 
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#6. To: X-15 (#2)
"Wandering minstrel." LOL! Good one. Yeah, what's with letting a street-level window be accessible to a wandering minstrel??
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#7. To: X-15, 4 (#0)
So stupidly sad on so very many levels. RIP
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#8. To: James Deffenbach (#5)
Since he had not reproduced this makes him a Darwin Award winner.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#9. To: X-15 (#0)
Well, you disobey your parents and things like this can happen. I see his parents didn't teach him responsibility very well now that they are blaming the homeowner for protecting his property from an intruder in the middle of the night. A lot of blame to go around for this tragic event, but none of it should be directed at the homeowner.
God is always good!
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