Martin: “I just killed a kid.”
911 Operator: “You just killed a kid?”
Martin: “Yes, ma’am.”Later, the operator asked Martin to explain what happened.
Martin: “Kids just been giving me a bunch of (expletive), making other kids harass me in my place, tearing things up.”
911 Operator: “OK, so what’d you do?”
Martin: “I shot him with a (expletive) 4-10 shotgun twice.”
911 Operator: “You shot him with a shotgun? Where is he?”
Martin: “He’s laying in his yard.”
15-year-old Larry Mugrage of suburban Batavia, Ohio was allegedly shot to death by an Ohio neighbor upset with neighbors walking upon his ‘meticulously kept’ lawn. Larry was known by neighbors as “a good kid.”
Neighbors said Martin, the lawn lover, lived alone quietly, often sitting in front of his one-story home with its neat lawn, well-trimmed shrubbery and flagpole with U.S. and Navy flags flying.
The AP story reports that “Other teens from the neighborhood said Martin was obsessive about his lawn.”
