...he heard his mother cry out. Rushing to her aid, he found her on the kitchen floor, straddled by a fellow resident of their Prince George's County boarding house, the man's hands wrapped tightly around her neck, the boy said yesterday." I kept saying, 'Stop! Stop! Stop!' " the boy said, describing the events of Monday night. "But he just ignored me. He didn't stop. He just kept hurting her."
The boy said he grabbed a knife and swung, slashing 64-year-old Salomon Noubissie across the neck and opening an artery. Noubissie [the attacker] was fatally wounded
I'm reminded (tangentially) of an incident during a rugby game (bear with me.) My teammate Ike who stood 7'+, weighed over 300 lbs. kept getting punched in the ribs when he jumped for passed balls. Finally he had had enough and laid the offender out with an elbow to the face. The cheap-shotting punk sniveled to the referee who replied "Play on; you had it coming."
The lesson here: if you do wrong don't cry about just retribution. In the absence of new information, this child shouldn't have to worry about going to jail; he should get one of those medals the police give to citizen heroes.
