Calvin Lavant Picked The Wrong Apartment
May 8, 2009 by Morbid
COLLEGE PARK, Georgia -23-year-old Calvin Lavant and Jamal Hill decided to perform a home invasion on an apartment where 10 people where attending a birthday party. Upon entering through a patio door, they demanded money and cell phones, while putting the men in one room and the women in another. The apartment owner, Christopher Bailey, said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey. That’s not a real good sign. But luckily the two gunmen were unaware of the fact that the captives had something to even the playing field a bit. A gun of their own.
The gun was in a backpack, and after Lavant went to the bedroom where the women were being held, leaving Jamal to watch the men, a college student sprung into action and retrieved the firearm and began shooting at Jamal. Having the tables turned and finding himself facing the business end of a pistol, Jamal ran from the apartment. The student then went to the room where Lavant was holding the women and broke in.
“Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting ,” said Bailey.
Gunfire was exchanged, one of the women being hit multiple times (she’s gonna live) and Lavant escaped through a window. But he didn’t get far. Even though it turns out Lavant lived in the building next door, he never made it. He died from bullet wounds to the arm and face, saving taxpayers some money and society from suffering from any further trouble out of him. Bailey and the rest of the people that were terrorized by the two gunmen are thankful that the one student took action. “I think all of us are really cognizant of the fact that we could have all been killed,” said Bailey. Police state they are close to arresting the second asshole who should also feel pretty lucky to be alive.
I am aware that the shooting actually happened SundaySunday reviews
morning, but names of the subjects have just recently been released and I figured we need a bit of good news for a change.
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2:53 am on May 8th, 2009
I love stories like this!
4:29 am on May 8th, 2009
He was a true Bad Boy! Yaaaa Hoo! Got the bastards! violent, guilty, bad guys!
7:08 am on May 8th, 2009
I hate home invaders. I really think they should start giving life to all that do it. I think this is one of the worst crimes there is today vice murder. I hope Georgia has a law that Texas has, in that other parties that commit crimes are held accountable for all actions..i.e. the guy on the run will face a murder charge for just being involved. I think it is called law of third party here.
7:44 am on May 8th, 2009
And who are the assholes that want to strip gun rights?
See good guys having guns pays off. I am glad Calvin got killed. I wished there where more stories like this. I do think this is a forshadowing of the future as people get sick of being threatened by punks.
BTW note to self. never home invade the building next door. you might get recognized.
7:55 am on May 8th, 2009
Wow! One for the good guys!
8:39 am on May 8th, 2009
Really, why would you invade a home next door?
8:50 am on May 8th, 2009
This young man achieved hero status!
It’s very easy to claim we’d all do the same thing while faced with this utter nightmare. Truth is, many individuals freeze when faced with a real-life situation. This guy should be applauded for having the fortitude to not only act quickly, but adeptly.
9:13 am on May 8th, 2009
I don’t think these guys planned on leaving behind any witnesses. The news report also stated that one of the gunmen told one of the occupants that they had been watching them for a long time. My guess is that robbery was just the icing on the rape cake.
9:14 am on May 8th, 2009
Down here, it is referred to as “felony murder”, whereas if a death occurs during the commission of a felony, the perpetrator(s) of said felony will be charged with murder. The actual manner of the death(s) is not relevant, one will be charged with felony murder even if the victim died from a stroke or heart attack.
11:38 am on May 8th, 2009
This is a great story to promote gun rights. This would have been much more of a nightmare for these kids if the one didn’t have a gun. Good for them, and good riddance to the perp. Hope others thinking of home invasion read this and think twice.
12:03 pm on May 8th, 2009
Scary!
2:02 pm on May 8th, 2009
Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with people? They were very casually going to just shoot 10 people to death?!
Why in the FUCK do these losers think that they are any less likely to be caught for murder than for a robbery/rape? Witnesses are not the gold fucking standard for prosecution, morons! Not to mention that there could be other witnesses who see them leave the scene…and then there is the physical evidence they would undoubtedly leave behind. Yes, that’s right you fucking idiots, commit 10 murders so you will be “off the hook” for robbery and rape.
You know, a lot of people, when they hear of shit like this, are extremely angry with the perps. Others are just sad over the entire situation. Me? The overwhelming emotion I have when I think of assholes like these two is contempt. Complete and utter contempt. Contempt for the revolting combination of stupidity, arrogance and heartlessness. Oh, and stupidity. Did I mention stupidity?
2:20 pm on May 8th, 2009
AMEN!
2:20 pm on May 8th, 2009
Good riddance!
2:33 pm on May 8th, 2009
BTW, idiots, thanks for discussing how many bullets you have after entering the home, so that your intended victims got a heads-up on your intentions.
2:45 pm on May 8th, 2009
Obviously the gun saved the day but before people hold this up as a banner, keep in mind someone DID get injured in the crossfire. She’ll live but I imagine this would have had a different tune if she had died. If you’re going to have a gun for protection, make sure you know how to use it. Keep in mind many stories with this many people seldom end up like this.
2:58 pm on May 8th, 2009
Had she died, he would have still been praised for saving the lives of the other individuals involved. These kids were going to die that day had the one not intervened. There’s little doubt about that.
Looks like this kid DID know how to use it. He fatally wounded the bad guy without fatally wounding anyone else. You couldn’t get better out of a cop in most cases, given the close proximity.
As for the last sentence, I’m not sure what you mean by that. Hell, this is the second story in the last few months that features a gun owner neutralizing a gun-wielding threat to multiple people. It’s estimated that such gun owners prevent roughly 750,000 crimes annually in America.
This guy did good. Must we always attach strings to our praise?
4:15 pm on May 8th, 2009
Yea, what a decent ending to a story I like these kind of stories.
5:33 pm on May 8th, 2009
See, this is a good example of having a gun handy. I know we are talking about it on the other article, but just shows you being prepared is worth it. I am sure the guy thought he would never use it either, but as all that was going down, he knew, if I can just get my hand on my gun. It worked. In Texas, a lot of people have gun carry permits, and 50 percent of vehicles on the road have guns in them. It just make you wonder, who has one and who does not. My point is that people are less to start anything on the road. And here, well lets just say watching the news, its about 50/50 that the home invader gets the gun turned on him. It still happens here, but it does make them think before they bust the door down, is it worth my life.
6:11 pm on May 8th, 2009
fuck all those that want to take my guns away
6:15 pm on May 8th, 2009
yeah! 10 innocent dead instead of 1 injured, that would have been much better
WTF is wrong with some of you people?
6:18 pm on May 8th, 2009
Believe it or not, gun control supporters are not actually advocating going from house to house taking people’s guns.
You don’t have to support gun control or think it’s a good idea, but “taking people’s guns” is not the goal. Background checks, mandatory locks, removing gun-show loopholes, etc., but actually taking law-abiding citizen’s guns away? Not so much.
Like I said, you don’t have to agree with those goals, but to imply that gun-control advocates want to take your guns away is bordering on fear-mongering, NRA style.
BTW, I am not a strict gun-control adherent, I just don’t like to see the debate framed this way.
6:39 pm on May 8th, 2009
We agree again, whats going on. I think were more alike than we knew. I know I have mean in the past, but I think we got off to a bad start. I do enjoy reading your posts, even when we were not talking… Some times we will disagree, but I will be more about talking, than judging with you.
7:03 pm on May 8th, 2009
They have done it in California and New York, Veronica.
A Republican Attorney General named Dan Lundgren initially deemed SKS rifles with certain features “assault weapons”. They had to be registered. Understandably, many people that owned them did not register them. Then Mr. Lundgren announced an amnesty — all those scary icky SKS semiautomatic carbines could be registered with no penalty. Later, Mr. Lundgren reversed himself and sent letters to the registered owners of those firearms telling they had X days to turn them over to the police for destruction, sell them out of state, or remove them from the state.
In the mid 60s the mayor of New York City signed a bill into law requiring hunting rifles to be registered for police safety. In the mid 80s Mayor Dinkins, a Democrat, used those registration lists to confiscate those registered rifles from their lawful owners.
Sen. Boxer (D-CA) once said if she had had 51 votes in the Senate she would take away all guns in private hands.
It is happening. It will continue to happen until people deem Article II of the Bill of Rights to be as important as they do Articles I, IV, and V.
–Al
3:07 am on May 9th, 2009
Umm yea, no offense to this guy but most people aren’t as stupid as these two in announcing their intentions to murder everyone. Handguns for self-defense yes, but there is no need for automatic weapons in our society. Their only purpose is to kill and kill some more.
1:31 am on May 10th, 2009
CALVIN, it’s time to reKLEIN. <<<( Park your ass in style) They’ll be gentle in there if you make them your girlfriend.
7:29 pm on May 10th, 2009
I love a good story with a happy ending. Yea, for the college student
9:19 pm on May 11th, 2009
Funny how stories like this where a gun saves people is buried by the media, but when some whacko kills his family it’s national news and implied “if only he didn’t own a gun”…………
11:09 am on May 13th, 2009
You are forgetting that if the bad guys couldn’t buy guns, this crime wouldn’t have happened in the first place! Right? It’s too easy to get guns. Read a few stories right here about someone killing someone with a gun, or using a gun to force someone to do something. More times than not, being able to buy a gun caused a death of an innocent person. The illegal guns on the street were legally bought by someone. Only a few times out of many did having a gun prevent a crime. You can’t fight fire with fire.
9:07 am on May 14th, 2009
The Clinton Justice department found that personally-owned firearms were used 60,000 times a year to prevent crime. Mr. Clinton was certainly no fan of the personally-owned firearm, as is evinced by his signing the Brady Bill into law and by his administration’s strong-arming Smith + Wesson into a deal with the devil. His Justice Department, of course, reflected his biases and prejudices.
There were 20,000 murders a year with all instruments in the same timeframe.
Sir Geoff has the truth of it. The news media, simply, does not report cases wherein people use personal firearms in defense of self and others while they front-page criminal use of them and stir up controversy over whether people should be allowed to have them. Well-meaning people such as yourself, thinking they are well-informed, make the very argument you just made and for the same reason — you don’t have the facts you need to make an informed decision.
–Al
10:55 am on May 15th, 2009
You know what they say about statistics. I don’t know the time frame of that number, but try 651,697 in 18 years from ‘79 to ‘97. That’s 36,205 people a year!
Here’s some more:
More Americans were killed by guns than by war in the 20th Century.
More Americans were killed with guns in the 18-year period between 1979 and 1997 (651,697), than were killed in battle in all wars since 1775 (650,858). And while a sharp drop in gun homicides has contributed to a decline in overall gun deaths since 1993, the 90’s will likely exceed the death toll of the 1980s (327,173) and end up being the deadliest decade of the century. By the end of the 1990s, an estimated 350,000 Americans will have been killed in non-military-related firearm incidents during the decade.
Handgun Control 12/30/99 (Press release from CDC data)”
5 children were killed every day in gun related accidents and suicides committed with a firearm, from 1994-1998.
An average of 5 children were killed every day in gun related accidents and suicides committed with a firearm, from 1994-1998.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, National Injury Mortality Statistics, 1994-1998
And so on. Guns are meant to kill people. And that’s all they do.
http://www.stophandgunviolence.com/facts.asp
11:01 am on May 15th, 2009
I forgot to add… that’s 7,300 kids a year.
12:42 pm on May 15th, 2009
No; that’s 20,00 murders committed with baseball bats, kitchen knives, belts, shoelaces, tire irons, and any and all manner of implements people use as weapons against other people. See, that is why I specified “instruments”; I was looking at a whole lot broader span of devices than firearms.
Bill Clinton assumed the office of President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and vacated it on January 20, 2001, in accordance with the term of office set forth in the Constitution of the United States of America, as amended.
People in battles shoot guns at each other. Sometimes they call in artillery or air strikes as a force multiplier. Are you only counting those killed by means other than gunfire in the number of those killed in battle?
No; that’s 1825 a year. That is 1825 a year too many, but the answer is not to take guns away from people who store them securely and handle them safely.
–Al
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