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Jennie420

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I was reading a post by Morbid where he mentions Gary Plauche, the man who shot his son's attacker in a Baton Rouge, La airport in 1984. He recieved a suspended sentence and 5 years probation. He avenged his son and got away with it. The best part tho, is that it was caught on film. I'm posting the link so any of the demonites (who aren't familiar or haven't seen it) can enjoy how one man did what so many of us who read these children's horrible stories wish we could do.

Enjoy!

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from the link @Rouge provided:

This story melts my black heart <3
Gary Plauche will be remembered by many Americans as the Baton Rouge father who fatally shot his son’s alleged molester, a karate instructor, at the Metro Airport in 1984 — a killing caught on camera that produced national headlines even recently because of the vigilante nature of his actions.

[...]

will remember the man who died Tuesday as a kind, fun and loving family man — a husband, father and grandfather who relished cracking open crawfish shells and beer cans almost as much as he enjoyed cracking jokes.

Plauche, who had been dealing with lingering complications from a series of strokes he suffered several years ago, died early Tuesday morning at a Baton Rouge nursing home. He was 68.

“A lot of people remember the guy who shot somebody,” Gary Plauche’s son, Jody Plauche, said. “I remember someone who would pick up stray animals ... someone who was just a kind soul, a gentle person.”

Jody Plauche, the son his father killed for who has worked to raise awareness about sexual abuse as an adult, described his father as a relentless entertainer — a claim supported by other friends and family. Gary Plauche retained a sense of humor until the end of his life, playing dead in bed to spook his attendants at the nursing home where he lived.

[...]

And indeed he did on March 16, 1984.

Weeks earlier, Gary and June Plauche’s son Jody, 11 years old at the time, went missing. Authorities tracked him to a hotel room in California, where the boy was staying with his karate instructor, Jeffery Doucet.

[....]

On the plane ride back to Louisiana, after a grand jury indicted Doucet on a charge of aggravated kidnapping, Doucet confessed to molesting Jody Plauche and other children,

[...]

Barnett and another deputy, Bud Connor, who flew to California to apprehend Doucet, walked a handcuffed Doucet through the airport once they arrived in Baton Rouge. Unbeknownst to them, Barnett said, Gary Plauche stood nearby at a pay phone, talking to a longtime friend and wearing a ball cap and sunglasses.

“I’d known him most of his life,” Barnett said. “But I just didn’t recognize him when I walked past.”

[...]

Gary Plauche spun around and fired a single gunshot. The bullet struck Doucet in the head. He later died at a hospital.

The killing sparked debates across the country, and a heated murder trial followed. In 1985, Gary Plauche pleaded no contest to a manslaughter charge and received a suspended sentence of seven years in prison, five years of probation and hundreds of hours of community service.

Other than pre-trial jail time, Gary Plauche never spent time in prison for shooting Doucet.

[...]

Tony Marabella Jr., who served on Gary Plauche’s defense team and now sits on the bench as a judge in 19th Judicial District Court, described the 1984 incident and the waves it created as tragic for everyone involved, particularly the members of the Plauche and Doucet families.

“Many years later, it seems different now than it was then,” Marabella said. “It was a hardship on everybody back then.”

The judge in the case, Frank Saia, made a fair judgment based on the facts of the case, Marabella said.

[...]

By the time the trial ended and the hype died down, Gary Plauche went back to a semi-regular life.

Regular in the sense that he returned to work as a heavy equipment salesman during the day, volunteering in the evening to coach many of his kids’ sports teams.

Irregular in that he and his son, Jody, would make appearances on local and national news programs recounting the fateful events of 1984 until recently.

Just last year, both appeared in an ESPN special report titled “A Time To Kill: The Jody Plauche Story,” in which Gary Plauche said he didn’t regret shooting Doucet. He would do it again if he had to do it all over, he said.

“He did what he needed to do to protect his son,” said Metro Councilman John Delgado, a longtime friend of the Plauche family . “Gary was the kind of person who lived life without regrets.”

Delgado described Plauche as a father figure — a caring man who worked hard and loved deeply.

“I’m going to miss him greatly,” Delgado said. “I know I’m better off for having known him and having him in my life growing up.”

Jody Plauche, too, will miss his father.

“He was an entertainer. He liked to host,” Jody Plauche said. “He liked to make people happy. That was my dad.”

[...]


Here is the footage:
 
Ty for this; it was front page news yesterday. I watched this live back in '84. The case was well-known and there was a huge crowd, including a video camera feed. I watched the pervert walking, then a man (Plauche) pushed to the front of the crowd Perv was walking toward...BANG! One shot to the head. Nobody was even upset.
 
I had the pleasure of meeting Jody one time, a very long time ago. My ex was friends with him growing up. Rumor had it, the cops escorting the guy were well aware of Gary's presence. I don't know how true that is, but I would shake their hands for it. Because of his father, Jody appears to have grown up to be amazing man who didn't let it ruin his life.
that man risked everything to make sure his boy never had to share the same air as Doucet ever again.
 
:(I was just thinking about Gary and Jody the other day - I am sad to see he has died, but he will be remembered for being a good man and a great Father. I'll always hear that cop saying ' Why, Gary? Why!!?'

Gary made sure his son received justice and peace and he also saved future children from abuse. R.I.P .
 

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