Arkansas Man Shoots At Possible Murder Suspects… With An Airsoft Gun

By Bob Owens

Even with the help of the book, I can’t.

A resident says he tried to stop the people who shot and killed a 36-year old man in a Clayton County apartment.

Police found the man’s body at the Overlook Apartments in Jonesboro Thursday night.

Jacob Kervin says he heard the gunshots, then noticed young people running so he drew his airsoft gun.

“Gunshots happened, the kids had pole-vaulted off of the back porch 7 foot, 8 foot drop, ran at me,” Kervin said. “I shot off four rounds, might have missed because it didn’t do anything to them. I ran a few feet, they slid under the dumpster where’s there is a rain ditch.”

Kervin says he later discovered his neighbor dead. He believes it was a home invasion.

Let me restate that, as much out of my own sense of amazement as anything else.

Mr. Kervin was (presumably) busy grading his favorite flavors of paint chips when he heard gunshots and saw people running from the direction of the gunshots. His immediate reaction was to draw his airsoft gun at these people fleeing a shooting and point it at them.

He then opens fire on “kids” running at him (or at least in his general …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms