A Florida man is alive today thanks to a quick-thinking youth who used a firearm to put an end to an attack on his uncle.
The incident occurred in Cape Coral, Florida, located in Lee County on the Gulf of Mexico. The ninth most populous city in the state, Cape Coral was rated as one of the Safest Cities in America by WalletHub in 2023.
Still, the city of about 200,000 has some bad guys, which often requires good guys to keep them in line. Such was the case on August 13 when, according to reports, 55-year-old Norbert Mess Jr. got in a physical altercation with his girlfriend.
According to police, the fight occurred at the woman’s home, where her juvenile son was also located. Police haven’t released his name because he is under 18 years old.
The woman called her brother for help, and he went to the home to try and diffuse the situation a bit. But when the brother arrived, Mess, who was waiting outside with brass knuckles and a solid wooden rod, began beating up the brother, who was also the boy’s uncle.
According to officers at the scene, the boy ran into the house, grabbed a gun, came back out and pointed it at Mess in an attempt to discourage him from continuing the attack. Undeterred, Mess continued to beat on the boy’s uncle.
That’s when the young boy fired at least eight shots, killing his uncle’s attacker and putting an end to the bad situation.
“At that point, the son was in fear for his uncle’s life,” police said. “All parties involved cooperated with the investigation and detectives determined that the son shot Norbert Mess in self-defense to protect his mother and uncle from serious bodily injury or death. No charges will be filed.”
According to media reports, police are continuing to investigate and gather evidence in the attack.
Because of the domestic nature of the case, officers have not revealed the son’s age. But regardless of how old he was, his quick thinking and ability to access a gun saved the life of his uncle and possibly also his mother.
I feel sorry for the boy. He now has to live with the burden of killing, despite it being a necessary action given the circumstances.
That said, the idiot Mess made his last poor decision and if we looked closer, I would wager that he has made many VERY poor decisions in his life.
I agree. Even though, if the people around you do not accuse you, but rather thank you for what you did, that can help go on.
It was an extreme decision, but it was a good one in this case. That will help a bit.
I pray for that guy.
Teach your kids to love justice.
“That’s when the young boy fired at least eight shots …”
LOL! I’d love to see that set to Benny Hill music.
yackety sax
There are hundreds of events over time where a kid used a gun to defend another and saved them from what most likely would have been certain death or very serious injury … but here are a few examples aside from the one in this article > https://lawnews.tv/examples-of-kids-using-guns-to-defend-themselves/
Another strange story; police cleared the shooting as self defense but have divers searching the water behind the house.
Obviously the mother made a very bad choice for a boyfriend. And probably there wasn’t any love loss between the boyfriend and son. The family has been unburdened by what has been…cackle, cackle.
Maybe he tossed the gun back there.
or maybe she tossed the previous boy friend in there 😁
Alcohol? Meth? Marijuana?
Demon’s🙄😧
Sorry I did forget that one. A very real possibility.
One often begets the other and real or figurative it’s still a painful thing to watch.
Mandatory safe gun storage would probably have changed the outcome of this story.
Yes, and for the worse.
Breakups can be a Mess.
He done Messed himself.
The mother made a series of bad choices the and that boy will have to sleep with them every night for the rest of his life.
That boy will probably sleep through the night now not having to worry every noise outside is mom’s boyfriend looking for a way into the home.
This.
Yes, probably, but also there will probably be an adjustment period to the realities of the world we live in.
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
― G.K. Chesterton”
To paraphrase G.K. Chesterton in this context … We don’t need to tell kids monsters exist for kids already know monsters exist. What we need to tell them is how to defeat or kill those monsters.
The Main Stream Media Lies…nuff said.
began beating up the [boy’s mother’s] brother, who was also the boy’s uncle.
You don’t say!
Snicker
Yeah, my mind hung on that for a moment, looking for the disclaimer, “This will be a trick question on the upcoming test”.
Mom caused this with her boyfriend of the month. Where’s his dad?
I read about this on another news site, ConcealedNation.com, the kid didn’t just shoot eight times, he landed eight shots on the perp, who then stumbled off and died.
Like another said, this kid has to live with that, so I hope he gets help (I had a 23 yr old neighbor shot to death on my front lawn in a targeted hit; that messes you up and it didn’t even happen to me).
What I’d like to know is… since the anti-gun groups and anti-gun people say they are all about supposedly saving lives, why they don’t celebrate the hundreds of thousands of lives saved every year by defensive gun use?
You notice in this incident and those hundreds of thousands of others every year where defensive gun use saved lives, even from would be or actual mass/active shooters, not once did any member of any anti-gun group or any anti-gun person show up to save these people but defensive gun use did. Like in this incident there is a notable absence of these anti-gun when it came time for needed defense.
Its rare a defensive gun use makes the news. Sometimes if there is something unique/sensational or political about it they do make the news. And even if not something unique/sensational or political about it they will sometimes rarely appear in localize area news but mostly they don’t there either but the ones that do appear are never really known outside of the readers/viewers of that localized news so on a quantifiable national level the hundreds of thousands every year remain unknown to the public.
I’ve spoken with TV news people and journalists over time, my wife’s profession as a free lance journalist and researcher allows me access to them at times. Most I’ve encountered have been told specifically not to cover any defensive gun uses, and told me of their corporate overlords edicts that defensive gun use stories are a no-no.
And no government agency specifically tracks such defensive gun use preferring to track pain and misery of violence so that’s all the public ever sees in their ‘stats’ that are mostly manipulated by the filtering conditions the government places on them to determine what goes in them or not, things like if its ‘trans’ it doesn’t get included or if its a case where there is not yet an arrest or conviction it doesn’t get included, and the list goes on and on for whats not included. And they even let anti-gun groups remove from government sources the studies that show these defensive gun uses exist.
Its one of the biggest coverup deceptions in history by the democrat politicians and these anti-gun groups and un-elected people behind the scenes given power of elected officials they use to create government policy to disarm Americans and slowly strip away all of our constitutional rights. Its a deception perpetrated upon the public, a smoke screen, the Wizard of Oz protocol of ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ and believe what they say, all these prohibitions and infringements and ‘gun free zones’ that have been proven to do nothing except embolden and attract criminals and mentally-ill killers and all this levied against law abiding Americans because criminals don’t obey laws. For example, there is not even one mass shooting that was prevented by a ‘no guns allowed’ sign but there were plenty of defenseless disarmed law abiding people that were disarmed by that sign giving them zero chance of survival. Then the anti-gun have the nerve to celebrate disarming those victims by that sign claiming its going to make people safe, and cheering the police response as ‘saving lives’ when they showed up after the fact of injury and death after that defense was needed in that imminent moment. Gun free zones are nothing more than a trap, an officially created ‘kill/injury zone’, that specifically is intended to make the people in that zone defenseless against the criminals and mentally ill killers that are specifically attracted to those zones because its more likely people are disarmed and defenseless in those zones.
All put in place by the agenda of the anti-gun to ensure eventually as many as possible are killed or injured by the very chaos these create. While they claim it doesn’t exist by using crime rates that do not show the true higher crime rate the democrats intentionally created with their ‘policy’s’. Eventually to create a subservient population that will cry out “Government! save us!”, a population that will not realize how duped they were as they surrendered their rights to the will of the state.
Just the sheer numbers of hundreds of thousands of valid defensive gun uses every year that reside in police reports all across the nation should give people a clue that the crime rate is a lot higher than the government or these anti-gun people claim. A vast majority of crimes do not appear in FBI data crime stats these democrat politicians and anti-gun people like to point to to shore up their claims.
But the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has a lot of victims of these crimes that do not appear in these FBI crime stats the democrat politicians and anti-gun people like to point to to shore up their claims, and a lot of these were defensive gun uses. But this survey alone should give people a clue the crime rate is a lot higher than what democrat politicians and anti-gun people say, yet when this is bought up its always the left wing and anti-gun people claiming its not real, that’s not the ‘official’ numbers – its the typical left wing Wizard of Oz protocol invoked ‘pay not attention to the man behind the curtain’ and listen to us instead and ‘gun violence’ is our number one problem, an epidemic, so lets ban guns as they don’t tell you that other-weapon use outnumber gun use in crimes 1,000:0.5 (like in this incident, the perpetrator used brass knuckles and a solid wooden rod).
Even the sheer numbers of domestic violence and sexual assault alone should give people a clue the crime rate is a lot higher than then what the democratic politicians claim as a reduction in crime supposedly due to their ‘policy’s’. Its a lie, they are lying to the public.
Yes, you need a gun – not only to defend yourself from the criminals and mentally ill killers the anti-gun agenda is intentionally creating, but soon you will need it to protect yourself from a tyrannical government also if a democrat administration continues.
What I’d like to know is… since the anti-gun groups and anti-gun people say they are all about supposedly saving lives, why they don’t celebrate the hundreds of thousands of lives saved every year by defensive gun use?
You notice in this incident and those hundreds of thousands of others every year where defensive gun use saved lives, even over time from would be or actual mass/active shooters, not once did any member of any anti-gun group or any anti-gun person show up to save these people but defensive gun use did. Like in this incident there is a notable absence of these anti-gun when it came time for needed defense.
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