Gold & Silver Forum - Shotgun trumps pistols

Home invasion by three armed men, pistol whipped a 21yr. man.
Roomate waits in a bedroom with a shotgun... Shotgun trumps pistols!!
This happened early Wed. Morning near where I live in South Carolina.
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M.L. Anderson JESSICA L De VAULT, Staff Writer
Published September 1, 2006

Invading a home in the wee hours of the morning.
Pistol-whipping a man, and then firing a handgun.
Marshall E. Anderson says these aren't the actions of the sons he raised. The father of Travis and Marshall Leshun Anderson said Thursday night that he wants to know more about the circumstances surrounding his children's violent deaths.
"I raised my boys differently than this," the father said, during a phone interview. "People make mistakes but it's not in their nature to do something like this."
About 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, the Anderson brothers and their friend, 21-year-old Nicholas Oglesby, barged into the small home at 76 Lawrence St. in Lyman, armed with handguns, police say.
Once inside, one of the Andersons whipped one of the home's residents, 21-year-old Lee Timothy Freeman, with a pistol, according to police incident reports. Upon hearing the commotion, William Rodney Thomas, Freeman's 21-year-old roommate, grabbed the shotgun in his bedroom. When Travis Anderson opened the bedroom door, Thomas opened fire.
Travis Anderson, 21, was shot in the chest. His 28-year-old brother followed and was shot in the right arm, according to police reports.
In the end, Travis and Marshall LeShun Anderson were found lying in a huddled heap on the back steps of the home. Travis died at the scene. Marshall, found lying on top of his brother and bleeding to death, died later that morning at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.
Police say Thomas will not be charged because he was defending his home. Efforts to reach Freeman, Thomas or either of their families proved unsuccessful Thursday.
What's unclear to the Anderson brothers' father is why his sons were in that home in the first place.
"But if my boys did this on a vindictive, revenge-type thing I can accept that."
"We've come to the conclusion that they must of have had an altercation with one or two of those guys at some point and that caused them to do what they did," Marshall E. Anderson said. "According to the Lyman detective, they didn't recover any drugs, they didn't see anything in the house that was worth stealing."
Even if Freeman and Thomas owned valuable items, Marshall E. Anderson said his boys would never have a need to steal.
"My boys had everything. LeShun had two vehicles, a condo... Travis, had a computer and was a student in college," the father said. "They had everything they needed, they're not wanting for anything. I work, I provide for my family, my wife works. So we ruled out those two things, so it had to be some kind of altercation."
If his sons did get in a fight with Freeman and Thomas, Marshall E. Anderson said he wonders whether they all knew one another.
Travis Anderson was a receiver for the Byrnes High School football team and was named to the North-South all-star game prior to his senior season in 2001. He's played for Gardner-Webb University and Newberry College.
Marshall LeShun Anderson was married with two sons. He attended Benedict College and the University of South Carolina Upstate and was a member of Army Reserves, according to his family. His father described him as a straight arrow.
Neither of the brothers had criminal records.
'The wrong thing'
Oglesby, the brothers' friend who police say carried a .357 caliber handgun to the home Wednesday morning, had known the brothers since they were children.
Oglesby was the only man charged in the incident. He says his friends "got wrapped up in the wrong thing" and that nothing was taken in the incident because "it didn't get that far."
Sitting in a cell at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility, Oglesby says he's still grappling with the incident and the negative light in which he believes his friends have been cast.
"I'm just trying to keep my head clear," Oglesby said, casting his eyes down. "Just trying to pull my friends out that house at the (brink) of death..."
He shifted in his chair uneasily.
"They didn't fire no shots first," he said. "If they did, I wasn't aware of it."
After Thomas shot the brothers, incident reports state Oglesby ran into the bedroom and fired his weapon.
Police say Oglesby tried to drive from the scene but was apprehended. He is charged with assault with intent to kill, aggravated assault and battery and burglary.
Since he's facing charges in connection with Wednesday's incident and awaiting a trial in Greenville County in connection with criminal domestic violence and second-degree burglary charges, Oglesby remained hesitant to divulge details about Wednesday's invasion.
He maintains he had nothing to do with the shooting.
"I think its way blown out of proportion," he said. "It's big because two people died. But my friends died, my family."
Good people, bad decisions
It still takes Marshall E. Anderson aback when he thinks about what his sons may have done. He said he's willing to accept the truth, whatever that may be.
"Good people sometimes make bad decisions, and my boys are good people," the father said. "If they were wrong they paid the ultimate price, but if they went up there, were invited in, it's a whole other scenario you can come up with."