HOUSE-ARREST DETAINEE SLAIN IN LANCASTER HOME; VICTIM'S FATHER SHOT TO DEATH AT SAME PLACE IN OCTOBER 1996.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Fifteen months after an aerospace worker was gunned down by someone trying to set fire to his son's car, the son was shot to death execution style inside the same house. Wearing an electronic house-arrest ankle bracelet after his October conviction for impersonating someone else, Mickel Stitt was found shot in the head and chest, sitting upright on a couch in the family den. ``I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. what he did wrong, but he was never a killer,'' said Eve Beaudoin, Stitt's mother, weeping weeping said of frozen meat on thawing; the fluid that runs away as thawing proceeds. It contains myoglobin, salts and protein and is fluid leaked from muscle fibers ruptured by the formation of crystals during the freezing stage. The amount of weeping, and it can represent 2. Tuesday over her son's death at the house she shared with him. ``To lose a son is worse than (losing) a husband.'' Though he was not found until Monday night, investigators believe the 20-year-old was killed around midnight Sunday, when neighbors reported hearing an argument and then gunshots. Stitt, father of an 11-month-old girl, was found dead shortly after 8 p.m. Monday by a friend who dropped by the house in the 2600 block of East Avenue J-10. His mother had been away in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Beaudoin believes her son was selling stolen property and possibly drugs from the home, and that he let whoever killed him into the house. ``If I was here, this wouldn't have happened,'' she said. ``I wouldn't allow them to come here. He was trying to make money while on house arrest.'' House arrest is form of punishment that confines con·fine v. con·fined, con·fin·ing, con·fines v.tr. 1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit. a person to his place of residence in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. going to prison or jail. The convicted person is monitored through a tracking device attached to an ankle. The Oct. 5, 1996, slaying of Stitt's father, a 49-year-old McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It merged with Boeing in 1997 to form The Boeing Company. machinist, has never been solved. James Beaudoin had moved his wife, son and granddaughter onto the quiet, tree-lined street - in a housing tract whose streets bear names like Quiet Way, Serenity Court and Harmony Way - 1-1/2 years earlier from Los Angeles. He had been standing outside their two-story home that night after taking out the trash. No one saw exactly what happened, but detectives believe Beaudoin was standing there when someone tried to set fire to his son's Chevrolet IROC IROC International Race Of Champions IROC Independent Rental Owners Council IROC Independent Rental Owners Committee IROC Instantaneous Rate of Change IROC Integrated Repair Operations Center (Sprint) IROC Intrusion-Resistant Optical Cable Camaro, parked in the driveway. Beaudoin confronted the would-be arsonist and was shot twice in the head. Neighbors saw a small, white car speeding away. A bullet hole from that slaying remains in a front window. Beaudoin said she believes gang members jealous of her son because of his fancy car killed her husband. She doesn't believe the same people killed her son. ``My son was no saint, but he was a human being,'' she said. ``He was a good-hearted person. Somewhere in life he took a bad turn.'' Court records indicate that Stitt had been arrested on two counts of burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. , grand theft, driving on a suspended license and speeding. He had pleaded no contest in October to a charge of false personation The crime of falsely assuming the identity of another to gain a benefit or avoid an expense. The crime of falsely assuming the identity of another person in order to gain a benefit or cause harm to the other person can be referred to as false personation or false , or posing as someone else. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Eve Beaudoin holds mementos as she weeps for her son, Mickel Stitt, found shot to death Monday night in their Lancaster home. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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