(NC) Father kills man after alleged attacks with bat

[Drizzt]

Father kills man after alleged attacks with bat

Police: Dad, daughter were assaulted before her boyfriend was shot

NICHOLE MONROE BELL
Staff Writer

ROCK HILL - A Rock Hill man fatally shot his daughter's boyfriend Wednesday morning after the boyfriend allegedly beat the father with a bat and threatened to kill his daughter, police said.

About 7 a.m., Maurice Robinson, 21, of 450 Blake St., showed up at Edward Dixon's home on Brice Street in southern Rock Hill. According to police, once Robinson was inside the house, he began hitting Dixon with a baseball bat.

Dixon's 21-year-old daughter, April Dixon, returned home during the assault. Police said Robinson confronted her outside and began hitting her with the bat. Lt. Les Herring said Robinson dragged April Dixon into a neighbor's yard and threatened to kill her.

Police said that's when Edward Dixon emerged from the home with a shotgun. He fired once into Robinson's upper body, killing him.

Police said it may be several days before they decide whether to press charges against Dixon . Herring said officers were waiting for an autopsy to be completed.

The Dixons were taken to Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill for treatment of their injuries. Edward Dixon suffered head injuries, while his daughter suffered injuries to her head and shoulder. They were discharged from the hospital later in the day, a hospital official said.

Wednesday's incident occurred while Robinson was out on bail on charges he assaulted his 69-year-old grandfather and 62-year-old grandmother in December, according to police records.

In that incident, Robinson's grandfather reported that Robinson jumped on him and repeatedly punched him in the face. The report said Robinson hit his grandmother in the arm as he left the home. The grandparents reported that Robinson had a metal bat in that incident, but it was unclear whether he used it.

Reached at Robinson's home Wednesday, a woman who identified herself as Robinson's mother declined to comment. The Dixons could not be reached.


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That daughter needs to find a better class of boyfriend.....

 

[Blackhawk]

Police said it may be several days before they decide whether to press charges against Dixon . Herring said officers were waiting for an autopsy to be completed.

After the autopsy, they can be pretty sure he's dead so they can better figure out where to go from there....

 

[BerettaNut92]

How about "Father allegedly kills man after attacks with bat"?

 

[WonderNine]

Nice shot!

 

[Jim V]

I wonder how soon it will be before the relatives of Robinson start saying, "He didn't have to kill Maurice, he could have just shot him in the legs or arm or something."?

While I am sorry for Mr. Dixon since he had to shoot Robinson, I am not going to lose one bit of sleep over the fact that once more there has been a little chlorine added to the pool.

 

[Standing Wolf]

After the autopsy, they can be pretty sure he's dead so they can better figure out where to go from there....

I have a hunch the toxicology report may run to more than a sentence or two.

 

[DeltaElite]

Now that's Justice.
I hope they don't indict him.

 

[m.i.sanders]

Sounds to me like Mr. Dixon could just use the "he needed killin" reson to me. If you someone's attacking you and yours, I think it should be open season.

 

[Col. Mustard]

Dateline, Rock Hill

At the risk of picking geographical nits, Rock Hill is in South Carolina, across the border from Charlotte, NC.

Just to set the record more or less straight... :

 

[Drizzt]

When the abused fight back, I have to cheer

Yes, killing is wrong, but sometimes you just get fed up with abuse

TONYA JAMESON

You may have missed the news brief last week about a Rock Hill dad who fatally shot his daughter's ex-boyfriend. The boyfriend had attacked the father and daughter with a baseball bat and threatened to kill the daughter.

I've written about too many women who faced rampaging boyfriends and husbands and didn't survive. I'm glad this woman did, but this is a story that tears at my conscience. The loss of a life is unfortunate, but the 21-year-old Rock Hill woman's survival makes me pump my fist in triumph. Better him than her.

I know killing is wrong, but when I read about this woman's ordeal, I thought about my Aunt Shirley, my childhood friend Rena and all other women who have been terrorized by an abusive partner. I am sick of domestic violence. I am sick of the marches and vigils. I am sick of women being branded victims and survivors because they happened to hook up with husbands and boyfriends who wound up treating them like punching bags.

The same culture that allows artists, such as Eminem, to make millions off misogynist lyrics while domestic violence programs go underfunded inadvertently permits many males to feel entitled to rape, assault and kill women. This creates an atmosphere that leaves me feeling little pity for a guy who used a bat on his ex-girlfriend. I feel worse about my own callousness than I do about his death.

Unfortunately, I'm not alone. I've shared this story with several friends who feel the same way. We are tired of reading about, hearing about or knowing women who've been pummeled by guys. And it never seems to end.

The same day the Rock Hill dad killed his daughter's ex-boyfriend, another Rock Hill man was accused of shooting his estranged wife.

Of the 67 homicides last year in Mecklenburg County, 11 involved domestic violence. Of those, at least seven women filed charges and got protection orders. Those efforts didn't save their lives.

April Dixon is alive. She's a domestic violence statistic, but fortunately she's not a fatality.

Here's what went down: About 7 a.m. last Wednesday, Rock Hill police say, Maurice Robinson, 21, showed up at Dixon's home with a baseball bat. When her dad opened the door Robinson attacked him with the bat.

Dixon arrived a few minutes later. She heard banging in the house, she said. She unlocked the door. Furniture lay smashed in the front room. Robinson stepped from behind the door. He hit her several times in the head with the bat. She fell. She tried to run, but he was on her. He dragged her into the yard and kept beating her.

At some point he dropped the weapon and grabbed her by the throat. Her 57-year-old dad staggered onto the front porch with a gun. His jaw and arm were broken. Robinson yelled, "I'm a snap her (expletive) neck." Her dad fired.

"He saved my life," Dixon said. "If he wasn't there, I'd be dead. I have bumps and bruises myself, but we're still here."

Rock Hill police are investigating the shooting. An S.C. law allows the use of deadly force to protect your life or that of another, said Detective Marc Kitts. When the attack on the Dixons occurred, Robinson was out on bail following December charges that he repeatedly punched his 69-year-old grandfather and hit his 62-year-old grandmother, who raised him, Kitts said.

Dixon said Robinson didn't show any signs of the typical abuser during their month-long courtship. He never physically or verbally attacked her. The only warning sign was a couple of weeks ago. She had broken up with him. She went to his cousin's place in Charlotte, where he had been staying, to get her stuff.

He snatched her keys and refused to let her leave, she said. Dixon demanded the keys and told him to keep her stuff. He got a knife from the kitchen and slit his wrist, she said. Dixon drove him to the hospital.

"I wasn't going to let him bleed to death," she said.

Kitts says Robinson spent a few days in a Charlotte mental health facility after his grandparents said he drank ammonia. He was released Jan. 19. Mental health advocates will probably say Robinson was unstable. They would probably tell me that I should be more sympathetic to his illness.

I don't care. I've got an uncle and cousin living with mental illnesses, but they don't use their wives and girlfriends for batting practice. Besides, Robinson wasn't beating himself with a bat. He wasn't squeezing his own throat screaming, "I'm a snap my (expletive) neck."

It gnaws at my soul, but I'm glad April Dixon's dad was there.

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