Dad arrested in shootout that injured 11-year-old daughter (Stedman, North Carolina)

Unfreaking believable. Dad JOHNNY WEST is a complete and total menace to society. This little girl is lucky she didn't get killed in this mess. Wonder where the mother is? No mention. Probably scared to death of this good ol' boy idiot.

INVISIBLE MOTHER ALERT: No mention of this girl having a mother here. This I can tell you this for sure. If a mother had pulled this stunt, it would have been all over the national media.

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2010/05/18/999792?sac=Home

Published: 06:07 AM, Tue May 18, 2010
Father arrested in shootout that injured girl

A staff report
STEDMAN - A Stedman man was charged Monday in connection with a weekend shooting that left his daughter seriously injured.

Johnny West, 35, of the 200 block of Euclid Street, was charged with felony child abuse, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and communicating threats, according to a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.

West, according to Debbie Tanna of the Sheriff's Office, went to a home on Mill Bay Drive on Saturday night to pick up his daughter.

James Flen Wilkes, 32, who lives on Mill Bay Drive, according to arrest warrants, saw West speeding through the neighborhood where other children were in the area and yelled at him to slow down.

West became angry and returned to the area with his two nephews and armed with a shotgun, according to arrest warrants, with the intent of confronting Wilkes.

Detectives, according to the arrest warrants, say West fired the weapon at Wilkes, who returned fire, striking West and his 11-year-old daughter.

West, according to Tanna, suffered a superficial wound to his arm; however, his daughter received the brunt of the gunfire and was seriously injured.

West received treatment for his wound at a nearby fire station and later went to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. His daughter was taken by medical personnel to the medical center. She remains in critical condition, Tanna said.

The girl's spleen was removed along with a portion of her stomach as a result of her wounds, according to arrest warrants.

Wilkes, who inadvertently shot the girl, will not be charged in the case, the spokeswoman said, because he was acting in self-defense on his property.

West was released from the Cumberland County Detention Center under a $28,000 bail. He is scheduled to make a first court appearance today at 2:30 p.m. in the detention center courtroom.