Death by pink gun! <woot!>

[lander]

Armed Beauty Queen Fatally Shoots Intruder in Florida Home Invasion

By Cristina Corbin
Published March 22, 2011
| FoxNews.com
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Florida beauty queen Meghan Brown, right, shot and killed an intruder with her pink .38-caliber handgun during a home invasion March 12 (FoxNews.com).

When a burly ex-convict forced his way into a posh Florida home last week, he had no idea what awaited him -- a 25-year-old beauty queen with a pink .38-caliber handgun.
Meghan Brown, a former Florida pageant queen, shot and killed 42-year-old Albert Franklin Hill during a home invasion March 12 at the 2,732-square-foot house she shares with her fiance in Tierra Verde, Fla.
Hill barged into the home at around 3 a.m. after Brown responded to a knock at the front door, according to a police report. He allegedly grabbed the 110-pound Brown around her nose and mouth and dragged her to an upstairs bedroom.
The woman’s fiance, Robert Planthaber, said in an interview that he was quickly awakened by the altercation and ran to Brown’s side.
"I attacked him and took a severe beating to the head," Planthaber told FoxNews.com. "But I got him off of her long enough for her to scramble to the room where she keeps her pink .38 special.”

Brown, who reigned as the 2009 Miss Tierra Verde, snatched her gun from a nearby bedroom and shot the suspect several times – hitting him in the chest, groin, thigh and back, her fiance said. Hill was pronounced dead at the scene.
Panthaber, a 42-year-old arborist, said he believes he and his fiancee were targeted because of their wealth. He claimed a pizza delivery man and possible accomplice staked out the home for three months before Hill attempted to burglarize it.
“We live in a very prominent area and my fiancee wears a $60,000 engagement ring,” he said. “The pizza man knew we had money because sometimes we needed change for a $100 bill when he came to deliver pizza.”
Hill had a criminal record stretching back nearly three decades -- including arrests for burglary, battery, drug possession and grand theft. He reportedly served a 13-year prison term in 1987 and was released in September after serving a fourth term behind bars.
Detectives with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Robbery/Homicide Unit are still investigating the crime but believe the motive was robbery, according to local press reports. They say they haven’t yet determined the relationship, if any, Hill had with the couple. A police report said the ex-convict demanded money before the altercation between Hill and Panthaber ensued.
Panthaber, meanwhile, said he and his fiancee are lucky to be alive. He said he purchased the pink handgun for Brown last Christmas and that the two had gone to target practice together.
“She was not a good shot at the range,” he quipped.



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I like the groin shot...I hope that hurt before he died. :thumbs:

[xXBUDXx]

Pics of pink gun? :waiting:

[Sea Six]

That's pretty good shooting, under stress conditions like that!

[khblair]

Girl power...and gun power-a great combination

[1911fool]

Girl power...and gun power-a great combination

great combo in this situation, kinda scary otherwise :D

[lander]

Pics of pink gun? :waiting:

http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww113/Landergeek/Jeep/906is3.jpg

[xXBUDXx]

http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww113/Landergeek/Jeep/906is3.jpg

:rofl:

[Jeff '79]

http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww113/Landergeek/Jeep/906is3.jpg

:rofl::rofl:.....:sheeprun::sheeprun::sheeprun::fruit::fruit:

[TexasBulldog]

Maybe a S&W

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but probably a Charter Arms

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[Y2Kvert4me]

The best part of the American Rifleman magazine is reading "The Armed Citizen" stories. :yesnod:


:cheers:

[Sea Six]

:yesnod:

[high desert]

Excellent! Good for her.

[Rotorhead]

great combo in this situation, kinda scary otherwise :D

:iagree: The monthly friend coming to visit would cause me to hide the gun. I've taught my wife to shoot deadly accurate with both handguns and my AR-15.

We all do dumb shit. :leaving:

[lspencer534]

:iagree: The monthly friend coming to visit would cause me to hide the gun. I've taught my wife to shoot deadly accurate with both handguns and my AR-15.

We all do dumb shit. :leaving:

:iagree: :leaving:

[JRD77VET]

:iagree: The monthly friend coming to visit would cause me to hide the gun. I've taught my wife to shoot deadly accurate with both handguns and my AR-15.

We all do dumb shit. :leaving:

I didn't have to teach my wife to shoot as I married the farmer's daughter. :D

The first time she shot my .45 ( 1911-A1 ) , I had one of those "bad guy" targets. She started at the groin and worked up the center, ending with the last two shots in the head.

She smiled and said "How's that?" :leaving:

[Blademaker]

The best part of the American Rifleman magazine is reading "The Armed Citizen" stories. :yesnod:


:cheers:

:iagree:

[xXBUDXx]

:iagree: The monthly friend coming to visit would cause me to hide the gun. I've taught my wife to shoot deadly accurate with both handguns and my AR-15.

We all do dumb shit. :leaving:

I once worked for a guy who left his ex-wife taking his entire firearm collection minus her favorite rifle. I asked him why didn't he take that too? He then showed me the firing pin from that rifle. :rofl:

[TexasBulldog]

Ooooooooo CHeck out this pic!

UPDATED Photo Meghan Brown and Bobby Planthaber Jr Defend Themselves From Home Invasion of Ex-Con Dirtbag Albert F. Hill With Deadly Force. « Bill Warner Sarasota Private Investigator 941-926-1926 mail [email protected] (http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/updated-photo-meghan-brown-and-bobby-planthaber-jr-defend-themselves-from-home-invasion-of-ex-con-dirtbag-albert-f-hill-with-deadly-force/)

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[Yamma]

Good for her!

[Datawiz]

Ooooooooo CHeck out this pic!

UPDATED Photo Meghan Brown and Bobby Planthaber Jr Defend Themselves From Home Invasion of Ex-Con Dirtbag Albert F. Hill With Deadly Force. « Bill Warner Sarasota Private Investigator 941-926-1926 mail [email protected] (http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/updated-photo-meghan-brown-and-bobby-planthaber-jr-defend-themselves-from-home-invasion-of-ex-con-dirtbag-albert-f-hill-with-deadly-force/)

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Hot chick!!! Good for her.

[Mark C5]

Am I the only one starting to get a hinky feeling about this?

[Uncle Pervey]

Am I the only one starting to get a hinky feeling about this?

Yes, probably so. The guy was a career criminal, he was in their residence. Was she stupid for opening the door at 3 AM, yes. Is she young and stupid, yes. Did they already know the guy? I don't know, the evidence is there, he was beating the shit out of her skinny assed BF. She shot him, case closed as far as I am concerned.
The dead guy was a waste of oxygen, we are all better off with him gone. :yesnod:

[Sea Six]

Am I the only one starting to get a hinky feeling about this?

What specifically do you think is hinky with this story?

[Uncle Pervey]

BTW, I've had several women claim I was killing them with my "pink gun" :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Mark C5]

What specifically do you think is hinky with this story?

3AM knock at the door and the woman answers it? Not in any house I lived in.

3AM knock at the door and you answer it unarmed? Again, not in any house I ever lived in.

The fiance is pushing pretty hard to implicate the pizza guy. Isn't that what the guilty guy does on all the cop shows?

The police investigating the connection between the bad guy and the couple? What makes them think there's a connection?

Sexy picture of her with the gun surfaces almost immediately?

I don't know, just get a feeling there's more to this story.

Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the bad guy. I'm a big believer in the Castle Doctrine.

[theriver]

Am I the only one starting to get a hinky feeling about this?

not the only one

shot with a PINK .38 special - Corvette Forum (http://forums.corvetteforum.com/off-topic/2801164-shot-with-a-pink-38-special.html)

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[1911fool]

Interesting what pewter had to say...or didn't say.

[BADRACR1]

I can imagine the converstaion at the Gates now:
Peter: "How'd you die?"
Dead guy: "I was bustin' in this crib, ya know, figurin' I was gonna rob them people and maybe rape the beotch. She was hawt! I'll be damned if she didn't shoot me with a pink .38!"
Peter: "Yep. You'll be damned. Straight to hell!":flush:

[FasterTraffic]

Panthaber, a 42-year-old arborist, said he believes he and his fiancee were targeted because of their wealth. He claimed a pizza delivery man and possible accomplice staked out the home for three months before Hill attempted to burglarize it.

“We live in a very prominent area and my fiancee wears a $60,000 engagement ring,” he said. “The pizza man knew we had money because sometimes we needed change for a $100 bill when he came to deliver pizza.”

Translation: "I'm a pretentious douchebag."

[1911fool]

If he knew they were staking out the place, why didn't he.....oh many, many questions are still unanswered.

[Kerrmudgeon]

did the world a favor, thank-you darlin...:stickemup:...:thumbs:

[Petew1971]

Ooooooooo CHeck out this pic!

UPDATED Photo Meghan Brown and Bobby Planthaber Jr Defend Themselves From Home Invasion of Ex-Con Dirtbag Albert F. Hill With Deadly Force. « Bill Warner Sarasota Private Investigator 941-926-1926 mail [email protected] (http://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/updated-photo-meghan-brown-and-bobby-planthaber-jr-defend-themselves-from-home-invasion-of-ex-con-dirtbag-albert-f-hill-with-deadly-force/)

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Id hammer that bootay

[RedLS1GTO]

he was quickly awakened by the altercation and ran to Brown’s side.

He claimed a pizza delivery man and possible accomplice staked out the home for three months before Hill attempted to burglarize it.

my fiancee wears a $60,000 engagement ring,” he said. “The pizza man knew we had money because sometimes we needed change for a $100 bill when he came to deliver pizza.”

police report said the ex-convict demanded money before the altercation between Hill and Panthaber ensued.


:skep:

He was asleep when the girl answered the door at 3 in the morning? No f'n way. If that part is true and he was asleep, how did the guy ask for money before the altercation when it was the altercation that woke him up??

Finally, if I am going to break into a house where I know there are multiple people (supposedly he was the pizza guy, and knew) why the hell would he drag her upstairs where the other person was??

There is definitely something that doesn't add up.

Translation: "I'm a pretentious douchebag."

I don't even know the guy and I want to kick his ass.

[RedLS1GTO]

I'm sure she's with him for love... not the $60k ring. :rolleyes:

My guess... she was banging the convict pizza guy.

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[Mark C5]

supposedly he was the pizza guy, and knew why the hell would he drag her upstairs where the other person was??



The bad guy wasn't the pizza guy. The DB fiance is trying his best to implicate the pizza guy as the guy who "cased the joint" for the bad guy. According to all the cop shows guilty people will often point the finger at anyone just to throw the police off of them.

[Yerf Dog]

There's some hink there.

[w!ngnut]

Good for her for having the presence of mind and courage to do this. My wife's .38 isn't pink but I hope she would do the same should some knucklehead ever break in on her.

*edit* Well I guess it pays to actually read the whole story and thread :lol:because I didn't realize she answered the door at 3 am unarmed while the bf was still asleep ? That WON'T ever happen at my house...I would be the one answering the door and if I wasn't actually holding one of my pistols...it would be real close by. :D

[khblair]

Good for her for having the presence of mind and courage to do this. My wife's .38 isn't pink but I hope she would do the same should some knucklehead ever break in on her.

*edit* Well I guess it pays to actually read the whole story and thread :lol:because I didn't realize she answered the door at 3 am unarmed while the bf was still asleep ? That WON'T ever happen at my house...I would be the one answering the door and if I wasn't actually holding one of my pistols...it would be real close by. :D

i want to know why he would even LET her go answer the door at 3am?
nothing good happens with a knock on the door at 3am and he should have been the man and answered it ARMED himself. something is odd with that story

[Mark C5]

i want to know why he would even LET her go answer the door at 3am?
nothing good happens with a knock on the door at 3am and he should have been the man and answered it ARMED himself. something is odd with that story

:iagree: Who did she think it was, Publishers Clearing House?

[khblair]

:iagree: Who did she think it was, Publishers Clearing House?

maybe he was trying to have her knocked off?

[RedLS1GTO]

The bad guy wasn't the pizza guy. The DB fiance is trying his best to implicate the pizza guy as the guy who "cased the joint" for the bad guy. According to all the cop shows guilty people will often point the finger at anyone just to throw the police off of them.

Gotcha... either way. It doesn't add up at all.

[Mark C5]

maybe he was trying to have her knocked off?

I don't know, sounds more like a drug deal gone bad to me.

[w!ngnut]

i want to know why he would even LET her go answer the door at 3am?
nothing good happens with a knock on the door at 3am and he should have been the man and answered it ARMED himself. something is odd with that story

You've got that right !!

:iagree: Who did she think it was, Publishers Clearing House?


:rofl: No kidding

maybe he was trying to have her knocked off?


Humm...if he's the beneficiary on any of her insurance policies...rut roe...let's look a little further. :waiting:

[Bucwheat]

It was the pink 38 that scared him to death,no GSW visable.