There goes the neighborhood.

This town hasn't been unique in quite some time! This is what I have been saying all along folks........wake up and smell what's brewing here in Sunnyvale Falmouth!! This town has issues! It's been this way since I was a boy and struggled to make friends. It is time for vigilante justice if our community is going to be held hostage by these punks. It sickens me to see what is going on here........perhaps it is time for my to go driving around with my mace and show who the real tough guy is. It's time for this town to standup to the scum of the earth and play a game of Truth or Dare.......we shall see who will be standing at the end of this game. I dare these punks to walk the same side of the street as me! Justice! JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!! Release their names!

Theres alot more going on that people don't hear about,it's kinda scary!

i know one of the kids, & they werent a bad kid at all, jus hung out with the wrong people at the wrong time. everyone knows falmouth has issues & drugs, just like any other town in thid country. but just because we may put ourselves around the people that have issues or do drugs does not makr us wrong or different or mean we should be treated differently. were all human, NONE of us are perfect, & we all make mistakes.

I'm sorry........I respectfully do not agree entirely with your comment suzie cue! Sure, we all make mistakes.......but when a human being is shot multiple times in their home, that argument goes out the window.

See, in my opinion, that is the problem.........everyone wants to justify everything. "This happens everywhere", "we all make mistakes", or my personal favorite, "he/she is a good person". When do we ever hear that those that commit crimes are bad people? Do we ever? Perhaps those that are closest to our criminals are the most blind to their behaviour......

The bottomline is we will never know what goes on in the mind of others and we should stop making excuses for them. Take my former friend Jerry.......he had an affair with my ex-wife........should I just dimiss this behaviour and say "well, we are human, we all make mistakes" and pretend this never happened? I think not......

Mike you hit the nail on the head! Pricnciples values and respect which sadly dont exist anymore. My son is in second grade and I see the way the kids treat the teachers- absolutely no respect. It is despicable the fish rots from the head and I dont care what you say most behaviors are learned at home!!!!!!

actually you should, because thats between him & his ex wife. & how do you know he wasnt shot in the heat of the moment? or that whoever shot him was on drugs. ONE person shot him not all.

exactly, most behaviors are learned at home, so you cant blame teenagers for something they learned from their parents & everyones entitled to theor own opinion& i didnt commet my opinion to have everyone "attack" me & im not gonna argue with people over opinions.

read the headline that says "connected to the shooting" theres nothing that says they were all involved in pulling that trigger, most were accessories, one pulled the trigger.

none of this has anything to do with drugs or hanging out with the wrong people, it has to do with an abusive household and someone doing the only thing they knew how to do to resolve the issue, so people need to check their facts when it comes to situations like this. don't believe all the hearsay, and just because they're young doesn't mean it has to do with drugs.

Does this mean my house's assessed value will go down again? This should reduce my property taxes again. Cool! Meet you all at the assessors office tomorrow.

This town is getting SO ghetter! Does anyone know how the man that was shot doing?

I grew up in a house where my mom used to get her ass beat every night sometimes I wish I had a gun as well. Anybody thats calkng this kid a bad person must of never wittnessed an abbusive relationship or never been in one them selves. I'm not saying the kid was right for shooting the man but I tip my hat off to him for sticking up for his mother. It just sucks cuz now he might spend the rest of his life in jail. My heart goes out to his mother. God is good he just works in mysterious ways. Peace love and happiness God bless to u all

This was not a random act nor a drug deal gone bad. I knew of this family. There was abuse...an awful situation. ...please dont judge until you have the facts. Its a terrible tragedy that shouldnt have happened to ANY of them!

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This isn't the first brush with the law for some of them, so the GOOD kid role went out the window.Back in my day we used fists,today your not tuff without a gun. we should take all these lil Cape Cod punks an drop them in Dorchester and see how GANSTA they are, or better IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN where the real tuff guys are!!!!!

Whu soes everyone insist it had to do w drugs? Because they grew up in a poor househole and by racial peofiling? If anyone witnessed sum pink beating up there mother.. Anyone w protective tendencies would take acrion to stop it in anyway possible. You guys have no room to talk and gossip on a situation that prolly 95% of u dnt even kno the GIST of the situatipn. Id like to ask everyone of u... Wat would you do if u saw sumone beating your mother...

OK, here it is folks..........all of you people that are sticking up for these goons think again! If he truly got caught up in the minute in protecting his mother, than why did he run? If she was in danger and he was defending her, why run around town all day and hide? If he is so noble that he was his mom's only line of defense from such an animal, then why run? Someone..........please answer this for me? Almost sounds premeditated in my opinion.......and yes, you are correct, I don't have all the facts. No one does except for those involved so don't try to play this high, almight "you don't know the truth" card when you don't either. To shoot someone and then run is cowardly, and these kids were old enough to know right from wrong. Go ahead and keep covering up for the fact there are a lot of bad parents out there that enable weeds to grow in our community. Go ahead, furnish them alcohol, drugs, allow these kids to do as they please........what kidn of people do you think they will grow into! Sharon has been hitting the nail right on the head!

This was much more than a random shooting. Do any of your remember the Halloween 2010 stabbing of an unconscious Fall River man on 23 Homestead. The names in that stabbing ... Fernandes, the then-14 year old son of Gaspa, Mr. Boyle. Just 18 months ago. These punks need to be taken off the street.

And to all of you sticking up for this guy, a quick google search will show this wasn't his first brush with the law........apparently he has a penchant for stabbing people while they are unconscious.......put him in jail!

http://m.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101120/NEWS/11200319/-1/WAP09&template=wapart&m_section=

Someone, go ahead, justify his actions to me again.........please.......I DARE YOU!

Mike S. You are Soooo right . What the heck is wrong with these people trying to justify this shooting. If this was to protect his mom them why run? I'll tell you , he has a history of this behavior . Is every one of his "friends" as brilliant as this Mensa member lol ? One would have thought his first thought would have to get his mom out of the home while his cohort called the police. 911 is not a hard number to remember . Who owned the gun? He had time to get a gun, take aim w/out hitting his mom and run away after the fact and you know he dialed someone too bad it wasn't the police.

I am unhappy thinking about the $ those thugs cost me as a tax payer with their antics.

How much do you think an hours long man hunt by a swat team costs? Let alone the court costs.... The perps should have to work it off, preferably doing something productive....work in a sewage plant...?

I'm not buying the defense tactic. The guy was sitting in a chair unarmed. Plus the thug took off after. The guy who got shot may be a wife beater, but that's what the police are for.

I am wondering where someone w/his and his step fathers history get a gun . I can not fathom either one of these people had a permit. Don't get me wrong , I believe in legitimate gun ownership. I'm sure it's hard to charge the three who aided him because that is hard to prove (even though anyone with a glimmer of intelligence knows they did). It must irk law enforcement when they get these punks and their hands are tied! Goodness they do not get paid enough! This kid wouldn't want me on the jury!

According to what I've read. I don't understand how this is self defense!?! His mom calls him states she's been beat, he goes to her (now where is she when he gets there?) the son gets a rifle a 22 I believe. Please correct me if I'm wrong but depending on the model it can hold 10 rounds or a clip upward to 100. So these violent fools just happen to have it around? What is wrong with that mother??? A violent son & husband and a gun! Good job mom! Anyway the kid walks into the room points it at a sitting man , man gets up , kid says (paraphrasing [ you will stop doing this] pulls trigger multiple times and scrams? Yeah I would have stood up as well seeing a rifle pointed at me! Yep sweet child with thoughtful mother. Your life is what YOU make it.

I'd love to bring these fools to The Bronx where I grew up hahaha! omg I'd pay to watch them race back tripping over themselves getting back to the cape. Hahaha I just pulled a muscle laughing at the thought of it.

What, will any of the folks that have commented on this article actually do to try to improve the situation? What action will you take? Would you call the Selectmen? Would you call the police? Write a letter to the Selectmen? Participate in a neighborhood watch? Pay higher taxes for more police services? Get to know your neighbors and watch out for them and call the police if you see something suspicious? I think most people want lower crime, but can't afford higher taxes because the cost of video game consoles, soda and salty snacks, and gas for the SUV to get to McDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts.

Well, it's now being reported that John Williams has died. This will surely lead to the upgraded charge of MURDER!

77 gifford street is a drug den, when these people were staying there it was used for doing hard drugs, it was a dump then, and is still now. the balding 50 year old guy that was there with his little dog was supplying these teens with hard drugs! Oh yea Falmouth has a non existent drug detective force, go up to the station and ask them, " NO MONEY"