{"id":23,"date":"1997-12-19T12:00:55","date_gmt":"1997-12-19T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1997\/12\/19\/first-article\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T22:28:21","slug":"first-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/1997\/12\/19\/first-article\/","title":{"rendered":"First Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<h3>Man, 65, tells of terror at hands of four youths<\/h3>\n<p><\/center> <font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">By Gloria Padilla _ Express-News Staff Writer _ December 17, 1997<\/font> <font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">A 65-year-old man who <font color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\">propositioned two girls<\/font> but later changed his mind cried Tuesday as he described to the jury his terror when the teenagers returned to his home with two male friends and assaulted him. <\/font> <font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">Borge Hansen, an Army retiree who also does volunteer work as a <font color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\">Shriner clown<\/font>, testified Tuesday in juvenile court in the trial of a 16-year-old girl charged with <font color=\"Green\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\">aggravated robbery<\/font> in the case. <\/font><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\"><font color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\"> He testified that he had arranged to have sex with the two girls April 8 for $100.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">But he said he changed his mind after he took them home and they started wandering through his house without permission. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">Hansen testified he took the girls back to the coffee shop where he had picked them up and <font color=\"Green\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\">they threatened to blackmail him<\/font> if he did not pay them. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">A few minutes after he got home, the two girls returned to his home with a male friend, Hansen said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">One of the girls said she had forgotten her cigarette lighter in his house, he said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">As he headed back into the house to look for the lighter, Hansen testified, the man with the girls came at him with a knife. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">&#8220;He kept hitting me on the head. I told him, &#8216;Please don&#8217;t kill me, please don&#8217;t kill me.&#8217; <font color=\"Green\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\">I begged for my life<\/font>,&#8221; Hansen testified. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">During the assault, he said, a second man joined the trio in his  house. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\"><font color=\"Blue\">One of the girls, a 17-year-old, was <font color=\"Red\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\">shot and killed by Hansen<\/font> during the confrontation at his house in the 4600 block of Iron Weed. <\/font> <font color=\"Red\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\"><strong>Hansen was not charged.<\/strong><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">The second girl, a 16-year-old, is on trial before District Judge Andy Mireles. <font color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"+1\">She faces up to 40 years in prison<\/font>. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier\" size=\"-2\">Two men, Charles David Cameron, 17, of the 13200 block of Larkplace Drive, and Robert Edward Kennedy, also 17, of the 3400 block of Ridge Smoke Street, are awaiting trial on aggravated robbery charges in state court. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, 65, tells of terror at hands of four youths By Gloria Padilla _ Express-News Staff Writer _ December 17, 1997 A 65-year-old man who propositioned two girls but later changed his mind cried Tuesday as he described to the jury his terror when the teenagers returned to his home with two male friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teens-on-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}