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West-side hero intervenes to rescue girls from naked man
In fact, he should be considered a genuine hero. He has played a key
role in helping to capture a couple of bad guys, the most recent one in
early March.
Dozier, a west-side resident, said he was at home on March 5 when he
heard a frantic knock on his door. He looked outside and saw a neighbor
girl on the front stoop.
Before he could open the door, she had run off. As he stepped outside,
he saw the reason why.
A naked man, later identified as Robert W. Morgan, was running around,
chasing some girls who had just climbed off a school bus.
Dozier, 56, did not hesitate. He ran outside and confronted the
47-year-old naked man.
"As soon as I got to the front step he grabbed me,'' Dozier said. They
fell down the step, with Morgan landing on top of Dozier.
Dozier said, "I kind of got the best of him and held him down until the
police came."
Dozier said Morgan "was spouting about Jesus the whole time we were on
the ground. I have had back surgery, and he could have killed me.''
A police report says officers used a Taser gun on Morgan to subdue him.
The report said Morgan had been visiting at a nearby house, and the
resident there told police the suspect was "known to smoke crack and
drink alcohol.''
A 15-year-old girl Morgan had been chasing told police he had come out
of a house with his clothes on but stripped while chasing her and other
girls. She said he tried to grab her purse, which she had swung at him
in an effort to keep him away.
The prosecutor's office charged Morgan at first only with the
misdemeanor offense of public nudity.
That upset both Dozier and the mother of the girls who had been chased.
Both of them called the prosecutor's office to complain, according to
Frank Schaffer, chief deputy prosecutor. Their calls led to a review of
the case and a decision to refile the charges, he said.
The prosecutor planned to refile the charges today. The new filing will
be a felony charge of robbery and misdemeanor charges of public nudity
and battery.
Schaffer said the battery charge comes from Morgan's alleged attack of
Dozier, who was banged up while wrestling with Morgan on the ground. The
robbery comes from his alleged attempt to grab the girl's purse.
Dozier thinks Morgan should be charged with attempted rape, because he
thinks that was his intent when he took his clothes off and chased the
girls. He didn't really seem interested in the girl's purse, Dozier
said, but seemed intent on molesting the girls.
He also was upset that Morgan was not put in jail. Morgan had been taken
to the hospital for treatment of cuts and scrapes from being held down
in the nude on the concrete sidewalk, a police report says. After his
treatment at the hospital, he was sent home.
"I've talked to white and black people who think if it was in a more
affluent neighborhood he would be in jail today,'' said Dozier, who is
black.
Morgan, in fact, was in jail last week. He was arrested April 11 on an
unrelated domestic violence charge and was being held on $1,000 bond. He
has a felony conviction from 1999 for auto theft and battery, and
several misdemeanor convictions for criminal mischief, disorderly
conduct, domestic violence, public intoxication and driving under the
influence.
The neighbors are afraid he could return to the neighborhood, Dozier
said. The house he had been visiting has a reputation in the
neighborhood as a crack house, Dozier said, but nothing seems to be done
about it.
"A lot of the black community over here don't have a lot of faith in the
Police Department,'' he said. "We feel like we don't get properly
served."
Dozier said he doesn't necessarily view life in terms of black and
white, but in terms of right and wrong.
That is how he happened to play a key role in the capture of a
kidnapper/rapist and rescue of the victim in March 2002.
A college student had been abducted from the downtown parking lot of the
St. Joseph County Public Library. Her abductor held her captive for more
than a day, raping her several times while driving her from place to
place in her own car.
A massive search ensued to find the student.
Dozier was managing a west-side liquor store when the kidnapper and girl
entered to make a purchase. He said he could tell from the look in the
young woman's eyes that something was wrong. The store's owner
recognized the young woman as the kidnap victim, whose picture had been
featured in news coverage of the crime.
The couple left the liquor store but returned a couple of hours later.
"I knew it was her, and she was afraid to death," Dozier remembered.
He called the store owner, who called police. Officers stopped the
couple a short distance from the liquor store, ending the victim's
26-hour ordeal.
Dozier became a key witness in the trial of Willie Lee Davis, the
kidnapper, according to Deputy Prosecutor Mari Lindke.
"He did a wonderful job" on the witness stand, she added.
Davis received a sentence of 313 years in prison after a jury convicted
him of kidnapping, criminal deviate conduct, three counts of rape and
two counts of criminal confinement.
Dozier said the kidnap victim's mother hugged and kissed him after the
trial, and he received a letter of praise from the county prosecutor.
"He is quite a guy."
(c) 2004 Associated Pres
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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