Man Had His Ankle Bracelet Put On His Prosthetic Leg, So He Just Took Off His Leg And Went To Murder Someone

Fox - After Quincy Green was arrested on a gun charge in April, he was supposed to be on house arrest while waiting for his trial. But a tech at the company that supplies and fits ankle bracelets on pre-trial detainees in Washington, DC, put the bracelet on over Green’s sock—that’s “absolutely not” protocol, per an exec at the company, who says regulations require the bracelets to be placed directly on skin—and apparently didn’t realize that sock was covering a prosthetic leg.

So, police say, Green simply took off the leg, replaced it with another one he had, and was able to leave his house. That’s how, they allege, he was able to go to an area that Fox 5 DC reports he had specifically been ordered to stay away from and where he allegedly shot and killed Dana Hamilton around 2:40am on May 19.

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Quincy Green was the luckiest person in the world. Not hyperbole, the absolute luckiest person in the world. He was never supposed to be able to leave home. He had a GPS ankle monitor strapped to him. Life was done. No more movies. No more going out for fast food. Nothing. He hit the jackpot and they strapped his ankle monitor to his fake leg. Can you imagine the feeling of that happening if you’re Quincy? It probably took ever last ounce of willpower to not burst into laughter/tears while this was happening. And then he blew it. Completely blew it. All he had to do was not murder someone. It doesn’t seem like that too tall of a task. When going down his daily checklist, all he had to do was leave off “murder someone” and his life was set. But he just couldn’t do it.

And in a way, I don’t put this all on him. Sure he killed the person, but he should have never been allowed to leave his house to begin with. So this is also on the hands of whoever put his ankle bracelet onto his prosthetic leg. All that person had to do was make sure they weren’t attaching the device to a piece of plastic or a peg leg, and they failed. That person should split the murder sentence with Quincy, it’s only fair.