...shooting white kids.The prosecutor is alleging he took one too many shots?
I’d be neck deep in Kimchee.
There would be at least one empty mag if it were me.
The question is whether he crossed the line from self-defense to execution. According to the DA he was waiting, they were unarmed, did not surprise him, made no attempt to harm him, and then he drug the bodies across the floor, putting finishing shots into their heads, I really don’t know if a jury is going to believe self-defense if those are the facts.
Much better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
He's retired State Department security, but he apparently didn't know self-defense law and hadn't heard the old rule, "Shoot, shovel, and shut up!"
His best option was Home Depot bright and early Black Friday. Saws! Contractor cleanup bags! Detergents. Bleach!! (Just ask Detective Fuhrman.) And, of course, silence! Stone wall silence!
The Mississippi runs right by his house.
The “kids” were little scums. Their car was found with stolen property of other people. They had it coming. The big mistake was the comments the man said to investigators, and to his neighbor, if I recall correctly.
Just say they broke in, you were trapped in your basement, self-defense, you took them out. That’s it.
Punks deserved it.
They played the audio he recorded today. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
The crystal-clear audio included the gunshots that killed 17-year-old Nick Brady and, minutes later, 18-year-old Haile Kifer as they descended the stairs to Smith’s basement. After repeated break-ins to his home in the months leading up to that day, Smith had prepared his home with recording devices and himself with guns, he later told authorities. He was in his favorite basement reading chair with a paperback that day, he said, when he heard someone rattle the door handles to his house and saw a shadow through a picture window.
The Morrison County jury heard glass break, movement, then two shots as Brady groaned “Oh.” Smith responded with another gunshot, saying, “you’re dead.”
Almost immediately after Brady was shot, rustling of the tarp was heard, then a dragging sound, then heavy breathing. Smith had moved Brady’s body to a workshop in his basement to keep blood from staining the basement carpet, he later told authorities.
The audio continued with the sound of a gun reloading, then more deep breaths and the sound of footsteps — first getting fainter and then becoming louder again. A few minutes later, in a quiet, low voice, a female mumbled “Nick.”
Soon, there was another booming gunshot and the sound of Kifer falling down the stairs. Smith quickly said, “Oh, sorry about that.”
“Oh, my god!,” Kifer said, and screamed.
“You’re dying,” Smith responded amid more gunshots. “Bitch.”
After more heavy breathing and a dragging sound, Smith said “bitch” once more. Jurors heard more movement, and the crack of a gun.
Prosecutors stopped playing tape at that point.
...shooting white kids.I have no problem with this elderly guy’s actions. Two able bodied young people are deadly weapons. They don’t need a gun to be so.
He had no obligation legally to stop shooting. There is not a law that requires a 2 shot rule for self defense related shooting..
Commit a burglary at your own risk.
He did save the Fire Dept. a lot of money. Just think of the resouces they would have had to use try to resucitate these two and probably would have died anyway.
BTW for you “it was premeditated” folks he’s only charged with Murder 2.