Posted on 02/16/2013 6:47:30 PM PST by EXCH54FE
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – A teenager is shot to death and his friend is charged with murder, even though he didn’t pull the trigger.
The circuit attorney’s office issued warrants for second degree murder and attempted burglary against 17-year-old Michael Bryant.
Police say Bryant and 15-year-old Demetrius Murphy were trying to break into a home on Tennessee early Friday morning.
Investigators say the 33-year-old homeowner heard them, went outside, and confronted the suspects.
The homeowner then shot and killed Murphy.
The homeowner was questioned, but not arrested.
Under Missouri law, if someone is killed while a felony is being committed, other suspects involved in the crime can be charged with murder. That’s why the accomplice, Michael Bryant, was charged with second degree murder as well as 1st degree attempted burglary.
Murphy’s mother says her son was mentally disabled. She says he was coming back from the store with a friend and she has no idea how he wound up in the backyard of the home.
The mom’s crack use fried the kid’s brain in the womb.
One less problem for the world
I always liked the Felony Murder Rule.
Thats why you should live or move to in a place where the prosecutor is more likely to shoot an intruder than you are. (Like me)
Since it’s their law (as it is with many other states), I would have a problem if they didn’t charge him with murder.
Oh, sure, I’m familiar with the felony murder rule. I didn’t mention it because I just took it for granted. What I was saying is that in this case it’s not only what the law says, but that it is especially fair and applicable, because he had an extra share of responsibility for drawing the kid who died into it.
My life was threatened by the mere presence of a perp.
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One can’t control everything one’s child does. Every man bears his very *own* guilt or innocence.
There are some in this forum who have relatives, children or parents who are liberal. So, if some child/parent/relative was to commit some crime, would you recommend the other parent/relative/child be co-incarcerated or executed?
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