Posted on 09/07/2018 8:14:12 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
If it turns out to be the case there is definitely gonna be some unintended consequences.
“Unless you’re drunk,high or having a stroke how,in God’s name,do you walk into an apartment that’s not yours?”
I have seen places that are so cookie cutter identical that if you aren’t paying attention, you could easily put your key in the wrong lock. The door was unlocked?
Some sketchy facts coming out are:
Her key was found in the lock, but wouldn’t turn.
So, to put this together - she puts her key in the lock. It doesn’t turn. Then somehow the victim hears the rattling, or she bangs on the door for her husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, to let her in. He is dazed and sleepy and opens the door. She see a young black man in his bathrobe in what she thinks is her apartment and starts blasting away.
Family members have stated that the apartment doors are numbered, as you would expect. Also, it was a “gated community”.
The guy was a great guy, this is a real shame:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/botham-shem-jean/
No statement from the officer yet. She is in the “cooling off period” to get her story together.
Hopefully followed by honest arrest, trial, and honest 20 years in prison.
But what will probably happen is little other than the cop resigning and going to work for some other PD out of state.
I was working an after hours bar one night and was trying to get into the wrong car after work. I couldn’t figure out why my key wouldn’t work. One of the waitresses that was with me finally said.....I don’t think this is your car. Lol
Years ago I was working a road race in AZ and checked into my hotel, dropped our bags in the room and the wife and I went down to check out the setup and cars.
Came back to the room in a few hours and our bags had been moved, no biggie, but there was now an extra bag. As we are standing there we hear grunting in the bathroom.
I turn and the bathroom door is ajar, two legs and pants are visible, and old man was taking a dump!
Wife got behind me, gun came out and I challenged the guy loudly!
He said just a minute! and closed the door!
I had the wife call the desk, I stood and waited for him, at the low ready.
He exited the bathroom, said he was assigned to the room.
I said no, our bags were here, we were here first.
He showed me his key, and said I don’t care, get out. He never looked at the gun, but it was not hidden, so I don;t know it he saw it our not. He never got closer than 6 or 7 ft.
He turned and left. I dropped his bag in the hallway after he was gone.
Room was comped by the hotel with a huge apology. They admitted they gave the guy the wrong room!
Could have been very bad for him if he got aggressive.
The guy’s doesnt have door locks?.....And HER key just automatically didn’t alert her she had a door unlocked? More to this story.
This could get interesting.
How did her key work in the wrong door? Hmmmm? There’s more to the story than we’ve been told.
I can see her walking into the wrong apartment. What I cannot see is her killing someone unless that someone presented a deadly force threat.
Sounds like unprofessional panic to me. To put it another way - sounds like manslaughter.
LOL. Great observation!
Leaving the vet’s office one evening after picking up the world’s greatest GSD, I opened the car door and something didn’t look right.
The color was a little different.
A white camry parked right beside ours and the door was unlocked.
Why ascribe to stupid what can better be explained by chemical alteration?
She had to get in somehow. How’d she manage that? Did she bust the door in, hearing someone active on the other side?
So many facts not present here.
Yeah - little things like recognizing one's own furniture, wall decorations, paint colors - the fine details. < rolls eyes >
Seriously, a case like this could be used effectively by a defense attorney in the future to cast serious doubt on the "expert witness" qualifications of anyone coming out of the same training program.
I thought the same thing. Consider: you walk up to (what you think is) your door, which should be locked, and it just opens right up. That might very well make someone wary. If you're armed, you might get your weapon. However, once you're inside and you see different furniture and stuff, one would think you'd start questioning the situation. Also, unless the person you see in your place isn't armed, unless you're trained to shoot first and ask questions later (not advised for normal citizens btw), you're not just going to immediately pull the trigger.
It does not sound like either of you were easily panicked or had bad attitudes in pubic accessed areas, I’m not surprised the problem was resolved with minimal discomfort.
And get her blood alcohol level down.
I did it once, stone-cold sober. I was stationed at Osan AB, Korea, and they had the U-2 stationed there. It was called the TR-1 when I was there ('89-'91). I happened to catch one doing some approach practice, and was taking photos of it from the outside stairwell. I was trying to get some better angles, and moved up a flight of stairs, took a few more photos, and then watched it land. I walked back in the door and down the hall to "my" room, messing with my camera gear as I walked.
I knew immediately the room wasn't mine, as there was a sink/bathroom at the entrance, and none of the stuff on the sink was mine. Just as I realized it wasn't my room, the actual occupant peeked around the corner of the entry area. She was startled, as she thought I was her roommate. When I realized what happened, I explained it, and we had a good laugh (thankfully, we'd known each other for a couple of years).
Circa: early seventies. Took my mom to the local grocery store to grab a few things. She didn’t need my help, so I waited in the car for her.
About fifteen minutes later, I see her exit the store and walk straight to a car that was identical to mine. Before I could step out of the car and call to her, she had already opened the passenger side door, and had sat herself inside.
I started tooting my horn to get her attention, but she just looked around, baffled as to my whereabouts. Finally, her eyes landed on my car, and I could see her shock at realizing her mistake.
Let me tell you, she moved like the wind!
Many things needed to go wrong for this to happen.
And every one of them were the officers fault.
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