Posted on 03/13/2014 12:11:59 PM PDT by Sopater
Edited on 03/13/2014 12:16:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Homicide investigators are gathering evidence after a father shoots and kills a teenage boy he found in his daughter's bedroom.
A spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff's office said Deputy constables from pct 4 responded to a 911 call around 2:20 a.m. about a shooting in the Bridgestone Lake Subdivision in Northwest Harris County.
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The responses from the non-fathers and the crappy fathers really tell a story.
if the kid was giving the guy a hard time and appeared to quickly reach for something, at 2am in the guys’ house, unwelcome, and the daughter says she doesn’t know him, after being caught hiding under her bed,
i say not guilty.
How would the dad know how old the boy was? Probably didn’t get mentioned in the encounter nor is it germaine
The family had better be persuasive. If the cops or prosecutors don’t believe the daughter or father, this thing will get to the petit jury. The grand jury won’t no-true-bill if the prosecutors make out the (anyway, pretty plausible) story that the dad shot the boyfriend for defiling his daughter and the daughter lied to keep the family together — Dad gets convicted they lose his income to prison and the house and all their money to the wrongful death suit.
if the kid was giving the man grief AND reaching for something quickly when a gun is already drawn on him, i’m not exactly sorry he got shot.
amen. and that girl killed that boy with her mouth.
or to clarify, she killed him with her mouth and he killed himself attempting to reach for something really fast with a gunowner aiming at him.
lemme guess you have a son that is bout this age that sleeps’over at his girlfriend’s house.
It is sad that some parents are okay with this behavior
LOL. We all turned out fine. My mother was/is EXCEPTIONAL in her duties.
Every shooting goes to grand jury I think, many get tossed
Warden! It was a glass of water, promise!
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The victim survived his neutering ok.
Not sure about the guy who performed the impromptu ‘surgery’.
They were both prominent citizens of Victoria, but the one who did the deed was a little ‘bigger dog’ in town.
There are some pretty shady ‘politics’ that go on in that town. Either the guy got off some way or didn’t get punished too much, if I remember correctly.
Anyway it was a big scandal that was spoken about in whispers and giggles. LOL
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I agree.
Some of these posters today have a lot to learn.
If I am ever holding a gun on someone in my home at 2:30am and I tell them not to get froggy, they best not.
damn. effin. straight.
and as we age, consider you have several disparity of force arguments on your side to justify using equal or greater force than you perceive the perp may or may not have.
There are rules as to when you have the right to do that, and when you don’t.
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It is a castle thing-Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It’s the LAW !!!
My house, My rules...........
if the kidis rummaging around quickly trying to grab something in this situation, he may very well have deserved being shot. not necesarily that he DIE, but that he deserved to be shot for looking like he’s going for a weapon. at 2am. when the daughter says she doesn’t know who he is.
Good judgement says an adult should keep his head and not gun down a teenaged boy unless that boy is presenting an immediate threat to the life of the lying daughter or hot headed father.
The father "thought" the boy was reaching for something? BS. And the daughter should be charged with the most serious crime possible for someone who lied to shift her father's rage to the boy and away from herself.
And what's been reported is nothing but the family's alibi. Nothing that can be taken as fact.
You obviously think he knew the boy or something
you’d think that might come more natural if you were hiding under their underage daughter’s bed in someone else’s house, and the girl just told her gun-wielding father who loves her, that she has no idea who you are.
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