I’m normally on the homeowner’s side, too, but I think he pulled the trigger way too fast.
If he’d fired a warning shot and accidentally hit her, that would have been a lower charge... and he may have been doing that, but I wonder if he wasn’t a tad drunk himself.
However, his argument that she was a threat by knocking on his door is way out of line. I don’t think he thought through the consequences of his actions, either because he was elderly and kind of out of it, or perhaps because he was under the influence.
Ooops, he wasn’t that elderly! For some reason, I had him pegged as a 75 yr old, not a 55 yr old.
Less excuse...
” his argument that she was a threat by knocking on his door is way out of line.”
She was beating on his door so hard that her hands were swollen. She wasn’t just “knocking.”
“I wonder if he wasn’t a tad drunk himself.”
Yes, I said that yesterday on another thread on this. Or maybe just out of it from being woken up.
I dont think it even warranted a warning shot. Perhaps if she broke a window or tried rushing into the house.