I saw just a little of this and tho I usually am all for the homeowner, I just can’t see shooting before you really know anything about what is going on.
Now if she had rushed at him or waved a gun but she was just drunk.
That’s the issue. There was no indication that she intended to do anything more than stand on the porch. I don’t know if that constitutes murder, as defined by the law, but he certainly wasn’t defending himself.
Seems to me he was angry and afraid of the door and used a human being as his backstop...
He should’ve fired a warning shot.
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.
I haven’t followed this case, but I’m thinking that at 4:40am in November it’s pretty dark and you can’t see a thing until you turn a light on. If someone came banging on my porch door at that hour (in Detroit, no less) I’d certainly have feared for my life. And I’m not sure I’d have had the patience to wait to see and know what was going on, rather than thinking someone would shoot me first.