Posted on 08/08/2022 11:14:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Florida homeowner shot a naked, mud-covered man who had allegedly broken into his house Wednesday morning.
In a Thursday interview with WJAX-TV, William Kerr said that he had been heading to his office after his wife had started preparing to head out for an appointment, when he spotted the intruder.
“I got the door open about a foot, and I see this guy standing there. He’s got my rifle … BB rifle – he’s standing there with the rifle like this, the butt facing me, and he’s fixing to clock me,” Kerr said, recollecting the moment when he first learned that there was a stranger inside.
Kerr said he quickly shut the door as soon as he saw him. “I heard him messing with the other door in the room. So, I’m thinking, ‘Oh man, Tina’s out there in the car fixing to go.’”
To protect himself and his wife, Kerr ran to his kitchen, took out a cleaver and went out the door. “By the time I went out the door, he’s already at the mailbox,” Kerr said, according to WJAX-TV.
Trending: Chris Pratt Tears Into 'Woke Critics' of His Show “I got a next-door neighbor with a little kid; the lady across the street is kind of elderly,” Kerr said.
Worried that the naked man could harm his neighbors, Kerr decided to chase the man down the street, even though police were there at the time and Kerr had indicated the intruder’s location to them by pointing at him.
“There’s a privacy fence in that lot. Well, I drive down a little bit, and I see him, and he’s broken off a piece of this privacy fence … ‘Come on out … the police officers are driving up the street. They’ll be here in just a second,’” Kerr recollected telling the man.
Kerr said that the intruder got up and began trying to hit Kerr with a three-foot-long and several inch thick stick. That was when Kerr pulled out his weapon.
Kerr said he had aimed for the man’s hands when he shot him, in hopes of getting the intruder to drop the stick.
Just after Kerr shot the intruder, an officer drove down the street. “I wave him down. I’m like, ‘He’s right here!’ And he tried to run, still,” the homeowner said.
The man who was shot underwent surgery for his injuries. “I hope the best for him. I don’t hope anything bad,” Kerr told the news station. “It was a traumatic situation on both our part.”
The homeowner told WJAX-TV that the intruder had also stolen $400 — money that Kerr said he would have gladly given the man should he have requested help.
Before the intruder went to Kerr’s home, he was spotted by another neighbor who saw him walking up his dock, naked and muddy.
The neighbor, according to the news station, handed the man some shorts, water and food before calling 911. However, the man left the area near the neighbor’s home and went towards Kerr’s.
“He was jacked up on something. He was dirty as heck,” Kerr described to WJAX-TV. “The time he tried to ram me in there he was going, ‘Wooo! Wooo!’ And even when he was swinging the stick, he was like ‘Wooo!’ And his eyes were like golf balls.”
“He just looked like he was possessed, and he was acting like he was possessed,” Kerr said.
Police detained Kerr for questioning and later released him. It was unclear if he would face any charges, according to WJAX-TV. Kerr claimed self-defense.
“If you are in imminent fear of death or great bodily harm, you can probably defend yourself and claim self-defense,” WJAX Law and Safety Expert Dale Carson said. However, according to Carson, it would be difficult to prove that one was in “imminent fear of death or great bodily harm.”
“My advice would be, don’t follow people out of your house. Call law enforcement and allow them to manage it. Because if you get involved, there’s a possibility that you could ultimately be charged with manslaughter or even murder,” Carson said.
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You’d think they’d be hiring better, considering that the average want ad is usually overloaded with about six dozen different requirements.
And also, when somebody goes into an entry level journalism job, a portfolio of previous work is usually required. So for Heaven’s sake, are the people who examine these portfolios actually able to read?
Yep, now he’ll be sued.....................
“Dirty” Harry Callahan
Obviously with a cleaver....that shoots bullets!
Yep, “So, my client wasn’t a lethal threat by evidence that you did not shoot to kill and did not need to shoot to kill to end the situation. However, you did use lethal force to maim him, for which he is now suing you.”
“I wonder if robbing while naked and covered in mud helps win jury sympathy or booster an insane defense.”
Giggle material only. Seems Floridian juries expect that.
Just call the cops to locate the set of bodies down the street from you.
Was it Ric Flair ?
beat me to it
Please remove me from your list. thank you.
Harry Callahan on why an officer who never made an arrest shouldn’t be considered for street patrol just because she’s female.
*That naked, mud covered man right there!
Police: Lady, are you sure that’s the same naked, mud covered man?
*Pretty sure.
Police: Lady, I need you to be 100% positive that is the correct naked, mud covered man.
SMH.
There are about a dozen problems with this story.
Not in Florida. The stand your ground law and similar civil law provisions protect Floridians against getting criminally charged or sued for defending themselves. Being a Florida Man means that you get to defend yourself.
By chasing a guy, and confronting him? Hardly “standing your ground.” This idiot will be sued, and probably lose.
I watch NextDoor videos, nextdoor.com of my surrounding area and they had 3 with one guy caught on a neighbors roof at night and another holding a screwdriver and ringing the doorbell at 3am. That homeowner talked to him thru the security camera. A 3rd showed a couple checking out the doors of a car in a driveway and a pickup parked on the street and 3rd car further down. Many criminals roaming around in Chatsworth, Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, Calif in the San Fernando valley. All used to be nice areas but the democrats changed that....!
The intruder — nude and filthy and moving through a residential neighborhood — was obviously suspicious and the homeowner followed him in order to point him out to the police, which he had right to do. The man then took up a substantial piece of wood and took a swing at his citizen pursuer, who fired a non-lethal shot in his own defense. The “stand your ground” part is that the citizen had no duty to retreat before firing. The legal circumstances justifying the use of force are similar to those of George Zimmerman’s lethal shooting of Treyvon Martin.
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