Posted on 03/12/2007 10:20:24 AM PDT by Dog Gone
A southwest Houston father shot and killed a 27-year-old man Saturday after arriving home to find the man with his 13-year-old daughter, police said.
After the parents arrived at their home in the 6900 block of Chasewood, the girl and 27-year-old man fled out the back door, said Houston Police Department spokeswoman Johanna Abad. The man later called the mother by phone and returned to talk to the parents, but the girl remained missing throughout the night.
When the man returned to the house, the father was waiting for him with a loaded shotgun, police said. The two argued before the father shot and killed the other man.
It was unclear Sunday night whether the father was in police custody or if any criminal charges had been filed.
Houston police issued an Amber Alert for the missing 13-year-old, but canceled it after the parents learned their daughter had spent the night at a friend's house. She came home Sunday.
Abad said she did know the nature of the teen and the 27-year-old's relationship.
We could only hope.
A $10 fine, he can mail it in.
Premeditated murder? I can see not an armed citizen ping because it's not your usual break-in story but I can imagine the father's outrage over some 27 year old guy with his 13 year old daughter. It especially depends on what the argument was about; you don't know what the *boyfriend* said. In this case, I'D give him the benefit of the doubt.
Sounds premeditated to me. In TX a capital murder charge could attach to such a shooting.
Since it wasn't in response to a direct immediate threat
to life it was not a shoot in self defense.
While a lot of folks may think that extralegal executions
(murders) are OK, I don't think the Harris Co DA will.
“Give the man an award.”
For killing Jerry Lee Lewis?
You just made me shoot pasta out my nose. It does not feel good.
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