@Family of victim outraged over lack of charges in W. Columbia shooting(SC) February 17, 2011
"It's uncivilized," said uncle Rod Peck. "And it's sending a wrong message to people that they can just shoot any trespasser on their yard. Worst case scenario, maybe if one of the neighbor children came over in the middle of the night, it could have been one of the neighbor children. And we believe that this is wrongful death. That this is criminal, what this man did."
Would you have shot him for trying to steal from you or break into your truck?
Homeowner Richard Williams confronting a man he'd seen breaking into his truck shortly after 3:00am.
You wouldn't know it was at 3:00 AM (dark-thirty as we say).
You people didn't even know he was back in town!
His uncle says Howard's family was surprised he was in south Carolina, and had no idea why.
The evidence shows no finger prints on the truck and mark was riding away from the property when shot the story has changed several times over the last few months from the shooter his wife and the media as well and there are bullet holes through 2 different neighbors houses there was no blood in the driveway where he was supposedly shot and got back on the bike and no evidence of any tampering on a shed that was nearby ....
It’s possible in my Opinion mark made a wrong turn into the driveway the outside light came on and the dog started barking and the homeowner came out blazing thats the reason for the shots through 2 different houses before hitting mark they guy just started firing
Question .... would you shoot someone that was riding away from you on the street would you just walk out your door and start shooting in the dark ?
I have not had a chance yet to view all the evidence and i’m not a lawyer by any stretch of imagination but this is case is so alike this zimmerman fiasco shot in the dark at 3 am seems to me a wrong headed decision to shoot someone off a bike for just riding down or out of your driveway ...
Zero Evidence ?
So riding away on a bicycle is a call for self defense ? there is something clearly wrong with parts of this law mark was not armed and in order to be riding away he would justifiably have his back turned ......away is away !
As i said before i have not one problem with the law itself BUT parts of the law should be changed because when innocent people get killed with their back turned and no weapon the law is most certainly written badly .....Just suppose it was a neighbors child say a 17 year old sleep walking {it happens believe me} what would happen to the shooter nothing? or would the neighborhood be screaming for justice ? i think the latter