This reminds me of the case of the pharmacist who was being robbed a couple of years ago. He shot one of the robbers and put him down. He then slowly walked out from behind the counter, stood over the bleedindg, incapacitated man’s body and cooly emptied the rest of his gun’s magazine into the defensless man. It was all captured on security video. Needless to say, those prosecutor’s didn’t buy a self defense claim either.
I dont know I think that there has to be a lot of consideration for what is going on and how it works with the average person. If someone is robbing the victim, viticim pulse and blood pressure goes way up and judgment diminishes of course after heart rate reaches 136.
I would say that anyone who commits a crime like this against another, has to endure the consequences. Whether it is being shot, hit or chased down and killed. It certainly would make some people think twice about breaking and entering. Currently the law holds back the hand of the victim.
LEOs are trained on holding back force and I still see things that amaze me about them.
The case of the pharmacist was what came to my mind, too, in reading this story. There’s no video to substantiate what happened this time, though. Maybe these two teens broke into his house, or maybe they were lured there. Who knows, but the investigation should find out more soon enough. The man is incriminating himself, so maybe he’s telling the absolute truth.
My first thought was of that pharmacist. Memory of that pharmacist story is that the jury didn’t buy his self-defense claim, either, and he got @ 26 years in prison.
That case doesn’t sound as cold-blooded as this one (tho, of course, there is no video or documentation, other than the victim/perp’s statement to the police).
A “jury of his peers” didn’t buy it either. He was convicted. The case was in Oklahoma.