Victim = complainee = young Armenian
Accused = complainer = old Armenian
Accused shot victim upstairs after victim refused accused’s request to go downstairs.
So…
Drunk, relatively young (35) Armenian upstairs playing music at 2:30 am at a volume loud enough to disturb the sleep of the old (66) Armenian downstairs.
Old Armenian finally convinces himself to get up, get dressed and, because you never know, arms himself to go upstairs to confront noise maker. So, after laboring upstairs and composing himself, old Armenian knocks on the door (maybe louder and louder) until young, drunk Armenian answers.
Details of their conversation are lacking (as are whether or not the two had a history of prior confrontations), but the pattern of it was probably something like:
“Too loud!”
“Is not!”
(Repeat 10+ times)
THEN
Old Armenian: “Ummm…this is getting nowhere. Why don’t you come downstairs and hear how loud it is in my apartment?”
Young Armenian: “F - - k You, Old Man! The only reason I’d come down stairs is to kick your a- -, m - - - - r f - - - r!”
Old Armenian: “No need to become violent. Just come and see how…”
Young Armenian: “Violent! Violent!! I’ll show you violent, you old b- - - - - d!”
Old Armenian” No! No! Wait…“
(Sound of gunfire.)
A couple of final thoughts:
Arming yourself in advance of entering a potential confrontation is a reasonable act and not necessarily evidence of premeditation.
Old men do not usually fight younger opponents; they either put up little to no defense (take the beating) or they just kill you.
I bet you’re very close to the truth.
It’s a horrible thing to be robbed of one’s sleep (on a regular basis) by a neighbor: either from noise disturbance in an adjoining apartment unit or in an adjoining yard.
“Old men do not usually fight younger opponents; they either put up little to no defense (take the beating) or they just kill you.”
Correct. It’s very convenient that we have constitutional carry in Utah. At 72 I’m not about to scuffle with some punk.