Nope......he should be charged with negligent homicide at LEAST!!! This is my opinion as a gun rights advocate and Texan!
This should give anyone pause to get involved with a woman who has a crazy relationship...
Bad shoot.
Stupid victim, to be sure. But bringing the gun outside — bad shoot. He was several feet away pointing at an unarmed man — bad shoot.
I would suggest manslaughter, 3 months in jail, probation.
most likely technically self defense, but I hope the shooter feels guilty the rest of his life.
It’s Texas. In defense of his wife an armed homeowner tells the derp to leave and instead the derp charges the armed homeowner and tries to take his weapon.
And for his trouble he is now assuming room temperature.
I see no reason to lay charges here.
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Murder, pure and simple… if that man isn’t charged then there is no law in Texas but the gun.
Unfortunate both were not shot to death.
In my youth, I had to be exposed to this kind of parental BS.
Vindictive mother vs Dad who was getting raped by the court.
They finally opted to meet in public places to exchange me.
Perhaps 21st century parents should adopt the same tactic.
It is safer. for all parties.
The looming doofus syndrome. Huge guy gets away with using his size and aggressive persona to bully others. And then he got his lamp blowed out.
Next case...
The mother and boyfriend knew the father had legal rights, denied them, then escalated immediately to lethal force. A determined prosecutor could have made a murder charge out of this.
I still see it as a bad shoot, but the deceased sure had a lot do with bringing about his own demise. Both are/were idiots IMO.
The lesson here is, if you decided to take a gun away from some who intends to use it on you, you’d damn well better take it away because you’ll only have one chance.
Self-defense, technically. But, it’s still sad and pointless. This did not have to happen.
It wasn’t a straight-up self-defense shooting, but apparently legal nevertheless. I don’t think there was a need to go get the rifle when he could have called the authorities. Also, since the other guy was so big, he took a huge risk in that the gun could have been taken from him since he was in really close proximity to his opponent. Not really wise behavior on both men’s parts in the matter. Really sad overall.
I am unsure of the legal definition of self defense, but I do not think it should cover this. The guy that got the gun started hostilities.
I have to wonder about the family dynamic when the wife marries the man who killed your father. Meals must be awkward.
It’s a legal shoot. You don’t come on to someone else’s property and try to take a gun from their hands. That is assault. Especially, after the defender has fired a warning shot at your feet. A question similar to this has been brought up to my local DA. He had the same opinion. The castle doctrine applied.
To me, the posture of the victim preceding showed that while he was confrontational, his arms were down and hands at his side near the whole time. That doesn’t seem to me the shooter could have been in fear for his life. I think the victim grabbed the gun after the ground shot for fear of being shot and then the shooter backed off quickly over several feet and fired - twice.
I know the law in Texas holds no requirement to back down and that the victim is technically the aggressor intruder here, but that little guy really didn’t have to shoot that man twice - or once. It’s just a shame....
As I said at the time, legitimate self defense. Justice is served.