People were allowed to wear pictures of the dead girl on their clothing in the courtroom. Yeah, this guy will get a fair trial /sarc
This won’t end well.
Regarding the homeowner, Theodore Wafer. You are a man, how much can you fear a 19 year old girl banging on your door at 4am? She is banging on the door, maybe she even ripped the screen door off. Maybe you should take a few deep breaths before you open the door and discharge the gun in her chest. If you are worried that she is a decoy, call the cops and hold her at bay, you can always shoot her later. This man did not act responsibly and is guilty of some kind of negligence.
Regarding the deceased. 19 years old and you are driving with a blood alcohol level of .22? And smoking dope? Then, you walk away from an ambulance and the scene of an accident. Then you wander around for three hours. If you want to drink that much, don't get into a car, don't go anywhere. She must share some responsibility for her actions.
Regarding the parents. Why was your 19 year old that drunk? The drinking age in Michigan is 21. Why was she driving a car that drunk? This could just as easily have ended with her killing one or more people with her car. Was this the first time she was drinking and smoking dope?
Plenty of blame to go around here.
A photo of McBride's legs taken by police showed her left foot had broken through the sole of her boot.
So this crazy underage drunk was banging on this man's door so hard that she broke the door AND her boot. I would have been in fear of my life, too.
Alas, with our current Marxist INjustice system McBride is assuredly going to rot in prison. I hope he gets put into protective custody since word will get around that he killed one of Obama's daughters.
Whoops. Wafer is going to rot in prison.
What would be the motive behind shooting a dead drunk and a disoriented car crash victim?
Why did he shoot her if she was already dead? ;)
Get ready for Travon part II
If Obama had a dead drunk sister, she would look like Renisha...
Based on what has been reported so far, it appears to me the guy took some bad/foolish decisions both before and after the incident:
1) He is reported to have shot her through a ‘screen door’. Most house entrances which have screen doors also have a 2nd more sturdy and secure door (especially in places like Detroit). That being the case, one must ask why he opened the ‘main’ door if he feared whomever was outside his house.
2) He did not call the police before he opened the main door and confronted/shot the woman.
3) He made a statement to the police in which he claimed that he “accidently” pulled the trigger. This does not comport with a self-defense claim. One does “accidently” defend oneself. This statement will be used against him.
4) In actuality, he should not have said anything at all - apart from possibly answering inquiries with the phrase “I was in fear for my life” - prior to talking to his attorney.
Based on what has been reported about this incident so far, I think there is a pretty good chance he will be convicted of involuntary manslaughter; although negligent homicide is probably a more appropriate charge.
The Mail will be happy to front this sad story, but I doubt they will give equal treatment to a story about a life saved by defensive use of a private firearm.
He only began using the fear and self-defense argument a day or two later, after consulting with his attorney.
The English “disorientated” has always sounded ignorant to me. The American “disoriented” is far superior, one of the few examples of our improving upon our mother tongue.
I would insist my attorney file countersuit that charges the drunk with suicide. The shooter in this instance probably saved lives.If not in the immediate context—in the near future.
Looks like everyone involved in this was wrong.
The judge said the defendant made a poor choice by bringing a gun to the door. EXCUSE ME???? At 4:30 in the morning, the defendant is wakened by the sound of his screen door being pounded on so forcefully that it nearly came off it’s hinges. And he’s not supposed to bring his gun to the door to see who’s attempting to breakdown it down!!!!!!!
Well, according to the title, if the drunk was already dead, what harm was there?