According to Texas law, wouldn’t the daughter be culpable for the murder charge? She was the one whose lie caused the death, giving the father the right to kill him.
I got to check Texas law...but I would have shot him in the crotch myself.
Don’t know about ‘the right to kill him’. But that will be analyzed as things go forward I expect.
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According to KHOU, the father told sheriff’s deputies that he saw McCormick drop his hands
and he interpreted that as an attempt to grab something to attack him, so he shot the boy once.
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