Posted on 04/28/2019 1:25:05 PM PDT by marktwain
At about 8 p.m. on 5 October, 2018, 27-year-old Keven Custer went to his girlfriend's apartment to pick up some clothes that had been washed for him.
The clothes were not sorted, so to avoid an issue, he did not go through his girlfriend's laundry, and started to leave the apartment.
On the way out, 46-year-old Chris Gunderson stopped Keven, forced him to empty his pockets, and refused to let him leave the apartment.
Gunderson then struck Keven Custer and knocked out a tooth, cracking two others, knocking Custer to the floor. From cdapress.com:
Custer said Gunderson told him multiple times to empty his pockets. When the pockets were emptied, they contained a magazine with eight rounds, a phone and wallet.
A witness told police that the conversation between Custer and Gunderson rose from calm to confrontational quickly and Gunderson reached into Custer's pockets forcefully to remove the contents. The witness said he observed fear in Custer's eyes and it appeared Gunderson was robbing Custer.
“Keven repeatedly asked Chris to let him leave the apartment to which Chris denied and forcefully held Keven in the residence against his will,” the report states regarding the witness account. “Chris, with a closed fist, then struck Keven in the face and Keven fell backward against a wall and then to the ground. Chris lunged at Keven aggressively and Keven retrieved his pistol and fired …”
Custer said Gunderson shoved him and punched him in the mouth
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They were in a fight to the death over laundery.
Nope. And all disparity of force arguments one can use justify this as well.
“On the floor, Custer drew the Springfield and fired six shots, striking Gunderson in the chest, abdomen, groin and arm. “
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Custer was found not guilty by reason of self defense. At the trial, Chris Gunderson gave testimony about his use of multiple intoxicants before the incident.”
Sounds like Custer had FMJs instead of hollowpoints since Gynderson was still alive. Regardless, Custer stopped the threat with what he had in his pistol.
About twice as many people in the United States are murdered with personal weapons (hands and feet, etc.) as with rifles.
In the United States, more than twice as many people are murdered with hands and feet than with rifles. From 2013 through 2017, 1582 people were murdered with rifles. In the same period, 3,393 people were murdered with personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc).
Idiots in government who let that go to a jury trial. Bureaucrats are almost always blinded by their own self righteousness and perfection. In almost all cases, they are wrong.
I know it’s a little beside the point of your article but I’m left wondering if Gunderson was ever charged with anything.
A list of 235 homicides committed with a single bare-handed blow:
http://onepunchhomicide.com/200%20list%20of%20OPH.htm
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