Posted on 06/18/2022 4:11:10 PM PDT by marktwain
HARRISON, MI — Shortly before dawn one May morning, a mentally ill man walked into a Clare County home, proclaiming himself as Satan to its residents.
The tense and frightening situation turned tragic when the homeowner fatally shot the intruder.
A month on, prosecutors have ruled the shooting a justifiable case of self-defense and are declining to issue charges against the shooter.
Clare County Prosecutor Michelle J. Ambrozaitis announced on Wednesday, June 15, that she was not charging the homeowner who fatally shot 48-year-old Kevin M. Lighthall on May 5. In her statement, Ambrozaitis provided additional details of the incident and the subsequent investigation.
About 2 a.m. on May 5, Clare police responded to 911 calls of a man wandering around Rosewood Manor Apartments claiming he was “the State” and “owned the place.” Police determined the man in question was Lighthall, who had been asked to leave a unit by its resident.
Police first encountered Lighthall in the complex’s lobby. He told them he was “the owner of the place” and identified himself as “Satan,” Ambrozaitis wrote. Lighthall was not compliant with officers’ directions and returned to the unit he had been staying in.
Police then spoke with the unit’s resident, who told them Lighthall had been acting odd and scaring other tenants. They soon determined Lighthall was wanted on a warrant for failing to appear in court, but jail staff told them they could not house him, Ambrozaitis wrote.
Officers left the scene, only to be dispatched to a house in the 1100 block of McEwan Street at 6:08 a.m. after a woman called 911 to say her husband was holding an intruder at gunpoint.
Police arrived at the house and looked through a window to see Lighthall, recognizable from the clothes he was still wearing from earlier
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Left to wander about the housing area, he threatens a family.
Police show up, he charges the homeowner, who shoots and kills him.
Very sad.
His mother says she does not blame anyone. He just got worse and worse after his father died.
"For a few billion dollars, we could have saved him."
‘The tense and frightening situation turned tragic when the homeowner fatally shot the intruder.”
Interesting choice of words: “tragic”
Evil chases us. Our fastest are too slow. We all stumble, some of us are tripped. Any of us still on our feet should be grateful and keep running.
*** a mentally ill man***
Another one who should have been in a mental hospital, but the government closed those down, and dumped the inmates on the street. Then the mass killings began.
Almost every mass shooter in the last forty two years has been a “mentally ill man” who should have been in a mental ward.
The Dems will not reopen the closed mental hospitals. If they did, so many of the Biden administration will need to be incarcerated.
“””“Shooting a firearm in self-defense or in defense of others requires an honest and reasonable belief … that he or another is in danger of being killed, seriously injured, or sexually assaulted,” Ambrozaitis wrote. “In this instance, Lighthall entered the home without permission and he was asked several times by the homeowner to leave. The homeowner placed himself between Lighthall and the remainder of the home where others were located.”””
The above are comments from the Michigan DA.
FReepers in Michigan you need to get your legislators to enact laws protecting them from people who illegally enter their homes.
Seems to me a perfectly apt use of the word. Tragedy is a drama proceeding from some pivotal event, that acquires a momentum of its own, terminating in death. Yes; this is a tragedy.
“Yes; this is a tragedy.”
Yeah, I agree - I hadn’t researched the background of the guy killed. I figured it was a ‘usual suspect’.
Because the authorities would not deal with him when he was clearly a problem, they left it to the home owner to solve.
Hi Satan, meet my 38.
“””Because the authorities would not deal with him when he was clearly a problem, they left it to the home owner to solve.”””
Yeah, that was a pretty lame excuse by the cops that the local jail was full when they encountered him earlier. Hmmm. were the jails in the neighboring cities and counties also full?????????????
And Biden wonders why gun sales are at an all-time high.
Americans are being put in a corner by cops who are afraid and by politicians who want to take away their guns.
This is a real mess.
Tragedy:
“1. disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, adversity, calamity, affliction, whammy”
NOT a disaster
NOT a catastrophe
Not a calamity
Not a misfortune (bad luck)
Not an adversity (A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune. A calamitous event. Adverse fortune or fate; a condition or state marked by misfortune, calamity, distress, or unhappiness.)
Definitely a whammy. Whammy whammy, whammy you’re DEAD.
This guy was NUTS on DRUGS. What could possibly happen?
It’s a shame the homeowner had to do it and then sweat for this long that he might be charged.
Some sheriff’s in some parts of the country would have praised the homeowner and immediately ruled out charges.
Yep. No tragedy here. Only relief that the homeowner was not injured.
MLIVE had these related reports on the incident
Read more on MLive:
Mother mourns mentally ill son, father of 4 who died in home invasion
GoFundMe started for Clare father of 4 killed in home invasion as investigation continues
On the brighter side, he’ll still be voting in 2022 & 2024...
IF we can save JUST ONE LIFE————————————
A new jobs program, building Dematoriums.
GREAT news! Thanks for posting.
When seconds count, police are only minutes away.
Michigan already has castle doctrine.
CC
“Ambrozaitis went on to write the homeowner showed great restraint and did not fire his gun until Lighthall charged at him.
In conclusion, the prosecutor wrote the homeowner was legally justified in shooting Lighthall and she would not be bringing criminal charges against him.”
Clare County is a good place and reasonable people are in charge of things.
We live just a bit north of it.
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