“Too bad for Guzman, perhaps he learned his lesson.”
Maybe the father will have learned the lesson about showing some self-control when he’s serving 15 to 25 in prison.
Sheesh, I can’t believe anyone would actually defend this.
Some excerpts:
The teenagers decided Guzman would come over Tuesday when her parents left. He arrived about 9:30 a.m., parking his teal Toyota Tercell down the street. Morgan drove there to pick him up. They went to the bedroom and "eventually fell asleep," according to a probable cause affidavit filed by Investigator Jeremy Felton of the Benton County Sheriff's Office.Her dad called just before 11 a.m. to ask how things were going, which was unusual, Morgan told police. A few minutes later, she heard her dad pull up in his truck and go into the garage. Guzman climbed into her closet. Her dad came inside asking, "Where is he?" Morgan tried to pretend nothing was unusual, but eventually pointed to the closet, court documents state.
Reed opened the door to find Guzman sitting with his back to the wall. Reed began beating Guzman in the face with the pool stick. Morgan said Guzman kept saying, "Stop, I'll leave," but her dad wouldn't stop even though Guzman was bleeding, she told police.
Reed left the bedroom, the teenagers closed the door and began pulling Morgan's dresser in front of it. Someone then fired four shots through the bedroom door. After the first shot, Guzman turned away from the door and was struck in the back with a bullet. He immediately couldn't feel or move his legs, Morgan told police.
When police arrived, Reed was waiting on the front porch.
In an interview with Felton, Reed said he'd warned Guzman not to come around without a chaperone. He said a friend called that morning to say Guzman's car was parked down the road. Reed called his wife and their youth pastor to say he was going to the house to check it out. Upon arrival, he got a pool stick from the garage to defend himself, court documents state.
When he entered his daughter's bedroom, he saw Morgan adjusting her clothes and the bed messy. He assumed the teenagers had sex. He opened the closet door, yelled for Guzman to get out of the house, and Guzman began kicking him in the legs, he told Felton. He admitted hitting Guzman with the pool stick.
Reed said he went to his bedroom and retrieved a loaded gun from his nightstand. He went to the bedroom and fired "warning shots up high." He then fired shots toward the bottom of the door. He heard Guzman yell he was shot, so he backed away from the door and put the gun back into the nightstand drawer. His wife arrived and told him to wait on the porch for deputies, court documents state.
I have to agree with you. I am surprised, but I suppose that a lot of this is just bravado: "I'd do that if it were my daughter!"
This is a guy who left the room to get a gun, to use deadly force on an unarmed opponent, and he fired blindly through a closed door. All of this while his life (or the lives of his family members) were not in jeopardy. In fact, his actions put the life of his own daughter at risk. Plain and simple, this was a case of attempted murder. This is a guy who needs to spend a very long time in prison.
Mark
I guess the father should have cracked open a beer gave it Guzman and said “Hey Bucko, now that’s the way to nail my daughter! And that sneaking into the house thing, after I told you not to come in without permission....classic.