Now it gets murky, can opening the storm door be attempting to illegally enter?
Wouldn't want to be the gun owner in Missouri, look what happened to those lawyers that used guns to protect themselves in St Louis.
“Lester has since been charged with two felonies”
Sounds to me this has NOTHING TO DO with Stand Your Ground.
If the young man rang the doorbell and waited, then what is the stand your ground issue? It seems like for SYG to operate, you would need to be in danger.
I feel so sorry, that this is an old man. Yet, I knew that was most likely.
I fear he is guilty of manslaughter. But, he doesn’t deserve to be lynched by these bastard race-whiners and rioters.
The only racial component is that the man probably thought a black kid coming to the door at 10 pm can’t be a good thing. Otherwise Im sure the old man didn’t shoot him only because he’d love to shoot a black guy. But that is how these race-whiners and hustlers and the liberal media make it out to be.
Why do all these young people keep going to the wrong address? It seems to be an epidemic.
if the kid attempted to open the door, that changes everything.
It was a horrible accident, but at least justified.
But if it can be proven that the kid never attempted to open the door, then it was a bad shoot and still a horrible accident, and the man should at a minimum pay for the kids hospital bills.
> he heard Yarl pulling on the storm door <
That’s probably true. But that alone did not put the homeowner’s life in danger. Trying to break through a door, yes. Just pulling on it, no.
This is obviously a very tragic case. Gun guy messed up bad. Ten years imprisonment seems about right.
Hmmm
I have neighbors who once in awhile knock on my door and if I don’t get there to open it will put something inside my storm door if it is unlocked.
Ten o’clock at night might scare me if someone was pulling on or jiggling the storm door handle. If they persisted, I would dial 911 first.
So it seems like this, the kid made a mistake and went to the wrong house thinking his siblings were in there. He rang the bell and jiggled the handle to get their attention.
The old man was terrified when saw the person and heard the pulling on the door handle, so he opened the door and shot through the glass.
It was tragic error on both their parts. It could have been worse if either one died.
Oh, and this is pure speculation because the facts are murky and change often.
I saw this remarkable quote in another article.
“If the roles were reversed, how much outraged would there be in America?” civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has been retained by the family, asked CNN on Monday.
Uh, absolutely none, race hustler Crump. We’ve had incidents of white and Asian children being murdered in cold blood by black hoodlums and there is deafening silence from the BLM types.
God I hope not. This guy who shot the kid was wrong. He’s damn lucky he survived. Ten years in prison should teach him not to randomly shoot people who don’t have bad intentions.
Wouldn’t want to be the gun owner in Missouri,
St. Louis has a Soros-backed DA who not only went after the governor (and got him using underhanded tactics0, and the lawyers who dared to display firearms to a mob crashing into their neighborhood, but also is pretty keen on letting real criminals off the hook.
But most of MO is quite conservative, criminals do get prosecuted, and trust me, the legislature will not be touching ‘Stand your ground’ or the ‘Castle doctrine’
This had nothing to do with “stand your ground.” But it will be deemed to be all about it for political fodder.
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Neither of which helped the mcklutskies (spelling, cant remember their names right now) in their state which has both those doctrines/laws. The castle doctrine covers even the outside of the home- the grounds which you own I beleive. They were charged with brandishing, but they had a perfect right to aim their gun wherever they wanted as they were in fear for their lives and were protecting themselves and their property after the violent destructive mob declared that they were going to kill them.
This is not a Stand Your Ground case.
No sale! Nope. Not buying it.
Never let any opportunity go to waste! Dims will never quit until we are completely and utterly defenseless.
In the first sentence, we know that the homeowner is White, the kid is black and there is, supposedly, a"racial component" to the story.
We only see a photo of Yarl, in a hospital bed, eyes closed, head wrapped in bandages, giving the impression that he's clinging to life.
In fact, he's already home.
I'm guessing a graze wound that didn't penetrate the skull, but we have to keep the narrative alive.
The most common form of home invasion is for the perp to ring the bell and when the door is opened, to push their way in, especially, with elderly.
The whole "wrong house" narrative is going to take a lot more evidence for me to believe.
If the kid got aggressive and was trying to open the door (fingerprints) late in the evening then that changes a lot.
Most 84-year-old men don’t have much fight left in them physically, their bodies are mostly hollow and frail which means they can stand, and they can walk, but they can’t meet a teen’s charge and use their bodies in a fighting situation, the bones and muscles have been replaced with arthritis and brittle bones and joints that don’t work.
We’ll have to see how the evidence goes.
Hard to claim one is in fear for their life if they walk up to the door and open it.
I read, yesterday that Yarl said that it took the man an unusually long time to respond. It didn’t say if he was knocking or ringing the doorbell. It certainly didn’t mention opening the storm door. I also read that the Michael Brown lawyer was speaking for the family.