Could this get any more biased?

[LANTIRN]

Yeah but it only covers inside your house, I believe. He is now a murderer.

Castle Doctrine (in TX) applies anywhere you can legally carry, if you are in fear of your life or fear for someone else's. Shooting a robber who is running away in an alley probably doesn't count, but then I sense the old man gives about zero fucks about that technicality.

[cyclonescott]

That is a terrible write up. I can't decipher if she was shot in the house and fell in the alley later, or if the shooting took place in the alley. Big discrepancy there.

I bet sprayed them in the house and she fell later during the escape. That's why he states that she should be dead, because the last time he saw her (during gunfire in the house perhaps) she was still trying to escape.


Either way, he did society a favor. Fuck thieves.

Kinda the point I was trying to make. The writer went out of their way to make it sound like this guy was living high on the hog, but if you look at the picture in the article the garage he is standing in front of is run down. I also don’t think he chased her into the ally and shot.

[2011GT]

Watch the video. It seems as if her and the guy both escaped out the back door. The woman caught a bullet in the alley way behind his home. As much as I hate thieves this old man is probably going to get charged.

[SS Junk]

Slippery slope. Probably be formally charged and it will be decided in court.

[Baba Ganoush]

Yeah I watched the vid just now. He's a defense attorneys' nightmare. In his situation, mum's the word. But he's all "yeah I smoked that bitch, and I don't curr!". Good luck to him.

[SS Junk]

This is almost like the Byron Smith case in Minnesota, and he be someone's prison bitch.

[Sgt Beavis]

Yea that was one pretty pathetically written article. It is very hard to decipher whether or not the guy is 100% in the clear for his actions. The way this is written, it sounds like he shot her, then she begged for her life and he shot her again. I could see how she could also be saying that just before he shot her twice.

[Broncojohnny]

I wouldn't trust one word of that pile of shit article. Take that fucking link down and stop sending them money with clicks.

[2011GT]

I wouldn't trust one word of that pile of shit article. Take that fucking link down and stop sending them money with clicks.

Who is paying them?

[racrguy]

Who is paying them?

Advertisers.

That being said, here in Texas he had the right to shoot them in the back if they had any of his possessions and he thought there was no other means readily available to get them back, best I recall.

[lowthreeohz]

Wrong. Don't you want to be a cop? lol

http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/northeast/news/article/Texas-Castle-Doctrine-law-protects-our-3507040.php

"But Texas law, like Florida's, states that if a person has a right to be present at a location where force is used, has not provoked the person against whom the force is used, and is not engaged in criminal activity at the time the force is used, is not required to retreat before using force to protect themselves.

This means that if we are standing in our front yard, a mall, a grocery store, or any place we have a right to be legally, we are not required by law to retreat but may defend ourselves if attacked.

Our law clarifies that people are entitled to the presumption of reasonable use of force to protect themselves."

How long have you owned a gun, 6 months? Lol.

I'm no lawyer, but if it occurred as written, I think you're wrong. Once she was running away, his pursuit of her into a public alley with a weapon in hand, isn't really defending one's self. The castle doctrine affords you the right to defend yourself and your property, not chase people away and execute them. I believe if she had some of his possessions on her person and he feared them unrecoverable, he may have half a leg to stand on.

[IHaveAMustang]

I believe since it was at night it might go better for him.

In Texas, if it's night and someone is stealing your lawn ornament, you can put them down.

During the day...no bueno

[lowthreeohz]

I believe since it was at night it might go better for him.

In Texas, if it's night and someone is stealing your lawn ornament, you can put them down.

During the day...no bueno

Eh. I'm not sure its near as black and white as that.

[Zfan]

He's old, he can get away with it.

[KBScobravert]

I believe since it was at night it might go better for him.

In Texas, if it's night and someone is stealing your lawn ornament, you can put them down.

During the day...no bueno

It is a defense to prosecution if I remember right. Has to be at night and you have to believe that you would not be able to recover the property without the use of deadly force.

Shoot someone for running away with your yard Gnome and you might not have a lot a leg to stand on. Shoot someone for driving off in your truck and you have a better chance of beating the charge if the DA charges you.

Wasn't there a report a few years ago of a guy mag dumping his AK into his own car to "stop" the thieves from getting away with the very car he just riddled with holes?