Man intervenes in a domestic dispute. Kills one of the people involved. Other half of the domestic says she was never in danger:
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local...cle_2efa36d4-94c6-51ed-a2fc-042311b9ffe9.html
This is one witness:
This is what the shooter told the press:
This is what the girlfriend who the shooter says he was trying to save said to the media:
Witnesses gave this account of the domestic dispute:
So it looks like the “victim” was really the aggressor....not the first time I’ve seen that.
What a mess. One dead, an unborn child who will never know his father, a citizen who intervened now having possible murder charges hanging over his head.
I suspect there is more involved here then we the article tells us. I bet the Good Samaritan wishes he didn’t get involved.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local...cle_2efa36d4-94c6-51ed-a2fc-042311b9ffe9.html
ST. LOUIS — A man who was involved in an hourslong argument with his pregnant girlfriend outside a home in the Dutchtown neighborhood was shot and killed after he was confronted by three men, a witness said Saturday.
This is one witness:
The witness told the Post-Dispatch that the man who was ultimately shot was arguing with the three other men when he got a gun from his vehicle and told them to keep their hands off him and leave him alone. One of the neighborhood men walked away but returned with a gun and shot the man in the head.
This is what the shooter told the press:
A 63-year-old man who lives nearby identified himself to the Post-Dispatch as the shooter. He said he wished it hadn't happened but that he had no choice.
"He was choking the girl," the neighbor said. "No one was helping. He pulled out an AK (47). I couldn't let him kill her. He was choking her … as far as I could tell."
This is what the girlfriend who the shooter says he was trying to save said to the media:
The dead man's girlfriend, who identified herself as Melissa Renfrow, said she was not choked. "They killed him. It was not self-defense," she said.
Renfrow, 21, said, "He never touched me physically. We were in a verbal argument. He would never hurt me or his son. … We loved each other."
She identified her boyfriend as 23-year-old Craig Williams. Their son is expected to be born in two weeks, she said.
She said Williams didn't point his gun at the neighbor who shot him.
"He carried a gun because he lived in St. Louis and it's very dangerous," she said.
Witnesses gave this account of the domestic dispute:
The witness said Renfrow could be seen hours before the shooting repeatedly hitting and shoving Williams, and that Williams did not strike her in response. Police were called to the scene during the argument but left before the shooting occurred.
The couple was speeding around the neighborhood in separate vehicles for a while. When they pulled up to Williams' residence, he got out of his vehicle, approached his girlfriend's vehicle and demanded that she return his cellphone. It was during this encounter that the neighborhood men intervened and Williams got a gun out of his vehicle, the witness said.
So it looks like the “victim” was really the aggressor....not the first time I’ve seen that.
What a mess. One dead, an unborn child who will never know his father, a citizen who intervened now having possible murder charges hanging over his head.
I suspect there is more involved here then we the article tells us. I bet the Good Samaritan wishes he didn’t get involved.