(TX) Robbery victim makes mistake of chasing shooter, now under indictment...

[TarpleyG]

I remember a story a few years back in Texas where a guy chased down someone who had stolen something from his car and shot and killed him. He, too, was indicted but did not get convicted.

Not that I advocate this type of behavior but sometimes people emotions take over. I really sucks to work so hard for something and then here comes Mr. Low-life Crackhead and he wants what you got and he don't want to pay you for it. I have a temper (although it has gotten much better as I get older) and I could not fully say that I would never do something like this.

GT

 

[4v50 Gary]

Let's see, the kid's been shot before he disarmed his assailant. Seems to be that we have a crime of passion. Any normal person who was attacked and shot would be enraged and would also respond like this kid did. It would reduce this from a first degree to voluntary manslaughter. Notwithstanding that, Mike Irwin does make a good point about no-self defense since the assailants fled. Personally, I hope the jury throws it out as a self-defense case (in Calif, they may do that just because of the low IQ of the jury).

Gotta go back to the Common Law.

 

[Art Eatman]

El Tejon, I don't know what went on with the Grand Jury.

The guy went on trial for voluntary manslaughter, for shooting his ex son-in-law--in the presence of his daughter and grand-daughter--and he claimed self-defense. We found him not guilty on account of the daughter done it.

And the daughter never got charged with anything, which was as it should have been. Righteous shoot.

Art

 

[Sean Smith]

I'm hard-presed to imagine a situation where I've been shot, I have a gun, and the guy who shot me isn't going to die if I can catch him.

I don't offer that as advice for the right thing to do. And I don't say it to tell you how tough I am... I would hope that I would break contact once the immediate threat to my life is over (assuming the criminals weren't shooting random people or something). I just don't think that it is reasonable to expect a person to behave otherwise under the stated circumstances. It would be wise if they did act differently, but you can't impose a life-or-death situation on somebody like the armed robbers did, and then wonder why the would-be victim opts for your death if they can do it.