Father shoots 17 year old daughters BF in her bed. She told dad she didn't know him.

[Ken Ford]

so when I was a kid I could have been arrested for going over to a friend's house after he invited me, unless I went inside and found his parent's to ask first? right lol

Where did I say he should have been arrested?...
She did not have any legal authority to allow someone into the house, if it did not conform to her fathers wishes.

I know the law as good as any, and I would have done the same thing under the OPs reported circumstances. And if I was investigating the case I would not make an arrest. If other facts surface I might change my opinion.

 

[Bear44]

Where did I say he should have been arrested?...
She did not have any legal authority to allow someone into the house, if it did not conform to her fathers wishes.

I know the law as good as any, and I would have done the same thing under the OPs reported circumstances. And if I was investigating the case I would not make an arrest. If other facts surface I might change my opinion.

Yep. This a terrible incident, but it was a good shoot. Looking at the situation from the fathers perspective at the time, any other action on his part would have been irresponsible. He did not know the kid was her boyfriend, he did not know the kid was unarmed. He DID try to handle it without the use of deadly force. He called 911 and tried to gain control of the situation (DON'T MOVE!), but the kid apparently decided to argue with a man with a gun in his hand and moved anyway.

Nothing that is discovered after the fact is relevant. Only what was known at the time determines if this was an appropriate action on the father's part. It was.

He had every Reasonable Cause To Believe his daughter was in mortal danger.

 

[GeauxLSU]

Stranger in your house standing above you're daughter's bed + castle law = bang bang goodbye

I saw the facebook profile of the man that got shot and it's not surprising at all that he died the way he did.

Link?

 

[TresMonos]

Link?

Me no facebooky but the name is Johran McCormick....if you have a FB account you can probably find it.

 

[jamakn]

Stranger in your house standing above you're daughter's bed + castle law = bang bang goodbye

I saw the facebook profile of the man that got shot and it's not surprising at all that he died the way he did.

What did you see on/in the profile that would lead you to make such a statement?

 

[Hammerhead636]

What did you see on/in the profile that would lead you to make such a statement?

When he isn't too busy "snorting lines off the bible" it looked like he was trying to get with every teenage female within a 100 mile radius.

 

[offbeat404]

Lol

 

[7pt62THOR]

Wow. Sad. Glad I never got caught.

 

[swampbuck62]

Link?

or I call BS

 

[Bulldawg165]

I started a thread earlier today about the defense of others when they can't legally defend themselves. I guess nobody wants to visit that grey area lol