Posted on 06/17/2016 9:54:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The attorney for a Navy SEAL accused of beating and stabbing a man to death said that his client was innocent and that he had initially confronted the man because he was taking photos of young girls on the Santa Monica Pier.
Attorney Anthony Salerno on Thursday said his client, Theo Andrew Krah, was on the pier Saturday afternoon for a paddleboard competition when he saw the man eyeing young girls and taking pictures of them.
“Theo confronted the man and demanded to see his camera,” Salerno said. “The man refused. Believing that the man was committing a crime, Theo physically restrained the man and asked for a bystander to call for the police.”
Santa Monica police arrived and asked the man to show them the photographs on his camera, Salerno said. The officers saw several inappropriate photographs and asked the man to delete them, Salerno said, but then let the man go
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Roughly an hour later, Anderson was found lying in the 1300 block of 5th Street — about a half-mile from the pier — suffering from head trauma and stab wounds, police said
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I tend to agree with your synopsis. SEALs are trained to kill fast and efficiently. A Navy SEAL could just snap your neck like a toothpick.
It’s not destruction of evidence if there was no crime. Taking photographs of people in public, even if they are children, isn’t in itself a crime, even if it is scumbag behavior.
Krah says he drove back to SD by himself soon after the original incident. I hope there is time-stamped security cam evidence proving he was out of the area before the perv’s death.
Even if they have DNA, it would be from when he held him for the cops. It wouldn’t mean that he met up with him again later.
What a klutz!
That’s what I was thinking. Some gangbanger or other criminal saw what went down and followed the victim. Criminals hate pedophiles.
Paging Leroy Gibbs - sounds like a plot for NCIS!
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