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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The’d best have some reliable evidence....
My initial reaction to this story was that the deceased continued his creepy camera work elsewhere, and the reception was less friendly, with no police involved. Do they have anything at all to link the Navy Man to the second crime scene? If not, no dice.
My first instinct without a lot of evidence to the contrary is that the Navy SEAL would not likely have followed and murdered the guy. Those guys are usually the best of the best.
Looks to me like the guy tripped over his camera.
I just spent half an hour reviewing everything I could find online.
The only evidence of any sort appears to have been the previous altercation.
If they don’t have dna or witness that puts him at the scene, they don’t have a case.
...while he was cleaning a knife at the top of some nearby stairs.
The stab wounds themselves could actually be evidence if they can match (or closely match) a knife. And the location of the wounds might be telling of someone with training and/or on offense or defense. If the knife had the serrated top edge (like a combat knife), it would leave some tell tale wounds.
That said, the evidence would be circumstantial unless they matched DNA to the Soldiers equipment or visa versa.
I know a SEAL we did some work with who related this story of him on the invasion of Panama. When he and his team went in, they encountered some Panamanian forces. The got into a close fight with them. One of the Panamanians tries to stab my SEAL acquaintance in the stomach. He catches the knife with his bare hand on the way in, forces the knife back out and away from the Panamanian, and cuts his throat with it.
This Anderson guy was not killed by a SEAL. He would not have languished in an alley with head and knife injuries. He would simply be dead.
Not enough to convict. The dead guy was beaten and stabbed. Did the Navy man have any injuries to his hands/body giving any indication he'd beaten or stabbed anyone? Any wounds himself from the dead man fighting back? He appears to have no facial injuries in the mug shots. Anything on his arms/legs showing defense against blows, given that a SEAL (if he is actually a SEAL, it's not really confirmed, just inferred in the article) would likely be able to defend against face/body shots better than most.
He felt bad and just offed himself. Pervs do that.
Agreed. The SEALs I’ve known were taught to move through targets, without emotion. They wouldn’t want to leave an injured target behind that could still pose a threat.
Given the prior physical contact between the two people involved, they would have to find the knife with both of their DNA on it, otherwise any DNA transfer at all would be blown out of the water by the defense based on that earlier contact.
Exactly. It was obviously suicide. Check the camera. Did he leave a note or an incriminating photo?
I tend to agree with you on this guy WAS NOT killed by a seal!!! I am thinking someone there at the incident at Santa Monica followed the guy maybe even some gang member saw it go down and police do nothing!!! Gang members don’t take a hankering to little girl predators !!!!!!
Those officers committed a crime, ordering ‘destruction of evidence’. What F’ing idiots.
The SEAL didn’t do this .
Beating in the head and knifed and left to bleed out is how hood rats fight.
Skeptical... The SEAL would not have used a knife when a broken neck would have sufficed.
Seems most implausible..... if a SEAL had done it the guy would have been dead quick. Much more likely that the scumbag had attracted the attention of others.....
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