Driving drunk, wrong house, pounding on door....more than enough bad decisions here.
In this case fatal ones.
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Sad story. Jokes coming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Don’t drink and pound.
Tract housing kills again.
Idiocy is fatal.
Driving drunk was his first mistake.
It only got worse from then on.
These things don't happen in a vacuum.
They probably allowed his drunken behavior. They accepted things like pounding on the doors like an animal.
All of which is unacceptable behavior and deadly when you take that show on the road.
I’m curious at what point the guy was shot. Was he “pounding” on the door, or was he actually trying to get in? I’d be reluctant to pull the trigger as long as the guy was outside.
...and apparently was confused about which house was his because they look alike he was drunk off his arse...
There. Fixed it!
A drunk Kennedy! Who would have thunk’it!
As long as the guy was outside, what was the harm in waiting for the cops to come and shoot him?
About 15 years ago, I was a single professional female living in a studio apartment, when I was awakened by three men pounding on my door, screaming in Spanish. Just writing this, I can feel the fear all over again. They were tall and black — that’s all I remember (looking thru the window). Their Spanish wasn’t very good. I didn’t have a gun — so I screamed through the door that the police were on their way and to get the hell out of here. Who knows what evil God protected me from that night? I assumed they had the wrong apartment — but still — anything could have happened.
I have considered getting a gun, but I can’t justify it, now that I have four young children — even as a single (adoptive) mother.
I had a friend who went to the wrong house drunk at 3:00 AM and luckily for him the police arrived as he pounded the door and shouted for his friends to let him in.
He got charged with burglary, spent the weekend in jail. Judge correctly said “Pounding on the door and asking for friends is not burglary.” My friend pled guilty to drunk and disorderly and got time served plus a year’s probation.
But on the bright side, he didn’t get shot.
My Grandfather had a house in Detroit years ago, and all the houses were built and painted almost identical along the street.
A few times each year their house would be woken up by a guy beating on the door wanting in, only to find it was the drunk neighbor wondering why his wife locked him out of the house again.
Grandpa always laughed about that when he told the story.
Why is the D.A. even considering bringing charges against the homeowner?
Officers were called to the home at 9:50 p.m. Sunday on a report of a burglary in process. They found Kennedy in the backyard. He had been shot once.He rang the doorbell, then went to the back door and 'pounded' on that when no one answered. But then someone inside fires through a closed door not knowing who was at the door?
The kid was wrong (for driving drunk) but sheesh, letting loose with a bullet through a closed door. Okay, they were scared but that is reckless endangerment. What IF they didn't kit the kid. Where would that bullet have landed? In little Sally's bedroom a ½ block away? (happens in Chi a lot)
There's some vital details missing, peoples age inside, or a 'drug house', but the prosecutor is going to look at this shooting close.
eons ago when I was single (about 25) and lived with my mom a drunk came pounding on our door one night that he wanted 'in'. I grabbed my .38 and I was ready(1) - but - we kept yelling through the door, that he was at the wrong apartment. He finally stopped and went away.(1) If he broke the door lock and came in he would have been capped pdq.
I think that young man’s parents are culpable, not the home owner who mistook an invasion.