He rounded the corner into the kitchen, where his wife was standing near the sink. She pointed her hand at him, pretending to have a gun. According to the affidavit, Beasley said he raised the shotgun to his shoulder and fired one round. He said he had forgotten the gun was loaded.
More spouse murdering scum.
He rounded the corner into the kitchen, where his wife was standing near the sink. She pointed her hand at him, pretending to have a gun. According to the affidavit, Beasley said he raised the shotgun to his shoulder and fired one round. He said he had forgotten the gun was loaded.
If this statement is factually true then he is guilty of premeditated murder.
Anyone that handles a weapon must always assume that it is loaded.
You never point at anything you do not intend to destroy.
Sounds like just a very tragic accident. Theres this school of thought that every accident has to be punished as thought here was a homicidal intent. It’s pointless and silly.
And changing the story from something like “i was cleaning it”, to i was playing “clear the house” and forgot it was loaded, seems to be reasonable. It makes him more culpable, so its setting the record straight from his panicked cover story.
IMO,,if his background is otherwise very clean, prison isn’t what he needs. He needs to be sent to schools, CCW courses, Police Academies, etc,, to tell his story to people who handle guns a lot, and to young kids.
He forgot all of 'em were loaded, and while messing with his load managed to kill his young wife.
This happened right in front of his father who was helping them relocate to a new house somewhere else.
I remember that girl well ~ she'd lived next door all her life ~ she'd come out of the house screaming and everybody over there would scatter to the four-winds.
Her father usually kept a car out front with the hood up so all the guys could pretend to be working on it.
That was the only thing that seemed to calm her down.
Well, that and a shotgun blast.
what a dope.
I dunno about this guy.