Posted on 05/16/2013 4:10:46 AM PDT by marktwain
A north side man will not face charges after he shot a man who was smashing the windshield of his car in the driveway of his home, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Police say the homeowner, who is in his fifties, looked out the window of his house in the 1400 block of Thorain, which is near Basse and Blanco after he heard the sound of glass breaking. It happened about 1:30 this morning.
He saw a man smashing the windshield, grabbed a gun, and opened fire, striking the vandal in the chest.
The vandal, who turned out to be the gunman’s stepson, tried to run but collapsed a block away.
Doctors are trying to keep the man alive. Police say the man was defending his property under the state’s ‘Castle Doctrine’ law and will not be charged.
His own stepson, even.
Ah, yes, the culture of life.
Stepson, eh? I’m doubly sorry to hear that. It’s going to be hell around his place for some time to come.
Having dealt with step-children before I know it can be a real emotional roller-coaster.
There’s more going on here.
“The vandal, who turned out to be the gunman’s stepson”
To me that is incidental and makes no difference.
Legally, that’s true.
However, it does complicate his domestic situation.
I could misunderstand you, but are you making a moral equivalence between ripping a defenseless, unborn, living child to pieces within a womb to shooting an unknown violent person destroying someone’s property and possibly in that unhinged situation, that person’s house or their life?
In some circles, that's known as a call of nature.
I’m saying life is cheap. Everywhere.
Get off my lawn.
Whenever the shooter and the person shot know each other, it requires greater scrutiny.
Otherwise, most 1st degree murders would go like this.
1. Kick in own door.
2. Invite victim to home to show you their new gun, knife, bat, etc.
3. Shoot victim upon entry.
4. Call police to remove body.
Stop bleeding on my lawn.
“the gunman?”
Is that their way of showing they disapprove of the man protecting his own property?
Has been long before the “castle law”.
San Antonio, BTW....
San Antonio, BTW....
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Thanks for the location, which seems to be left out of many stories/titles... Was intending to go look it up when I finished reading the thread.
Thanksgiving just ain’t goin’ to be the same this year.
I love TX. In most states that would be “murder”. However, considering that property requires significant time and energy to acquire and maintain, the vandal was stealing part of his life by destroying the car. I’m okay with solving that problem - permanently.
His own stepson, even.
Many, many unknown things.
How the relationship was, whether there were drugs involved, so many possibilities that we do not know.
Yes, all such shooting should be carefully investigated. Forunately, only a small number of homicides involve immediate family:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-misleading-murderer-that-you-know.html
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