He was 17. She was 16. She invited him in. And he DESERVES to be dead in your opinion?
Absolutely.
“He was 17. She was 16. She invited him in. And he DESERVES to be dead in your opinion?”
I wouldn’t say -deserved-, but result was reasonable. The daughter said she did not know the intruder, the intruder ‘reached’ for something while being confronted. Those two factors changed the result from a family drama into a funeral.
I’m not sure what I would have done, but what I would like to think I would have done is not shoot. At least until I got more of an answer than “I don’t know who he is, Dad”.
As stupid as the boy was, the girl doesn’t seem much brighter - and as strong of a firearm and home defense enthusiast as I am, I would hate to take a human life because of not one, but two stupid people.
I no doubt would be more than just angry - but don’t think I would kill over an obvious lie.
Yes.
I don't know how you do things, but my daughter, at 16, had no authority to invite anyone into MY house without my expressed permission.
Those were not the facts available to the father at the time. He sees a stranger in bed with his daughter. If this had been a boyfriend that the family was familiar with it would have been a different story. So the kid’s a stranger to the girl’s father. The girl claims not to know him. The father has no idea how old the kid is or whether he’s a known sex offender or not. He shoots the guy after the guy makes a sudden move. Could have been going for a weapon. There were a LOT of unknown variables but the facts known to the father justified the shooting.
Yes, the kid deserves to be dead based on the father’s perspective. Yes, the father is innocent of any wrongdoing and the girl is guilty of behavior which led to the kid’s death. Would the father act differently if he knew all the relevant facts? I’m guessing he would. But that’s a separate issue.
It is not whether he deserved it, but if he lived in Texas, he should have known better.
“He was 17. She was 16. She invited him in. And he DESERVES to be dead in your opinion?”
She is a minor child under the age of consent (17) and there is no exemption from prosecution even if both parties are under the age of consent. Tragic set of circumstances, but I can’t in the end fault the father if things really happened the way he says.
Not obeying commands from the daddy holding the gun is a bad move at any time, especially if he thinks you’re raping his daughter.