04-03-2017, 12:35 PM
(04-03-2017, 11:44 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: this one is more controversial
http://abcnews.go.com/US/homeowner-arrested-fatally-shooting-intruder-found-shower-police/story?id=46536513&cid=clicksource_81_null_bsq_hed
Guy notices his door is kicked in and walks in and finds someone in his shower. They exchange words, he leaves, gets a gun, comes back and kills the guy. He's being charged with 2nd degree murder.
A guy taking a shower in your home isn't an imminent threat to cause bodily harm to you or others so deadly force isn't needed to protect yourself or others. Now if the guy taking the shower charged an armed home owner, that's a different story.
An imminent threat is necessary to use deadly force whether it is stand your ground or the Castle Doctrine.
The homeowner left. Then returned.
That's why he is being charged. When the home owner left he was safe. At that point, he should have called the police. That's why they get paid the big bucks to deal with home invasions.
