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Has anyone heard about this case? The Houston Chronicle article is much more detailed than the ABC News report. The father and his two sons were pushing their broken-down truck down the street to their house, and 50 feet from the house another car struck them, killing the two boys.
Police say that the father ran to his home, got his gun, and came back and shot and killed the drunk driver. No gun was ever found, the guy's hands tested negative for gunpowder residue, and his wife says the father stayed nearby the whole time trying to revive their dying son (the other was already dead).
I'm no sure what to believe, but I wouldn't want to be on that jury. If the guy is guilty, I could see the jury giving him the lightest sentence possible. On the other hand, it's hard to believe a father would leave the side of his dying son to get a gun and shoot somebody. The lack of gunpowder residue is strange too.
What do you think?
Last edited by katygirl68; 08-18-2014 at 11:00 PM..
I think that someone must have shot the man, obviously.
What if the father shot him? What if you were the responding officer? Maybe you fudged a few lines. Maybe you told the man "Now is a good time to take 5 minutes and wash the living hell out of your hands and change shirts." What if you were so disgusted with a drunk killing a man's sons in front of him, and the man responding as he did, and thinking "What can be gained from further ruining this man's life with a long trial?"
I don't know. I don't know if I can feel angry toward an officer who obstructed justice in that manner. It is an obstruction of justice.
That's just one possible theory.
There are many theories, I'm sure.
The above is a story my father told me, as a child. It happened almost exactly like what you described, except "Ran over the man's son and was stumbling around the lawn laughing about it."
The officer responding did just what I said.
True? urban legend? I don't know.
One really wonders...would it, or would it not, be for the greater good?
Has anyone heard about this case? The Houston Chronicle article is much more detailed than the ABC News report. The father and his two sons were pushing their broken-down truck down the street to their house, and 50 feet from the house another car struck them, killing the two boys.
Police say that the father ran to his home, got his gun, and came back and shot and killed the drunk driver. No gun was ever found, the guy's hands tested negative for gunpowder residue, and his wife says the father stayed nearby the whole time trying to revive their dying son (the other was already dead).
I'm no sure what to believe, but I wouldn't want to be on that jury. If the guy is guilty, I could see the jury giving him the lightest sentence possible. On the other hand, it's hard to believe a father would leave the side of his dying son to get a gun and shoot somebody. The lack of gunpowder residue is strange too.
What do you think?
It sounds strange, for sure. The jury usually has no say so regarding sentencing. They may try to find him guilty of a lesser charge, but the Judge will sentence him. It seems like when people take the law into their own hands, Judges usually "stick it to them" (see cases where abused women fight back). If I'm on the jury, I say "not guilty" of any and all charges. That's the only way to guarantee this man won't go to prison.
Because the father is partly at fault for their death.
So you should expect death for pushing a car?
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