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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded to a call in the 3700 block of Sierra Highway on Monday around 4:45 p.m. According to LASD, a woman – who was driving a gray compact car – was being chased by her ex-boyfriend, a 26-year-old man who was driving a white Chrysler sedan.
The tense chase led to the cars hitting each other at least once. Both cars eventually stopped in the middle of Sierra Highway near Avenue S. LASD was told the ex-boyfriend tried to break into the woman's car as she was calling for help from family members who had called 9-1-1 for her.
The woman's father pulled up to the scene in a white Ford Ranger pickup truck, got out of the vehicle, and shot the ex-boyfriend in the head, ultimately killing him.
I agree. The father should not be charged.
The ex-boyfriend attempted to kill his daughter hitting her car with his. This seems justified to stop the crazy perpetrator.
The Dad is probably going to prison, unless California law allows you to shoot the (as far as we know) unarmed attacker of another person. This is going to be a difficult case, especially since the Dad ran off, and has not been interviewed by the police.
From a legal perspective, what happens to the dad will depend largely upon what was happening at the moment he shot the ex-boyfriend. Was the ex-boyfriend still trying to break into the young lady's car or was he sitting or standing beside his own car doing nothing?
Self defense is a valid defense only if it is to stop an ongoing immediate danger. Once the attacker stops attacking and distances himself from the person he was attacking, then it is no longer an ongoing attack or an immediate threat.
A person is not legally justified in killing someone who is not an IMMEDIATE threat. What he did a few minutes ago, but has since stopped doing, is not legal justification for shooting/killing him. That's the law. We may not like it, but it's the law. Retribution is not the same thing as self defense or defense of others.
Maybe dad knows things about the exbf that justified this.
It seems Dad may have had reason to believe ex-bf was about to kill his daughter, as he had his hands around her neck as her father drove up. What was he supposed to do, stand around and let it happen?
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