local Star basketball player killed after breaking into someone's house

[jmoh]

Blame the parents for letting their kid drink alcohol at 16 and not watching over him.

[hutch1999]

"climbed into a neighbor’s home through a back window"



Doesn't matter if he was drunk, he still was in the wrong.


Whenever someone hits someone and kills them while under the influence, "oh he was drunk" is not valid defense for manslaughter...

[DrRez]

Sad part is the homeowner will probably go to prison. I dont care what the circumstance if someone breaks into my home in the middle of the night (especially while I have a family) I am within my rights to do whatever I deem appropriate.

[SiNiStEr94]

ITT: 16 year olds are incapable of harming others because they play basketball

[Farley1324]

Darwin award?

Sad part is the homeowner will probably go to prison. I dont care what the circumstance if someone breaks into my home in the middle of the night (especially while I have a family) I am within my rights to do whatever I deem appropriate.

I HIGHLY doubt that.

[lsiberian]

Sad part is the homeowner will probably go to prison. I dont care what the circumstance if someone breaks into my home in the middle of the night (especially while I have a family) I am within my rights to do whatever I deem appropriate.

Yeah right he was defending his home. Assuming he has a good lawyer he'll be fine.

[MiscVirgin69]

dont care. he was asking for it. going into the wrong house at 2:30am? son your asking for it


glad he's 8ft under tbh

[YesWayNoWeigh]

Wow why would that scumbag kill an innocent kid

[MacDaddy68]

so its okay to gang rape and murder people if your under the influence? Im sorry but the blame is entirely on the kid and the parents.

[BruceBruce325]

when i was a teen and drunk i never snuck into my house... i just rang the doorbell

is that not common practice anymore

[xITHYPHALLIC]

He could have been drunk and mistaken that house for his own. Climbing up the stairs to avoid his parents.... I live in loudon county and they're are plenty of white ppl stuck in the past and would kill minorities just for the fun of it. When an intrider enters yours home your supppose to call the cops and secure yourself and ur family in a room. Then only if the intruder trys to harm ur family and break through that door, gives you reason to kill.

Negged

[Egul]

FOR ONCE, the race of the person was not stated once in the article. GJ reporter man.

they said basketball player...

[xXBrutalXx]

How was the homeowner to know the intentions of the intruder breaking into his house at 3AM?

you didnt know? you are supposed to sit down with him and give him a questionare to fill out

[UThinkImCute]

The homeowner punished him for not knocking on the door.

[thqmas]

shouldnt of gone in wrong hours, dont blame the persons kids fault

[EricEst1978]

How can some of you take the position that his alleged intoxication offers him a pass in this situation? If the same idiotic 16 year old got behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated and killed himself, you'd be the first to say the outcome was justified... and all of this nonsense about identifying your target, etc. is moronic at best.

BRB, holding homeowner protecting his family responsible for target identification but not intoxicated teenager for residence identification...is this real life?

Asserting that said homeowner should have interrogated the intruder before protecting himself and his family, as if he should have assumed the person breaking in to his home in the middle of the night was just an unarmed teenager... and what if it wasn't?

What if it was an armed attacker, or attackers who had no qualms responding to his questions with gunfire, or violence? He had a responsibility to protect his family by any means necessary. He did just that.

[xITHYPHALLIC]

How can some of you take the position that his alleged intoxication offers him a pass in this situation? If the same idiotic 16 year old got behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated and killed himself, you'd be the first to say the outcome was justified... and all of this nonsense about identifying your target, etc. is moronic at best.

BRB, holding homeowner protecting his family responsible for target identification but not intoxicated teenager for residence identification...is this real life?

Asserting that said homeowner should have interrogated the intruder before protecting himself and his family, as if he should have assumed the person breaking in to his home in the middle of the night was just an unarmed teenager... and what if it wasn't?

What if it was an armed attacker, or attackers who had no qualms responding to his questions with gunfire, or violence? He had a responsibility to protect his family by any means necessary. He did just that.

This. Hindsight is 20/20

[cheeseNmills]

when i was a teen and drunk i never snuck into my house... i just rang the doorbell

is that not common practice anymore

Do American parents not give their kids their own keys to the house? (srs)

[steeperdolphin]

so they're assuming he thought it was his own house, yet he entered through a window. hmmm.

i guess they could pitch that he was sneaking back inside his "house" to avoid his parents? i don't know, need more info here. whoever owns the home of the party (or hangout or whatever) where he got drunk might wanna lawyer up as well.

This

[hublife]

Obviously, this is the homeowners fault. He should have assumed that it was a local HS sports star that had gotten drunk and climbed through his upstairs window.



liberallogic/10

[repsDTGdaily]

Do American parents not give their kids their own keys to the house? (srs)

not until you're 18 years of age.

[BruceBruce325]

Do American parents not give their kids their own keys to the house? (srs)

we had a garage door opener... you knew the code you could get in. problem was when it got too cold it would malfunction.

but still....doorbell? nobody?

[cheeseNmills]

not until you're 18 years of age.

Does every family follow this rule? Or is it more of a cultural thing?

[erick15]

Yeah right he was defending his home. Assuming he has a good lawyer he'll be fine.

He most likely will not een go to court for this. In VA he will not be charged for any crime unless the authorities believe it was unjustified, which it clearly was not. The only thing that could happen would be for the kids parents to sue the homeowner, which would go no where.

[Patrick-DK]

houses do look alot the same when your drinking for the first times this could very well happen, a shame if the boy just made a mistake.

How the fuk would the father know what the son was thinking? Don't believe that story for a second. You know where you live no matter what, lol @ confusing houses

[BruceBruce325]

Does every family follow this rule? Or is it more of a cultural thing?

no. some kids have keys some don't.

usually you don't get keys till you're old enough to drive.

[HopkinsRavens]

the responses in this thread remind me of when people ask why cops don't try and shoot armed criminals in the legs to avoid having to kill them



these things happen so fast people don't have time to think about all the possible scenarios. this guy was sleeping in the middle of the night and is woken up to his house alarm going off, he went and got his gun and was trying to protect himself.

brb announcing im armed to the intruder so he knows where i am and that i have a weapon so he can kill me easier? Nah im going navy seal silent style and capping the first thing that moves

[CCAurora]

If it was me, I wouldn't have blindly fired my gun, but it doesn't mean the homeowner is in the wrong for doing it... everything done wrong was done by the kid.

[Brosnbroccoli]

Obviously the home owner was in his right to do so, but in my opinion, he made an absolutely retarded decision and to be honest I could never see this happening in my country (no hate on USA, would love to live there, srs.)

But to be fair, I don't really see how you can blame anyone for this. It just happened, and it's very sad.

[CCAurora]

we had a garage door opener... you knew the code you could get in. problem was when it got too cold it would malfunction.

but still....doorbell? nobody?

You rang the doorbell when sneaking back from a party drunk in the middle of the night?