Vesta111, please report to jury duty because their lawyers are going to dress these boys in altar server vestments and...Thinking about it, I'm wondering if he shot them, without making physical/verbal contact, would he have had 'in fear for his life' defense?
Yes, I think so. Say you awaken to noise and find 4 kids armed with claw hammers out smashing the windows of you new car. Or find 4 kids that broke into a back bedroom of your home in the night.
First though is did these kids find a big brothers stash of heavy drugs ???? I have known some 8-10 year old kids that are 5' 2 " 0r 3" and lots of grown men the same size. I would not want to run into any of the lot especially 4 of them destroying my property in the middle of the night.
Shadows are tricky at night, Poor cop mistakenly killed a 5 year old as the childs shadow made the child look 6 feet tall.
Mouse packs they call the youngsters in the city that want to join a siblings gang. They have to earn their bones and do go out some are armed with knives, a gun or ball bats and 3+4 kids pray on the elderly or the street people.
Hard to believe that kids that young have and will kill someone especially if armed.
With all the hard drugs around and kids finding them it is no wonder children have become just as dangerous as adults, More so as we don't expect a child to come at one with a weapon.
My heart goes out to the Man that walked in on the 4 soon to be criminals. Very brave man to actually manage to get these kids in a safe place to hold them for the police. Yes the closet was the safest place for these kids and verbal abuse of the weapon carrying monsters is the top of ridiculous.
Had he allowed the kids to run home, then he would have no proof they were even there that night. Would have come to a he/said of one against 4 others.
So one parent is angry his kid had marks on his neck, but his kid was holding a deadly weapon, and then the Man had the audacity to cuss them out ?
This Man had every right to do one heck of a lot more to these creepy kids then stuff them in a closet.
Me, I would have held them in the closet for 12 hours or so then called the cops to report I had found the kids locked in the closet but had no idea how they got there.