The District Attorney’s Office in Houston, Texas says that no charges will likely be filed against the father who shot his teenage daughter’s boyfriend dead.
Prosecutor Warren Diepraam told FOX 26 that “[w]hat was going on in the person’s mind at the time of the shooting what they found out after the fact isn’t going to matter a whole bunch. They’re looking at what he was thinking when he made the decision to shoot.”
The decision to shoot, according to police, was made by the 55-year-old homeowner after his 4-year-old son informed him that there was a strange man in his 16-year-old daughter’s bedroom. It was 2:20 a.m., and the homeowner immediately grabbed his gun and entered his daughter’s bedroom to find her under the covers with an unknown teen.
He allegedly told the teen not to move, and police say his daughter initially claimed not to know who the teen was. At some point during the discussion, the father perceived the teen to be moving for what could have been a gun and shot him dead.
The teen was unarmed, and his daughter later confessed that the dead teen was her boyfriend, and that she had snuck him into her bedroom.
When I wrote about this earlier I predicted that the father would likely not face any jail time, though I have to admit I was hoping I would be wrong about that.
In my opinion this man had every right to threaten that young man with an ass whooping and throw him out on the street, but he did NOT have the right to take his life.
And do you know what? If he had smacked that kid around he probably would be MORE likely to face charges.
That is how screwed up this country has become.
Sorry, but the daughter caused all this. The man thought someone was raping his daughter. The daughter killed her bf. And as far as charges I am very surprised that this black man is not being charged but any white man would not be charged with this in Texas.
ReplyDeleteOh, bullshit. Her angry dad came in pointing a gun! It's unfair to expect a teenage girl to be thinking clearly under those circumstances.
DeleteBristol screams loud enough to drown out any gunshot. Right, Tawd?
Deleteanon at 1:41 PM , never been raped or had your daughter raped huh? Get back to me when either one has happened.
DeleteFuck you all, I hope if you are ever raped that help comes and walks out.
DeleteSo you killed a man for raping your daughter but then you found out after the fact that your daught was a dirty whore who didn't know how to keep her legs closed... why do tell about your slut daughter has anything to do with this. Because having a daughter givin up the puss is no reason to kill anybody.
DeleteSince when has "trespassing" become something that warrants murder? Many years ago, in a town near where we lived a young boy was found climbing a fence between yards. The homeowner shot and killed the boy who was unarmed and ten or eleven years old. For all anyone knows, he may have been in the yard looking for a ball. Shooting first and thinking later is never acceptable behavior.
ReplyDeleteI can understand the father's panic in this case but he should have wondered why his daughter had not screamed, why she was not screaming when he came into the room; he should have suspected that she knew the boy.
The whole family will have to live with this forever. Too many Americans have to learn that guns are not our friends; I just hope that they don't have to learn "the hard way."
Beaglemom
Maybe you should go and volunteer with a sexual assault program. No all rape victims scream, sometimes they are too frightened, sometimes they have been threatened. Do not judge how any rape victim would act since that is exactly what any person would assume had been going on if they found a strange man that their daughter didn't know in their bedroom at 2-3 am.
DeleteBeaglemom did you have your husband neutered?
DeleteMaybe all dads should have lock their bedroom doors and hide in their closets when they are alerted to intruders in their daughters bedrooms in the middle of the night. And hope that when the intruder is done with the daughter they wont find him cowering in his closet.
You may be one of the biggest fools on earth beaglefool.
1:25 No one has mentioned rape except you. The teenager invited her boyfriend into her bed....that is not rape! The father found them - shot the kid who was unarmed when he could have used other methods. Years ago these matters were handled w/o force as to guns and kids were not killed.
DeleteWe are in one messed up world today. Kill, kill, kill (w/a gun) is the name of the game and it makes me sick to my stomach!
Ah, 1:44 PM troll assumes a new identity. Looking for a reaction? Move along, shithead. There's your reaction.
Delete2:35, Im sure that you can join Beaglemoms husband in the closet and discuss your feelings while hoping the best for your daughter.
DeleteYou are a fucking fool, 2:46 PM.
DeleteListen here, 2:26 PM, been there done that. Don't you dare talk to me or Beaglemom about your inadequacies that would make you shoot first. You're a moron.
Delete3:09 why dont you just go to the closet or hide under the bed until this post blows over. It is safer there.
Delete4:24 PM - see 2:54 PM.
DeleteBecause you're being called out on your shit when you don't have a clue. Gee, not hard to figure out. Welcome to IMers.
DeleteSorry bub i've likely been visiting this blog longer than you have. I just don't jump on the liberal fantasy island train on all the stories Gryph posts. So glad to be independent.
DeleteIndependent too, but I value life and killing someone just because he's in bed with your daughter that she welcomed in is bullshit.
DeleteI'm surprised no one suggested a hysterectomy for the girl. Something tells me the father would have acted the same, no matter who got fixed or supposedly lives in a closet.
DeleteI am a rape survivor, thank goodness my daughters are not. If anywhere along the line my daughters would have made noise/screamed/cried out, I would have taken out anyone in their rooms. You can call me a "troll" if you want, but until you either have been a rape victim or stepped up to defend one STFU. I would step up in a heartbeat to have my daughter not go through what I have been through and ANYONE in a bedroom who is not invited will be shot.
Delete@ 1:56 PM yes I would assume that any man on top of my underage daughter who says she has no clue who he is might be a rapist.
DeleteNot trespassing if the daughter let him in and no one asked him to leave. And anonymous 7.46 this was a child on top of her. They were kids you stupid ignorant fuck.
DeleteThe guy should be arrested, put on trial, found guilty and serve time for the killing (w/a gun) of the teenager who had no gun!
ReplyDeleteI really AM so tired of this shit. You hear me, $arah Palin, you sick little bitch?
ReplyDeleteI think the daughter will be ostracized by her peers for iniviting her boyfriend to spend the night and then denying she knew him thus getting the boy shot and killed. The boyfriend has a family and friends. What will they say about her?
ReplyDeleteStand your ground. Aren't they intelligent? NOT.
DeleteYou folks live in a fantasy world where no bad ever happens and no-one should be allowed to protect themselves or their family in their own homes and neighborhoods. Fools the lot of you. Except for you 12:24 you seem to know what is going on.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break. No one is living in a fantasy except you. Every fucking day we see all the accidental shootings of children, pregnant wives, kids sneaking in after curfew, people who have been in accidents knocking on doors, men on their own property shot by stupid neighbors, cops shooting themselves in the leg, children shooting each other, men in movie theaters shooting popcorn throwers and drunk morons who shoot innocent kids who play loud music.
DeleteSo we know a hell of a lot of bad things happen in homes---And as far as protecting your family with a gun---its usually a dead family member shot by another family member.
Get the NRA and the bullshit that you are safer with a gun in your home out of your head. You are just another clueless sad sack gun accident waiting to happen.
Just another uneducated troll, angela. Let it go....
DeleteIt is funny 2:11, I never even mentioned guns in my post, but you wrote 3 paragraphs about guns, gun control, and the NRA. I guess your agenda has nothing to do with the bare bones reality of this case, and everything to do with gun control.
DeleteAll I mentioned was the duty to protect your house and family.
1:23
DeleteYou're the one who lives in a fantasy world where the slightest disagreeable thing is a threat to your masculinity and a reason to kill. People like you are all over the right wing blog comments' sections, showing your false bravado and expressing your fantasies of killing somebody. YOU got a gun so that means YOU win no matter whether it's a truly dangerous situation or a minor disagreement. Then when someone is laying there dead, the bravery is gone and they claim they "were so afraid, blah, blah, blah". We're back to the Wild West days where there were shootouts in the middle of the street, except for a couple of things: those shootouts are Hollywood's version of the 19th century because when people did wear guns openly, they had more sense than the gun nuts of today.
So were you talking about the duty to protect your house with a pointed stick or a piece of fruit? How about harsh language? Again--give me a break.
DeleteAnd you're an ID-10-T, 2:31 PM.
DeleteAt the moment of the shooting, if all provided information is true, the father had every reason to pull the trigger... guy in daughter's bed, daughter claimed she didn't know him, told not to move, and he continued reaching for something.. You can sit here after knowing the rest of the information unavailable at the time of the shooting and pass judgement, but the only guilty person in this instance is the daughter...
DeleteTell me angela- there is an intruder in your house in the middle of the night in your daughters bedroom, what would be your protection of choice?
DeleteBULLSHIT.. 2:50 PM. When did a gun solve anything? Take your vilgiante justice and shove it up your ass.
Delete3:02- are you implying that protecting your own home from an unknown intruder at 2am is vigilantism? It bears repeating, an unknown intruder inside your home at 2am- and also add in your teenage daughters bedroom.
DeleteSeems to me if a 4-year-old had to alert the dad, they weren't strangers. How dumb are you?
Delete4:25 really? A 4 year old is not allowed to alert their father to a stranger in the house at 2am? Who exactly should they tell? Should the 4 year old have confronted the stranger?
DeleteBy the way if you read the story the girl lied and originally said she did not know him, but in your mind everyone is supposed to know who this is.
How dumb are you 4:25- maybe you should hide in the closet with the rest of the folks to scared to protect their daughter in their own homes.
Do you listen to you, 5:01 PM? She lied and screamed like Bristol does in bed. You just proved my point. Thank you.
Delete@ all the responses, what would you do if ypu walking in and saw someone having sex with your daughter and she said she didn't know them?
DeleteAs a rape survivor I would assume rape, what would you assume?
I am so sorry, 7:33 PM, the wound that never heals. My aunt was raped mid-forties through an unlocked door her daughter forgot to latch. The difference is he was invited.
Deletewhat would a sane person do - even a sane person with a gun? Keep the gun on them, tell the daughter to call 911 or get you the phone. If they move,shoot to stop, not kill.
DeleteSeeing the father's photo, I am surprised he's not facing charges. Texas doesn't exactly have a good reputation when it comes to people of color and guns. Sad situation all around. I hope the victim's family sues for wrongful death.
ReplyDeleteBut I bet the victim was black - so tht ain't murder in TexASS.
DeleteOur laws don't call for the death penalty for a 17 year old boy who is caught in bed with a 16 year old girl. The first reports said the dad had already called 911 when he shot the boy. Why didn't he wait for the police? IMO, he didn't wait because he had his excuse to kill a kid. The daughter was probably terrified at being caught and terrified that her dad was standing there with a gun pointed at the boy. Daddy wasn't "protecting himself or his family", the danger was over. Daddy was pissed off - with good reason - but not enough reason to take a youngster's life.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot more going on in these phony SYG cases than people being so fearful that they have to shoot. Again, IMO, there's at least a certain number of them that are control freaks who demand that whoever they are confronting has to obey them immediately or they'll kill them. In the "popcorn shooting", it's now come out that the Reeves, the killer, was himself texting right before he killed the young father for texting - the movie hadn't even started. There were only 25 people in the theater, the old guy could have moved. But hey! Why move when you gotta gun?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-fla-texting-shooter-also-sent-a-text-from-theater/
You're kidding me.. why didn't he wait for police while there is someone in his daughter's bedroom??.. possibly killing or raping them??? Really?!? When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...
DeleteAnd fap TAPP is borne with her biggest fan.
Delete2:52
Delete"...possibly killing or raping them??? Really?!? When seconds count, the police are just minutes away..."
Oh for gawd's sake! Are you saying the man couldn't tell if his daughter was being raped? "Possibly" isn't reality. The boy could have "possibly" been trying to convert the girl to Fundamentalist Christianity. Or he could "possibly" been helping her with algebra. You can't kill based on "possibly". Before someone kills, they at least need to not be living in a fantasy world otherwise they might "possibly" be charged with murder.
Got all my times wrong responding to the troll posts because I'm so damn angry. BEEN there and pulling a gun was NEVER an option. It will never be an option to the educated.
DeleteSharon, you forgot.... the female body has a mechanism to shut everything down. The Dad called 911. All he had to do was get himself a cup of coffee and wait, afterall he was the only one armed in the situation. Instead, he CHOSE to lift the gun, look through the site and pull the trigger.
Delete@ Sharon, you seem to be ( and your daughters) the lucky ones. I am glad you feel so safe that you never have to worry about an attack from a rapist.
DeleteI can tell you 2 things, one is that my rapist is lucky enough for me to be awake before I named him and that my husband has not/ and hopefully never will hear the name of someone who has raped her.
@3:43
DeleteYou would never pull a weapon to protect yourself from rape? Really? I have been raped and I would gladly pull a weapon. You are a fucking idiot.
That girl might as well join a convent. I don't think she will ever have sex again, what with all the guilt, plus the fact she was in bed when her father shot her boyfriend, and the blood likely splattered all over her and her bed...
ReplyDeleteOf course the right wing reply would be, "of course she will. Those niggers like to fuck when they aren't doing drugs and robbing businesses."
DeleteYou realize that you just came up with that extremely nasty remark on your own 3:13, including the quotations, nobody else has said that from the right wing or otherwise. And you somehow manage to label others as rascist when you write BS like that. Who is the hypocritical one here?
DeleteYep, because it's who the right wing is. Want to go head to head on racial statements your queen has made? I have all night. I also regularly read c4p.
DeleteTranscribing what we have heard from racistrightwing for decades doesn't make someone a racist. Claiming it does just shows how stupid you are 3:48. And BTW let me put this on your level - EAT SHIT AND DIE.
DeleteSomething's big time wrong when charges aren't put against someone who shot an unarmed guest in their home because he didn't know what was on the shooter or the boys mind at the time of the shooting.
ReplyDeleteNewsflash 1 Teens have sex
Newsflash 2 Teens do lie
Newsflash 3 Daddy got away with murder, What's in it for the boy's family?
The irony here is, when Former President George Walker Bush (The one who paints his legs in the bathtub) was Governor of Texas, this man would have stood trial, lost, and spent life in prison.
News flash
Deletea woman ( age 16 and above) is raped every 45 seconds
women ( of all ages) are attacked in and out of their homes
Sometimes women are even raped when someone else is in the home.
Now, besides being a defense atty for rapists, what was your point?
No fool
DeleteIf someone smacks a goddamn dog, the laws are upheld to the fullest. A female child INVITES a male child to her house, lies when she gets caught because she doesn't want to get in trouble, and the boy gets a death sentence from an armed judge, jury and executioner. Why did he call 911 in the first place?
DeleteI never said I was a defense atty for rapists. I was just pointing out facts about teenagers.
Newsflash, we're not as far apart as you think.
Calling the dad a murderer is not a fact Anita- thats your irrational opinion and most definately not a fact. He wasn't judge, jury, and executioner- he was a man woken up in the middle of the night by his 4yo that there was an intruder in his house and he reacted. So you are making stuff up, non-factual- liar.
DeleteI gotta wonder if any of you superlibs are actually aware of home invasions, rapes, killings, by armed thugs and criminals? And if those folks get the upper hand on you, the ability to protect your family and daughter is gone.
LOL I'll call him a murderer, because that's what he is.
DeleteI think this is my last vist here and I guess I won't miss it. This father saw his daughter being attacked and she said she had no idea who he was. The Dad took his daughter's word. Personally, I think she needs a few years in jail and not him, he did what he needed to do.
ReplyDeletePS
when you leave your comment please leave the date of your rape. It never leaves you so you should have it handy.
Too bad you can't read. There was no attack for the father to see. There was no rape. There was no intruder (the male was invited). There was an unlawful killing.
Delete7:54PM, you say you are leaving, but how will we ever know? "Anonymous" is such a common name...
DeleteNO asshole, even with those conditions, you don't shoot to kill. You hold them until the already called police arrive. Or, if you must shoot, you shoot to injure, and disarm, not kill.
DeleteThe picture above triggers so many questions for me.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the father in a stretcher? Why is his hand bandaged up? What happened? Was a fight reported as well? It's hard to make an assumption about who was justified or not when no one knows the details of what happened.
Everyone needs to call down. At the end of the day, two families are torn apart forever because of a father's initial decision to protect his daughter based solely on his daughter's rash decision to 1) enjoy herself with the young man's company and then 2) protect herself when they got caught.
To the victims of rape, including myself, projecting your circumstance on this young lady is not warranted, however, the scars from our ordeal does add a layer of justification on the father's actions based on what he was told by BOTH his children.
As a former soldier and military weapons trainer, there is nothing wrong with owning a gun even though I would probably never own one myself. In my opinion, it is not fair to demonize a father for protecting his family from an intruder after being awakened by his youngest child at 2am in the morning. Sleepy, fearful, angry, determined, etc....
Attacking people for sympathizing with the father is pointless and unnecessary. I abhor the thought of rapists justifying their actions just as much as I abhor the thought of gun enthusiasts justifying and provoking murder without just cause. But, in this case, without knowing all the details....it APPEARS that the father was reacting to a threatening situation within his own home and had just cause to protect a family member that was directly in harm's way by means that were available to him at the time.
A terrible life lesson and consequence for all involved. My sympathies and condolences to the families and those negatively impacted by this ugly reminder of their past experiences.
Not at all Father is the killer
DeleteSuper Fan In Atlanta, dealing with people on this post is like trying to talk sense to the Tea Party... There are extremes on both sides... You can't have a reasonable debate or conversation with them... What you said, make so much sense...
DeleteA mother of two small kids had to use her AR-15, when three young men broke into her house. Her husband was on a business trip and taught her how to use the gun. She gave a warning shot into the wall first and they ran out... One got his gun out of his pocket and went back inside, and she shot at him and he ran... The police caught all three and the gun the guy had was fake... She could have killed three unarmed young men... If they were in her children's room, she would had killed them.
This man may not had a choice... He told the boy NOT TO MOVE... The boy reached for something under the cover. He had to make a split second decision. The daughter lied and say she didn't know him, she is responsible for the death of the young man... She never introduce this young man to her father before dating him, her baby brother didn't even know him... If this her boyfriend, why her family didn't know him? Shame on her, she need need to be punished! The same people who calling the man a murderer, would have probably reacted the same way to protect their kids...
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DeleteHe's crying, he's upset he took an unarmed young man's life. He should be upset. His hands are bagged, not bandaged, so that they can be examined for gun residue.
DeleteThis thread in answer to Superfan in Atlanta is the sanest thing I've read so far. I got chomped for pointing out that all teens lie, have sex and the dad got away with murder for being judge, jury and executioner. Accused of being an defense atty for rapists, when I didn't even mention the word rape.
DeleteSeriously, scan the comments. "You're stupid" "Hey Asshole" etc.
These are REAL people and this crime was preventable and unnecessary, but since the girl already lied, the victim is dead, the truth was buried and no one's held accountable.
The thing I can't wrap my mind around was the calling 911 part. and the reason since he chose to shoot to kill.
Thanks for your comments and cool heads, it's refreshing.
Imagine the exact same scenario but without the presence of a gun. The kid might have gotten the beating of a lifetime but he probably would still be alive today and two families would still be intact.
ReplyDeleteR'amen to that!
DeleteLet's see, you have a gun on the guy, you tell your teen daughter to get out of the bed, pull back the covers so you can see the guy, and you or she calls 911.
ReplyDeleteWant to bet if the dead guy was white, daddy would be facing murder 1?
What if the daughter becomes pregnant from her encounter with the boy and carries the baby to term as any right-to-life family would insist?
ReplyDeleteShe will have the baby... The baby will ease the pain of the lost son of the baby father family... As a African American, I know she will keep the baby and her family will support her decision and that baby will be loved.
DeleteMy parents raised 4 daughters. There were boyfriends hanging around our house all the time. When my sister and her boyfriend were caught in bed together, my parents did something far worse than shoot the young man, they made him endure the "walk of shame". He had to come out into the living room, sit wrapped in the sheet, and wait for his parents to arrive and explain to my dad what the boy was doing. That young man sat there for hours, shivering cold, while the parents discussed the situation in the kitchen. (I am sure they were having coffee and talking about baseball or something) My sister was on restriction for the 'rest of her natural life' as my dad put it, and only allowed to leave the house to go to school. Nobody got beaten, nobody got shot, but everyone got the message. A few years later, my sister married that young man, and a year after that, my beautiful niece was born. That was over 40 years ago. Seems to me, parents don't know how to be parents any more.
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