[Vedderman]

Originally Posted by Megamel29 ↗

I still don't see why the guy would have a reason to shoot her.

No one can see that with the dearth of facts available to us. You know, at best, about 10% of the details that happened on that porch. Maybe he had no reason. Maybe he had a very good reason. But whatever the case, what is the point in speculating when we have almost no information whatsoever?

We know she hit a parked car around 2:30 AM and fled from the scene with a minor head injury when the witnesses called 911. There were multiple witnesses to the accident and her family's lawyer has stated those facts.

We know that over an hour after the accident she wound up on the shooter's porch.

We know that the shooter told the police that he thought she was breaking into his home and that he later claimed that the gun's discharge was accidental. His lawyer has released the following statement:
"There was a lot of banging. A lot of noise. And it didn't sound like just knocking."

We know that she was shot and killed. The preliminary autopsy has revealed that she was shot in the face and that the shot was NOT FIRED FROM CLOSE RANGE.

No other facts have been released yet so no one can possibly 'see why he'd have a reason to shoot her.'

[ices]

4am in Detroit. That says it all.

However was she just knocking on the door? Did he think it was a trap? Could of been anything but you never know.

[Oswald2001]

See? I told ya.

It's the Trayvon Martin Ghetto Trash Thug Fan Club putting out nonsense.

Drunkenly/Druggedly smashing into cars, leaving the scene of a criminal vehicular misdeed, etc.

Doing who-knows-what for an hour(s) on the street.

Detroit at 4:00 in the morning and pounding on someone's door.

This type of behavior will have a very high mortality rate.


Oh, and uh..."Skittles"!

[Megamel29]

Since he is claiming a misfire, I wonder if he is saying that he accidentally squeezed the trigger, or is he saying there was something wrong with the gun?

[daughterofthenight]

Originally Posted by Megamel29 ↗

Do you really think that man was in danger?

Doesn't matter whether or not we do, apparently he did.

[Pyramid_Head]

Here we go with the blacks making it about race.

[Megamel29]

Originally Posted by Pyramid_Head ↗

Here we go with the blacks making it about race.

The race of the two people shouldn't be an issue. One person shot another person. What needs to be determined is why.

[Pigeon]

"Colourblind" = racism-blind.

[bigjoe]

If a stumbling drunk 19 year old girl shows up at my front door, I won't shoot her.

She may stumble out the house the next morning, with sticky matted hair, soaked undergarments, lipstick smudges around her mouth and mascara streaked tears dripping down her face, but she'll be alive.

[Megamel29]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...#axzz2kmSQS1PB

Michigan homeowner charged in racially fraught fatal porch shooting

By Michael Muskal
November 15, 2013, 9:14 a.m.
A Michigan homeowner today was charged with murder in the racially fraught death of Renisha McBride, a 19-year-old black woman who was shot in the face on his porch.

Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said Friday that Theodore P. Wafer, 54, of Dearborn Heights, faces charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of McBride in the early morning hours of Nov. 2.

Wafer, who will also face a weapons charge, is expected to turn himself in to authorities and could be arraigned as early as Friday.

In recent days, Wafer’s attorney had called the shooting justified, but Worthy said prosecutors disagreed.

“These are the appropriate charges and he did not act in lawful self-defense,” Worthy said at a televised news conference.

The McBride family and civil rights supporters had called for an investigation into the woman’s death at the hands of a white man, and some supporters have compared it to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager shot by George Zimmerman last year in a confrontation in Sanford, Fla. A jury acquitted Zimmerman of murder charges in that case, accepting that Zimmerman had acted in self-defense.

The cases are not exactly parallel since Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who was off-duty, argued that he saw Martin on a public street and that the two had a confrontation during which Zimmerman said he was injured. Zimmerman said the pair grappled and he fired his gun at Martin during their fight.

In the McBride case, there has been no indication that the pair had physical contact. McBride’s family has said the woman was involved in a car accident and walked to Wafer’s home seeking help. She went on to the porch and Wafer fired a shotgun blast at her.

Under Michigan law, a person does not have to retreat into his home when confronted, Worthy told reporters, but for a shooting to be self-defense, “there has to be an honest and reasonable belief of death or grave bodily harm.”

Worthy said there is no indication that standard was met. She said evidence showed McBride knocked on the locked screen door, and that there was no evidence of forced entry.

Despite protests and calls by national civil rights leaders that the incident be investigated, Worthy insisted her office had acted without regard to the race of either party. “Race is not relevant to our charging decision.”

An autopsy released this week ruled McBride died of a gunshot wound to her face, meaning she was facing the homeowner when he fired. A toxicology report released Thursday showed she had alcohol and marijuana in her system.