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No charges for Shiner, Texas dad who killed daughter's alleged attacker | abc13.com
No real surprise here baring new evidence. Some of the horror of the day is evident from the 911 call...
No charges from grand jury for Texas dad who beat daughter’s molester to death « Hot Air
I think this is the right call. Unless more information comes out contradicting what facts I know I doubt I'll change my mind in this lifetime. Lethal force legally applied is not pretty or easy to contemplate but rarely does it seem so appropriate as in this case.
God help that little girl and her family.
No real surprise here baring new evidence. Some of the horror of the day is evident from the 911 call...
Flores was killed June 9 on a family ranch so remote that the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldnt locate the property.
Come on! This guy is going to die on me! the father yells. I dont know what to do!
The tense, nearly five-minute 911 call begins with the father saying that he beat up a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, cursing and crying into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.
At one point tells the dispatcher hes going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital before sheriffs deputies finally arrive.
Hes going to die! the father screams. Hes going to (expletive) die!
No charges from grand jury for Texas dad who beat daughter’s molester to death « Hot Air
The only hope the prosecution had of an indictment was some sort of evidence, forensic or otherwise, that the father had beaten the guy vindictively after he was powerless to resist, which would have blurred the line on self-defense. Instead, the 911 call suggested the opposite that dad was genuinely horrified that he had killed the guy, notwithstanding what he had done to his daughter. Its said of grand juries that theyll indict a ham sandwich if the prosecution asks them to. Not only couldnt the D.A. meet that standard here, I dont think they were even close.
I think this is the right call. Unless more information comes out contradicting what facts I know I doubt I'll change my mind in this lifetime. Lethal force legally applied is not pretty or easy to contemplate but rarely does it seem so appropriate as in this case.
God help that little girl and her family.