According to the article:
"Merritt Landry, 33, fired one shot at a teen when he saw him in his front yard on Mandeville Street in the Marigny around 2 a.m., according to the NOPD."
According to the specific language of the Statute, the use of deadly force is not allowed unless the person against whom the deadly force is used was in the process of breaking in the dwelling or had already broken into the dwelling. Shooting someone who had merely trespassed into the yard is not justified.
Edited to add: I am assuming that the homeowner was inside the dwelling when he shot the intruder who was in the yard.
Of course the shooting wasn't justified. You don't shoot someone because you think they might be going to break into your house. You lock your damned door and phone the police, like any other normal, responsible person would do.
So, the guy with the gun is the numbskull, but the kid who scaled a fense onto someone else's property is what? A genius?
You guys are fucked in the head.
The boy shouldn't have scaled the fence and entered someone's property, but he hadn't even attempted to break into the home when he was shot. Just because someone trespasses on your property does not automatically mean they are going to break in.
Its not relevant as to why he wasn't tucked up in bed. The idiot who owned the house decided that instead of locking his doors and phoning the police, he'd go hunting ******* instead.
What was the kid doing trespassing, climbing over locked gated, at 2am?
How was the home owner to know the kid wasn't going to break in?
IMHO, the homeowner did nothing wrong what-so-ever.
There is nothing "obvious" that the kid was taking a short cut.
Doesn't the idea of private property mean anything to anyone anymore?
According to the law, as posted by The Professor, the man did indeed commit a crime.
ARE YOU ******* SERIOUS ?????
you need to attend a safe gun handling class......., ooops....! i forgot, you are in Australia, that aside, in my self defense class the instructor and CCW instructor both instruct from an FBI, approved class on when to use your weapon to take out a perp, so let's determine what your definition of "F2F" means.. OK?
Yeah, I am serious, you useless sack of shit.
Know what we'd do if someone trespassed on our property? Lock the doors, and call the cops and tell them of a home invasion in progress.
That's the responsible thing to do. Defend yourself with deadly force if the intruders enter your home, but we don't shoot first and ask questions later.
Too many gun nuts in America.
