Basically, 16-y.o. kid sees someone rifling through mom's minivan in the driveway and then, after the guy has already closed the door and started walking away, kid fires two shots from his upstairs bedroom window. He hit the car burglar in the back, and the dude staggered a couple doors down the street, whereupon he collapsed in a neighbor's yard and expired.
But wait! There's more!
It turns out that the teenager wasn't the only one in the house with an absolute and total lack of discerning legal judgment that night. Turns out mom was no Einstein herself.
According to court documents, when police spoke with the 16-year-old, he told them, "My mom got cameras, I checked. Dude got a ski mask, hoodie, checking every car in the neighborhood..."If the prosecutor is feeling froggy, mom could get fitted for an orange jumpsuit alongside her offspring on charges of IC 35-47-10-6 - Dangerous control of a firearm, but she'd have the defense of being too dumb to realize that sniping dudes in the back from the second floor was a felony.
The shooting suspect's mother allegedly told police she woke up from the Ring camera and was scared. She called for her son, and she said he then got a gun. According to court documents, the mother then said, "He shoot two, two times I think."
Police claim they found ammo, along with two spent shell casings, in the 16-year-old's bedroom, and a 9mm gun in the mother's room.
Folks, for the umpteenth time, your gun is not a Batman Badge.
Here's my periodic reminder that "the basic standard of "A reasonable fear of immediate, otherwise unavoidable, death or grievous bodily harm to yourself or another innocent person" applies everywhere. In your car or in your yard, in your home, while you roam, or on a boat while afloat. Otherwise you may not shoot them, Sam I Am."
You can't just whack a dude for rifling through your glove box, nor can you ask your kid to do it for you.
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