E. Seminary man charged for backyard shooting
Remember this? A homeowner wakes up and finds a man attempting to break into his garage and confronts/shoots him with a shotgun? Originally charged with unlawful wounding, which is a felony, the homeowner put in a plea of “recklessly handling a firearm.” His judge, however, was partially sympathetic saying, “If I saw this in my backyard, […]
Remember this? A homeowner wakes up and finds a man attempting to break into his garage and confronts/shoots him with a shotgun?
Originally charged with unlawful wounding, which is a felony, the homeowner put in a plea of “recklessly handling a firearm.” His judge, however, was partially sympathetic saying, “If I saw this in my backyard, I don’t know what I would do.”
The original response to the story on North Richmond News was split between strong support of the homeowner and strong opposition. One commenter said:
Homeowner’s word versus jackass would be robber with new piercings. Homeowner wins.
While another:
What he did was probably illegal under VA penal law, given that self-defense laws require an affirmative defense, that is, the defendant “must reasonably fear death or serious bodily harm to himself at the hands of his victim.”
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