The homeowner who fatally shot a 20-year-old University of South Carolina student who tried to enter the wrong home on the street he lived on Saturday morning will not face charges because the incident was deemed “a justifiable homicide” under state law, Columbia police announced Wednesday.
Police said the identity of the homeowner who fired the gunshot that killed Nicholas Donofrio shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday will not be released because the police department and the Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office determined his actions were justified under the state’s controversial “castle doctrine” law, which holds that people can act in self-defense towards “intruders and attackers without fear of prosecution or civil action for acting in defense of themselves and others.”
I love how “self” defense extends to whatever people want it to mean. “Self” yeah, meaning they were on the planet I currently reside on.
In this case dude tried to kick the door in, then he broke a window, reached in and started trying to unlock the door. What would you have done?
Not shot someone.
That’s an easy position to take when the house he’s breaking into doesn’t contain your children.
Again, my first response is never going to be shooting someone, ever.
In Canada, where I live, that would be a crime.
Bud you are full of shit.
I hate saying that because you have the marathon symbol and I love old school bungie with a passion, but if someone tries to kick your door down and break your window, if you are not scared for your life then you are just as drunk as he is.
At no point would I think “I should murder this guy.”
In fact I have had three break-ins, and I managed to not kill anyone each time.
Nor did I say you should murder the guy.
When you have someone unresponsive breaking into your house, you have no idea what their intentions are.
Do you think the homeowner said “I want to murder this guy”?
Get off it dude, you’re being a silly goose
Absolute bullshit and you know it!
Not fucking kill them, for sure. Dude, there’s other places of the body you could’ve shot at to make your point. Least of all, study the human body some to at least know where the parts that aren’t vital that you can shoot to, that’ll at least send the bastard to the hospital to be treated.
If a gun is not available, find the nearest hard object and just beat that fucker’s body down until they’re down on the ground.
There is no need to be killing to be involved. When you kill someone over this, you’re in the wrong, by default.
Guns are a lethal weapon, there are no safe places to shoot someone outside of a video game.
Yes there is, but I can make all of you look stupid if I took even five minutes to research what I’m talking about.
I choose to be shot in the pinky toe then
Spoken like only a person that’s never been in a possible life or death situation and that has undergone zero self defense or tactical training.
Yup, lot of video game playing, “I would have done x instead”, captain hindsight people in here. You NEVER point a gun at something you don’t intend to kill.
Remember the dream of this place possibly not being infected by the likes of Reddit? Why can’t dreams ever come true…
Yes because everyone’s natural instinct is to just jump infront of the vehicle as it is moving…
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Dude I’m with you. There’s a ton of shitty gun owner stories but this isn’t really one of them.
He wasn’t just “oh excuse me, wrong house” - he broke the window trying to unlatch the door. Pretty sure if I had a I bat I would have broken his arm, if I had I knife I would have stabbed him. Not saying shooting is necessarily a proportionate response but anyone who says they wouldn’t be scared shitless is a liar.