Man shoots robber in back a bunch of times

@wajoma said
Heat......of......the......moment.

I wish it didn't happen, I take no pleasure in it, but people wandering around robbing ordinary folk need to know that is a high risk activity which is as it should be.

kevs having a rant from the comfort of his armchair, has been watching too many action fantasies, has never had his life threatened and what that can do to the te ...[text shortened]... han skydiving plus the hate for the person that has created that situation = unpredictable outcomes.

@kevcvs57 said
My life has been under threat on several occasions, perhaps you should’ve served your country and you’d now what danger looks and smells like, this psycho was in no danger whatsoever, his victim was lying on the floor with gun shot wounds IN HIS BACK. I get why a snivelling wannabe right wing hard man like yourself doesn’t understand what constitutes danger but trust me it doesn’t come from the enemy you’ve just shot in the back

@kevcvs57 said
Have you guys ever heard of using a gun to incapacitate someone, that was a rhetorical question.

@kevcvs57 said
And another blood thirsty fascist shares his neurosis with the world.
If you shoot a an incapacitated human being in the head because your angry or frightened you need to be in jail or some kind of state facility until your safe to let back into the community

Mother of the dead robber says she talked to him on the day of the robbery and he promised her he was going to "try and do better".
He was just starting to get his life turned around, didn't do nuffins, etc etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/mother-of-houston-taqueria-robbery-suspect-killed-by-customer-says-son-promised-to-do-better/ar-AA16hOoK?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=71bbc50f4750476987843d56ddd1a94c

@no1marauder said
Jesus, if he was holding the robber's gun, I don't see how he can argue the threat still existed which is a requirement for self-defense.

@wajoma said
;^)

kev is the wannabe hard man bragging up (after some tiny bait from my good self) what he saw on some action movies and got so excited he thought he was actually in the movie. I didn't comment on how dangerous the robber lying on the floor was my comment was on how unpredictable a situation like this can be, a situation bought on by the robber himself, a situation that ...[text shortened]... d of what occurs.

At any rate looks like the last few rounds were into a corpse, so no harm done.

@no1marauder said
I suppose if the Coroner or Medical Examiner determines the prior shots would have been fatal, the Grand Jury could determine the head shot wasn't the cause of death and thus not murder.

@no1marauder said
I suppose if the Coroner or Medical Examiner determines the prior shots would have been fatal, the Grand Jury could determine the head shot wasn't the cause of death and thus not murder.

@athousandyoung said
It was attempted murder at the very least.

@jj-adams said
Is that your professional legal opinion?

https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/24/3/819/481622

Under modern LOAC, the legal right to use armed force is limited to the objective of rendering individuals hors de combat (taken out of battle) or, in the collective sense, to defeating enemy forces. Parties have a right to kill enemy combatants during hostilities, but that right is constrained when killing is manifestly unnecessary to achieve those ends. In some circumstances, it is thus unlawful to use lethal force when a fighter could clearly be rendered hors de combat just as easily – and without endangering the attacking party – by injury or capture rather than death. This rule is embodied in the prohibition on superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering.

In Australia:

https://amp.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-who-attempted-to-murder-corpse-faces-25-years-jail-20151216-glorrt.html

Man who attempted to murder corpse faces 25 years' jail

A man has been convicted of the attempted murder of another man believed to have already been killed by an earlier gunshot, writes Mark Russell…

Darrington claimed the pair had struggled with a gun during an altercation at a Melton South house in the early hours of March 22, 2014, before Mr Matskassy was accidentally shot in the head.


Darrington claimed he then shot Mr Matskassy a second time when he was making jerking and twitching movements to put him out of his misery.

The medical evidence suggested these movements could have been involuntary responses after death.

Crown prosecutor Peter Rose, QC, told the court Darrington deserved a significant jail sentence given he had clearly intended to kill his victim in what was an "odd situation".

@athousandyoung said
It was attempted murder at the very least.

EDIT

The guy wasn’t intending to shoot a corpse simply to disfigure it or for target practice. He wanted to make 100% sure this man did not survive.

Is it ok for soldiers or police to shoot downed enemies in the head? What if they were already dead but the soldier wasn’t sure? These are war crimes not harmless target practice.

@athousandyoung said
I’m not a legal professional so no. Are you a professional journalist?