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by Mike S
Wed Dec 22, 2021 4:56 pm
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: TX: Houston owner tells man to leave, he knocks down his Mom, owner shoots and is arrested
Replies: 8
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Re: TX: Houston owner tells man to leave, he knocks down his Mom, owner shoots and is arrested

Unless there's more to this story, I don't see a legal justification for shooting the fleeing trespassor.

Knocking down the mother of the shooter was perhaps an assault with contact, but if the assault was not continuing/ongoing, I don't think he has a TPC 9.33 defense justification.

If the tresspassor was actively committing assault against another, there might have been a justification for using force, or deadly force (depending on the totality of the circumstances). But I don't see that from this limited article.

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