By: Jason Hanna and Leigh Remizowski
Source: CNNhttp://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/justice/michigan-woman-shot-charges/index.html?hpt=ju_t2
Paul Wafer, 54, who is from Detroit, was charged on
Friday for second-degree murder. He accidently shot and killed
nineteen-year-old Renisha McBride. She was found dead with a huge shotgun wound
on her face. Wafer thought she was breaking and entering into his home. Police believe
McBride was drunk and disoriented from a car crash before and Wafer shot her on
his porch. He was behind a locked screen door and shot through that screen door
but there was no evidence of Renisha trying to break in. He has no right to
claim that he shot her to stop her. Prosecutor Kym Worthy told reporters Friday,
“I am saying we do not believe he acted in lawful self-defense." No he did
not. McBride did not do anything wrong. Maybe she was trying to get help from
someone. Gerald Thurswell, lawyer for McBride’s family, says that he believes
that all the evidence points to murder but if the jury disagrees they could go
for manslaughter. "She was intoxicated. She may have been boisterous. She
may have been loud. ... (But) this man had absolutely no justification to take
a shotgun and blow her head off," Thurswell said. What Thurswell said was
true. McBride was not doing anything wrong for her to get shot. Wafer acted in an
unjust way. McBride’s family does not believe the shooting was accidental. Wafer
is being held on bail for $250,000. This all seems ridiculous. A young girl who
was just beginning her adult life as a woman was shot in an unjust way. That is
not fair to her and her family.
This is all ridiculous. He shot her for no apparent reason at all. He deserves to get charged for murder because that is exactly what it was, not an act of self defense. It is such a shame that such a young girl lost her life to the careless act of that man. Good article choice.
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