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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."

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Going to call bullshit on that.

The drunk kid smashed a window and kicked the door repeatedly. This wasn't a quiet kid accidentally wandering into a room.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hard to shoot someone who's made an honest mistake when you don't have a gun...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honest mistake ain’t busting in a window tho. I’ve locked myself out of my own house before and I’ve never went “I’ll just break a window to get in”

I’d be terrified if someone was trying to break into my house at 2am.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You hear stories about people with dementia doing this all the time. Guess they don't deserve to live anymore either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The ex did once. I came home and had to cover a basement window with plywood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also hard to shoot someone who hasn't made an honest mistake and is actually breaking in specifically to do you harm, when you don't have a gun....so your comment is total nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe we should just stop shooting people all together.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If someone intends to harm me or immediately threaten my life, I'm shooting them. There is no moral or ethical argument you can make that will invalidate that. I consider the right of self-defense to be an inalienable right even if that requires lethal force.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t call breaking and entering into the completely wrong home at 2 am “an honest mistake…”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the presidents of the US did it regularly and he never got shot for it.

The kids only real crime was being too drunk to understand what was going on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you choose to get drunk, you've also agreed to accept the responsibility for your future drunken actions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Which US president would break into people’s homes? Sorry, I am unaware here…

And no, he was breaking and entering too. Even if that was not his intention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also hard to shoot somebody breaking in to your home with violent intentions when you don't have a gun.

And the only way to find out what the intruder's intentions are is to wait until it's potentially too late to defend yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just make dishonest mistakes and you'll get voted as president.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is the US mentality. Yeah, kid was very dumb, kid was in the wrong. Kid should probably be arrested and spend some time in jail to learn his lesson. Nope, death penalty.