platoonDaddy
02-02-14, 08:05
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The NRA has produced an interview and reenactment of the shooting that occurred in Calvert County, Maryland on 31 March 2013. July of 2013 the Calvert County State’s Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute homeowner (retired LEO).
He used a Walther PPK at the front door striking the perp four times (one to his left chest, two to his left arm and one “graze wound” to his left, lower chest). The two perp's turned and ran down the driveway, so he fired his gun again running out off ammo. He then retrieves a Glock 9mm from his hall closet and then went back outside. He saw one person “collapsed on the front lawn,” went over “to cover him” and heard a car start, the report states. The car was driving back toward him he “fired at the vehicle several times” before it drove away. What the reenactment didn't talk about: one of his rounds at the fleeting vehicle lodged in his neighbors house.
When he retired from Metropolitan (DC Police force), he worked on our security staff for awhile. Upon reading about the incident, I thought for sure he was heading off to jail for pursuing the threat outside of his house. Quote from County State's Attorney: “Should Mr. Taylor have simply shut his front door after the initial confrontation, contact the police, and not continue onto the front lawn? Perhaps. However, the law did not require him to do so,” Martin wrote in the report. “… Until he could be absolutely certain the threat had been contained, the law allows him to pursue his assailants until the threat to him, or other family members and his property is neutralized.”
Court case Law v. State notes that if necessary, a person “may even pursue the assailant until he finds himself or his property out of danger…” Martin states in the opinion.
Local papers played up the point the County State's Attorney is a "R" and the county is rural & conservative.
NRA reenactment:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/w8Sbf_piIQQ?feature=player_detailpage
Article on state not prosecuting:
http://www.somdnews.com/article/20130711/NEWS/130719625/state-not-prosecuting-huntingtown-homeowner-in-self-defense-shooting&template=southernMaryland
The NRA has produced an interview and reenactment of the shooting that occurred in Calvert County, Maryland on 31 March 2013. July of 2013 the Calvert County State’s Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute homeowner (retired LEO).
He used a Walther PPK at the front door striking the perp four times (one to his left chest, two to his left arm and one “graze wound” to his left, lower chest). The two perp's turned and ran down the driveway, so he fired his gun again running out off ammo. He then retrieves a Glock 9mm from his hall closet and then went back outside. He saw one person “collapsed on the front lawn,” went over “to cover him” and heard a car start, the report states. The car was driving back toward him he “fired at the vehicle several times” before it drove away. What the reenactment didn't talk about: one of his rounds at the fleeting vehicle lodged in his neighbors house.
When he retired from Metropolitan (DC Police force), he worked on our security staff for awhile. Upon reading about the incident, I thought for sure he was heading off to jail for pursuing the threat outside of his house. Quote from County State's Attorney: “Should Mr. Taylor have simply shut his front door after the initial confrontation, contact the police, and not continue onto the front lawn? Perhaps. However, the law did not require him to do so,” Martin wrote in the report. “… Until he could be absolutely certain the threat had been contained, the law allows him to pursue his assailants until the threat to him, or other family members and his property is neutralized.”
Court case Law v. State notes that if necessary, a person “may even pursue the assailant until he finds himself or his property out of danger…” Martin states in the opinion.
Local papers played up the point the County State's Attorney is a "R" and the county is rural & conservative.
NRA reenactment:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/w8Sbf_piIQQ?feature=player_detailpage
Article on state not prosecuting:
http://www.somdnews.com/article/20130711/NEWS/130719625/state-not-prosecuting-huntingtown-homeowner-in-self-defense-shooting&template=southernMaryland