evansvillethompsongunner
Shooter
- Oct 29, 2009
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It sounds like you did everything right. In Indiana you can use deadly force to defend another person if it meets all of the same requirements as defending yourself. I guess the question is, did you have a real and reasonable fear of great bodily injury or death for that woman? Also, would a jury find your actions of deadly force reasonable as well? I hope I would er on the side of saving a life. But these situations are tricky. You had better know the whole story before you start shooting.
There was a case in Ohio that I use in my class, where a man comes out of a grocery store and sees (right by his car) a large woman beating a small man with a pool cue. He is bloddy and keeps trying to get away but she is beating him silly. The man goes up and yells stop and the woman screams and turns her rage toward him. He produces a gun and she stops. Turns out the little fella was hitting on her in the bar/pool hall next door and she wanted nothing to do with him. She felt uncomfortable and snuck out of the bar but he followed her and began what would have been a sexual assault. She got ahold of her pool cue and beat him down but he kept trying to get up. Then the guy came up yelling at her and she freaked! Can you imagine if he had killed her?
I'm not saying this was what happened in your case. Like I said, I think you did the right thing. I just throw this story out there because if you don't know all of the facts you could find yourself in serious trouble. Nothing is ever black and white it seems. It's scary as hell to think about.
I commend you for calling 911 and caring enough about a stranger to want to help. So many people would have (and I'm sure did) look the other way! +1 and