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[–] Regna@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So sad. Hope the home owners are not protected with castle doctrine.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Even if they have that in Indiana, this clearly shouldnt apply. Simply walking up to a house is not evidence of an invasion, otherwise every Halloween would be target practice.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Every UPS, FedEx, Amazon driver etc. would need full body armor…

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I remember s Japanese kid in the States who got shot für going to the wrong house on Halloween about 30 years ago.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori

Yoshihiro Hattori (服部 剛丈, Hattori Yoshihiro; November 22, 1975 – October 17, 1992, often referred to as Yoshi Hattori[4]) was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party, went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Peairs was an "average Joe", a man just like the jury members' neighbors, a man who "liked sugar in his grits".

K. Should've found him guilty just for liking sweet grits.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This kind of thing happens all the fucking time in the USA .

Three shootings all happened in the span of six days and involved what some say were harmless occurrences: a Missouri teenager ringing the wrong doorbell while trying to pick up his younger siblings; a group of friends in New York pulling into the driveway of a home they thought belonged to another friend ; and a Texas cheerleader accidentally opening the door of the wrong car.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

The list of things that won't potentially get you shot in America grows shorter every day.