Indiana Father Kills Sex Offender Who Broke Into Home

sbpolk

WOW! Mad Props to this dad defending his family!


Indiana Father Kills Sex Offender Who Broke Into Home
Monday, September 29, 2008

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INDIANAPOLIS — A convicted sex offender died Sunday during a struggle with a father who found the naked man in or near his 17-year-old daughter's bedroom, police said.

Police responding to a call from the city's northwest side about 3:20 a.m. found 64-year-old Robert McNally on the hallway floor with his arm around the neck of 52-year-old David T. Meyers, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police spokesman Sgt. Matthew Mount said Meyers had a heart condition and may have had a heart attack. An autopsy was planned.

Police said Meyers was naked except for a mask and latex gloves and had entered the home through a window near the girl's bedroom with rope, condoms and a knife. He was familiar with the home's layout because it belonged to a relative, police said.

The girl awoke and screamed when she saw the man in her room, police said. The father responded and struggled with the intruder while the girl's mother phoned 911.

Police did not anticipate any charges against McNally.

"If a person breaks into your home, you are justified in using deadly force in defending your family," said Mount. "In this situation, I don't think he was trying to kill him, he was trying to hold him down."

Meyers had served 10 years in prison for criminal confinement and sexual deviate conduct and was wanted in Boone County for failure to register as a sex offender. He was registered as a sex offender in Marion County.

Police said Meyers lived with his mother and had recently lost his job.

The death is under investigation and will be reviewed by a Marion County prosecutor.

"Nobody wins," McNally told The Indianapolis Star. "It's a lose-lose situation for everybody. He has family also."

He said his daughter went to church Sunday after the incident.

SolidSqual

I love the Castle Doctrine. Try that in Iowa or Virginia and be sued by the sickos family or the State.

BaggedLancer

Props to that guy and props to the police for not charging. I'm pretty sure 100% of fathers would have done the same for their daughter. Guy is lucky he got strangled and not shot.

Face

SolidSqual wrote: »

I love the Castle Doctrine. Try that in Iowa or Virginia and be sued by the sickos family or the State.

The Castle Doctrine should be nation wide.

ben62670

Face wrote: »

The Castle Doctrine should be nation wide.

True that. It certainly would cut down on crime.

SolidSqual

Here's some more info. What do you think of Stand Your Ground Law? Too much? It's a tough balancing act when you really consider the consequences. I think the Castle Doctrine is about equilibrium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Doctrine

States with a Stand-your-ground Law
No duty to retreat anywhere.
* Alabama
* Arizona
* Florida
* Georgia
* Indiana
* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Oklahoma §21-1289.25
* South Carolina (Persons not "required to needlessly retreat.")
* Texas
* Tennessee 2007 Tenn. Pub. Acts Ch. 210 (Amends Tenn. Code. Ann. § 39-11-611)

States with a Castle Law
No duty to retreat if in the home.
* Alaska
* Colorado (Colorado Revised Statutes Section 18-1-704.5 Use of deadly physical force against an intruder.)
* Connecticut
* Hawaii (Retreat required outside the home if it can be done in "complete safety.")
* Kansas (§ 21-3212. Use of force in defense of dwelling; no duty to retreat. (a) A person is justified in the use of force against another when and to the extent that it appears to such person and such person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent or terminate such other's unlawful entry into or attack upon such person's dwelling or occupied vehicle.)
* Maine (Deadly force justified to terminate criminal trespass AND another crime within home; duty to retreat not specifically removed)
* Maryland See Maryland self-defense (Case-law, not statute, incorporates the commonlaw castle-doctrine into Maryland self-defense law. Invitees or guests may have duty to retreat based on mixed case law.)
* Massachusetts
* Michigan (more recent law--Act 309 of 2006--does not relieve duty to retreat "unless [deadly force is] necessary to prevent imminent death;" this represents no change from common law, which does not require retreat unless it can be safely done)
* Mississippi (to use reference, select "Code of 1972" and search "retreat")
* Missouri (Extends Castle Doctrine to one's vehicle)
* Ohio (Extends to vehicles of self and immediate family; effective September 9th, 2008.[17] Section 2901.09)
* New Jersey ("Statues" link in sidebar, see New Jersey Statues 2C:3-4, retreat required outside home if actor knows he can avoid necessity of deadly force in complete safety, etc.)
* North Carolina
* Rhode Island
* West Virginia
* Wyoming

States with weak Castle Law
The duty to retreat is not removed, but deadly force may be used to end invasion of home without presence of immediate lethal threat.

* Idaho (Homicide is justified if defending a home from "tumultuous" entry; duty to retreat not specifically removed)
* Illinois (Use of deadly force is justified if defending a home from "tumultuous" entry; duty to retreat not specifically removed)
* Minnesota (Homicide justified to prevent the commission of a felony in the home)
* Montana (Deadly force justified to prevent felony in the home)
* New York (Deadly force justified to prevent burglary of the home)
* Utah
* Washington

States with no known Castle Law

* Iowa (Law does not require retreat from home, but may require retreat within the home)
* Pennsylvania (Relevant statute not found; "Stand your ground" legislation pending[18])
* Virginia

NB: Above sections provide detail finding for 36 states only. Some sources list 16 states as having "Stand your ground laws" [19][20]; but review of the statues does not make it clear that all listed states have eliminated the duty to retreat outside the home.

BIZILL

64 year old tough guy. i like it.

Airplay355

Geeze...makes me want to get a gun and keep it under my pillow.

dorokusai

I live in the State of Maryland and I have no worries about self-defense in my "castle".

BaggedLancer

No one is breaking in my house while I'm home, that's for sure. No time or patience for that crap. I don't know if I'd call my place a castle....it's more like a dungeon. But dungeons are part of castles right?

zingo

Prayer for the family for dealing with a traumatic event like that and props to the father.

SolidSqual

I feel bad for the Dad. He did the right thing, but taking a life can't be easy no matter how awful the life was. I remember when my Dad almost shot a drunk guy on his 21 st birthday who was so wasted that he thought my parent's home was his apartment. he was pounding on the door and attempted to break in. If he had, he would have been cut in half by either my Dad's assault shot gun or desert eagle. I'll always remember my Dad's reaction after everything calmed down and the police dragged the guy away. He's a tough guy, but he was a little rattled knowing he had been mere moments and a dead bolt away from killing a guy who for some unknown reason at the time was trying to break into his home.

dorokusai

Did you pray for him?

SolidSqual

If you're asking me, did I pray for my Dad? Sure all the time. Did I pray for the kid? Nope. I thanked God, the door bolt did it's job.

dorokusai

SolidSqual wrote: »

If you're asking me, did I pray for my Dad? Sure all the time. Did I pray for the kid? Nope. I thanked God, the door bolt did it's job.

Your Dad was 21 when that happened? Oh I see how the post changed.

SolidSqual

dorokusai wrote: »

Your Dad was 21 when that happened? Oh I see how the post changed.

Umm no. The kid was 21.

croutons

BaggedLancer wrote: »

No one is breaking in my house while I'm home, that's for sure. No time or patience for that crap. I don't know if I'd call my place a castle....it's more like a dungeon. But dungeons are part of castles right?

Of course! Where are else are you going to subject your minions to your cruel and unusual punishment?

BaggedLancer

croutons wrote: »

Of course! Where are else are you going to subject your minions to your cruel and unusual punishment?

No cruel and unusual here. 7.62 and 12ga ammo is non forgiving, quick, and easy.

Tollaksen

do the same thing did. I just had a little girl on 08/08/08 and the thought of anything happening to her is to much to think about.

snow

He should get the father of the year award.



REGARDS SNOW

ben62670

croutons wrote: »

Of course! Where are else are you going to subject your minions to your cruel and unusual punishment?

petrym

Woe to those who break into my house.

treitz3

Indiana Father Kills Sex Offender Who Broke Into Home for President!!!!

ben62670

I think McCain would have took him out too. I think most men with a sack would have done the same with a daughter in the house;) I have two.

mrbigbluelight

ben62670 wrote: »

I think McCain would have took him out too. I think most men with a sack would have done the same with a daughter in the house;) I have two.

Two sacks ?! Dammmmm .........


........ not that I really have an interest in either one, but ..... dammmmmm !

ben62670

mrbigbluelight wrote: »

Two sacks ?! Dammmmm .........


........ not that I really have an interest in either one, but ..... dammmmmm !

Daughters:D