LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana homeowner accused of killing a house cleaner who mistakenly arrived at his front door was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Monday in a case that could test the limits of stand-your-ground laws.
Curt Anderson, 62, could face anywhere from 10 to 30 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if he’s convicted. He was being held in the Boone County Jail pending an initial court hearing.
He said he loaded his handgun, went back to the windows and saw the people “thrusting” at the door […]
He fired one shot toward the door […]
When told he had killed Rios, he put his head down on the table and said he didn’t mean for anything to happen to anybody.
The fuck did he think was going to happen when he shot at a door with people on the other side?
I had to look up Lebanon, Indiana. Is it a dangerous shithole with a population of 16,000 people? These are the same MAGA asswipes that claim the large Blue Metropolitan areas are crime ridden. Fuck them and rural AmeriKa is just as dangerous… If the stupid fuck Anderson missed, the bullet could hit one his neighbors or an innocent bystander. I would hate to deliver packages requiring a signature in those rural dumps filled with paranoid shitheads.
I had to look up Lebanon, Indiana. Is it a dangerous shithole with a population of 16,000 people
I grew up there, and the answer is no. It’s just another conservative exurb of Indianapolis. Also, this happened in Whitestown which is substantially smaller than Lebanon, the county seat.
Motherfucker should get full 30. Tired of these laws being used to justify killing people that walk onto ones property or knock on your door.
These laws are to loosely written that you could potentially murder someone and get away with it. Like the cunt in Florida who stole kids ipad and then when neighbor came to try get it back blew the lady away. Luckily they found her google history of researching the law and knowing she sit the whole thing up.
But a lot of the laws allow the fuckers get away with it.
These laws are to loosely written that you could potentially murder someone and get away with it.
Yep, they are deliberately open-ended and vague, thanks to the gun lobby making guns extra-legal in the US.
Open-ended and vague so that they can protect some (white) people and not others.
Came across a recent saying that being armed and black has even worse outcomes, especially legal ones, than being unarmed and black. In states with “stand your ground” laws, most people of colour are denied that defence even when it clearly applies.
Does anyone really get away with it like that? Are there examples?
& fuck boi Kyle R.
The shooters of Ahmaud Arbery almost got away with it. It was only because of great outcry and online campaigning that they got indicted and eventually convicted in the first place.
Same with Ralph Yarl. It was a national outcry that got his attempted murderer arrested.
When the killer of Yoshihiro Hattori was acquitted back in the early 90s, spectators cheered
Do you mean Ahmaud Arbery, or is this another case I haven’t heard of?
Yes, I corrected my post, thanks!
I remember this one. I lived in Texas at the time and it was a big deal. I heard the 911 call. I do remember he got away with it. But it was different because they were on his neighbor’s property not his own.
An actual thief (2) is not the same as those examples.
Is it even relevant that they were thieves? Considering there was no danger to himself or others until he chased them with a shotgun?
Of course there is a difference to stealing stuff from kids to make someone come over to get it back and then murdering them to this case?! How is that even a question?
I can’t follow this sentence. What?
You’re talking about two different cases, I think. They’re referencing the one in Florida where the bitch set up a honey trap.
I hope they make an example of him. I worked with a guy who had gotten out of prison after a 20-year sentence for killing the man he found in bed with his wife. Opening the door and shooting a house cleaner who came to the wrong house is worse by far.
At age 62, thirty years is a life sentence for Curt Anderson, and that is what he should get. He took an innocent life for absolutely no reason, he forfeits the rest of his.
At age 62, thirty years is a life sentence for Curt Anderson, and that is what he should get.
100%
I don’t care what his reasoning is. He murdered an innocent woman and her husband and kids have to deal with lifelong trauma because of it. LOCK HIM UP.
There is no reasoning behind this. Like I try to empathize with everyone, but I cannot for the life of me do it with trigger happy idiots. Like I’m a gun owner myself, but using one outside of the range is the absolute last thing I want to do! And there’s no reason to think she was intending harm if she knocked/rang the doorbell!
Just shows how much curt wasn’t thinking…I mean who did he expect to clean up the mess he made?
Ugh, seriously?
What you don’t think they should be charged?
I’m just wondering why the fine is only $10k? Something like this where you blow someone away for no reason, you should be forfeiting all of your possessions to their surviving family since the victim will no longer be earning an income to support them.
I believe after this trial, the family will have a right to sue for damages.
I know that even if you have a real reason to kill someone with a gun (your life was in danger), the family of the attacker can and will sue you for $$. (This is why they are selling insurance for gun owners too.)I’m always amazed when other gun owners talk about using it in self defense. Like you may get out of the criminal conviction, but why would you want to put yourself through the trial‽
If it was legitimate your life vs theirs, I believe a lot of people would put up with a trial afterwards.
Ah ok, that makes sense they can sue later. Thanks!
I’m just wondering why the fine is only $10k?
Because laws like these were written a long time ago and never adjusted for inflation.
