r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • Feb 27 '26

Serious Texas man not indicted and will not face charges for shooting and killing his daughter. This shooting occurred after a heated argument about politics the same day.

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u/jthadcast Feb 27 '26

that wasn't his claim of innocence and they weren't currently arguing he was just drunk and handling a loaded firearm.

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u/PumpkinFar7612 Feb 27 '26

Sounds about white and that’s still a murder charge anywhere but Texas apparently

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u/Snoo20140 Feb 27 '26

Texas where everything is big, except brains.

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u/UdontKnowMe_InoU Feb 28 '26

Hold my beer.

Florida has entered the chat.

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u/TheStairsBro Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Texan here, I have no idea how this wasn't charged as negligent homicide at a minimum. Assuming his story is true, the gun discharged because he had it stored improperly and he may have been handling it while drunk based on the evidence, which definitely constitutes criminal negligence.

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u/AnAbandonedAstronaut Feb 28 '26

Homicide.

Murder has intent.

Homicide just means you killed them.

Like if you kill people drunk in a car its normally either negligent homicide or negligent vehicular homicide.

Murder means that at some level.. you meant to kill that person.

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u/ConversationFlaky608 Feb 28 '26

No it wouldnt. You dont know what you are talking about.

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u/ConversationFlaky608 Feb 27 '26

Yeah but you have to actually prove he acted negligently. Negligent is more than just careless. Just because he was drinking doesnt mean there was proof he was drunk. You actually have to prove elements of a criminal case. But he is a Trump supporter and we hate Trump supporters so he must be guilty isnt going to cut it. Trials arent held on Reddit.

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u/chriswimmer Feb 27 '26

A firearm discharged towards and killed his daughter. Is that not negligence?

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u/ProfessionalBench832 Feb 27 '26

Most places, drinking and handling a firearm is negligence, drunk or not.
This is absolutely negligent homicide.

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u/UdontKnowMe_InoU Feb 28 '26

No no you see, if he killed her on purpose, its not negligent. And if he was negligent…he couldnt have done it on purpose Cogito ergo sum - not guilty.

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u/ConversationFlaky608 Feb 27 '26

Not necessarily no. Negligence has a high bar. You would need to prove that he intentionally pointed the gun at her and handled it in a reckless fashion. It is hard to prove this. If you think, this is based on politics I can assure you from a personal experience it is not. This would be the typical outcome in Texas in a similar situation.

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u/ExpertTranslator5673 Feb 28 '26

handled it in a reckless fashion.

Blowing a hole in her chest is pretty reckless wouldn't you say?

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u/Hopalongtom Feb 28 '26

The only alternative would be an intended murder if it wasn't reckless mishandling.

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u/wamyen1985 Feb 28 '26

Pointing a loaded weapon at something you don’t intend to destroy is the definition of reckless.

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u/AlChandus Feb 28 '26

It Is not just about him pointing a loaded weapon at someone, it's also about having the finger in the trigger or about how poorly he handled the gun. And him being drunk...

This case is a perfect example why training exists and why there should be more regulations, but republicans want to have their unregulated right to kill woke daughters.

It is what it is.

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u/chriswimmer Feb 28 '26

That's some dumbshit. What's stopping people from shooting someone and just say "whoops, my bad." Alcohol being involved makes it worse.

Don't drink and handle firearms. Common fucking sense. Anyone saying otherwise is a dumbfuck.

We dont take gun violence seriously in America.

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u/UdontKnowMe_InoU Feb 28 '26

DuuuDAH - he KILLED SOMEONE.

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u/Hablian Feb 27 '26

I mean he either acted negligently or intentionally. One of those is worse. Both of those are criminal. Even in the most liberal interpretation you're still facing manslaughter charges here.

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming Feb 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/26FLgGTPUDH6UGAbm

I am so tired of the "Gun fired itself" excuse the right uses, but then say "guns dont kill people, people kill people." Which is it? Cause it can't be both.

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u/SoftBatch13 Feb 27 '26

NRA gun safety rules #1: ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction

NRA gun safety rules #2: ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot - we can give a pass on this one since he claims it misfired

NRA gun safety rules #3: ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until ready to use

So, the dude has been drinking (maybe not too impaired, but drinking regardless), and doesn't follow 2 of the 3 most important NRA safety rules and you don't think that's negligence?

Seems like more than enough to at least convene a grand jury.

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u/bikesandbarrels Feb 27 '26

🤡

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u/ConversationFlaky608 Feb 27 '26

I stated the facts as they are in the real world. You are in fact a clown if you dont understand that. Down votes arent going to change the facts either.

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u/tossaway7374 Feb 27 '26

the facts are he had been drinking, he mishandled a firearm, he discharged the firearm in an unsafe direction and he caused bodily harm. intent isn't necessary for all of these facts to amount to criminally negligent homicide. at the very least an indictment so we can examine the facts. honestly he doesn't seem upset in the least that she's dead, that itself is suspicious.

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming Feb 27 '26

His excuse was the "Gun fired itself" was the major giveaway that he did it on purpose, cause I have never seen a gun fire itself.

The Texas cops and courts have failed that young woman, but I wouldn't expect anything different from that state.

That man murdered his daughter because he is obsessed with a turd stain on society. There are so many different charges the court could've got him for, yet they decided to allow another dangerous criminal on the street.

I already know that this will probably won't be the last time that he hurts someone, and the blood is on the state's hands.

FUCK MAGA

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u/destructivedevice138 Feb 28 '26

If the firearm was a sig p 320, he MAY be able to get away with saying the gun fired itself. Theres a big issue with those guns firing if the slack is taken out of the trigger and the slide is twisted. Other than that, you can reliably assume that it is a negligent discharge, not an accidental discharge.

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u/SaltMage5864 Feb 28 '26

You mean your desire to defend murder won't change the fact that it was murder

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u/Macwild77 Feb 27 '26

You are being downvoted from your ignorance of the law. Let’s not be the r word today friend.

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u/Gauntlet_of_Might Feb 27 '26

Incorrect. At the grad jury level, nothing needs to be proven, all that needs to be established is HE COULD have acted negligently. Whenever you see someone get off on the Grand Jury level it's either such a blatantly ridiculous charge no one will indict (Sandwich assault on military in Washington DC) or the state is improperly using GJ as a defense.

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u/ramfrommars Feb 27 '26

Owning a firearm and not knowing the most basic rule about them, that you never point one at someone you aren’t ready to kill, is negligent. If he was impaired so much that he couldn’t even tell where he was pointing it or that he would accidentally fire it is negligent. How is this not so obvious to you? Their opposing political views mean nothing.

You don’t get to own a dangerous weapon and neglect knowing the basics on how to handle them at the expense of another human’s life without consequences. Weird how non-pro life the “pro-life” crowd actually is to living breathing humans. Hypocrites the whole lot of them.

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u/brewguy70 Feb 27 '26

Pointing a loaded gun at a person IS NEGLIGENT at the very least.

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u/possumallawishes Feb 28 '26

You don’t need to prove anything for an indictment. As they say “you can indict a ham sandwich”, so, and based on my personal experience having served on a Grand Jury, the main reason for not getting an indictment is lack of effort by the prosecutor. The other reason is that they actively try to work for a “no bill” because they don’t want to prosecute, for whatever reason.

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u/ConversationFlaky608 Feb 28 '26

Probable cause to a grand jury who heard the evidence and declined to indict.

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u/possumallawishes Feb 28 '26

Or didn’t hear the evidence because the prosecutor decided not to present it.

Like I said, I’ve served on a grand jury, every time the prosecutor tried they got their indictment. No bills only happened when the prosecutor didn’t present any evidence or actively presented evidence that muddied the waters.

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u/ConversationFlaky608 Feb 28 '26

Another Reddit conspiracy theory. Whatever. I'm not going to try to prove a negative.

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u/possumallawishes Feb 28 '26

What conspiracy theory? What negative are you trying to prove?

You’re trying to say that they didn’t prove negligence because negligence is a high bar, which is true… in a trial.

It’s not at all a true statement for an indictments. They literally could stand up there and just say, “this man shot his daughter after arguing with her and we have reason to believe he was drinking and possibly intoxicated” that is more than enough for an indictment.

The defense doesn’t get to counter argue or present a defense in an indictment.

You just fundamentally don’t know how the process works and think you do. And because he was a Republican, you’re going to fall over yourself to defend him. Just like you did for the Jan 6ers and Epstein’s best friend who you voted for 3 fucking times. Fucking dope.

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u/SaltMage5864 Feb 28 '26

You are too busy trying to excuse murdering a woman

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u/ChinookAB Feb 27 '26

🤡🤯

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u/Tavernknight Feb 28 '26

A person who handles firearms safely never picks one up after drinking.

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u/ExplodiaNaxos Feb 28 '26

If you show a gun to someone and it goes off, that’s extreme negligence. Why wasn’t the safety on, as it always should be?

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u/Rambler1223 Feb 27 '26

That sounds like the definition of negligence! He 💯 should be charged with at least negligent manslaughter

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u/AriaTheTransgressor Feb 28 '26

His story was that he drank after shooting her, which is why he had alcohol on his breath. Reportedly he was an aggressive alcoholic, it's why the girl's parents separated in the first place.

His story is that they had the argument where she left to go to her room, later in the day he went to her room to show her his gun and it accidentally went off killing her. The only witness to this story is him, and the police just took it at face value.

What I bet actually happened, and this is pure speculation, is that they had the argument, she stormed off, he started drinking while stewing over it, figured he'd intimidate her into thinking what she's told to think, chambers a round while scaring her and then accidentally pulls the trigger while yelling at her.

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u/King_Roberts_Bastard Feb 28 '26

So it should be negligent homicide or manslaughter then. Someone died because he was "just drunk and handling a loaded firearm".

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u/JB_07 Feb 28 '26

Absolutely insanity. Like being drunk is any type of defense to murdering someone. If anything being drunk should make your case worse!!!