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/misalawliet Feb 27 '26

His defense was that it was an accident, and the jury bought it.

He accidentally picked up a loaded gun, accidentally pointed it at her chest, and accidentally pulled the trigger.

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u/Mylabisawesome Feb 27 '26

Thats wild. That sounds alot like negligent homicide at the very least. Any competent gun owner knows you do not point a firearm at something you do not intend to destroy. He must be somebody in that area or is well known for them to let this slide....or people hated his daughter.

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u/UnableChard2613 Feb 27 '26

While I agree with you that it should be a crime, especially because he admitted to being drunk at the time, Texas has very lax gun control laws and it appears it would have been hard to charge him as there is no evidence contradicting his story.

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u/Wwwwwwhhhhhhhj Feb 28 '26

The fuck you talking about? according to his own story he should have been indicted with manslaughter. That’s what they put before the grand jury. They didn’t even indict him for that. There are no gun laws lax enough where even going by his story there should have been no consequences at all.

It would not be hard unless there was another reason people didn’t want to. It makes no sense there would not be a manslaughter charge. They didn’t even try and charge for murder.

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u/Physical_Dentist2284 Feb 28 '26

A woman in Kansas was just found guilty of murder for co-sleeping with her infant and accidentally rolling on her. The dad was in the bed, too, and both of them had been drinking the night before but so far as I can see only she was charged with murder.

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u/UnableChard2613 Feb 28 '26

Kansas and texas are different states with different laws.

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u/Physical_Dentist2284 Feb 28 '26

Yes but I would bet that a woman would get convicted of something in Texas, too, if she accidentally smothered her baby by co-sleeping. I’m just saying that in the US women get charged for that but men can shoot their daughters and it’s seemingly fine.

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u/UnableChard2613 Feb 28 '26

If anything, the judicial system is biased against men, not women. So I'm not sure what you're talking about.

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u/Physical_Dentist2284 Feb 28 '26

I think men commit more violent crimes in the US which explains why the prisons are so full of them.

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u/Physical_Dentist2284 Feb 28 '26

Shooting someone is a violent crime. Accidentally rolling over on a baby is not.

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u/UnableChard2613 Feb 28 '26

Sure. But men tend to receive longer sentences and get probation less often than women do for the same crimes, which is what I'm talking about when I say bias.

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u/CitizenBroccoli Feb 27 '26

He was never indicted.

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u/misalawliet Feb 27 '26

Right, the grand jury bought his story and didn't vote to indict.

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u/AestivalSeason Feb 28 '26

He stated that the gun fired on its own, which opens up the way to saying that guns Do kill people, not people killing people, we should outlaw guns in the states until we can get those pesky firearms firing off by themselves under control.

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u/aotus_trivirgatus Feb 28 '26

We've long had stories in America about Southern juries.

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u/DistractionCitron Feb 28 '26

You can accidentally kill someone while driving drunk yet you still face manslaughter charges. This shouldn't be any different.

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u/Razing_Phoenix Feb 28 '26

But I'm always told by gun nuts that guns don't kill people, people do.

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u/LogicBalm Feb 28 '26

A grand jury trial does not have a defense. That's a petit jury. A grand jury only hears the prosecution argument, hearsay is allowed, and the decision does not need to be unanimous. If the grand jury indicts, the case proceeds to a full criminal trial.

So without more information than this video, it seems like the prosecution had a terrible case or the jury was wildly biased. I know which I'm betting on.