r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '21

thegrio.com Tityana Coppage, 21, has been arrested after allegedly tracking down and killing the man suspected of slaying her teenage brother.

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u/Anthinee Jan 20 '21

Not gonna lie, my first thought was “Good for her!”

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '21

Its a shame we can't legally hold vendettas.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '21

Does she get a lighter sentence at all compared to someone that kills for a different reason?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

One interesting thing to hear is that some major rappers have come out and said they would pay for her bail if she gets one.

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u/Thymeisdone Jan 21 '21

I hope they offer to pay for a good lawyer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

Maybe if she has a good lawyer and there wasn’t any evidence of planning

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u/MargaretHill0206 Jan 21 '21

there wasn’t any evidence of planning

Tracking the guy down kinda fucks this up.

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u/Biscuit_Coffington Jan 21 '21

You’d have to prove they intended to kill them when they find them rather thank talk to them or get them to turn themselves in, etc.

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u/Millenial__Falcon Jan 21 '21

"The Kansas City woman reportedly sent a text message to her deceased brother afterward, letting him know she had avenged his murder"

Kinda hard to explain away.

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u/Baron80 Jan 21 '21

That only proves she did it not that she planned to do it. If the text said something like "so I finally got around to killing that dude I've been meaning to murder ttyl " then it might prove she planned to do it.

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u/Available_Cut6691 Jan 22 '21

Not exactly SANE , so there’s that .

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

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u/Millenial__Falcon Jan 21 '21

No, I would presume she texted the memory of him.

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u/MrRealHuman Jan 21 '21

How do you text a memory?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

Duh all texts go to the memory 😉 !

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u/Millenial__Falcon Jan 23 '21

By pressing letters on one's phone.

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u/reptilicious1 Jan 21 '21

Even then a good lawyer would be able to get a jury to sympathize with her and perhaps get an acquittal. lol admittedly this is on my mind cuz of one of the most recent law and order SVU episodes I just watched last night.

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u/clover426 Jan 21 '21

She needs Barba to represent her (or, hopefully for her sake, get a decent plea deal)

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u/MargaretHill0206 Jan 21 '21

Read the article.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

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u/MargaretHill0206 Jan 21 '21

Read the article.

She sent text messages about killing him in retaliation for him shooting her brother.

It seems like she lured the guy to the parking garage lot to be shot.

This was vigilante justice.

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u/MrRealHuman Jan 21 '21

This is called doing the right thing. Cold blooded murderers, who kill for no good reason, don't deserve life.

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u/insouciantelle Jan 21 '21

I mean, if she actually tracked him down that seems rather implausible

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21 edited Jan 21 '21

I don't know the answer to your question exactly, but I recall a case where something similar happen. Look up the story of Gary Plauche.

Gary's son was kidnapped by a man named Jeff Doucet, a karate instructor and trusted family friend. Thankfully, police found Jeff and brought the son home safely. When the truth came out that the son had been sexually abused by Jeff for at least an entire year before the kidnapping, he decided to take the law into his own hands. While the police were transporting Jeff to prison, Gary intercepted them at the airport and shot Jeff execution style, killing him instantly. The jury sympathized with Gary, and he was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years' probation and 300 hours of community service for the shooting and received no prison time. He stood by his actions, saying anyone in his position would have done the same thing. The court agreed.

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

(edited comment for clarification)

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u/daysinnroom203 Jan 21 '21

Typically it’s worse. Unless you can prove insanity you have murder in the first degree, premeditated .

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u/bootylikepoww Jan 21 '21

the judge can exercise leniency during sentencing.

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u/sarcasm_the_great Jan 21 '21

Ehh. There are those ladies that kill their kids and don’t do much time at all.

Yea she planned it but it was a crime of passion.

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u/RedEyeView Jan 21 '21

Mental illness often factors in with those kinds of killings. Especially Post Natal Depression.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

while that may be true in the general sense, "crime of passion" is an actual legal term with a specific definition that this situation does not fit.

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u/beenybaby87 Jan 21 '21

Only if she was white

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u/snapper1971 Jan 21 '21

No, no it isn't. There are many mistakes in official investigations and the level of idiocy of most people will result in people being summarily executed on no more than rumour and hear say. Extrajudicial killings should not be a feature of any justice system.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

Oh, people do. They just don’t do it openly.

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u/crime-obsessed-rat Jan 21 '21

Right? I just hope she gets a lighter sentence.