Showing posts with label Second Degree Murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Degree Murder. Show all posts
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Mich. Man Found Guilty In Shooting Death Of Girl On His Porch
The white Detroit-area homeowner who said he felt threatened when he shot and killed an unarmed black teenager on his front porch in November has been found guilty of second-degree murder,Michigan Radio reports.
Theodore Wafer of Dearborn Heights, Mich., has said he intentionally shot Renisha McBride, 19, through his front screen door after she pounded on his door after 4 a.m. Wafer's lawyers say McBride was hitting the door hard enough to break it; prosecutors say the damage was caused when Wafer fired his shotgun, Michigan Radio's Sarah Cwiek reports.
McBride had crashed her car about half a mile away. She was bloodied, and autopsy results showed elevated levels of alcohol and marijuana.
Because McBride was unarmed when she was shot and killed, the case drew comparisons to the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, for which George Zimmerman was acquitted in July 2013. Aside from the racial parallels, critics also were angered that, like Zimmerman, Wafer was not immediately arrested, Cwiek reports.
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