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longtooth wrote:
You are the prime example of the truth. Tough days growing up do not make a criminal. You were raised in the same hous & by the same parents w/ the same rules. You took the right road in life. We will continue our prayers.

Very true words. We grew up together, were exposed to the same friends, same temptations and yet he always took the quick and easy path. What I will never understand is how a chemical can drive a husband and father of 3 to the point where the chemical becomes more important than them all. Heck, you gotta force me to take aspirin!! Anyway, it's definitely one of those harder lessons in life. Thank God it's a lesson to learn from and not a funeral to go to.

Currently, there are no plans to seek legal actions against the shooter. Laughing about a shoot is just plain crappy but not justification to take it to a court of law. Besides, my brother has put his family much further into debt with his addiction than these medical bills. I wish I could say he learned form it, but form the sounds of it, he blames the man for living in a storage area where he shouldn't have been. Almost like he was justified to burglarize an uinoccupied building. Truly sad. After the long State paid vacation which surely awaits him, I'm sure he will get out but I'm afraid he won't be much wiser. Keep your local law enforcement officers in your prayers and also the general gun owning population of NE Texas that they never have to use it in defense of their life/property.....but if they do, let their aim be true and justified.

I really have a problem with some of you, what makes you think the shooter laughed about shooting someone because he is a nut case?
Is it not more likely he was actually having an hysteric reaction to having shot someone?
I have said things out of the immediate response I would not have said if I had a few minutes to stop and consider my words.
How many of you can say you have never opened mouth and inserted foot?
I have no use for criminals, especially burglars, and actually would like to see all of them in the pen for many years.
I spent 10 years working for TDCJ, for pay.
Really makes a difference in your attitude towards felons.

It would be more believeable that he was inder stress and laughing hysterically if he was laughing throughout the call but when asked a specific question and he chuckles before he responds, that's odd. That and the fact that he was pretty calm the whole time. At any rate, it's no reason to go after the guy.

Update: My brother is recovering and unfortunately, his wife ran right to his side again. She'll never learn. So, the healing process begins and hopefully he learned something and will change for the better. Thanks to all for their prayers and thoughts. It's greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: Sentencing has been completed and he originally was offered 10yrs without probation. He refused and was offered 5yrs without probation which he also turned down. They settled for a 2yr sentence and 5yrs probation. My family and I are very disappointed and wish he would have gotten a larger sentence but that's what it comes down to.......unbelievable! He breaks into a persons dwelling with unkown intentions and gets 2 years. The guy should have emptied the mag.

The guy living in the storage shed reads like a homicidal nut job. Going to let a man he shot in the back "bleed out" until he heard the cops coming. Really. By the story linked above, the case has already been whitewashed in his favor. About the same thing people expected, even demanded, in the case of Joe Horn of Pasadena. However, technically Horn was statutorily in the right to shoot in the back and kill two burglars in the defense of property. The idiot in the storage shed is a long way from that defense. His actions defy common sense, as does the position taken by the prosecutor, who also appears to be in denial of the facts.

casingpoint wrote:The guy living in the storage shed reads like a homicidal nut job. Going to let a man he shot in the back "bleed out" until he heard the cops coming. Really. By the story linked above, the case has already been whitewashed in his favor. About the same thing people expected, even demanded, in the case of Joe Horn of Pasadena. However, technically Horn was statutorily in the right to shoot in the back and kill two burglars in the defense of property. The idiot in the storage shed is a long way from that defense. His actions defy common sense, as does the position taken by the prosecutor, who also appears to be in denial of the facts.

But I will add one more thing...Joe Horn may be technically right, but blasting two guys in the back as they try to run away from a simple breaking and entering makes him a coward and morally bankrupt...IMHO. With that statement...I will get out my flame suit.

Hmmmmm, My daughter is a probation officer in Kaufman county and is in charge of SAF-P (Substance Abuse Felony Punishment) . There may be a chance she and your brother have crossed paths.
I pray he is doing well with his life now.