A 25-year-old Missouri man says he mistook his mother for an intruder before shooting her to death at their home’s back door.

Prosecutors have charged Jaylen Johnson with manslaughter and armed criminal action in connection with the shooting death on Thursday of his mother, Monica McNichols-Johnson.

McNichols-Johnson’s shooting death came less than a year after another shooting in Missouri saw Ralph Yarl, then 16, get shot on 13 April by 84-year-old Andrew Lester after ringing the wrong doorbell while picking up his siblings.

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    8 months ago

    So you deem yourself judge, jury and executioner?

    You truly live in a lawless shithole if you think like that.

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      8 months ago

      You’re not listening. Stay the fuck out of peoples houses, you deserve everything you get, and it ain’t the person lives there decided that, you did. “lawless shithole” sounds more like a place you can break n enter with near impunity.

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        8 months ago

        “lawless shithole” sounds more like a place you can break n enter with near impunity.

        We have a functional justice system where I live. Guilt and punishment is established in court in a fair trial, not by a random redneck with a gun. I know this must be a novel concept for you but I ensure you it is the civilized way to do it.

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          So, what you’re saying is that you value a person’s right to break into your home and do whatever they please far more than you value your person, your family and all of your property, because they might hypothetically be punished at some later date. I just hope if someone breaks into your home they’re just looking for something to steal they can turn quick for drug money and not looking to do you and yours harm.

          Your redneck with a gun scenario in the US is answered by the castle doctrine - the basic premise is that if someone is invading your home you hold the right to use deadly force to stop them. It’s well known here, and it’s not like you just accidentally do a home invasion. Stay out of other people’s homes uninvited and it’s not a problem.

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            8 months ago

            What i’m saying is that a human life has more value than your worthless crap.

            the basic premise is that if someone is invading your home you hold the right to use deadly force to stop them

            What scary is that you don’t see how fucking insane this is. Here (the Netherlands), you are only allowed to use ‘proportional violence’ in such cases. Go look up some crime statistics and compare which country is safer.

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              8 months ago

              You’re a thief or thief adjacent, and either don’t understand the difference between correlation and causation or are hoping we don’t.

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                8 months ago

                You’re just a psycho who can’t wait to kill someone using self defense as an excuse.