{"id":95935,"date":"2023-09-12T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95935"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:47:40","slug":"95935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95935","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That last paragraph does nothing but prove that Assistant State Attorney is a moron, and\/or a liar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbangor.com\/news\/national\/gun-toting-florida-man-turns-tables-on-sisters-ex-who-broke-down-front-door-police\/article_edb4d700-c8d6-5b66-a923-16974ee3d5d8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gun-toting Florida man turns tables on sister&#8217;s ex who broke down front door<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An armed Florida man who rushed to defend his sister from an abusive ex-boyfriend will face no charges after fatally shooting him, according to the local sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If someone points a gun at you and cocks it, you can shoot them,&#8221; Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons told WEAR News of the incident that unfolded last week.<\/p>\n<p>Escambia County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded to a home within the Silver Lake Mobile Home Park last Tuesday and found an unidentified 26-year-old man dead from a gunshot wound, the sheriff\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the man was the ex-boyfriend of a 24-year-old unidentified woman who lives in the home. The man reportedly broke the woman\u2019s door down, entered the home and struck her &#8220;several times,&#8221; according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The woman grabbed her phone and texted her neighboring family members, including her 23-year-old brother who rushed to her home to protect her.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said another argument broke out when the brother arrived, and the ex-boyfriend pulled out a gun and aimed it at the brother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At one point, the male that forced entry into the trailer pulled out a handgun, pointed it at her brother and cocked it,&#8221; the sheriff said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s brother was also armed, and he fired two shots at the man, killing him.<\/p>\n<p>The brother is not facing charges, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. The State Attorney&#8217;s Office added in a comment to WEAR News that recent Florida laws have expanded the scope of self-defense for residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Stand Your Ground&#8217; has expanded the area of the castle,&#8221; Assistant State Attorney John Molchan told the outlet. &#8220;We used to have the \u2018Castle Doctrine,\u2019 which said that your home was your castle and that you could use deadly force to defend yourself from a murderer or a person committing a forcible felony.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That last paragraph does nothing but prove that Assistant State Attorney is a moron, and\/or a liar. Gun-toting Florida man turns tables on sister&#8217;s ex who broke down front door An armed Florida man who rushed to defend his sister from an abusive ex-boyfriend will face no charges after fatally shooting him, according to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95936,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95935\/revisions\/95936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}