Damn, two teenagers broke into a house up here and got exectued and sat in the basement for a day.
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Will Munny
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My city the hardest. They probably didn't deserve to get killed, but I'm not sure I really feel that bad for them.
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — A Minnesota homeowner who shot two teenagers in the midst of an apparent Thanksgiving Day break-in told authorities he feared they had a weapon, but acknowledged firing "more shots than I needed to" and appeared to take pride in "a good clean finishing shot" for one teen, according to investigators.
Byron David Smith, 64, was charged Monday with two counts of second-degree murder in a criminal complaint that was chilling for the clinical way investigators said he described the shootings.
Smith told investigators he shot 18-year-old Haile Kifer several times as she descended a stairway into his basement, and his Mini 14 rifle jammed as he tried to shoot her again after she had tumbled down the steps.
Though Kifer was "already hurting," she let out a short laugh, Smith told investigators. He then pulled out his .22-caliber revolver and shot her several times in the chest, according to the complaint.
"If you're trying to shoot somebody and they laugh at you, you go again," Smith told investigators, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
Smith was also charged in the death of Kifer's cousin, 17-year-old Nicholas Schaeffel.
Minnesota law allows a homeowner to use deadly force on an intruder if a reasonable person would fear they're in danger of harm, and Smith told investigators he was afraid the intruders might have a weapon. However, Smith's actions weren't justified, Morrison County Sheriff Michel Wetzel said.
"The law doesn't permit you to execute somebody once a threat is gone," he said.
Smith told investigators he was fearful after several break-ins at his remote home about 10 miles south of Little Falls, a central Minnesota town of 8,000 people. The sheriff's office had only one report of a break-in, on Oct. 27. Smith reported losing thousands of dollars in cash, gold coins, two guns, photo equipment and jewelry.
Wetzel said that while the shootings happened on Thursday, Smith waited until Friday to report the deaths, explaining that "he didn't want to trouble us on a holiday."
In the complaint, Smith said he was in his basement when he heard a window breaking upstairs, followed by footsteps that eventually approached the basement stairwell. Smith said he fired when Schaeffel came into view from the waist down.
After the teen fell down the stairs, Smith said he shot him in the face as he lay on the floor.
"I want him dead," the complaint quoted Smith telling an investigator.
Smith said he dragged Schaeffel's body into his basement workshop, then sat down on his chair. After a few minutes, Kifer began coming down the stairs and he shot her as soon as her hips appeared, he said.
After shooting her with both the Mini 14 and the .22-caliber revolver, he dragged her next to Schaeffel. With her still gasping for air, he fired a shot under her chin "up into the cranium," the complaint says.
"Smith described it as `a good clean finishing shot,'" according to the complaint.
The next day he asked a neighbor to recommend a good lawyer, according to the complaint. He later asked his neighbor to call the police.
A prosecutor called Smith's reaction "appalling."
"Mr. Smith intentionally killed two teenagers in his home in a matter that goes well beyond self-defense," Morrison County Attorney Brian Middendorf said after Smith appeared in court Monday morning. Bail was set at $2 million.
Defense attorney Gregory Larson declined comment.
John Lang, who described himself as Smith's best friend, said Smith shouldn't be in jail.
"You have a right to defend your home," Lang said. "He's been through hell."
But Liberty Nunn, a Little Falls resident who said she knew Nicholas Schaeffel's older sister, said Smith could have simply shouted at them to stop. She said she hopes Smith goes to prison "for a very, very long time."
"Those are two young lives that were taken," she said. "It's just not right."
Smith's brother, Bruce Smith, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune told the Star Tribune his brother had retired after a career as a security officer with the U.S. State Department.
Bruce Smith declined to talk to an Associated Press reporter Monday outside his brother's home. A makeshift barricade blocked the driveway and a board leaning against it bore the spray-painted words "Keep Out."
Schaeffel's sister, Crystal Schaeffel, told the Star Tribune that Kifer had stolen prescription drugs from her home before. Little Falls police records show Crystal Schaeffel reported a theft Aug. 28, but the department said the report was not public because that investigation was continuing and because it named juveniles.
Schools in Little Falls, about 100 miles northwest of Minneapolis, made counselors available, though classes weren't in session Monday. In nearby Pillager, where classes were in session, a few students sought help from school counselors and local clergy members available at the school Monday morning, said Superintendent Chuck Arns.
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Old ? gives no ?
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I guess planning before dirtwork is nonexistent to these dummies. Lol funny story
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Sounds like they deserved every bullet.
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My mom just told me about that, i guess that house is like a mile or so away from my parents house.
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That shot under the chin might've been a mercy shot. The shot in the boys face was just viscous.
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Of ALL the houses to break into......
..They choose a homicidal deerhunter's crib. -
old dude went hard in the paint
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What a sick ? .
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H.O.H
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Dude is sick but moral of the story is don't break into people's houses.
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They deserved it.
The second i get a gun i'm leaving my car door and front door open to bait ? . -
That ? that make ya soul burn slow.
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I have no remorse for anyone breaking and entering then gettin' murked. Old man Smith should have kept his mouth shut.
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These old folks ain't having it no more
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picture of the old man. looks blind as ? not sure how he hit anything even at close range.
po' kids
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What dumb ? . They didnt peep his schedule? After dude got shot and fell down the steps, she still goes in? She didnt hear them noises? Smh...stupidity gets you merkd out here
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you break into someone's home, you die. That's just how it works. They found that out the hard way.
Na'an ? given. -
MzGrahamBitches wrote: »What a sick ? .
meh too each its own i had just stumbled upon this article before t/s posted it but if u break in anyone's home ur open game to get clapped. not saying i would have done with he done. but aint no ? given once u break into someone's home all bets are off -
old ppl be trigger happy as ?
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U break into somebody's ? u should be prepared not to leave. Moral of the story is STAY OUTTA PPLS ? !
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Yeah that's the risk you take, but dude sounded a little too pleased with himself to have just killed two stupid kids at close range.
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MzGrahamBitches wrote: »What a sick ? .
meh too each its own i had just stumbled upon this article before t/s posted it but if u break in anyone's home ur open game to get clapped. not saying i would have done with he done. but aint no ? given once u break into someone's home all bets are off
I agree, but the law doesn't see it that way. We are supposed to depend on the police to save us, which is kinda gross if you think about all that implies.
I think the kids musta been on drugs tho. The girl got shot and lauged and went down there after hearing gunshots, wtf? -
imma break in yo house Kat
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T. Sanford wrote: »imma break in yo house Kat
So really you sayin you just want a thread made about you on the IC? -
Will Munny wrote: »T. Sanford wrote: »imma break in yo house Kat
So really you sayin you just want a thread made about you on the IC?
give me my condolences bruh bruh