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You're just plain dumb.

So now Read committing Assault & Battery on Carruth is not Assault & Battery. A hostile threat in your face, and then physically being thrown across the yard.....no assault.

Don't ever serve on a jury. You're too blind and dumb for the defendant to get a fair trial.

Sounds like you'd shoot the paper boy based on your rambling unhinged response

He will walk.

Worth a watch.

This time next year he will be eating penis with a side of cock in prison for thanksgiving.

Yes he will.

Aaaaw heck, now Elky is a freaking Texas law and use of force expert.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Go read about “Escalation” (that’s a real term in Texas law) and get back to us. Where was the “assault” BEFORE the boyfriend ESCALATED the argument by bringing a GUN to a VERBAL ARGUMENT?? (Hint: There was none.)

Fer crying out loud....

Read was ordered to leave > Illegal Trespassing > (Carruth brings gun out) > Assault & Battery > Dead

Read escalated the scene before the gun came out....or can't you comprehend facts?

Read was ordered to leave > Illegal Trespassing > (Carruth brings gun out) > Assault & Battery > Dead

Read escalated the scene before the gun came out....or can't you comprehend facts?

Go read about “Escalation” (that’s a real term in Texas law) and get back to us. Where was the “assault” BEFORE the boyfriend ESCALATED the argument by bringing a GUN to a VERBAL ARGUMENT?? (Hint: There was none.)

Fer crying out loud....

“ You were not otherwise engaged in criminal activity, other than a Class C misdemeanor involving a traffic violation.”

“ c) A person who has a right to be present at the location where the deadly force is used, who has not provoked the person against whom the deadly force is used, and who is not engaged in criminal activity at the time the deadly force is used is not required to retreat before using deadly force as described by this section.”

Also note, the ex-wife (and perhaps, by extension, the boyfriend) were in violation of a CLASS B misdemeanor (contempt of court, punishable up to 6 months in prison) by violating a family court order to have the kids there at the appointed time.

It’s likely only the MOM that was violating, but you can’t conduct “criminal activity” against someone (Dad), then act like you’ve got the right to shoot them when they get angry about it. (This would definitely be an issue if MOM had shot him).

Also, was Dad “provoked” (certainly by bringing out the gun, but by the commission of a CLASS B misdemeanor, that in some ways, boyfriend was “accessory” to(not having kids there)... Did boyfriend help Mom/know beforehand she was violating court order??

Sounds like you'd shoot the paper boy based on your rambling unhinged response.

I carry all the time. Does that escalate any argument I may get into? The escalation happened when Read started pushing Carruth around and daring him to shoot him. However after finding that Carruth was only shacking up at his girlfriends house I don't see how he had any right to ask the Read to leave in the first place. Further Carruth could have waited for Read to advance on him again after being tossed off the porch to give another verbal warning. When they separated I didn't see that Carruth was any imminent danger. If I were the prosecutor I would make these points. Still 50/50 in my opinion that a jury would convict. Suppose they put 6 women on the jury? Seems very odd that Reads new wife and his ex wife were so calm during the incident. I also don't understand why it matters when Read assaulted Carruth? Before or after Carruth armed himself it was still an assault. Carruth never made any attempt to harm or touch Read before he was pushed around. Read could have easily gone and sat in his car to wait for his kid. Carruth could have gone inside and watched TV also. Before Read showed up yelling at his ex there was no problem. If Read had been polite there would have been no problem. If the ex had the kid ready when he got there no one would have been hurt. Carruth may have been stressed out due to his divorce becoming final and Reads comment may have pushed him over the edge. Who knows but there is absolutely no assurance Carruth will go to jail over this. I would like to see it go to trial and the trial be televised.

Learn to read, and understand what the meaning of the words are, and how they apply in a case.

Child custody is a civil matter not "CRIMINAL", therefore NO criminal activity was used to "PROVOKE" as the law states above.

Reading comprehension is your friend.

KEY POINT: Where is it stated in your posting of the LAW that a person has no RIGHT to obtain the tools to use Deadly Force if needed?

Think now. This is a tough one for you.

Escalation of the situation by refusal to leave is not the same thing as escalating with a firearm. Walking inside to grab a gun and come back out was a mistake, plain and simple. Cops should have been called and let them sort it out. By dragging a gun into the situation, Carruth turned a verbal altercation where no violence was threatened into an armed conflict. Read should have left, Carruth should have never grabbed a gun. And Carruth deserves every charge he gets for being a [bleep] moron, and for making gun owners look like unhinged [bleep] who are just hankering to kill someone.