The man is not responsible for the shooting. The killer made a choice, and her choice was to murder an innocent person. |
I never understand in these situations why anyone kills anyone else when a person decides they no longer want a relationship with them. Why do people obsess over people who do not want to have a relationship with them? |
Ohh, interesting for her real life situations too. |
Who gives a flying f about all of this. NOTHING justifies someone being violent. I don't blame him one bit for what happened. No one put a gun to the murderer's head and made her stay with him. She sucks and is a low life murdering criminal. I have no sympathy for her. |
| My takeaway is to never put my location information out there so people can track me. That this woman would kill was surely not on the victimâs radar. If you check in somewhere, do it after you have left a place. Obviously, itâs not that hard to find someoneâs home address but no need to put more info out there. |
He actually purchased the murder weapon. While lying to and sleeping with both women. Look no one has sympathy for the killer. She'll be caught and sentenced, if she isn't already dead, and this being Texas, she'll never see freedom again. But this guy's reckless, dishonest actions, combined with his asinine decision to purchase two!! handguns (you need these as a cyclist because...?) and keep them in his home and his unstable relationship 100% contributed to these events. |
| ETA if I'm the victim's family I'd file civil suit against this guy. Who cares if he has assets. He deserves it, and they'd win. |
Whoa read these comments |
Civil suit for what? Mental abuse isnât illegal in this country. There is the girl who told her boyfriend to kill himself repeatedly and was convicted though. https://people.com/crime/michelle-carter-trial-gallery-key-moments-conrad-roy-suicide/?amp=true |
Precisely. That case created significant precedent, whether you agree with it or not, of culpability without direct cause. This isn't about mental abuse, although he was certainly engaging in that. It's about him setting up the dominos to be knocked down. Male cyclist engages in a relationship with both women, serially lies to his live-in partner, partner makes verbal statements threatening the life of the decedent, male cyclist purchases firearms *at that time*, fatal shooting occurs. The utility of a successful civil case may be moot, as it won't bring the woman back. My point is that the family has a (civil, not criminal) case against the guy, and it hooks into our country's bonkers relationships with firearms. You add a gun into a situation like this and it punts everyday domestic drama into an active volcano. |
I think you'd have a better chance getting him convicted of intimate partner abuse than having him convicted as a quasi-gun owner. He didn't take her to target practice and have her hit a bulls eye with the other woman. She did that all on her own. |
| What a polite euphemism: they had a âromantic relationshipâ that lasted a week. |
Are you talking about Betty Broderick? Her husband cheated on her with a much younger woman, divorced Betty and then married his affair partner. Betty then turned pretty damn abusive in her own right â even to their kids. She turned into a complete psycho. Iâve been through exactly what Betty went through and it didnât turn me into a lunatic. |
| It seems like itâs so much more salacious and interesting when itâs a woman who murders the AP rather than a man. Thatâs the vibe I get. Am I wrong? |
Oh it was going on longer than that |