Virginia man arrested for shooting and killing teen casing house for burglary and/or "filming a prank video" at 3am

[Anonymous]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/virginia-homeowner-accused-of-murder-after-teens-death-possibly-linked-to-tiktok-prank/3907758/

"About 3 a.m. Saturday a homeowner fatally shot Michael Bosworth Jr. on McKenzie Lane in Spotsylvania County, Virginia."

"One of the other teens, who was grazed by a bullet, told detectives they weren’t breaking in to steal anything. The teen said they were recording ding-dong ditch pranks for TikTok videos – ringing doorbells and then running away."

You can't use lethal force against someone running away who never entered your house. You need to use a BB gun or a bird shot gun so the cops have a reason to let you go.

[Anonymous]

They rang the doorbell and got shot? wtf???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They rang the doorbell and got shot? wtf???

The things that people do in the dark

[Anonymous]

Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Homeowner was black, teen was white. Allegedly the homeowner thought the teens were trying to break in.

[Anonymous]

I feel really bad for the boy. These types of pranks are a common discussion in my Facebook neighborhood group. Kids doing dingdong ditches and then there was a time when they were kicking at doors. Don’t do, it it’s dumb! You never know when somebody is going to react away that homeowner did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Homeowner was black, teen was white. Allegedly the homeowner thought the teens were trying to break in.

Which is not a wild assumption at 3am. But.. you can't shoot someone in the back either, as that's not self defense.

[Anonymous]

Obviously this is a tragic situation, but come on - parents, teach your kids not to engage in this sort of stupidity for tiktok or whatever it is they’re doing. This was a worst case scenario outcome, but imagine this was an elderly woman living alone, or a couple with young kids…having random people at your house at 3 am would be terrifying. Don’t be selfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Homeowner was black, teen was white. Allegedly the homeowner thought the teens were trying to break in.

How can they be trying to break in if they are ringing the door bell? That’s… not what breaking in is…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel really bad for the boy. These types of pranks are a common discussion in my Facebook neighborhood group. Kids doing dingdong ditches and then there was a time when they were kicking at doors. Don’t do, it it’s dumb! You never know when somebody is going to react away that homeowner did.

I don’t. He and his friends are morons. Beyond stupid. And totally without empathy of their actions. As another poster said - what if this were an elderly woman who lived there? They could’ve caused a heart attack with this nonsense.


I feel bad for the homeowner.

I’m not really on-board with what he did, but I understand. You shouldn’t shoot people running away in the back unless they’re shooting at you. Otherwise you have to let them run. I dunno if I could convict if I’m on that jury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Homeowner was black, teen was white. Allegedly the homeowner thought the teens were trying to break in.

Which means they didn't knock and immediately run, or the homeowner was awake all night behind his door with a gun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Homeowner was black, teen was white. Allegedly the homeowner thought the teens were trying to break in.

Which means they didn't knock and immediately run, or the homeowner was awake all night behind his door with a gun.

Exactly right.

This wasn’t a knock and run. This was a knock (probably more than once) and hang around causing enough commotion to give the homeowner reason to go find his gun and arm himself before opening the door.

This took minutes to transpire. Not seconds.

[Anonymous]

I don’t own guns but JESUS some of you have moronic sons.

[Anonymous]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Homeowner was black, teen was white. Allegedly the homeowner thought the teens were trying to break in.

How can they be trying to break in if they are ringing the door bell? That’s… not what breaking in is…

I don't think it's done like this now. It's more of kicking the door or several guys pounding on it as hard as they can. It's not ringing the door bell and running away.

It's sad all around.

[Anonymous]

Bosworth was shot hours before his school's prom.

Anything is hours before anything else. It was 3 am!