Victim Who Killed Burglars in His House is Charged with Murder | Byron David Smith Case Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2023
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Stay out of other peoples houses ,and your risk of being shot drops dramatically.
Lol true*
and calling the police once they are incapacitated dramatically lowers your chances of being brought up on premeditated murder charges.
Call Byron a worthless Travis Mcmichaels in the end. Though Byron had an excuse to shoot and stop the threat, he is guilty of going too far like Travis. The system worked in both cases.
@@alfredindy8058 Nah
100 percent, bruh
These two individuals will never burglarize anyone ever again.
They learned their lesson.
This guy will be in prison for the rest of his life. Owning a gun does not give you a right to kill anyone that isn’t trying to harm you same reason cops also end up behind bars. The idiot lost his life and home anyway so what was the point? Majority of people who own guns try to make it seem like we live in the Wild West era when people had nobody to call and settle things. Same reason suicide, and murder takes place. Dad against son or Viceversa. When people go to war they comeback all screwed up in the head not sure why. Here in the mainland everyone thinks that they’re Dirty Harry or Charles Bronson. This engineer was a dumb fk ~ he recorded himself killing somebody that’s why he’s in prison. Nobody is dumb enough to believe his bullshit.
And Mr. Smith learned his, as well. @@PatrickWagz
just like that TikToker Tanner Cook, the knucklehead prankster who got shot by that Uber Eats delivery guy after haggling him, the shooter was found not guilty. Release Byron David Smith!
@@PatrickWagz The two criminals didn't learn anything. You don't learn when you're dead.
The police never guarantee that they will protect you from harm in time. Defending your own life and property shouldn’t be penalized.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Not only that, many court cases have proven they have no obligation to protect anyone at any time no matter what the circumstances are.
When seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Again, the issue wasn't that the police won't come in time; it's that Byron continued to use deadly force after the threat was neutralized.
@@sunrazor2622How was the threat stopped? If she isn't dead she is a threat.
If you cant feel safe in your own home, where can you? The man had been robbed multiple times with no help. I believe if you go into someones house uninvited youre at their mercy.
Exactly! But unfortunately we live in a "civilized" society. In a "civilized" society you put the victims in jail and let the criminals go free.
@@VSES-99293 It's nuanced. You should read more.
@@iiddrrii6051 more like protecting criminals, you short bus rider
@@iiddrrii6051 so if I violated your mom would you called that nuance, Dum dum 🤡
@@iiddrrii6051 You're trying to make yourself seem educated but really you sound like you ride the short bus. It's okay just tell your mom to take computer time away from you. Internet is for adults only.
Byron also actually knew Nick. He hired Nick and his buddies every summer but they started stealing anything and everything they could. Byron caught on and didnt ask them back the next summer and the boys were mad so began vandalizing and robbing him everytime he dared to leave the house. It was personal what happened. Im surprised Dr Grande didnt find that in his research
Grande just recycles a few cases from other channels, its low hanging fruit content for him to deliver in his gimmicky deadpan style
Yup, barely did any research into the Karen Read case either.
Does not make any difference it was still an execution. It was absolutely pre meditated then...or he would have called the police.
because it was more comfortable to say he was guilty that way. he deserves to be free,
@@dantevxv1501damn why you roast him this hard? Lmao
Please explain “luring burglars”. How ridiculous!! I don’t care if he had every window & door open and was out of the country. No one had a right to be in his home.
It's a bit different when the "lure" coincided with the clear intention to blow them away. That's an aggravating factor in the premeditation.
@@Annenigmatic i hate US law so much, touch someone else's belongings, you should 100 out of 100 times get 3 bulets to the cranium
Certainly no one had a right to be in his home- but his actions to attract the burglars are relevant as evidence of his premeditation. It shows that he was thinking ahead even before the burglars arrived.
@@gillsejusbates6938 capital punishment for petty theft yeah your ideas are great
@@gillsejusbates6938 Seek a therapist, you obviously are unwell. Small IQ, ego problems. Get help.
Love Dr. Todd's choice of words: *_"Had developed difficulty regulating their intake of substances"_* Such an eloquent way to say they were crack fiends.
How about:
“Illicit pharmaceutical enthusiasts”
Are you sure? I thought it was heroine
They were opiate addicts.
Opiate addiction for sure. That BS will have an addict making excuses for criminal behavior that they never would have before, especially the hard stuff
@@mattepton5731 No, it just helps reveal who they really are.
I think this is where the term "Too much" comes into play. This man was pushed over the limit.
... by alcohol ?
"Had developed difficulty regulating their intake of substances." Probably the most polite and kindest way I've ever heard someone describe two drug addicts.
I know right. lol. He could just as well have been talking about pizza or candy. He should just come out and say they were drug addicts.
I said the same.
Bet if Byron was a raging drug addict and a habitual robber he wouldn’t get such a nice title.
@@factsondeck1552Because he's white.
And the parents if the boy bought him a brand new sports car, both were spoiled rich kids who when caught were let off with a slap to the wrist.
Moral of the story : don’t screw around with old people. Life in prison isn’t much of a deterrent when you’re approaching the end anyway.
He was born four months before I was, and I don't want to finish my life in a Hell hole otherwise called a penal institution.
Have you been in prison lately? I have and it's not a good Retirement plan.
64 isn't that old bud. Could possibly spend 20 years or more in there.
Wrong, moral of the story: don't break into people's home
. @@apples874 Yes. Perhaps if everyone understood that burglarizing somebody's home could lead to your death, fewer people would attempt it. Perhaps if law enforcement understood that a burglary could prove fatal to somebody, they would become more zealous enforcing 'property crimes'.
Had these two young burglars never seen a scary movie before? NEVER go down the basement stairs. It's ALWAYS bad news.
oh how i cherished that comment. absolutly underrated ^^ and so true ! ^^
Finally! Someone talking my language.
Stay out of other people homes!!! Period!! Who wanders around in another persons home with intent to steal!? Criminals!?
Also. DON'T MURDER PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you do, then YOU are a criminal. A far worse criminal than someone who "wanders around in another person's home" or who merely takes something. Taking a life is far more serious. You people absolutely disgust me.
They were not a threat to his life.
@@uggggggghhhhh Yes they were. They were also a clear threat to his health and well-being.
If you break into someone's house, then you take your life into your own hands. Even if Byron made it look like his home was abandoned, those two punks had no business in his house.
Exactly. My neighbors' driveways are empty every day; it's called going to work. It gives nobody the right to break in and take their stuff.
Based. Should have gotten parole/surveillance, does not deserve jail.
He should have buried them. He trusted the justice system and he ended up being punished by defending his house from criminals. If he had called the police, they wouldn't have arrived in time anyway
@@ctr289 also based
@ctr289 He would have been justified like you said, if he would have called the police and continued to wait for the second thief. I don't feel sorry for those kids for robbing an elder. I feel sorry for Byron. His heard earned money and investment in his home is gone. He will probably die in prison. I hope that he is released soon.
My aunt lived in Washington DC and had several robberies to her home. She NEVER felt safe after that. The psychological damage was deep and long lasting. Law enforcement is almost useless against repeat offenders. Just saying.
People have a right to feel safe in their own homes... I think this case demonstrates that this right does not extend to permission of premeditated murder to obtain that right.
@@Alice-ui9oysetting up a defensive position in your own home shouldn’t be seen as premeditated murder… after all, no one should be breaking into your freaking home! If the recording of him didn’t make him sound like a psycho he’d be off.
@@tommymc7535have you heard the recording? Its haunting
@@tommymc7535 Thank you!
@@vicvega3614 And so...
Government is more concerned about their monopoly on violence than your safety or independence from their "services".
In Australia, if you tap an intruder on the shoulder and say "Hey, what are you doing here", they're likely to sue you for assault.
Their judicial system is scarier than their wildlife.
this world is going crazier and crazier . Criminals are cared for , protected ,praised etc... but on the opposite , good people who work hard to earn their living , who are always on the good side of the law , these people are persecuted , deprived of their basic rights , they get no protection from the police , they are jailed for no reason . This is the new modern world
Same for Canada.
You didn't fight to have your natural rights. The American Constitution is everything. Should be appreciated by all.
That's why you don't give them the chance that's a threat lurking around your house, plotting to do who knows what, putting you and the lives of everyone inside in danger. There should be no question in your mind to take care of that threat and ensure the safety of yourself or the people residing in your home.
If only there was something the burglars could have done, or not done, to avoid the situation in the first place.....
Well put, my friend!
@@user-nz7co4pk5snah, what happened to Byron is victim blaming.
Look, the burglars were obviously in the wrong, but if you tranquilized them without outright killing them, that's sufficient enough to turn them in; shooting more shots than needed is just plain murder, why? Because they weren't going to kill you if they got severely injured. A wrong done unto you, doesn't give you justification to do a wrong to them.
@@kenmore01When someone writes in LoWeR and UpPeR cAsE LiKe tHiS they're being sarcastic btw
@@tylere.8436 I'm not trying to justify killing these kids, we mortals can't ever know if that was good or bad, but tranquilizing them without a medical license puts you in a potential law suit. You're better off just simply shooting them...but in a place which immobilizes them yet is not fatal. Now, you have to be a marksman too.
Deliberately breaking in and walking into someone’s home at night, means you forfeit any rights.
no. it doesn't. you live in a fantasy world
You don't have rights while illegally invading someone's home. You get what you get and they got lead.@@georgeworthmore
@@bloppysloppy4057that goes both ways. Not All burglars are harmless children. Seek counseling.
"The Castle Doctrine" does not apply when someone continues to shoot after burglar is no longer a threat and neutralized.
@@georgeworthmorenot sure where you live but burglary of a residence is a first degree felony, and you are allowed to use deadly force in most circumstances. he should have planned his defense better. hard to believe you would be on the burglars side, how would you like to wake up in the middle of the night with someone in your home.
How can you premeditate other people breaking into your home. That's nuts.
How can you miss the whole story. That's insane
He set it up to appear gone!
The idea that you can setup a "trap" inside your own home is absurd. You can't trap non-criminals to break your window and sneak in. What a joke. He was also justified in fearing retaliation if he only wounded them, since they targeted his house multiple times. He probably thought they'd come back with the guns they stole last time and wound or kill him.
Exactly. It’s like the bank putting extra money in the bank vault to “bait” the bank robbers. They’re still not supposed to be there in the first place.
It’s no surprise that a jury in liberal Minnesota applied the liberal laws and came to the conclusion that both lawmakers and many voters wanted. Would this man be guilty of murder had he lived in Texas? No.
thats not far fetched from truth
theres a high possibility they would return or even bring more buddies
2 people burglarized a man's house where I live..they were wearing masks and they came for his pain meds..he was a cancer patient..they had a weapon. The man saw it and shot to defend himself..one was shot and killed the other ran off..when the mask was taken off it revealed it was the man's own grandson who was killed. The man never recovered 😣 I feel bad for them but you can't go around terrorizing people and feel entitled to safety.
Worst Scooby-Doo episode ever.
@@Agent-vj3ns yea it was horrible..the boy that was with him that ran off only did like 2 months in jail..the family was furious with the grandfather..which is nuts to me..the man woke up to 2 masked Intruder's holding a weapon coming at him..what was he suppose to do 😐 he beat himself up for it enough already..I just felt really bad for him.
@@annieoops6243 sounds about right that kid probably never faced any responsibility for his actions until that day
@@BHarris25 you're right he didn't..but he had been warned by other home owners if he came there they would fire at him..I guess he figured robbing family was "safer". He was 19 and some people called him a kid..that is a young adult and you know better at 19..I'm sure just like these 2 he had gotten away with it so many times he figured this would just be another successful burglary
@@annieoops6243 I remember another case in my area years ago that was similar, except the grandson robbed and murdered his grandfather by wrapping his whole head in duct tape.
Amazing how we are protecting the criminals and NOT the victims.
That is how you know we live in a broken society. Especially in blue state hellholes like Minnesota.
He could have gotten away with it if he didn’t shoot the girl 6 times and wait to call the police
@mobertrartling doesn't matter how many times you shoot, cops empty clips to "neutralize" a threat, you don't have to be holding a gun to be threatening to someone else. What got this guy in trouble was the recording the event. If he had not recorded he'd of been OK.
It was the final execution shots that crossed the line into murder, and the fact that he didn't call the cops as soon as the burglars broke in. If he had called the cops immediately and told them that he was in fear for his life, he would have been good.
@@sleazyfellow it does matter if you keep shooting after the threat is neutralized and say “you’re dying, bitch!” And yeah I don’t really like police, I think a lot of them are trigger happy and more of them should be in jail for unloading clips on unarmed people and pets
In Canada a guy got 5 years in a case when being asleep in his basement bedroom, he awoke to a "feeling of being stabbed" in the head. There was a lot of his blood found in the basement and testified during trial that the attacker came into his room and stabbed him in the head when he was sleeping while threatening to kill him. He got up and found a knife-wielding intruder in his room and - not knowing who the person was - chased him into the hallway. After the struggle the intruder had been killed with his own knife. the judge concluded that "He was justified in taking defensive action, but the jury has concluded that his taking the knife of Mr. Bunn and stabbing him multiple times went beyond what was necessary for self-defence." So get stabbed while you are asleep, fight back, but be nice!
If your description is accurate and complete, then it is a very different case with Canada guy having reasonably defended himself. While I have no sympathy for the burglars, Byron planned to kill them and did so when they were clearly disabled (no longer an immediate threat) which makes it murder.
And the judge didn't have the balls to nullify that jury????
What? What? What? No no no! Is this the upside down world?
This is similar to the case a year ago in Houston in which a guy entered a taco restaurant and produced a handgun and robbed the customers. One of the customers was armed and when the robber walked past the customer, the customer drew his pistol and shot the robber nine times, the last shot was to the head. The customer picked up the robber's handgun and found it was a toy. The customer then walked out of the restaurant, got into his pickup and left the scene. He was found later and questioned by the police. The case went to the grand jury a few weeks ago and the grand jury no-billed the customer for killing the robber. Evidently the grand jury felt that getting his getting killed while robbing the customers of the restaurant couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
I think Byron needed a better lawyer. He was clearly not in his right mind when he cooked up this scheme. A good lawyer would have gone into detail about how many times Byron's property was violated which eventually led to him going into a mental state of siege.
Well if he didn't cook up this so called "SCHEME" they were gonna continue burgalizing his home and steal everything he worked for that they didn't. So Byron did the right thing 👏 It needed stopped
I got robbed twice in a month years ago....I was an armed basket case for years. Booby trapped my house. Couldn't sleep for more than a few hours. Told all of my friends to stop coming to my house. And I just sat there, alone and scared, with no less than 10 guns within arms reach.
@@christopherdunn3094 yep and Byron probably saved others from getting robbed or worse, they should release him. It's so wrong to charge him with that
Exactly. They should have hired a psychiatrist to help show that point. I think its obvious that is what played a large role in how he handled that situation; he'd developed a "state of siege." I also think the fact that he _recorded_ this situation shows how much anxiety played a role in his state of mind. That said, its hard to disagree with many of the things he said on the recording.
It's how he handled it. I'm all for Castle doctrine, yet he seemed to live entirely in this bubble. Bad idea.
He was a security expert no less.
Oh yikes this is scary. Dude's literally only a risk to people breaking into his home.
A real menace to society! Lol
Meanwhile 2 black men literally beat a white teen (Ethan Liming) to death in Akron, Ohio in public and get away with actual murder
No, he is obviously willing to take justice into his own hands. He said as much himself. He probably wasn't going to stop here, especially if he had gotten away with it.
If just half my neighbors were like him ,I think burglaries here would become a rarity.
@@huntercoleherr You really think if he had gotten away with "it"(defending his home) there'd be more people breaking into his house? Really?
It isn't pre-meditated murder it is pre-mediated self defense. A huge difference. He should sue for slander, he didn't murder anyone, he was self defending himself, his property, and his neighborhood. His neighbors should of supported him more
Sounds like his neighbors , so called friends, didn't wanna get involved. That's sad. He needs them the most in court. He can still try to over turn this.
@@lefty5463 He is dead for sure now, prison is a harsh environment for 76-year-olds.
Yes it is murder
What do you expect if you break into someone’s home? Tea and cookies?
Meh, they're not complaining
Well that works for SATAN CLAUS!!!
All these nasty comments about the guy. He'd been victimized a number of times previously, and accurately predicted he was going to be victimized again. Judge him all you want, but I'm sure people continuously breaking into your house will make you paranoid and crazy.
Most of the comments are saying he shouldn't have gotten charged at all. All the guy had to do is not execute them or at least record him executing them and he would have been fine. The two burglers deserved what they got and he deserved the sentence he got.
@@dioniciotrevino7672the burglars didn't deserve to die but the shooter deserved his sentence
@@dioniciotrevino7672that old man should not have been charged. If you keep breaking into people houses you should be punished. People that do what those 2 did in the same area so the same houses multiple times is a low key for of torture. He should have called the cops after the girl went down but he shouldn't have been charged.
@@gregsmith141 It's all choices they chose to rob him(and others) and they paid for that with their lives and he chose to execute them so he has to face the consequences of that.
It was his choice not to call the cops after he shot the guy coming down the steps but he didn't. He could have called after shooting him in the head but he didn't. He could have called after shooting the girl on the steps but didn't and so on.
I have sympathy for him and all their victims but he had his choice and chose murder so he has to deal with the consequences. I don't feel anything for the two robbers by the way.
That's my opinion anyways.
@@dioniciotrevino7672 I don't consider what the old man did as murder. Yes he caused their death but I think they both were good kills but definitely not murder, atleast not punishable murder. He definitely should have called the cops though.
My brother's neighbor was a victim of a home invasion by three burglars in broad daylight. Their neighbor was shot three times. :(
OMG that's awful. Did the neighbor survive and wasn't he armed to defend himself?
The law exists to protect the criminals if you really look into it! People got the law wrong! In order to control people, the government has to impose fear. When people live in fear they would tell on each other! They would adhere to the law by paying their hard earn money to the government.
@@2painful2watch do you have a gun handy and within arm's reach at all times when you are at home?
@@suemckee1598 Hahaha, well no I do not. Point taken.
@@suemckee1598 yes.
His mistake was not quietly disposing the evidence.....
Yeah... no need to brag when you are a white man with no previous criminal instances... that's begging to be made an example of today.
Nor calling paramedic
@@aaronjohnson7812 jeff?
Agreed.....
You are quite very right..
Silence is golden....
So it's the cops fault for not solving the break-ins. The old guy needs to be let out of jail.
Nick had stolen a watch and a set of metals that had belonged to Bryon’s deceased father which really pushed the older man over the edge mentally because of the emotional value the items held. The two criminals created the mental breakdown of the man and then paid the price.
If they weren't in his home they'd never be shot
He didn't ask them to be there, they chose to be there(where they weren't welcome).
100% bullshit and B-boy should be let go.
I was on his side until I heard the recording, I don't feel too bad for the guy but what he did to the girl was totally unhinged he's a sadistic psychopath.
@@jskyg68 Oh we got a simp right there ! You're not sorry for the criminal guy, but you're sorry for the criminal female.
@@miketesla8550 While my Dad was dying in the hospital some punk broke in to his place and stole his gun collection, I'm not dumb enough to get revenge, it's just stuff.
@jskyg68 And this is what is the true definition of victim blaming. Don't be a terrorist in society and it doesn't happen.
He did go overboard, but to convict him of two counts of first degree murder? They were burglars that sound like they even stole a few of his firearms at one point, so they could have been armed. I could understand if this happened outside of his home, but they broke into his house yet again.
Byron shouldn't do any time imho. He had been burgled so many times. Ptsd--if it were me.
Yep , he went overboard , but with frustration at previous attacks on his home who can blame him.
I know it's seen more as vengeance rather than defending his property with how many times he shot them , I still say its on them , they broke in , what happened after that is their own fault.
Not sure why he wanted to record it though
@@moonfall8972it didn't work. Please think twice about it executing someone when they're already incapacitated
@@steve10he recorded it because poor guy was losing touch with reality.
It's a difficult one. If you own firearms you're making yourself a massive target. a) everyone knows you're a soft target b) firearms are easy to sell.
The prosecution of this elderly man, who was victimized by two criminals, serves no benefit to society.
Prosecution is for justice as well as societal protection. This guy finished off his victims after. He attracted them to his house, laid in wait, shot them. Still, if he had stopped there he may have been acquitted. Instead, he finished them off.
Precisely.
This wasn't sadism. It was self defense from an incompetent justice system. He simply chose to stop being a victim.
I'm thinking that if those 2 burglars had been at the library instead of breaking into someone's home, they wouldn't have been shot. Just my thoughts.
I'm thinking of the homeowner was watching the cameras and notified the police right away, they'd have gone to prison, not him. Clearly they were in the wrong but clearly so was he.
@@NealBurkard-ut1oo He did they did nothing
Hard to hate this guy. As a child our family home was burglarized a few times (2 was while we were at home asleep). For months I didn't sleep. I cried many nights. That type of violation is hard to overcome.
Hard not to believe Byron wasn't having a psychotic break.
I don't hate him, at all. His personal space and security was invaded one too many times.
I think he deserves a medal. He carried out his public and private duty.
I don't think ppl understand how psychologically damaging can be for someone who lives alone to live in constant fear of having their home invaded. He probably gradually descended into a state of paranoid psychosis, with no one to snap him out of it, and then having another home invasion, just as he expected... I think he needs mental health, I don't think he deserves life in prision.
I don't think he should have gotten the sentence he did but man, I remember hearing the audio of the girl crying and begging before she died. It is brutal.
I'm glad I missed it. Heartbreaking just to read your description.@@GhastlyCretin
The second you break into someone's home, you forfeit your life.
Exactly. Victims of burglary and abuse of their privacy and property shouldn't be obligated to perform insurance agency duty to their abusers.
spoken like a psychopath
this is the exact attitude that led to this double murder.
@@aes0p895 Don't you think a psychopath is someone who would break into a home to steal, or cause harm?
@@aes0p895 Sorry, pal. I live in Texas where I can defend myself. I left Minnesota many years ago for good reason. The criminal has more rights than a law abiding citizen there.
Playing dangerous games, can lead to you losing your life. Free Byron.
Byron is where he belongs in prison he's a evil murderer
Two things: They had gotten away with burglarizing him before, with the Police doing Nothing. 2: They had stolen guns, so he knew they might be armed. Innocent in my eyes.
they were unarmed
@@commonsenseisntcommon1776 But he did not know that they did not have the stolen guns on them, and the Castle Doctrine lets you shoot those who break into your house and come at you, whether to harm you or to steal from you. They had stolen before, and this was not stopped by his reporting it to the police, so he saw that they might think he was defenseless, and they might break in again. The reason he made sure to kill them was what Hunters call a "Mercy or Finishing" shot.
@@alfr1 he commited premeditated murder even if he felt it was for self defense. I'm a gun owner and I support stand your ground, but that's not what this was. He knee they may rob him, but he chose to take matters into his own plans and created a plan to kill then. At any moment he could have called law enforcement, but he decided to kill them himself. Yes, they committed a crime, but he also commited premeditated murder. Self defense is protecting youself in a moment of fear when you're life is in danger, you only pull to shoot. He had his gun out for an hour or more, waiting to shoot because he knew they were coming.
Important lesson for criminals. Sometimes your victims don't follow the law either.
That man is in jail for life just because he wanted peace and to be safe in his own home
Bruh they were disabled after shooting them, they weren't a threat after the first 2 shots
@@PK-pp3lu they would have gone back there months after, angry, and done who knows what. That man would have had no peace anyway
@@friedchicken1 Perhaps 😥
As they say in law: "Better to remain silent and be thought guilty, than to open one's mouth and remove any reasonable doubt."
@@PK-pp3lu f u
Thank you for cleaning the world up Byron.
He was traumatized by the repeated break ins and wanted to end the threat altogether. He didn't trust the judicial system (we all have evidence that supports this concern) and simply wanted to end the threat. He made some serious errors that compromised his possible defense and the whole situation is tragic and sad.
so what r u calling errors?
Go find the recording and listen to it, He wanted revenge, what he did to that girl was sadistic and evil.
I heard the recording and will never forget it.
@@jskyg68u mean when she laughed at him like some kind of batman villian?
@@sticksbass I guess he won, nobody's gonna steal anything else from him are they?😂
Old don't mean smart, that's for damn sure....
@@jskyg68 right, he shouldve let them continue tyrannizing him like a fine citizen since theres too many leftist saps who sympathize w criminals more than their victims. now ur kind stole his freedom; what more is there to steal from him?
There's way too much empathy/sympathy for criminals in this country.
There is such a thing as going too far. Double tapping two people after baiting them into breaking into your home is going too far.
@@iloveplasticbottles Going too far you say so I'm working a minimum wage job everything I have in my home is taken from me well guess what next time they come back I'll decide how far I go cuz they decided to go as far as they wanted to when they enter through my door
How did he bait them? Even if the door is open, it makes no material difference. @@iloveplasticbottles
@@iloveplasticbottles You mean two degenerates who will amount to nothing in life and only be a blight on society? I think you have them mixed up with productive members of society.
@@BLS2134 That doesn't excuse murder.
Well done Byron. We need to get this dude out of jail.
what a stupid thing to say. maybe we should get you into jail , for the safety of the rest of us ^^.
This man should have never been charged and jailed. How many people will let someone come into there house like that? I have seen this happen to good people before. This mess up law is just about all over the world. I talk to folks that live in Canada in RUclips, they are saying the same darn thing.
@@lefty5463 Criminals are meticulously protected by the "law" while decent citizens are heavily pressed, and intimidated against ANY form of self-defense, which is automatically qualified as "taking the law into own hands".
@@robertcarter8600 Well, lesson learned. If you intend to commit a double homicide, don't record your deviant commentary. Byron Smith is in jail because he's a dumbass.
Byron Smith is a cowardly evil murderer should never be free
Aside from the old guy going to prison, this story has a very happy ending.
He married his cell mate?
I'm team Byron.. some can say it was overkill but if the duo never broke in, they would still be here.
@@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252Nice try at race baiting. Actually it was pretty pathetic. You failed.. Try again elsewhere 😂😂
The burglars were definitely playing the revenge game, but then again Byron did as well.
Byron should be getting psychotherapy while in prison with possibility of parole. Two life sentences with no possibility of parole puts him in the same category as a serial killer. Justice has not been served with such a draconian sentence for a man who was repeatedly victimized and emotionally tortured by the two scumbags he shot.
It's minnesota. They idolize criminals.
He executed the kids. A police officer that did the same will also go to prison.
I agree @marilynndelva
Its because they’re white and good looking
And?? He treated the kids like serial killers and executed them on the spot for robbery. He gets no sympathy from me. He thought he was going to get away with it... He planned everything so he could get away with it because he's a psycho. He should rot in prison. The kids are dead and have had to pay the price for breaking in, he has to pay his price for being a massive psycho.
Should not have called the police. Problem solved.
Wow. This is so cold. These kids had no heart breaking into this poor guys house. He didn’t ask to be robbed and he premeditated to protect his house. Set him free.
When the justice system fails to protect the innocent, people take matters into their own hands.
he intended not to be a victim. He intended to protect him home and property. What if he was alseep when robbed and the robbers had killed him? This didn't and couldn't happen because of his actions. This couldn't of ever happened if it was not for the robbers actions. He did go too far with the extra shots.
This is really similar to a case in the UK where a farmer Tony Martin shot a burglar and killed him. He was sent to prison but eventually acquitted. They had broken in several times and Tony was eccentric and not well. It was a landmark case
Yeah I mentioned this , strange how they are similar and considering our laws with not really being allowed to do anything that is seen as aggressive, whilst I dont agree Tony Martin should be in prison I can see why.
Yet this seems a slam dunk case of defending your home , which I thought was fair game in the US
@@steve10 the main difference is that Tony didn’t shoot as many times. I don’t think he should have gone to prison in the first place
@@steve10 Were you not paying attention to the video? He failed to call the police not only when he knew one was inside but afterwards, he moved his car to trick them into doing it and, worst of all, he shot them after they were incapacitated. It’s a slam dunk case of murder.
He wasn’t acquitted. It was reduced from murder to manslaughter and he served out his sentence.
Yeah I felt so bad for Tony, he did nothing wrong. He was just defending himself.
Those punks were deliberately targeting him. Byron tried to be nice to Nick by giving him work and Nick returned that kindness by stealing from Byron. When Byron couldn’t take it anymore he let Nick go which made Nick mad he began a campaign of terrorizing Byron. Breaking into his home, stealing and vandalizing.
I think that was the trigger. The betrayal.
And now Byron is going to spend the rest of his life being Nast Nate’s gf in prison ♥️💪🏿 and the same goes for the rest of you gun nerds who think you can just shoot anyone without consequences. You may think your Rambo now, but you can’t bring your guns to prison. Sucks to suck.
@@chakenbaconSucks that people like you support the criminals. Maybe you are one as well.
@chakenbacon Spoken like a true home invader.
@@stephenhood2948he's probably a groomer too
We are law abiding citizens who worked our way into a stable city apartment during the pandemic. About 6 months ago my landlord moved a group of criminals into the apartment above mine attached by the fire escape. Within days the entire building, previously incident free, was being burgled and at one point I heard what sounded like someone testing my apartment door to see if it would open but when I checked they were already walking away. A few days later, using the fire escape to monitor us in our home, they broke in while I was asleep and tried to creep up behind my fiance in the kitchen. They turned around in time and happened to be cleaning a cleaver in the sink, saw them and screamed causing them to run away. We instantly installed security cameras and if we hadn't we would likely not be here today because they came back repeatedly. I suspected the people upstairs the whole time. During the month we had to live with criminals climbing up and down the fire escape ladder our mental health tanked. We were both so afraid it ground us down quickly. I suspect they were being loud and intimidating on purpose knowing it would keep us exhausted and vulnerable. We had them arrested after capturing significant evidence allowed us to prove who it was including a s** crime. we stay armed in our home. We both still struggle to sleep. My fiance still wakes up into sleep terrors over it.
Los únicos crímenes verdaderos, y que por tanto deberían perseguirse con leyes duras, son el hurto y la violencia. Cualquier delito que imagines se puede reducir a esos dos factores por separado o combinados, incluso el allanamiento de morada, que se podría decir que es hurto de una acción exclusiva, tu has pagado por tener acceso exclusivo a una casa, y ese acceso exclusivo te pertenece. Si un tercero lo usa sin permiso lo está robando (aunque sea temporalmente).
A los que roben deberían meterles a trabajos forzados hasta que pagaran por duplicado todo lo robado a sus víctimas.
Espero que os vaya bien, la gente buena y trabajadora se merece respeto, no que les roben.
Yo apoyo lo que hizo este hombre, que fue exagerado, pero no había opción intermedia legal. Tomó la única opción que el estado no podía revertir.
@@javiermercado1996 Bro, read the room. Speak English. No one understands what you are trying to say.
"my landlord moved a group of criminals into the apartment above mine":
1.) It's not legal in most states to deny a tenant application just because someone has a criminal history
2.) The way you wrote that makes it sound like your landlord went downtown looking for a group of criminals to move into the apartment above you, as if it was some kind of deliberate action specifically targeted at you.
Having bad or even criminal neighbors already makes you a victim. You don't need make yourself the victim of your landlord as well to share your story. But the fact that you did makes me skeptical about the rest because now you sound like the sort of person who is always finding ways to be the victim. You said you "suspect they were being loud and intimidating on purpose knowing it would keep (you) exhausted and vulnerable," which is another example. The reality is they were probably just noisy drug addicts and the fact that you felt exhausted and fearful by their presence would be plenty to garner sympathy, but you had to take it to the point of assuming they're some kinds of criminal masterminds when clearly they were not.
And a last thought: how in the world would cameras in your apartment capture proof of your upstairs neighbors committing a sex crime?
@@joer8386 Translate button, así de fácil
@@joer8386I understand and there's translate if you need it
This man, after being robbed numerous times, was suffering PTSD...period! And carried that with him to that point of no return. No one was there for him after the previous burglaries, but they are all showing up for this. Crazy stuff.
That is the world we live in, sadly. No purpose. No moral foundation. People afraid of death to an absolute fault. Want the door to remain open for those who make "mistakes" by committing crimes, but without a thought in the world for the victims of said crimes.
So the same thieves returned over and over and the man was supposed to be fine with it? Ridiculous.
I live in Latin America...two men invaded my house... my spouse and I were in bed. Both were armed. My home has a wall 8 ft tall topped by barbed wire. They climbed over the wall. I had a shotgun to my head to force my spouse to cooperate.
Afterwards we heightened the walls to 18ft added ELECTRIFIED razor wire on top of that... the electrification was enough to kill a man...we put warning signs around toe house that it was electrified. This of course would be illegal in the USA. Not here.
I now have a Rottweiler guard dog. There are internal zones with steel bars or solid steel locking sliding doors so should they get around all that we can force them to break into multiple areas to get at us.
The USA via zoning laws prohibits self protection: the tall walls 18ft high, the electrified razor wire...they dont WANT citizens to be able to defend themselves and of course they want to outlaw guns too.
He should have sued their parents
@@dennisdragomir7572 Cool story bro
good point.
While I was younger our house was burglarized multile times. We were always on edge. One of the times my mom shot and the result was death. My mom was my dads second wife, my dad's first wife was killed a few years before in a home invasion. These 2 were probably going to escalate to using the weapons they were stealing
I’m sorry for your loss.
Your stepmom is a BA!
Good on your mom for protecting herself!
Such an amazing story, you’d almost think its wasn’t made up!
1st hand info is being held back from all. Accessories to crime. She protected her entire fam.
@@TheCrusher72Pathetic
Nick brought death to his cousin also. I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for them.
You don't need to feel sorry for them to see he was in the wrong too. He had so many other options
@@NealBurkard-ut1ooyour naivete is showing
Lack of empathy isn't atypical for psychopaths
@@HerrMikael it's not lack of empathy, I was angered by the unjust encarceration of this poor victimized man to the point I had to calm myself down to sleep.
Byron should be given a medal for community service instead of being prosecuted. He took out the communitys trash and made his neighborhood a nicer place to live.
he went about it wrong. im guessing he thought the home-castle law would protect him. but it has its limitations. im also guessing since he was a boomer, he had a "im always right" attitude which is typical of the generation.
@@Gizziiusabig. Ot.
@@aaronjohnson7812they never should have been there. I don't care how gruesome it was. I have no sorries to feel for them
@@louisejones5773 Troll
This he did community service
How can it be first-degree premeditated murder he couldn't have known for a fact that somebody would commit a crime
If this would have happened back 100 years ago Byron would be a hero.
Too many bleeding heart morons now.
Even 50 years ago or 40.
or in a different state
He still is a hero, but the villains hold power and label him the bad guy.
How many elites are named in Epsteins black book? We'll never know because the pedophiles run our society.
He still is.
I remember this case. Heard about it along time ago. I don't feel sorry for the two burglars. I honestly think they deserve it. The way Byron killed them was murder, but he had every right to protect himself.
The way the family defended the two perps, explains why they chose a life of crime at such a young age. Oh well, they're not breaking into anyone's home again.
It was a trap.
"Right to protect yourself" ends when you have to pretend to be out of the house and one of the perpetrators is bleeding unarmed on the floor. That's not protecting yourself anymore, it's getting revenge.
@@jackdanson2he protected himself from future burglaries
@@idudheebsbzdudbdhddh how does that go in court for ya? Lethal force can rightfully only be used for an immediate defense of life. Once someone is wounded and down there's no legal defense to shooting them again.
This was an ambush, the kids were shitty people, but Byron is downright evil.
@@idudheebsbzdudbdhddh By going to jail for being a lunatic. Oh..he will get robbed in jail as well.
While I don't condone Bryon David Smith's excessive use of force "after" the intruders were subdued, it is extremely frustrating and beyond disturbing how quickly criminals are released back into society these days, with no more than a slap on the hand!
I agree. I can't understand why justice has become so lenient on the criminals. God help us.
@@user-ne7zi3ym3b I can't speak for every city, but the DA in Los Angeles has been lenient on minority criminals because "they aren't criminals, they're the victims of oppression". He doesn't prosecute for crimes that are "linked to homelessness or addiction", he thinks those are good excuses to commit crimes. God help us.
I previously felt it was a California thing but it's frightening how many judges are letting repeat offenders out into society "to await" a hearing. It reminds me of Biden's Border Blunder. Some offenders have been receiving 2030 court appearances.
Yes, the system failed these 2 and they died as a result. I don't condone what he did though, but at the same time I have to consider his own feelings about the situation which led up to this.
@@darreno1450 their parents failed them
I wouldn't qualify the new behaviours of installing security cameras, carrying around a gun, and sleepless nights due to possible PTSD, as erratic in any way but instead would qualify that as completely rational
I know he went way overboard on killing those kids, but if anyone ever deserved a break it's this guy. Those kids nearly drove him crazy literally Nutso!!!
Got what they had coming to them. Nothing of value lost.
Right, nothing of value lost
They weren't kids, they were adults
Had he not made audio recordings the outcome would possibly be very different.
I was waiting to hear that he said, "someday a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets."
It doesn't matter what recordings he made. THEY broke into HIS home. It was generous that they only got 5 bullets to the head.
@@jdd3786 You don't get to execute people, especially when they are unarmed and wounded. He wasn't defending himself. It was premeditated and malicious murder. He needs the chair.
@@WitcherCrow Incorrect. You get to not only kill, but maim, torture, burn, decapitate, etc... anyone who steals from or invades your personal space. You don't care about human rights?
@@jdd3786very normal and not psychopathic of u
Byron's main problem is talking to the police before an attorney. Never talk to law enforcement before talking to your attorney.
What's the point of the Second Amendment if you get charged with murder for defending yourself and your property? Then again, in America, criminals have more rights than their victims!
Try living in england mate, it's waaaay worse here.
I feel like it’s completely on the burglars. They broke into this man’s house. If they didn’t break in then they would be alive. He was in his own house, minding his own business. If they hadn’t broken in, they would never even have interacted with him. What happened to them is on them. Period. Also, I think Byron’s sentence is absolutely ridiculous. I think it’s pretty understandable that someone might snap under these circumstances. Wouldn’t you be angry and scared If people were constantly breaking into your house? Imagine never being able to feel safe. Not even your own home. Now imagine you get those people arrested, they get their little a slap on the wrist and are out on parole, they know where you lay your head at night. Could you sleep soundly in that house?
I couldn’t do what Byron did but I can’t honestly say I blame him.
If someone does you wrong, you still don't get a right to end their lives for it
@@HerrMikael Sure you absolutely do, if they've broken into your house. People are skimming over the important part. This guy's crime was finishing them off after initially neutralizing them. Had he killed them with the first shot, there would be no issue whatsoever with what he did.
Be prepared
Hello from SanDiego
@@HerrMikaelwhat…
I think as we continue to see this soft on crime approach that’s been talking over, more and more citizens are going to start taking matters into their own hands. The law isn’t enforced so you either deal with it yourself or become a victim. People are sick of it.
This is why I prefer to live in a "Castle Doctrine" state
Byron was robbed many times,the police refused to help him in spite of his multiple calls of help and when he was robbed for the uptemth time, he defended his home from dumb teenagers who thought they were as invincible as Superman.
Break into someone else's house= you're responsible for everything else that happens to you
like i told someone earlier, you don't even know what that means. stand your ground, caste doctrine, etc. you get all of your legal "knowledge" from pro-gun boards full of John Wick and Die Hard wannabes.
Even if you live in a Castle Doctrine what this guy did was just plain murder that was planned. The narrator sums it up when he compare it to a hunter in a deer stand waiting for the deer.
He still would have been prosecuted. The castle doctrine does not allow you to kill someone after they have been disabled and pose no threat.
the idiot snitchd on himself with the recording. The winner tells the story. Any sane person that overdid the self defense can simply claim they still were a threat, verbally whatever and you get an easy inno in court.@@Ron898
@@Ron898 which makes no sense because if you leave them alive, they sue you in court. And given the almost-total incompetence in the judicial system these days, they would make him penniless.
A similar case in the UK where a man was charged for shooting a repeated burglar finished with him being exonerated. The man had been burglarized many times before by the same team.
Where I live calling police for burglary, car theft, carjacking, assault without critical injuries etc...results in NO response, police openly stated that they WILL NOT respond unless there are critical injuries, even when cops do something nothing happens to criminal, summer 2023 guy with repeat violent felonies on probation committed armed robbery and a carjacking, he was sentenced to ZERO jail time 3 years probation, free on the streets to commit even more violent crimes
Those kids were trouble and nothing was going to stop them. I can understand Byron’s fear. It’s sad all around.
The kids were definitely delinquents, but you should hear those tapes. This guy is a straight up psychopath.
If so, he may not have been entirely culpable for the two deaths. I would say he needed better representation.@@iainl9725
@@iainl9725 Could it be that being robbed multiple times he suffered a mental break?
@@iainl9725 whatever bro..psychopath or not..these two not only broke in multiple times..but delved all the way down the basement to their own demise..that jury is a dumbass..the man did nothing but literally sit and wait in the absolute darkest corner from the house..literally a place where someone without a gun may run to hide during an invasion..youre a dumbass bro
@@iainl9725 I guess they picked the wrong house. Just think if they decided not to be criminals. We wouldn't be having this conversation.
You cant lure someone into bulgary. They broke in and he took care of them. End of story.
Why they make a big deal bc he parked his car somewhere else? That’s not a crime.
Unless he invited them over, had something of theirs they wanted back (e.g. tricking their dog into running over to his property), or made a noise that would draw anyone's curiosity (e.g. a child screaming), you're right. Normal people usually don't break into "abandoned" houses, but they might be more inclined to if they had a good reason to be there in the first place.
Now if the police can prove that any of the above three happened (as in any person not inclined to crime would have done the same thing as the victims), then they have a stronger case for murder.
The premeditated charge shows either the folly of the judicial system or their way of sending an example of what will happen if you defend your home and sanctuary. He was no more premeditating than the millions of other citizens who are armed and intend to use it if threatened. And the implication that by keeping his house dark was effectively hanging a sign inviting to be burglarized is an outright fabrication dreamed up by the state’s attorney. Shameful.
Premeditation would be an accurate judgement if he was hunting them down throughout town but not sitting in his basement.
I can guarantee this: if the two perpetrators did not illegally break into into his home, they wouldn’t have been shot.
One word: Appeal.
I feel like I watched a show on ID about this case and the family was making the victims out to be such wonderful, well adjusted kids. I hate it that Byron was punished so harshly for this when he was obviously sick of being burglarized . It doesn’t seem fair. It sucks that two teenagers were killed as a result of their choices ….make better choices .
Victims??... the only victim was the home owner, he was robbed several times and when he defended his home he was victimized by the criminal justice system. WTF?
@@adelatejeda6114 I should have said “victims” . But yes, I agree with you.
@@christinamcduffie4955He was a victim of burglary. They were victims of first degree murder.
Maybe temporary insanity? Those stupid kids were driving him to distraction. There are a couple of kids on the same path in my town. They are now in jail awaiting trial for the robbery and murder of an acquaintance-a young man with learning disabilities who thought they were his friends.
This guy went overboard but he should certainly have a chance for parole.
@@HerrMikaelThey were victims of their own bad decision to burglarize a home.
If I were on that jury I would have never convicted him. Deferred sentence would have been appropriate. These people caused him to react the way he did.
spoken like a true creep. you're in control of your thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Yes the burglars turned him into a psychopath
Go find the recording and listen to it and see if you feel the same way, I still feel sick when I think about it.
I'm totally 2nd amendment and think everyone has a right to defend their property but this is really twisted and evil.
I'm with you on that one. I would never have convicted him and it would have had to be retried.
@@fsj197811 and then nine normal, intelligent human beings would convict
They violated this mans space, and were stupid enough to come back.
Sadly both parties demonstrated criminal intent. I fell empathy for a scared old man, none for two druggies who were thieves. But you cant prep to kill people with zero contact with police.
Yes. Everyone in this story was a criminal. When you take the time to execute somebody who you have disabled and are no longer any threat, that is murder.
Regardless of what Byron did the teenagers set everything in motion. If the teenagers hadn’t burglarized and invaded his safe space they would have been alive. I understand his rationale for believing that if they were allowed to live, they would go to jail get out and and seek revenge against him. This is a very tragic case.
It's not understandable. Fear of retaliation is not enough. He might have indeed felt that fear, but it's not a "reasonable" fear. While we can talk in circles on the first shooting, the second, where the woman was alive, shot, bleeding, and incapacitated, he was fully safe from any retaliation. He executed her.
@@JJokerMoreau
Go touch grass!
@@Delimon007 Back at you bud! 🤣
@@JJokerMoreauDefinitely not an irrational fear, convicts retaliate against judges sometimes even going as far as enacting revenge on their family members.
@@LowValueMan It is an irrational fear, because this isn't the mob. Just because something COULD happen, doesn't mean that it WILL. Fear of flying is an irrational fear. Fear of lightning is an irrational fear. Fear of anything that is highly unlikely to occur is, by definition, irrational and what we call paranoid behavior.
No. You don't get to kill people because you're scared that the American justice system will somehow fail you. Leave the country.
And this is why he's in jail. Enough said.
Ive seen a full documentary on this and he did unleash all his frustrations on these two but it was out of fear and the police hadn't appeared to have done anything about these two previously. They were known troublemakers and he was an upstanding member of the community
Did you hear the recording? No way you'd say that if you did.....
@@jskyg68 I’ve heard it. Byron was beyond fearful and livid, but they quickly drove him to near insanity as a senior in his own home.
@@jskyg68 Don't break into someone's home. How complicated is that?. If you don't think there could be trouble if you do, you must be a complete moron.
@@jskyg68
I did, did you? And from an objective stance and not your liberal ideology.
And if the police do nothing to protect, what's a homeowner to do...
Dr Grande’s dry humor is sustenance for my soul .
His need to communicate his feelings of persecution are what sealed his fate. Had he not recorded himself, not talked to the police, and spoke only through a lawyer he could have potentially gotten away with it. He's the only witness, he's the only person that gets to tell the story of what happened and the first time he told that story should have been at the trial. He gave the police everything they needed. Perhaps that feeling of righteousness and telling his story was more important to him.
Dr Grande I’ve heard about this case and I think it’s awful. Those teenagers were completely horrible monsters and they stole a watch along with irreplaceable items from Byron’s parents. This after Byron had tried to help these thugs by giving them jobs. In my opinion they drove Byron over his breaking point. I do understand your reasoning.
They stole his guns.
I understand his reasoning as well, but he’s still wrong on that one
@@thisiswhatilike54
No, he isn't. You people ate the problem with our pathetic society.
Not a modicum of dignity.
Given the way things went down for old byron, he might have been better off disposing of the bodies (committing an actual felony) than facing the courts and useless lawyers our universities pump out.
They're always useless until you need one. Y'all always remember the failures, but never how many are kept out of prison after a self defense shooting. Ignorant as hell.
he got life anyways, totally
He could have eaten the bodies to get rid of any evidence…
Either way he will die in prison where he belongs
It probably wouldn't have gone any worse for him in court (if he did get caught), that's for sure.
The victims quotes were very truthful.
The jury wouldn't dare convict this guy, was only doing the right thing and protecting his property.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
This is the reason criminals are so brazen now. Everyone treats them like the victim as soon as they get a black eye. Was this guy a bit off mentally? Absolutely. But if you follow the case you see that he grew that way from the repeated burglaries. There is no way i couldve been on that jury and let this VICTIM rot in jail. What a failure of justice! We should all petition the governor to pardon him. Its sad when the criminals have more leeway than the victim.
That's what the appeal court is for.
@Allangulon all his appeals were denied. Unless e receives a pardon from governor or president, or unless the supreme court takes up his case, he is in jail for the rest of his life for defending himself and his home, from within his home.
You have to ask what state this happened in for a start and then ask why he rambled on until he convicted himself.
The shootings happened in Minnesota which is a liberal state, in fact the second most liberal state behind Washington State.
That is the answer. The political climate in that state promotes crime.
"This is the reason criminals are so brazen now."
You sound like another conservative nutcase who has zero knowledge and simply makes stuff up. Criminals are not brazen now. In fact, the US has more prisoners than any country in the world. The US criminal justice is THE harshest among all developed countries. And most of the crime occurs in red states, not blue states. These are all facts.
Further, it's always been illegal to set up traps to kill burglars in your home. The case law goes back decades. It's always been like this. This is one of the 1st criminal law cases you learn in law school. You can't intentionally kill someone to punish them for a minor crime.
I know my criticism of you may be harsh but it's true. You lack the ability for nuance. Just because someone commits a theft, it doesn't mean that the thief should die. Each crime has an appropriate punishment. This is the civilized way to think. Your convervative mentality is exactly why there were so many murders in the last year by homeowners of strangers who simply rang their doorbell. Conservative nutcases falsely believe that they can just kill someone for being on their property.
This guy deserves to go to prison for a very long time. It's sick what he did.
Byron did the world a favor.
Now he's being punished for defending himself in his own home. 😒🤨🤔
😂 you don't know what happened
@@johnmike121A man defended his home and property.
@@johnmike121 you don't either
@@AvidiaNirvanaAt first, then after they were tranquilized and rendered vulnerable he killed them, murdered them. Sure, what he did probably would dissuade burglaries, but them by killing them he inadvertently inspired murder.
@@EllaNonimato Yes we do...listen to the tape. You cant just make up your own laws. Its illegal to execute someone after the threat is neutralized and that is what he did which landed him in jail.
I remember this case from years ago. Dr. Doolittle here left off a great deal of important facts. The home owner was being targeted by these punks. They would wait until his vehicle was gone and then break into his home. He had no idea who was committing these crimes or how many of them were involved. He bought this particular house because it was somewhat secluded and he wanted his privacy. He was being mentally tortured by these punks from the constant break-ins so that he could no longer sleep or rest. The cameras were installed well before it was common to have surveillance cameras. The punks broke-in the first time he installed the surveillance equipment and he gave the police the videos of some of the home invaders (there were more than just these two involved in the break-ins). The police said there was nothing they could do. This guy had a psychotic break with reality as evidenced from his ramblings on the tape recordings. Most of the 8 hours of recordings were him muttering to himself. He should have been found not guilty due to reason of mental illness or defect.
Our society is crap when we victimize the criminal.
I feel a bit divided in this case but feeling your home isn't safe can bring out the worst in you. I live in Australia where the majority of us do not have things that go "bang" to protect ourselves or be used against others in less noble ways. I also grew up in a poor, drug impacted area that had multiple burglaries and crimes in the space of a few months. Our homehad been targeted and the police did nothing because the offenders were juveniles and in one case a minority group that at the time only got a slap on the wrist. We had an outside dog who looked like she would rip your head off and by then security screens on all the windows so the final burgler got in through the roof by removing broken tiles and climbing through the trapdoor in the ceiling. Poor bastard didn't realise that my father had heard the commotion and was waiting in the room, he also did not realise my dad was a retired boxer and a drunk. There was enough left of him to crawl away and I guess he must have told his buddies because our house wasn't touched again for years.
At the house before that dogs had been baited with poison or outright going missing including my mum's very shy pup who never would have left willingly. Only someone familiar with their routone would have known the few minutes each morning she was let into the yard. Later it turns out that a local garbage man had been letting thieves know houses with dogs so they could be eliminated. My dad and his mates found the guy through a cop buddy who passed along the word. I doubt he was able to work again for months, if at all. Sometimes you do have to take the law into your own hands.
You and New Zealand can thank your tyrannical leaderships for taking away good citizens abilities to defend themselves. In New Zealand, Horse faced Jacinda Arden is leaving, finally. Will they be foolish enough to elect another power hungry crook ? People deserve what they get, when they elect corrupt, power hungry tyrants. Although obviously criminal scum and terrorists will have few problems getting guns, due to Australia's huge expansive coastlines. It's happening more and more in Canada, and crooked politicians here in the U.S. are trying their very best to take away our right of self defense. Only the fact that our First Amendment Right is in our U.S. Constitution is keeping them mostly at bay for now. Our nation's founding fathers all acknowledged every citizens GOD GIVEN RIGHT to be armed, for self defense. Unlike a "privilege" that can be taken away be the capricious whim of some tyrannical government official.
At least if you deal with the problem yourself you know it will be solved.
These two were a menace, and regardless if Byron left the door open, no one has a right to enter his home.
Not everyone lives in a country like Australia. A criminal who knows a victim does not have a thing that goes "bang" could be a potential murderer, thief or rapist who does not fear to do anyone of these actions. They know they have the upper hand and if armed, they stand a better chance to defeat the victim/s. Secondly, if something drastically had to happen ( even if the victim doesn't admit it) they would wish they had a thing that goes " bang". If only comes too late.🤷🏽🥷
@@deonloots3274 most Commonwealth countries follow Brit. law (and have many, many lawyers who emigrated from the UK) Canada doesn't even HAVE a "stand your ground" defense. I found that out the hard way and 20 grand later. Yes, we have it in "theory" but not in practice. i.e. google it for Canada, and yes, it says we have it. NO, we don't.
He screwed himself by finishing them off, recording himself, and waiting to tell police. It was also obvious that he was lying in wait for them which he might have been able to get away with. I listened to the recording of him talking to himself, the glass breaking as they broke in, the shots, all of it. Not sure you can find it anymore this is an old case. I can understand his anger. Being robbed once would piss me off, but multiple times I'd wanna kill someone too.
are you dumb? bro..they went to him..on his property..durr?
When you lock up people that know where you live. You might sleep better knowing they will not come back.
would you really want that stain on your soul?
He was stupid for recording himself. He could have just used self defense and say he was fearful for his life.
So agree!
Someone enters his home, and he kills them... and this is 1st degree murder?!?! What?! This is unbelievable!! How can justice be so unjust!
Such a travesty of Justice to cast any blame on the homeowner
Nick and his buddies had vandalized and burglarized Byrons house countless times. Its hard to overestimate just how paranoid and at his wits end Byron was. Literally everytime Byron was gone the house was broken into, thousands were stolen, and they went on a rampage breaking things. Nick could tell when he was gone bc Byrons truck wouldnt be out front... well this night Byron moved his truck and it looked like no one was home. It makes you wonder whether Byron lured Nick and his gang in to be done with it once and for all.
He did lure them this was a trap and execution
@@johnmike121You say that like it's a bad thing
@@johnmike121 He needs to set a lot more traps out there.
@@nealkelly9757Yeah and that’s exactly what makes it first degree murder lol… also the kill shots after they were already down… coulda just called the cops immediately and gotten em taken away while wounded. Anyways, he was a hunter and he lured and executed his pray… these two teens deserved 5+ years in prison, but this guy took the law into his own hands and was judge, jury and executioner of these two unarmed teens.
@@omgurheadsgonethat's where I can't condone this..he has every right to defend his home but that was evil
They had already ruined his life by causing his mental illness, who knows how many more they would ruin had they not met someone willing to stand up to criminals in their home.
That’s 🧢. A guy who’s willing to murder like that isn’t losing sleep over a burglary. He’s no pussy lol. That’s just a defense strategy
@@rumchata6569it's quite the opposite
Real
@@000ArthurWith a screename referring to a type of alcohol, it's safe to assume that this person's credibility went out the window on sight, if they even had any.
Were all the animals and beavers causing him mental illness before he killed them? So as to get pleasure out of watching their last "Twitch"?
He was a sociopath who got pleasure out of killing things. It's that simple.
The only thing that stopped him from killing humans before was that there were laws against it. That is until he thought he had a "get out of jail, free" card with which he could kill burglars because he thought that made them "fair game"
they better hope they never put me on a jury on a case like this.....
Laws need to be changed. Our justice truly is a disgrace. A man has a right to defend his home. Or at least he SHOULD.
Nobody is arguing that he shouldn't have a right to defend his home. What was successfully argued in court is that he went into this situation with the sole intent to kill whoever came into his house, NOT in self defense, but for a mixture of his own pleasure and peace of mind. He never called the police until the day after, and he shot both of them point blank in the head after already shooting them multiple times. By definition, this was premeditated murder which is why he was convicted of it.
Yeah but unnecessary murder shouldn't be legal.
@@IP-pm7px he shot an unarmed, dying woman in the head, and claimed he did it BECAUSE SHE LAUGHED AT HIM. sorry buddy, but if thats not murder in your mind, you need to get the fuck out of my country.
What’s the point of changing a law when the legal system is not following it? The court does their own thing.
He did not defend his home,he slaughtered two human beings. Now,you can say they deserved to die as they were scumbags.But he got two clean shots on both.They were not going anywhere.All he had to do is call the police and wait.Typical dumb American response.I have a gun so I can blow away anyone I want. Thank christ there are still some clear thinking people in your sad "Ustable States of AssholemericaUSA