Byron David Smith Arrested For Alleged Murder Of Haile Kifer And Nicholas Brady

[SalisburySage]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2190846.html

Should he be charged with murder?? Or were his actions justified??

[Baltimatt]

Well, he waited until the next day to report the shootings, and it appears he executed a dying burglar. Like that pharmacist in Oklahoma City, it appears his actions went beyond self defense.

[LarryN]

He's lucky to only be charged with second degree murder. To me, those "finishing shot[s]" constitute malice aforethought. He already had them wounded and incapacitated, and then went for the kill.

[Gopher]

If the statements presented in the article are true, he made it real easy for law enforcement to close the book on this one. I guess he forgot that he had a right to remain silent. He convicted himself by his own words. He had already incapacitated them before he decided to tamper with a crime scene and start dragging bodies around. Had he not followed up with a couple of summary executions then the original shooting may have been justified even though it seems he did everything he could to make himself look guilty of something.