Father indicted:-Moments after his 2 sons were killed by the driver, the drunk was fatally shot

[TorchTheWitch]

273. leaving a vehicle in the road may be illegal

It certainly is dangerous to oncoming traffic particularly on a dark road. When one's car becomes disabled the driver is expected to move it (if they can) to the side of the road, and if they can't to at least put on flashers, use flares or otherwise warn oncoming traffic that there is an obstacle in the road that is dangerous to oncoming traffic, and call the police so that they can block the road, put out flares and direct traffic around the disabled vehicle or detour them to another road.

In this case, the father did everything wrong in attempting to push the vehicle home instead off to the side of the road, putting his kids at the impact point behind the vehicle which could also have blocked the vehicles tail lights, and not having someone watching for oncoming traffic to warn both oncoming traffic and themselves of an approaching vehicle.

I actually agree with you that the father put himself, his kids and any other vehicles approaching on that road at hazard by leaving the vehicle in the road and attempting to push it home. It very well could have been a totally sober driver that came up on the disabled vehicle in the road and not have been able to stop in time to not hit it. Putting your kids at the point of impact behind the disabled truck to push it was horribly negligent of the father especially when being behind the truck their own bodies could very well have blocked much of if not all of the tail lights on the back. The person that struck the kids/truck need not have been drunk for the accident to have occurred given the circumstances. At least one person should have been up the road a pace giving warning to any oncoming traffic as well as to the family members pushing the vehicle.

As for the father shooting the driver, he had no idea at the time that the driver was drunk and in a rage shot the driver who could well have been totally sober and hit the kids because of the father's own negligence in having his kids in such a dangerous position at the back of the truck and no one to warn oncoming traffic that there was a vehicle disabled in the road. And if he was in such an uncontrollable rage at the driver that hit his kids who he himself placed in such a dangerous position in the road that he couldn't help himself by going to get his gun and shooting the person he had to have been so mentally incapacitated at the time to not even wonder whether or not the driver he shot was drunk nor attempted to find out. Any reasonable person would have been grief stricken and wanting to get immediate help for their severely injured kids - while one of his kids was alive and dying in the road instead of getting help for that child he instead decided it was more prudent to go get his gun and shoot the person that struck them when it was HE himself that PUT his kids in such a dangerous position.

I find it both amazing and horribly sad that this father's response to his severely injured kids that he put into such a dangerous situation for being struck by a car was to get his gun and shoot the driver that hit them rather than attempt to get help for his kids. What parent could have anything else on their mind but their severely injured kids in such a situation??? How is it that he left his kids in the road with one of them still alive instead of rushing to them and screaming for help and cradling them in his arms??? I'm flabbergasted that his reaction was to ABANDON his dying kids and go get his gun to shoot the driver all when he himself PUT his kids in that dangerous position that caused them to be struck by an oncoming car that he had no idea was being driven by someone that was drunk. That's exactly the kind of dangerous mentality of a person who should not be anywhere near firearms. His reaction to his kids being hit and severely injured to ABANDON those kids laying bleeding and battered in the road and kill the person who struck them instead in not only not reasonable, it's not humane.