‘Get off me weapon ?’ YGBSM.The perp had a 3.5” blade, he was using it as a get off me weapon. The perp asked if the kid was going to be ok? Generally a 3.5” blade isn’t used in a stabbing. The military uses 6-7” blades for sentry removal etc. All that I have read so far says the perps knife entered the heart. I question that assertion.
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No one was ever on him.
He was going around looking for a fight. And I don’t know where ‘blade length’ comes into the equation. It was a common locking life (much like the Chinese knockoffs of the Brite Strikes) not unlike carry knives many of us have here (albeit perhaps not as well constructed).
He was repeatedly asked to leave by a multitude of people and intent on escalating the situation into a conflict with someone. This was obvious from the trial. The minute one person tried to show him the exit he deliberately drew his knife, stabbed him and killed him. Getting through the sternum takes a fair bit of force which KA had no problem deliberately doing.
It’d be directly analogous to a person entering a private club he’s not a member of, making a scene, having several people ask him to leave, perhaps having the doorman try to show him the door and then that person pulls out his gun and shoots the doorman.
And the jury who had more evidence presented strongly agreed. While perhaps the sentence was lighter than many of us wanted it was clearly murder.
Perhaps KA was a product of his background. If one looks at the behavior of his family before, during, and after the trial it’s obvious he wasn’t exactly raised by some quality folks. Did they conserve the cash gotten from a fund me type website ? Nope. They blew it on stuff.
So ya....he was looking for a fight, found some mild resistance towards him not being where was allowed to be, and then knifed a good man who was showing him the door. With the weapon he had and was waiting to use.
The only thing most people have chagrin over is his sentence was a bit light; 35 years gets him out in 17. The teen who had a wonderful life ahead of him won't get anymore years ever. All because of a thug gansta wanna be who perhaps didn't realize we in TX aren't real tolerant of a murderer. And will at the very least send him to jail for most of his life.