Horrifying Audio of Man Killing Unarmed Teens Released By Court
249 replies, posted
[img_thumb]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/sich7kj4b0nv8qcacf4k.png[/img_thumb]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6RGXGgTr6g[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNb8eF23S0[/media]
[quote]Jurors in a Minnesota trial heard a chilling audio of a killing Tuesday made by the shooter himself. When coupled with other evidence, prosecutors believe it shows the accused homeowner was lying in wait to kill, not acting in self-defense against intruders.
In it, Byron Smith, 65, shoots and kills 17-year-old Nick Brady and 18-year-old Haile Kifer on Thanksgiving Day in 2012 after the teenagers broke into his Little Falls home. He says he was frightened, hiding in his basement, on edge after earlier break-ins. He feared the two were armed, which they weren’t.
Smith is in the basement when the recording starts.
It begins with the sound of glass shattering, followed by footsteps on the floor above.
Then there are two gunshots.
Brady falls down the basement stairs. “You’re dead,” Smith tells him, according to the Star Tribune.
Prosecutors allege Smith shot the teen a third time in the face and later told investigators, “I want him dead,” ABC News reported.
Almost immediately after the first shooting, the rustling of a tarp is heard, then a dragging sound and labored breathing. Smith said he had moved the boy’s body to a workshop in the basement to keep his blood from staining the carpet, the Associated Press reported.
The audio continues with the sound of a gun being reloaded. About 11 minutes pass between the two shootings, local reports say.
Kifer’s footsteps are heard on the stairs and she calls out quietly, “Nick?”
Then comes the sound of more shots. She falls down the stairs. “Oh, sorry about that,” Smith tells her. She screams, “Oh my God!”
Then more shots. Smith tells her, “You’re dying,” and calls her a “bitch,” the AP reported.
After more labored breathing and another dragging sound, Smith calls her “bitch” again. He told authorities that after he moved her, he noticed she was still gasping and didn’t want her to suffer, so he fired under her chin with a 22.-caliber handgun, according to a report in the Pioneer Press. The Star Tribune reported Smith told investigators the last time he fired was “a good clean finishing shot” and “she gave out the death twitch.”
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigators on Tuesday detailed the evidence, including photos of the bodies: “Brady’s laid tangled in a camouflage tarp, Kifer’s laid with her bloody midriff exposed, knees bent, a black hoodie tied tightly around her face,” the Star Tribune reported.
Prosecutors said during opening statements on Monday that Smith planned the killings and was waiting in his basement with loaded weapons, some energy bars and a bottle of water. Smith allegedly had the audio recorder, part of an elaborate surveillance system, running for six hours before, during and after the shootings. Smith’s attorney argued his client was terrified after several violent break-ins and he hid after he heard a window break and footsteps upstairs.
When questioned about why he had continued to shoot, Smith said he didn’t want to wait for them to pull weapons, The Star Tribune reported.[/quote]
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/23/youre-dead-chilling-audio-of-minnesota-homeowner-repeatedly-shooting-unarmed-intruders/?tid=pm_national_pop[/url]
On one hand, those teens broke into a house, and knew the risk they were taking. On the other hand, that's just straight up cold-blooded execution from the old guy, and that's real fucked up.
I remember hearing about this.
While I'm all for shooting anyone that takes a step in my house uninvited with bad intentions, the whole pre-meditated thing is completely fucked up.
How to guarantee you are infinitely worse than the people breaking into your house? Be this guy.
[quote]he noticed she was still gasping and didn’t want her to suffer, so he fired under her chin with a 22.-caliber handgun[/quote]
Jesus...
It's one thing to shoot an intruder, it's totally another to basically execute them. Plus that speech at the end didn't exactly help things.
Don't break into crazy guys homes that's for sure.
The whole "I'm sorry" and three proceeding shots sort of fucked me up.
I mean all things considered they're still just kids and he executed them horror movie style.
[QUOTE=Aman;44705972]Don't break into crazy guys homes that's for sure.[/QUOTE]
That's the risk you take every time you do stupid shit like that. You will never know who's going to snap.
Shooting people that break into your house is ok, even if they're unarmed, wtf?
He parked his truck far away to make his home look empty. What a fucking sociopath.
[QUOTE=Shreddinger;44706065]Shooting people that break into your house is ok, even if they're unarmed, wtf?[/QUOTE]
Do you not see him in a mugshot wearing some orange clothes?
But generally yeah it is. You don't know they are unarmed.
[QUOTE=Shreddinger;44706065]Shooting people that break into your house is ok, even if they're unarmed, wtf?[/QUOTE]
Perhaps you should read the article, or any information at all on this case. This guy is psychotic and was not acting in self defense.
[QUOTE=Falubii;44706075]Perhaps you should read the article, or any information at all on this case. This guy is psychotic and was not acting in self defense.[/QUOTE]
generally, not this case in particular.
Where are all the pro-rehabilitation people?, I need backup.
They broke into his house over 30 times. Instead of calling the police he killed them one after the other in his basement. This wasn't self defense, it was pure and simple murder.
Atleast incapacitate them and call the police instead of cold-heartedly executing them. Although, the teenagers knew they were risking their lives by breaking into someone else's property.
[QUOTE=TheAlkaline;44706142]Atleast incapacitate them and call the police instead of cold-heartedly executing them. Although, the teenagers knew they were risking their lives by breaking into someone else's property.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Falubii;44706066]He parked his truck far away to make his home look empty. What a fucking sociopath.[/QUOTE]
I mean, they shouldn't have broken in but he made it seem empty and planned this all out.
I've seen my fair share of fucked up shit. And it's disturbing that these things happen, but I still feel uneasy about some of the other things I've watched so much so that I'm refusing to press the play button on any of these videos.
[QUOTE=Falubii;44706066]He parked his truck far away to make his home look empty. What a fucking sociopath.[/QUOTE]
Psychopath, that's what this motherfucker is.
[QUOTE=Saturn V;44706168]Psychopath, that's what this motherfucker is.[/QUOTE]
I thought they were the same. Psychopath is what I meant though.
everyone's at fault really
these kids breaking into his house multiple times, driving the guy off the edge and into insanity, then deciding to go back to the guy they inadvertently turned crazy and having him kill them in some twisted sense of revenge
I can't decide if those thieves deserved it or the guy who shot them.
Does anyone know why they broke into the home? Did they believe the old man was out of town and they wanted to steal some of his belongings?
[QUOTE=TheAlkaline;44706142]Atleast incapacitate them and call the police instead of cold-heartedly executing them. Although, the teenagers knew they were risking their lives by breaking into someone else's property.[/QUOTE]
For all intents and purposes, they believed the home to be empty. Their intent was to steal something, not kill the owner. The owner has the right to shoot them to neutralize the threat to his life. The fact that he shot the guy a third time in the face after he had been on the ground is fucking twisted. Then he went on to incapacitate the girl, and shot HER in the face. He was not defending himself. He murdered both of them. I'm glad he got convicted.
the shooting bit i'm (kind of) ok with as someone who is completely against personally owned firearms since it was a break in and it was legal, the executing and carrying out vigilante justice part is awful, and the speech showing he took pleasure in it is disgusting
[QUOTE=TheAlkaline;44706142]Atleast incapacitate them and call the police instead of cold-heartedly executing them. Although, the teenagers knew they were risking their lives by breaking into someone else's property.[/QUOTE]
Even though it's a possibility, I doubt that they seriously considered being killed just from breaking in unarmed. Being arrested, maybe, but being executed? Especially after having broken into the same place before?
I could barely understand what he was saying towards the end, but I found a transcript and he does make some fair points: [URL]http://wjon.com/byron-smith-murder-trial-case-sent-to-jury/[/URL]
[QUOTE=Saturn V;44706168]Psychopath, that's what this motherfucker is.[/QUOTE]
I think you're looking at this case from only one angle.
Well, more I listen to the incident's recording I come to the conclusion that they have deserved it, wouldn't you have shoot the burglars too if they were terrorizing you?
[QUOTE=Soret;44706298]Well, more I listen to the incident's recording I come to the conclusion that they have deserved it, wouldn't you have shoot the burglars too if they were terrorizing you?[/QUOTE]
Except they were unarmed, weren't attacking the man, and were basically neutralized when he started chasing them down horror-movie style. No they didn't deserve it but they did deserve jail-time for constantly breaking into this guy's hosue.
fp is hilarious honestly
constantly going off about how if you knock down my door and come in my house i won't hesitate to shoot you in the chest and kill you and i'd be morally and legally in the right to do so
this guy does the same thing, and somehow people are trying to justify castle doctrine whilst decrying someone who used it!
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.