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Some of the folks on MSN heard this story the other night, but it's a serious enough situation that I'll bring it before the entire Cafe.
My uncle James, who married my aunt (my mom's sister) has a rather...interesting family. He's passed on now, but my aunt still gets to deal with these folks, naturally. One day this past week, while we were away on vacation, her nephew on that side came into an altercation with his wife. The man was a raging, hardbitten alcoholic, and had been for some time, it was evident...he came home on an otherwise normal night, sloshed out of his mind, and suddenly decided, "You know...I think it'd be a good idea to kill my wife!"
So into the living room he walks, with a gun on him, and a butcher knife in his hand, throws the lady up to a wall, and proceeds to go about slitting her throat. As he's doing this, however...his 19 year old son walks in on the scene. All he sees is his mother in the final few seconds before a murder in progress...and acting on instinct, he grabbed his dad's .357 magnum from the doorside cabinet, and shot him. The dad died on Sunday.
This has been really tearing away at my aunt the past few days...there was nothing else this kid could have done and saved his mother's life, as his father was armed and dangerous...but both his grandfather and other members of the family are now expressing the sentiment that both the son and his mother should be dead and buried, rather than the murderous drunkard. It's creating an incredibly tense situation on that side of the family that is going to result in a lot more hurt than just one man's life, I'm afraid. Thankfully the police haven't charged the son with any crime (to my mind there was none committed)...but it's going to plague this family for a long time to come. All because of one man's malice and stupidity.
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