When I was a flight engineer at American, I had a co-worker tell me that once he did the entire exterior walk around preflight of a Continental DC-10, and didn’t realize it wasn’t an AA airplane until he walked into the cockpit. People can be very unobservant when they’re tired, but the problem here is being too quick to attack, before you’re sure. Seems like you should be 100% certain before you shoot to kill.
https://www.southsideflatsapts.com/floorplans.aspx appears to be the web site of the apartments.
In most of the floor plans, the entry door goes into either a hallway or the kitchen. Living areas, where residents’ personal furniture would be more distinctive, are further in.
They’ve issued a warrant for her arrest.
This is a head scratcher. I can only imagine that this was some sort of struggle at the threshold of the door. The white female officer was in uniform, and her key wouldn’t have worked in a different apartment. Perhaps she put her key in the lock, and the rightful occupant went to the door and opened it and was himself startled as well by a uniformed cop trying to get in? (It would be surprising that the door would be open given air conditioning and summertime heat, but perhaps?) Definitely a sad loss - from all accounts the person killed was an outstanding young man.
I have almost made the same mistake of walking into the wrong apartment early in my career. My family stayed in a multi-level complex and I went to the wrong floor (one level below where my stop was) after working a 13 hour night shift. I just happened to look at the door and realized I was at the wrong apartment as I was getting ready to put my keys in the door. This is a tragedy for all involved and a split second error in judgement will haunt that young lady and the family of the victim for a lifetime.
There is more to this story than we have been told.
For those who live alone, dogs & chain locks should be considered.
Like others, I’ve gotten into cars that weren’t mine. In my old job, I stayed in many hotels and walked into the wrong room, pre-card key days. But hotel rooms all look the same. Hard to believe she didn’t see that it wasn’t her apartment.
Heard on the news this morning that the apartment had a distinctive red carpet/floor mat in front of the door which other units did not have.
I would not be surprised if this came down to an issue involving different tastes in music & different tolerance of noise levels.
@Publisher, what gives you this impression? This sounds like blaming the victim.
Blaming the victim ???
Absolutely not !!!
You are misreading & misinterpreting my post.
My point is that I suspect that this is much more serious than manslaughter.
@oldmom4896: I think that you need to read entire posts in order to understand the context. Clearly, a red carpet mat should have alerted the police officer that this was not her apartment. There is something else going on here. Not an innocent mistake, in my opinion.
Nope. She got off on the wrong floor and she tried to open his door with her key. When he opened the door (probably wondering who was trying to get into his home),she shot him twice in the chest.
You would think that the key would have clued her in. I doubt that she would have opened fire on just anybody and that his race/gender made her assume there was an intruder.
@Publisher --I think the point is that, even if she shot him deliberately, it’s victim blaming to assume it’s over loud music or anything that he might have been doing (which there is absolutely no evidence of so is pure speculation.)
I have no problem with her initially getting off at the wrong floor and trying to open “her” door. That seems an understandable mistake. It’s the trigger-happy shooting that’s the issue. If you open your door, your actual door, and find someone unknown inside who is not pointing a gun at you, your first response should not be a shot. There could be innocent explanations of the guy being there: your sink was flooding and the super sent up a repairperson, say. The first answer to any situation should not be a bullet.
So Dallas Police arrested her and the Texas rangers let her go, sigh…
@garland: You miss the point. It was an unjustified shooting if over something as trivial as loud music. Also, if you don’t think that this was a deliberate shooting, then you live in a different world than I do. The officer was trained in handling a firearm–no accident in this case.
It makes no sense to say that someone getting shot because of loud music is “victim blaming”. What I think Publisher is talking about is premeditated murder.
@busdriver11: Finally !!!
Just to be clear, my position is that this appears at first glance to be an offense greater than manslaughter. Depends upon the jurisdiction as to what that offense would be called, but in some jurisdictions it might be “second degree murder”.
the local news here in Dallas said the Rangers have more things to investigate after they interviewed her. I am guessing they are getting all of their information together before proceeding. They said they did not have her in custody because she is cooperating. That makes me think that they do not believe it is 1st degree murder but some lesser charge like manslaughter or something (all bad)