A Hubert, North Carolina, woman will not face charges in the fatal shooting of her estranged boyfriend after authorities determined she acted in self-defense during a home invasion earlier this month. According to the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office, Sadie Floyd shot and killed 28-year-old Colton Bush in her home on Bear Creek Road just after midnight on October 7. The shooting followed what officials described as a series of escalating incidents that had previously led to multiple domestic violence protective orders against Bush.
District Attorney Ernie Lee reported that Bush had unlawfully entered Floyd’s home through a window. Video evidence and witness statements showed that Floyd ordered Bush to leave before firing five shots from a .380 caliber handgun as he approached her, hitting him each time. According to investigators, Floyd’s friend, present during the break-in, confirmed that “Colton came inside the residence through the window and went after Sadie, so Sadie shot him.”
Authorities revealed Bush had called Floyd 26 times and sent dozens of text messages the night of the incident, stopping at 10:11 p.m., just before arriving at her residence. He also made a call to dispatch about his ankle monitor dying and told his mother he expected to “go back to jail,” according to police reports. Attempting to enter Floyd’s home, Bush first used a long screwdriver at the door before climbing through a window.
North Carolina’s “Castle Doctrine” protects residents from prosecution if they use deadly force to defend their homes against intruders. Under this law, Floyd was deemed justified in using deadly force, as she had a reasonable fear of imminent harm given Bush’s forced entry and history of violence. Authorities noted that Bush was under an active protective order prohibiting contact with Floyd at the time of the shooting, following a history of domestic violence charges and violations of prior protection orders. Some people never learn, until it is just too late.
Well, we can safely say that he got what he deserved.
This is kind of what the 2nd amendment is all about.
There’ll be repercussions for her, but it looks like they won’t include jail, and hopefully she’s got friends/family who will help her sort things out.
You gotta be prepared.
Yeah, she’d better hope he doesn’t have brothers. If he does, she should get a bigger gun.
With a magazine capacity of at least 5 rounds per brother?
Good point Mark. NC isn’t far from FL, man.
Five hits! Outstanding! She should be an instructor!
Like they say a pistol in the hand beats five in the Bush. Or something.
Damn, I wish we had used that in the story! That’s pretty good.
Great shooting, Ma’am.
Unpossible. He had an ankle monitor and a restraining order against him. They would have stopped him.
She needs to go away for murder.
Do I need to add the sarcasm thingy, here?
There are cases where the ankle monitor needs to be replaced with a geo-fenced shock collar.
+ 1
Well I guess we settled last week’s question as to whether .380 is enough cartridge for defense.
Amen
Might be an indicator of what type of .380 ammo she was using. Just sayin’.
“The shooting followed … a series of escalating incidents that had previously led to multiple domestic violence protective orders against Bush.”
This incident demonstrates unequivocally, once again, that protective orders are not worth the electricity used to generate them.
Well, I suppose my previous statement is not entirely true, per se. It is more accurate to say that protective orders utterly and totally fail to protect the protectee from the aggressor. They do, however, provide a fair amount of protection to the protectee from legal liabilities following a self-defense incident.
Summary: if a jilted ex-lover starts harassing and threatening you, by all means obtain a protective order–and understand that the protective order only provides some degree of protection from potential legal liabilities after you defend yourself from your jilted ex-lover.
the usual suspec…never mind.