If anyone has any doubts that their defensive actions will be questioned by law enforcement and the district attorney’s office depending on the jurisdiction they live in, look no further than the city of Baltimore. There, a security guard was charged and aggressively prosecuted for a double homicide that took place after he shot and killed two of three men who had entered the auto repair shop where he worked and shot one of his co-workers. 

Here’s the story:

On Oct. 29, a Baltimore jury acquitted 21-year-old Darius Daye of all charges in a double homicide case before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Althea M. Handy the Baltimore Witness reports. Daye, who had been working as a security guard, faced serious charges, including first-degree murder and firearm use in a felony violent crime, for an incident that took place earlier this year on Jan. 4.

The incident occurred on the 5200 block of Fairlawn Avenue, where Daye was stationed as a security guard at an auto repair shop. The area has been plagued by recent violent including multiple shootings, one that occurred just months before this incident and another triple slaying that happened just weeks later, followed by another slaying at an auto repair shop. According to the defense’s account, a violent altercation broke out when three men entered the shop and, without warning, shot one of Daye’s co-workers. Fearing for his life and the safety of those around him, Daye drew his weapon and opened fire on the intruders, ultimately resulting in their deaths.

Daye’s attorney, Chris Purpura, argued that his client acted in self-defense, asserting that Daye responded reasonably and lawfully to a deadly threat. Purpura emphasized that the law provides for the use of force when an individual faces immediate danger. Daye, the defense argued, had no choice but to take swift action to neutralize a life-threatening situation and prevent further harm to himself and others in the shop.

After a lengthy deliberation, the jury agreed with Purpura’s argument, returning a not guilty verdict on all charges. Although the jury ultimately ruled in Daye’s favor, the case highlights the concern citizens must exercise in defending their lives and the lives of others in a state like Maryland and a big-city jurisdiction such as Baltimore that seeks to paint all actions that result in the loss of life as equal. To go after a security guard doing his job against clearly violent attackers is insidious on the part of the city’s legal system. For a gun owner, whether they be a private citizen, a security professional or even a sworn police officer, to not have legal protection from U.S. LawShield or a similar company is a huge risk.

For many in Baltimore, the verdict reaffirms the right to self-defense, while also serving as a reminder of the intense scrutiny such cases can undergo. For Daye, it was a long-awaited moment of relief, vindicating his actions that night and allowing him to put this chapter behind him and fortunately, move on with his life.

14 COMMENTS

  1. I once watched a spirited college hockey game where the referee instituted three or four obviously wrong calls against the home team. Somehow that referee ended up in the path of the home team’s passes and shots on goal several times in the next 15 minutes of play. The referee did not make any more bogus calls for the rest of the game.

    I wonder if someone could institute analogous unpleasant motivation for the prosecutor to stop dropping innocent people into judicial meat grinders.

  2. Great News For The Future Of 2nd Amendment!! (SCOTUS Justice Alito says he’s not going to retire after all. note: With no filibuster allowed on Supreme Court appointments, with the GOP majority Trump would face very little if any resistance in confirming his picks for SCOTUS justices should the court’s two oldest conservative justices, Alito and Clarence Thomas, retire.)

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  3. It’s time to change the laws; anytime a rabid city/state/fed prosecutor bring malicious charges against people defending from criminals these prosecutors need to pay out of their own pocket all legal expenses, all lost wages etc..

  4. The libertarians liberals and the left all agree that private property rights mean nothing. And you have no right to use deadly force to protect private property or yourself.

    The support for and passage of prop 47 in california is proof of that. Their non aggression principal in action.

    And the government will continue to threaten with deadly force, anyone who tries to damage or steal government property. And the three L’s are all comfortable with that.

  5. Energy Department Quadruples Lending Budget in Rush To Approve ‘Green Energy’ Loans Before Trump Takes Office.

    “The Department of Energy loan office quadrupled its available lending budget to over $240 billion this week, as Biden officials rush to approve a flurry of “green energy” loans before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

    The DOE Loan Programs Office (LPO) said on Tuesday that it’s increasing its lending power under the Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment program from $57 billion to $246 billion in the final months of Biden’s presidency.

    The announcement comes amid speculation over Trump’s plans for the controversial office, which is under investigation by Republican lawmakers and the DOE inspector general over potential conflicts of interest relating to loan disbursements. Trump advisers proposed shutting down the LPO in 2016, but now some are suggesting that he use it to fund domestic fossil fuel production. …”

    (note: in case no one noticed – LPO director Jigar Shah has been giving these tax payer dollars to his ‘buddies’ companies then making a profit from his investments in the companies the money went to. conflict of interest. Now hes rushing to give away even more tax payer dollars to his buddies before Trump takes office and shuts it down.)

  6. It Wasn’t Me: Joyful Biden Touts ‘Historic Presidency’ After Harris Humiliated:

    “The president, who turns 82 later this month, congratulated himself on a ‘historic presidency’ and for ‘leaving behind the strongest economy in the world.’ Biden told his staff to be proud of ‘all that we accomplished,’ which includes having ‘changed America for the better. ” (despite all factual evidence to the contrary, but that didn’t stop Dementia Joe)

    and then… puts the blame for Harris loosing on Obama…

    “… Biden’s team shot back on Thursday, blaming former president Barack Obama and his advisers for the party’s defeat. ‘There is no singular reason why we lost, but a big reason is because the Obama advisers publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to push Joe Biden out, didn’t even want Kamala Harris as the nominee, and then signed up as the saviors of the campaign only to run outdated Obama-era playbooks for a candidate that wasn’t Obama,’ one Biden ally told journalist Josh Kraushaar.”

    😂

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  7. Bump Stocks Legal Nationwide Again and ATF Must Return Any They Confiscated. (note: The bum stock ban was finally vacated last week in Cargill v. Garland, after years of litigation.)

    h ttps://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-control/bump-stocks-legal-nationwide-again-and-atf-must-return-any-they-confiscated/

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