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News4 out of Dothan, Alabama, reports that a man was shot and killed after he broke into a home on a Saturday afternoon and began assaulting an ex-girlfriend.

The Dothan Police Department reported Charles Kevin Sexton, 55, of nearby Ashford, was hunting for his ex-girlfriend and suspected she was hiding in the house. It turns out he was right. What he didn’t have the right to do was break down several doors in the home in his effort to find her.

Sexton was the passenger in a vehicle and got out of the car upon arriving at the home.

According to another local news station, WDHN, Sexton not only broke down the main door of the residence in the home searching for his ex, but also a second door, forcing his way past the homeowner, who tried to get Sexton to leave. Sexton refused and broke down a third door, behind which he found the woman and began beating her.

The homeowner, who police did not identify, retrieved a handgun and again demanded Sexton stop the assault.

“At that time, the suspect began to charge at the homeowner who then shot him one time in the upper torso. The suspect exited the residence and entered the same vehicle and left. The suspect was dropped off at Southeast Health Emergency Department where he was later pronounced dead,” the DPN reported in a news release.

“After consulting with the Houston County District Attorney, it is not believed there will be any charges against the homeowner for the shooting death of Sexton due to him acting in self-defense (sic) on his own property as well as for the protection of another individual,” the DPD release stated.

In Alabama, as in many states, the use of deadly force is justified in defending yourself or stopping an attack on a third-person where a reasonable fear of death or serious injury is present.

Americans use guns to defend themselves about 1.6 million times every year, usually without having to pull a trigger. That’s not something the Gun Control Industry wants you to know about. Instead, they preach that no one should own a gun, citing a long-ago debunked “stucy” claiming that having a firearm in the home increases the likelihood of your being shot.

If given their way, they’d prefer that people like the homeowner and the ex in this incident remain unarmed and vulnerable. They’d rather see them become victims and not have the ability to defend themselves.

Fortunately, Americans have a right to keep and bear arms for exactly these kinds of situations.

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53 COMMENTS

  1. At what point do you convince yourself it’s ok to beat a woman because you are angry at her? What thought processes are involved? He earned and deserved his death. Good riddance.

    • “According to another local news station, WDHN, Sexton not only broke down the main door of the residence in the home searching for his ex, but also a second door,…”

      Why, after the *first* door was broken down, wasn’t his sorry ass shot dead, right then and there by the homeowner?

      If I heard a boot being applied to my home’s door, whoever that boot was attached to would have gotten a therapeutic load of 9-pellet 12ga buckshot applied ‘in a vigorous circular motion’ (AKA, Frank Zappa, R.I.P.) by me.

      Some things just don’t add up in that story… 🙁

      • “I love him” would be a reason she didn’t ventilate him. God help me if I ever struck my present wife of 34 years…

      • Home owner had the deer in the headlights moment? It can happen. In denial even after the violence has started.

        Sometimes you survive in spite of doing everything wrong.

        • This seems likely especially with the homeowner asking him repeatedly to leave before getting the gun to stop an assault.

      • oldshtforbrains…Next time when you quote me or anyone else do not omit pertinent information to fit your narrative…

        Below is what I said verbatim…

        “Just cite the insanity found in the Historical Anologies that clearly Define Gun Control and flush it once and for all.”

        Below is the portion of what I said and the portion you took and used as a demented excuse for you to blow smoke about men beating women and children…

        “Just cite the insanity found in the Historical Anologies.”

        Anyone with half a brain can see you were purposely short on words to fit your narrative. A narrative that was used as an excuse for you to blow smoke about men beating women and children. It was so far off base one sees a pervert getting his jollies imagining himself beating up a women or a specific woman like me for instance? Answer you sneaky ratbassturd.

        • “Next time when you quote me or anyone else do not omit pertinent information to fit your narrative…”

          Then that applies to you as well, you stupid brain-damaged tw*t.

          Because that’s all you have done when ‘quoting’ me, completely twisting out of context what I said…:)

  2. Dothan is 1 1/2 hour from me. Spent a bit of time there. Most have the same attitude as most others in the Deep South. Forcibly enter a home with felony intentions. See what happens next.

  3. Wasn’t me. Dothan is a couple hours from me.
    But, had such happened in this area, the local Sherrif would likely thank the shooter and give them a plaque or commendation for public service.
    JWM.
    It’s never OK to beat a woman because you are angry or just a loser.
    Honestly, if a relationship devolves to the point of violence, someone needs to leave and the other half needs to let them do so.

    • “It’s never OK to beat a woman because you are angry or just a loser”

      creative defenses in court for left wing liberals….

      * but what is a woman?… democrat politicians would say. So make sure you bring this up in court you left wing liberals.

      * so under the ‘trans’ pseudo science theory gender is fluid so you would never know if you were hitting a woman or not, and, according to the implicit context of the trans pseudo science you didn’t attack a biological human but rather a fairy tale imagined ‘identity’. So you left wing liberals, there’s another defense for you.

      😆

    • About 4 hrs from me. Other end of the state. Whether there or here the response would have been the same. And, on the bright side, we don’t have to pay his room and board, medical expenses, etc. in the Big House.

    • That last sentence of yours is simultaneously the easiest way to handle things correctly and the hardest feat to accomplish in real life. But teaching it and a general intolerance for abusive/manipulative behavior is a good starting point. Also not getting sucked into situations where the “victim” isn’t willing to do the afore mentioned sentence is generally good advice.

  4. What’s a “stucy”(sic)?? Don’t you mean ‘study’?
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    Yeah I know I’m being a spelling nazi, so what, no alphabet soup for you!

  5. He apparently thought the homeowner would not pull the trigger. He chose poorly. What do you want to bet this was not his first tango either?

    • Mark, I’ll wager every dime I own that this was not this asswipe’s first rodeo.

      • Guaranteed it’s his last. The homeowner should be given a % of the $$$ that would have been wasted on arresting, jailing, trying, public defender fees and prison time.

        • Thats got to be worth 3 doors, carpet cleaning and 1 round of ??
          Sounds like it was a good center mass hit at least. Not immediate but did the job.

  7. RE: “Sexton was the passenger in a vehicle and got out of the car upon arriving at the home.”
    “The suspect was dropped off at Southeast Health Emergency Department where he was later pronounced dead,” the DPN reported in a news release.”

    Dropped Off? Says a whole bunch about the driver who I suspect has been apprehended by now and is facing charges for aiding and abetting. It was one shot one kill albeit rather slowly.

  8. Responded to several GSW victims dumped on ER steps. They raise awkward questions.

    • Obviously you didn’t read the article or perhaps the failure lies at the feet
      of the Liberal Progressive Educational Indoctrination system. Formally known as Public Education.
      “The homeowner, who police did not identify, retrieved a handgun and again demanded Sexton stop the assault.”

  16. “Fortunately, Americans have a right to keep and bear arms for exactly these kinds of situations.”
    Not in neighborhoods, small towns, cities and states under the control of liberal/progressive democrats.

  18. What is this boomer obsession with immediately condemning corporal punishment for women?

    It’s not a sentiment our grandfathers shared.

    It’s not biblical.

    Frankly, it a trope learned on TV. It gives women power to use big daddy government to take all your wealth and it’s the only misdemeanor you loose God-given constitutional rights for. Women crave discipline, like children.

    We need a return to traditional sacramental marriage, with the man as head of the domestic church.

    We must never give up our 2A rights, even for slapping your wife when she needs it (as women do from time to time).

    • 1 everybody wants to know about a man hitting his wife but nobody wants to know what she said to him right before that and
      2 the difference between your dog and your wife: lock them both in the trunk of your car for and hour and the dog will be happy to see you when you let them out

  19. At least the shutee had the courtesy to leave and bleed somewhere else. I would hate to have to clean that mess.

    • come on man. get with the program. “stucy” is the female pronoun of the male ‘study’ pronoun.

      😆

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