Spokane County fatal shooting called self-defense
Doug Snarski knew someone was going to die when he realized his girlfriend's ex was inside their home early Sunday.The intruder, Sean Parsons, was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, a belt stocked with ammunition and yelling about how no one would be getting out of the house alive. Parsons had arrived at the Newman Lake home about 12:30 a.m. - just hours after he'd been served with a restraining order that prohibited him from going within two miles of the house.
- Restraining order against the intruder? Check.
- Intruder armed? Check.
- Intruder firing wildly in the house? Check.
There's a lesson there. It's one thing to always be armed. It's entirely another to have the mindset that you need to survive. Parsons had the former. Snarski had the latter. Having the will to resist - and the means with which to accomplish resisting - are what left Snarski standing at the end of the encounter. And Parsons bleeding out all over Snarski's carpeting.
Score one for the good guys.
Dead Goblin Count: 291
That is all.
6 comments:
"...he'd bought the handgun about a year ago but had never fired it before Sunday's encounter."
I find it odd and almost difficult to believe that he never once fired the gun, before the incident, let alone never practiced with it, but I guess many people are like that with guns. They buy one and expect to never use it, keep it around as a just in case, then expect it to work as it should if ever needed. Thank goodness and good sense that he at least had it loaded with the right ammo.
As for our hero, I call him hero if all was reported correctly, he took up a position that is not normally something someone, without training of some sort and under such stress, would have thought up on their own. One smart guy as far as that went; maybe he had training previously with other guns such as in the military, maybe not but he took up a good surprise position.
He was not so smart and was very lucky in that he had never before fired that particular pistol just to make sure it worked properly. A guy who made most of his own good luck in this case but the gun manufacturer and ammo maker made the rest of his luck. That was the luck that kept Mr. Murphy away from his gun and ammo so they functioned as they should have done.
By the way, just simply amazing how reliably well those court orders work at keeping criminals away from the people the orders were meant to protect and also amazing how the police got there in time to save the day - isn't it!!!!!!! The Brady Campaign people must cringe when they see things like this, and that is an excellent thing.
All the best,
Glenn B
It's times like this I wish we also had a "To the victor go the spoils" law. These people now have to deal with bullet holes in walls and blood everywhere, and likely will have to pay for the cleaning and repairs themselves. The least the police could do would be to allow the victims to seize the perp's shotgun, handgun and ammo as recompense for their trouble.
Glenn,
I noticed that, too. I wonder, though, if any of that is CYA stuff...
"Why, I had never fired the gun before!" when there's a wall full of IDPA trophies behind him... That sort of thing.
Erin,
You know, that's a great idea. You lawfully shoot someone in your house, you get to keep all their stuff. Hmmm...
"I believe everyone should have some kind of pistol for their own protection, for your own safety," Snarski said. "If I didn't think like that I wouldn't be here right now."
*sniff*
Glenn and Jay,
Trust me, there really are people like that in the world. Sadly, my dad is one of them. He bought a shotgun "for self-defense" a few years ago and it's still in the box, under his bed, unloaded with a trigger lock on it. I doubt he even knows how to load the damn thing.
I told him to take that thing somewhere he can practice with it or at least take it to a firing range where someone can show him how to load it (even if he can't fire it there).
Otherwise, he could've saved a lot of money buying a golf club and stashing that under the bed to ward off intruders.
Sheesh.......
I drive by there (on the interstate) on my commute.
A few weeks back, there was a fatal stabbing, stranger on stranger, in the middle of the street in broad daylight; about 1/4 mile from my office.
Though I still maintain they don't really know what a bad neighborhood is (try Oakland, or Mattapan, or Roxbury, or the south Bronx)... there IS a reason why locals call Spokane "Spocompton".
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