After 13-year-old boy’s fatal shooting, legal experts say deadly force typically can’t be used to defend property
Protecting property does not typically justify the use of lethal force under Washington, D.C., law, legal and criminal justice experts said as police investigate the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Washington over the weekend. Karon Blake was shot shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday…
Grandfather of Karon Blake, 13-year-old shot to death in D.C., calls for swift arrest
The grandfather of a 13-year-old middle school student who was shot and killed by a man who suspected him of breaking into cars in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood, called Wednesday for the shooter’s swift arrest and conviction and said his grandson “didn’t get a chance…
