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A toddler whose body was found strapped in his car seat inside his Tennessee home died of starvation and dehydration after his mother fatally overdosed on meth and fentanyl, autopsies show.

The medical examiner, who ruled both deaths an accident, said Spears had been dead several days after dying of a drug overdose.

His three-year-old sister, who was found alive inside the home, appeared to have tried to care for the little boy prior to him dying.

The medical examiner noted that food, including dried egg and eggshells, were found in and around his car seat.

A Lakewood, Washington man who's reportedly been living in his truck for the past two years is accused of shooting a suspected catalytic converter thief, then dragging him with his truck before leaving him in a field to die.

According to court documents, it happened around 3:45 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of a business at the intersection of Sharondale Street SW and Halcyon Road SW in Lakewood.

A truck driver told police he witnessed a suspicious white Ford F-150 dragging an unknown object through the rear parking lot, then saw the driver of the Ford get out of his vehicle and drive away in a red truck.

When police arrived, they found a man dead in the field with obvious signs of trauma and gunshot wounds.

The suspect, later identified as Michael Campbell, told police he was sleeping in his truck when he woke up to find someone trying to steal the catalytic converter from under his vehicle.

Campbell told police he opened the passenger side of his truck and saw legs sticking out from underneath. He admitted to shooting the person, then shooting two more times. The person he shot tried to get into his own vehicle, Campbell said, but fell to the ground.

That's when Campbell reportedly tied the victim's hands above his head and attached them to the hitch on his Ford truck. He said he dragged him through the field, then untied him and left him there. Campbell said the man was still alive and talking when he attached him to the truck and was still alive when he left him in the field, according to charging documents.

Campbell, who has prior felony convictions, is charged with second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping.

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A Lakewood, Washington man who's reportedly been living in his truck for the past two years is accused of shooting a suspected catalytic converter thief, then dragging him with his truck before leaving him in a field to die.

According to court documents, it happened around 3:45 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of a business at the intersection of Sharondale Street SW and Halcyon Road SW in Lakewood.

A truck driver told police he witnessed a suspicious white Ford F-150 dragging an unknown object through the rear parking lot, then saw the driver of the Ford get out of his vehicle and drive away in a red truck.

When police arrived, they found a man dead in the field with obvious signs of trauma and gunshot wounds.

The suspect, later identified as Michael Campbell, told police he was sleeping in his truck when he woke up to find someone trying to steal the catalytic converter from under his vehicle.

Campbell told police he opened the passenger side of his truck and saw legs sticking out from underneath. He admitted to shooting the person, then shooting two more times. The person he shot tried to get into his own vehicle, Campbell said, but fell to the ground.

That's when Campbell reportedly tied the victim's hands above his head and attached them to the hitch on his Ford truck. He said he dragged him through the field, then untied him and left him there. Campbell said the man was still alive and talking when he attached him to the truck and was still alive when he left him in the field, according to charging documents.

Campbell, who has prior felony convictions, is charged with second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping.

I find not guilty.

An interesting fact pattern, legally: you can use deadly force to protect yourself against an intruder in your home.

Here, the killer's home was his truck, and the dead guy was a couple feet away "armed with a deadly weapon" in his hands, i.e. a sawzall.

I too would vote "not guilty," but then again some unknown, worthless tweaker P.O.S. stole the catalytic converter off my F-250 earlier this year, so I can dig vicarious vengeance.

Quote: missedhervee

An interesting fact pattern, legally: you can use deadly force to protect yourself against an intruder in your home.

NYS Article 35 requires DPF to be reasonable and necessary.

"A person in possession or control of, or licensed or privileged to be in, a dwelling or an occupied building, who reasonably believes that another person is committing or attempting to commit a burglary of such dwelling or building, may use deadly physical force upon such other person when he or she reasonably believes such to be necessary to prevent or terminate the commission or attempted commission of such burglary."

New Zealand liberals got so carried away they canceled themselves.

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A New Zealand chapter of Greta Thunberg-linked climate movement disbands itself for being ‘racist’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/15/climate-change-racism-strike-greta-auckland/

Quote: missedhervee

An interesting fact pattern, legally: you can use deadly force to protect yourself against an intruder in your home.

Here, the killer's home was his truck, and the dead guy was a couple feet away "armed with a deadly weapon" in his hands, i.e. a sawzall.

I too would vote "not guilty," but then again some unknown, worthless tweaker P.O.S. stole the catalytic converter off my F-250 earlier this year, so I can dig vicarious vengeance.

I think you might have gone past the point of self-defense by the time you've tied the intruder up, attached him to your truck and dragged him around.

What's a sawzall? Does that mean reciprocating saw?

I'm going to say Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter; I'd have to acquit on any murder charge. I'm on the fence when it comes to kidnapping, but could get on board with Unlawful Imprisonment.

I'm seeing Global warming in my lifetime
Sad
The West is cooking
Looks like the Western USA is the hottest spot on the planet breaking records
The records being broken are shocking
Not breaking a record by 1 degree but several degrees.
Sad
Glad I'm in the cool CO mountains

Supreme Court saves Obamacare again.

Tosses out lawsuit against the ACA in 7-2 ruling.

So. Much. Winning.

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised the outcome of his summit with U.S. President Joe Biden and called him an astute and shrewd negotiator.

I think this means Joe Biden must have a pee tape of Vlad secretly taped in an NYC hotel.