14-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shoots Abusive Father To Save Mother And Siblings

By James England

WARREN, OHIO — A fourteen-year-old teenage girl allegedly shot her abusive father with his own handgun. She is being charged with aggravated murder. The real question: was it self-defense?

The girl’s defense attorney, Ian Friedman, has illustrated a case of prolonged physical and mental abuse by the father and the irresponsible gun use of the father to intimidate her, her siblings, and her mother.

“Using that gun around the house, to intimidate, everyone in the home was terrified,” Friedman said.

The teen’s mom claims that her daughter is a hero who protected her family when no one else would. A relative, who serves as a police officer, told Fox 8 News that the teen girl would come to her crying, trying to escape. The police officer took her to the station and filed a report but little to nothing would come of it.

Let’s be perfectly clear: guns should not be a means for enacting vigilante justice. That said, this looks like an extremely sensitive case involving a juvenile using a gun to allegedly protect herself, her mother and her siblings from a man with a history of violence and substance abuse.

He’s also an extremely irresponsible gun owner.

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Source:: Concealed Nation