Idaho Case Illustrates Attacker Doesn’t Need Weapon to Justify Armed Defense

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- At about 8 p.m. on 5 October, 2018, 27-year-old Keven Custer went to his girlfriend’s apartment to pick up some clothes that had been washed for him.

The clothes were not sorted, so to avoid an issue, he did not go through his girlfriend’s laundry, and started to leave the apartment.

On the way out, 46-year-old Chris Gunderson stopped Keven, forced him to empty his pockets, and refused to let him leave the apartment.

Gunderson then struck Keven Custer and knocked out a tooth, cracking two others, knocking Custer to the floor. From cdapress.com:

Custer said Gunderson told him multiple times to empty his pockets. When the pockets were emptied, they contained a magazine with eight rounds, a phone and wallet.

A witness told police that the conversation between Custer and Gunderson rose from calm to confrontational quickly and Gunderson reached into Custer’s pockets forcefully to remove the contents. The witness said he observed fear in Custer’s eyes and it appeared Gunderson was robbing Custer.

“Keven repeatedly asked Chris to let him leave the apartment to which Chris denied and forcefully held Keven in the residence against his will,” the report states …Read the Rest

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