re: 17 yr old gets shot after sneaking into 14 yr old GF's house

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There's a quote in the OP, you dumb son of a bitch

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COLUMBIA COUNTY, GA (WFXG) - UPDATE: We now have more details about the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Jordan Middleton.

An incident report from the shooting sheds more light on the events that led to the teen's death. According to the report, the homeowner called law enforcement shortly before 3:00 a.m. Saturday and informed them that he had shot an intruder in his home. He told dispatch that the intruder was a friend of his daughter's. When deputies arrived, they found the homeowner attempting to administer CPR to a man with a gunshot wound to his upper body.

The homeowner told deputies that his dog had begun barking, so he got his pistol and shouted for anyone in the home to come out. He says that when he checked the guest bedroom closet, a man ran out towards him and he fired once in self-defense. He says he later found out the intruder, now identified as seventeen-year-old Jordan Middleton, was a friend of his daughter's.

ORIGINAL STORY: A peaceful, well-to-do neighborhood in Grovetown was the backdrop for a late-night disturbance layered with tensions. The Columbia County Sheriff's Office says a fourteen-year-old girl sneaked seventeen-year-old Jordan Middleton into her house without her father knowing.

Hearing a noise downstairs late at night, the father got his handgun and pinpointed the noise to the guest bedroom. He says he warned whoever was in the room that he was armed and to come out. Middleton ran out of the closet and the dad fired.

"It's definitely something I would least expect to happen in a neighborhood like this," says neighbor Nathaniel Stiverson.

So far no charges have been filed, but the investigation is ongoing.

"These cases are going to deal with very, very specific facts," says Mack Taylor, an attorney specializing in criminal and personal injury law. "Just one fact can turn this case from a justifiable homicide into a murder."

Georgia is a stand your ground state, though this case more accurately fits the 'use of force in defense of habitation'. This law says if there is a reasonable belief that someone entered the home to commit a crime, force can be used to prevent it. Hiding in the closet may have provided that belief.

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