Vigilante Father Facing Murder Charge

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

A man facing a murder charge for shooting and killing a motorcyclist who he thought was stalking his daughters is now under investigation for other altercations where he may have had an itchy trigger finger, Georgia law enforcement officials have told ABC News.

"We've got a lot of phone calls from people," Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry told ABC News. "There are other incidents where shots were fired."

Richard Gear now sits in a Georgia jail facing a murder charge after he fatally shot 21-year-old motorcyclist Bryan Andrew "B.J." Mough Monday evening in front of his home. Gear said he acted in self-defense.

Berry said that Gear's two daughters, 17 and 19, called their father as they drove home from an Athens, Ga., Target store to tell him that they had gotten into some sort of road rage dispute with Mough, who was on a motorcycle, in the store's parking lot.

Meanwhile police are looking into other incidents that may have involved Gear and gunshots. One occurred in February 2006, when Oconee deputies responded to a call at Gear's Bogart, Ga., home. The 45-year-old Gear told authorities that his mailbox had been damaged when people he did not know had pulled out of his driveway after he asked them to leave.



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I'm a gun owner and have a CCW - this sounds like murder to me. He should've called 911 when daughters called him. I have no problem if he had the gun with him when he met his daughters. But from there he should've escorted them in to the house and waited for the cops to arrive.

This one sounds like a idiot with a gun who thinks he is the judge, jury and executioner.

[Wcross]

1. No question it was murder.

Sounds like this guys only response to anything was to start shooting. Its too bad it took someones death for him to be locked up. Why wasn't he arrested after the other gunfire incidents?

[The Croquist]

5. I don't know about "murder" but manslaughter at least.

I'm not a lawyer so I'm winging it but don't you need premeditated to be murder? This strikes me more like irresponsibility like a drunk driving accident. Murder no, but deserving of many years behind bars.

I don't really blame him for carrying his gun to protect his kids while they pull in the driveway but TO FUCKING SHOOT SOMEONE WHO IS DRIVING BY? This is insane.

He didn't call the cops while he waited for his daughters to return home.
He didn't write down a license plate number (Maybe he can't write).
He didn't fire a shot in the air (still illegal but not nearly as stupid).
He fired multiple shots in the back of the guy.

I have a loaded gun in my bedroom. If you break into my house I will defend my bedroom (not the house, I live alone) and I will shoot you without hesitation but I will call the cops with my left-hand while pointing the 357 with the right. I will also scream like a woman that I know you're there and fire a shot through my roof figuring that only an moron will be dumb enough to hang around.

If you die I won't feel the least bit of remorse unless your relatives try and sue me because you were such a good kid.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. It is idiots like this that give all gun owners a bad name

The few times I've been in dicey situations I was glad my husband was armed. In each, authorities had been notified; the gun was there just in case something happened before they could arrive. Nothing did, but I'm glad my husband had the gun in hand--and knew how to safely use it and take care of it.

[slackmaster]

3. Yes, murder and possibly premeditated

Seeking a fight puts you in an untenable legal situation regardless of the reason that motivated you.

[dysfunctional press]

4. it's hard to claim self-defense when you shoot someone in the back.

i hope the p.o.s. spends the rest of his life in jail.