It’s hard to imagine, without knowing the story, how someone could shoot a woman in the back of the head and then, quite literally, get away with murder. Actually, it’s pretty hard to believe when you do know the story because that is what has just happened in Texas.
Ezekiel Gilbert hired a woman from Craigslist to be his escort and, after having spent the time he paid for in his apartment with him, she left. But they hadn’t had sex, so Gilbert wanted his money back. Instead, the woman got into her car and he shot her multiple times. She was paralyzed and ultimately died from her wounds and he was charged with the murder.
His defense said that it is perfectly legal because of the “nighttime theft” rule in Texas which states that it’s OK “to use deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.” Now, he’d paid the woman she claimed for the time and he claimed for the sex, so it was really a dispute over whether he was getting what he paid for. But instead of, say, suing or claiming fraud, he decided to shoot a woman with no weapons in the back because he didn’t get what he wanted from her escorting. And he got away with it.
Incredible, isn't it? He hired an 'escort.' He got an escort. What he didn't get was sex, which his 'escort' was willing to do, but wanted more money.
So he shot her in the back of the neck. He shot an unarmed woman, who was no threat to him whatsoever, multiple times in her back and neck. Yet he walks free. Heck, I'm sure Texas won't even take his gun away!
That's perfectly reasonable in Texas, apparently. After all, what's the point of having all those guns if you don't use them to settle disputes? And she was only a hooker, right? No more than a convenient target for Texas men...
Do you know what the best part of this is? (I'm using 'best' ironically, I assure you!)
Outside the courtroom, Gilbert thanked God...
Yeah, he's a Christian, of course. And 'God' thinks it's OK to shoot hookers, too. I think it's in the Bible somewhere, isn't it?
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