ROBERTSVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A 55-year-old eastern Missouri man who killed two intruders at a home this year has been protected by the state’s castle doctrine in both cases.
Rural Franklin County resident Michael T. Wieners fatally shot a former roommate in February and stabbed a neighbor to death in June. Missouri law gives people occupying homes or vehicles broad license to protect themselves with deadly force.
Wieners told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he killed his former friends in self-defense, saying that he “wasn’t looking for that.”
Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke says “there were things” that concerned authorities in regard to the deaths, but he says there isn’t evidence to sway concerns in either direction. Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Bob Parks says people get “the benefit of the doubt” due to the castle doctrine.
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