The previous Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, thinks the shooter will be found guilty of setting a trap & killing an unarmed teen in his garage.
German officials heading to Montana in student's death
David Murray, Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune 6:09 p.m. EDT April 29, 2014
MISSOULA, Mont. — The German government expressed great concern Tuesday about the shooting death of one of its foreign exchange students, killed Sunday after entering the garage of a Missoula resident.
Diren Dede, 17, of Hamburg, Germany, died from multiple gunshot wounds about a half hour after being taken to a hospital.
Homeowner Markus Hendrick Kaarma, 29, is accused of firing his shotgun repeatedly into his darkened garage, striking the student in the head and left arm. Kaarma was charged Sunday with one count of deliberate homicide and was released on $30,000 bail.
"We hope that justice will be done to make it clear to everyone that an unarmed juvenile cannot be lawfully killed by a citizen in Montana simply because he has trespassed in a garage," said Julia Reinhardt, press spokeswoman for the German Consulate General in San Francisco. "It is for us a big concern."
Under Montana law, a person is justified in the use of deadly force if they have a reasonable belief that force is necessary to prevent an assault upon them or another person in the household. The law is commonly referred to as the "castle doctrine."
Prosecutors said Kaarma set a trap to catch any would-be burglars because he was frustrated over recent thefts.
Kaarma was overheard several days earlier threatening to shoot whoever was burglarizing his home, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Kaarma's wife, Janelle Pflager, told Missoula police that their home had been burglarized twice in the past two weeks. In response, Pflager and Kaarma had installed motion sensors and a live-streaming video baby monitor in their garage.
To set a trap for any thief, the couple left the garage door open so it could be seen from the street and planted a purse inside filled with documented personal items "so that they would take it," she said. Kaarma fired four times without warning into his darkened garage.
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