He's had a history of heart trouble but there is a lot more to the story. Apparently, the people renting my grandparent's second home have had some domestic disputes and the guy is a real asshole. Today, the guy smashed in his wife's car windows, bit her, and was choking her. My grandpa showed up with a gun and told him to get off and sit down because the police were coming. The police arrest the guy at gun-point on the side of the road and then they came over to take statements. Well in the middle of giving his statement he just started having a heart attack. The officers started doing CPR and the squad came but he was pretty much DOA.
The guy is in jail awaiting a bail hearing. One of the officer's stopped by just an hour ago and filled us in. The prosecutor is trying to charge the dude with something like negligent homicide and they already have him for felonious assualt on his wife.
So my grandpa may have saved her and her son's lives today. I suppose it's better than going out while tending to the lawn.
RIP
Sad to hear. My Dad is almost the same age and has diabetes too
That tenant should be charged with causing the death of your Dad.
the tenant didn't "cause the death of his dad" . First off, it was his grandfather, and secondly you can't actively give someone a heart attack.
MY condolences to Bit, but the heart attack would've likely happened one way or the other.
I actually feel the same way. It really could have happened at any time, not just that stressful situation. If the dude had a decent lawyer the shit would be thrown out. But being that this is a small town and the cops are tired of arresting this man only to let him go they are trying to get him in for a while.
They have a detective on the case I shit you not. They even did an autopsy. We were like "look...he had a fucking heart attack" but the prosecutor is really throwing the book at this dude.
I'm not sure what kind of gun it was but I doubt it was anything other than a 22 long rifle or maybe a 16 ga shotgun. The police said he was well within his rights to use a gun to defend himself against a menace on his own property. He wouldn't have shot him anyways.
