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Byron David Smith was a 65 year old retired security engineering officer with the US State Department.
He was residing in Little Falls, Minnesota in 2012 when his home had been broken into half a dozen times.
Eventually, Byron had enough of these routine break-ins and set up security systems, including four different security cameras set up around his property.
Some of the things stolen from Byron include but are not limited to:
Thousands of dollars in cash.
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3,000$ camera
His metals and ribbons from the war of vietnam.
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His father's P.O.W wristwatch.
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On the day of thanksgiving, 2012, Byron Smith parked his truck away from his home, giving the appearance of an empty house.
He then withdrew to his basement with a rifle and a .22 caliber handgun and laid in wait for the theives.
Approximately 1 hour later, 17 year old Nicholas Brady, and his 18 year old cousin Halie Kifer begin to case the home.
Nicholas eventually enters the home by shattering a window which can be heard in the full length recording.
After some meandering upstairs, Nicholas descends the basement stairs, and is shot three times by Byron Smith, after shooting the teenager, Byron can be heard uttering a rather callous remark to the deceased victim: "You're dead."
Byron can then be heard dragging Nicholas's deceased body into a workshop room at the bottom of the staircase.
10 minutes later, the voice of Halie Kifer is heard calling out the name of her cousin: "Nick?"
She then begins to descend the basement stairs. Byron fires 1 shot at Halie, causing her to go tumbling down the stairs.
His rifle then jams, and once again Byron can be heard taunting the half dead duo: "Oh, sorry, did i do that?"
Halie can be heard screaming and saying: "Im sorry!" before Byron takes out his .22 revolver and shoots the teenager 4 times in the chest. As he is shooting the teen, he is again taunting them, saying: "You're dying."
He then can be heard dragging Halies body in to the same workshop where her cousin is. Byron realises that Halie is still breathing, to which he responds by placing the revolver directly under her chin and pulling the trigger.
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No sympathy for those thieves. It's sad to see someone who fought with their life for a country's citizens to then turn around and rob an old man's house repeatedly. Especially things that were irreplaceable. I wish the best for the old dude, he has suffered enough.
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He is rotting in a cell where he belongs. Most of the info op provided was Byron’s account of these “routine break-ins”. Not exactly a reliable narrator as is evident with his psychotic ramblings.
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and they both are rotting in the ground where they belong.
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The guy has a point.
The case stinks to high heaven and i can see why he was found guilty.
I suspect much of the true events hasn't come out.
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i see both sides. yes you should know you might die and thats a risk doing shit like B&E, but after shooting them till they cant move and are basically dead already, why execute them and taunt them, you already won and just wanted to spill more blood
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Hopefully you join them soon.
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Yeah honestly if he wanted to kill robbers in his house there were better ways of going about it legally, provided the robbers were literally breaking into your house already, ends don't justify the means here I suppose. But at that point I think he hardly cared what would've happened to him after he got caught, he just wanted that sweet sweet revenge.
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You break into my house repeatedly there won't be a .22 wait for you I promise.
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Nobody wants your anime figurines goober.
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I too was satisfied by the outcome of those rodents.
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He’s going to die in prison - which is good and proper, as he didn’t have to execute those two teenagers. He’s definitely a stupid man, too.
He should’ve simply had these kids arrested, and waited for an armed intruder, in which case he would’ve sated his psychotic lust for revenge AND enjoyed living the rest of his life outside of a small cage.
Defend yourself with a gun all you want, but if you want to start executing incapacitated people, maybe don’t start with two teenagers who absolutely did not deserve to die.
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Didn’t deserve to die? Maybe they didn’t deserve to die, but they roll that dice when they enter MY HOME. This guy shouldn’t have been all creepy and executing them like that, but if you enter my home without permission in an attempt to take things from me I’ve worked hard for, then that’s your choice, and my choice is to defend my home and possessions. Don’t like it, don’t break into a mf’s house. Simple. There’d be a lot less B&Es if more people were killed. It’s a deterrent.
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Why so much hate? Get a psychiatrist to help you out with your anger issues and the other ones who liked your comment.
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