“Florida teen fatally shoots masked intruder who turned out to be his father” — that’s the headline at a Washington Post news item that I have access to until I blow through my monthly allotment of views.
Sounds like the sort of article you’ve seen before: a shooting of a person that was believed to be an intruder but really wasn’t. A son sneaking in because he didn’t want Mom & Dad to know just how late he was out, for instance.
Except in this case, this hint at mistaken identity masks a story in which the 18 year old’s estranged father broke into the home and had a gun to his mother’s head when the son heard cries for help and emerged from his bedroom with a rifle, which he shot at the man, killing him. Because the man was wearing a ski mask and “SWAT”-type tactical gear, only after he pulled the trigger did he recognize that it was his father, due to the tattoos, but that doesn’t change the essentials of the story.
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