Ken Young acquitted of manslaughter of girlfriend
Ken Lyndon Young
A car dealer who was on trial for the 2006 Manslaughter of his former girlfriend, Woman Police Constable Myrna Lopez, was today found not guilty. A jury of nine this afternoon acquitted thirty-four year old Ken Lyndon Young. WPC Myrna Lopez was shot dead during a family outing at Grace Bank on October first, 2006. Young was charged only with Manslaughter by Negligence and not with Murder after it was claimed that he hit a man in the head with his licensed gun, which discharged and killed his girlfriend. Young denied causing her death and in an unsworn statement from the dock, he testified that he did hit a man in the head with his licensed gun but claimed that nothing happened to Lopez during the incident. He said that it was minutes later that he heard a gunshot and saw his girlfriend injured. They never made it in time to the hospital, as he crashed into a lamppost at Mile nineteen in Sandhill and the vehicle would not start again. The main witness to the shooting, however, a seventeen year old daughter of the deceased, testified that while they were at Gracie Rock, an argument erupted and Young pulled out his gun, cranked it, and hit the man in the left side of his ear. That’s when the gun reportedly went off and hit her mother in the chest. Justice Herbert Lord heard the case, and defense attorneys were Dickie Bradley and Arthur Saldivar. Prosecutor was Crown Counsel Christelle Wilson.
Pistol whipping has always been a bad idea…From the old western days of Wyatt Earp up until today you have that chance of a negligent discharge if your finger is inside the trigger guard while you hit the person or if the drop safety on your firearm fails and the firing pin makes contact with the primer.
Don’t draw your licensed firearm unless you are legally justified to shoot.
That said the courts have proven this gentleman not guilty therefore he shall move on with his life as an innocent man.
When idiots handle have guns in their possession lives are lost, too bad the mother of his child had to pay the price for this idiot behavior.
If he did not have a gun on him while on a family day out his wife would still be alive today, the idiot should be sent to change for second degree murder.