man charged for attack on mannequin

[chowderhead]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-charged-attempted-murder-smashing-052806500.html

Police set up a sting using a mannequin after two homeless people were attacked and killed. They arrested the man after catching in attacking the decoy.
He is being charged with attempted murder. Can someone really be charged with attempting to murder if there is no human victim but a mannequin?

 

[louis redfoot]

like pulling the trigger on an empty gun

 

[DaveSimmons]

Or like rain on your wedding day. Yes, they just need to show there is reason to believe that the bumkiller thought it was a real person.

It's like the sting operations with fake drugs, bombs, 'underage' cops.

 

[mxnerd]

This is hard. You can only suspect that he is the person who killed homeless people, but you really don't have direct evidence.

 

[Drako]

I wonder if the perp had a list?

I love how the spell the dude's name differently several different times in that article. That's some quality journalism right there.

 

[Sonikku]

Why would a person want to gang up and kill homeless people?

 

[Drako]

Why would a person want to gang up and kill homeless people?

Because of the list.

 

[Darwin333]

I dunno, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that a good lawyer could get the charges reduced pretty steeply at the least.

 

[Ns1]

While I feel that this is a tricky case for the prosecution, it seems more likely than not that homie is guilty as shit.