Thankfully, most of us will never feel the righteous rage of a dad catching a monster wanting to do unspeakable acts to his child. But even the hypothetical prompts the mind’s eye to conjure justified acts of unrestrained violence against anyone stupid enough to try it.
For Aaron Spencer, the question was no mere hypothetical. A monster DID abduct his child.
His daughter’s bed was empty. Dad found his daughter’s captor and abuser. Put a bullet in him. And called the police.
So confident was he that he had done the right thing, that Aaron Spencer — while facing charges for killing his daughter’s attacker — was also running for Sheriff.
A judge on Thursday dismissed a murder charge against an Arkansas man who won the GOP nomination for sheriff while awaiting trial for the shooting death of his teenage daughter’s alleged abuser.
The ruling came weeks before Aaron Spencer, who will be on the November ballot, had been set to face a jury on a second-degree murder charge. He won a March primary over the local three-term sheriff whose office had arrested Spencer in Lonoke County, which has roughly 76,000 residents and is heavily Republican.
Spencer’s attorneys do not deny that he shot and killed Michael Fosler in 2024, saying he did so to protect his child. Special Circuit Court Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. granted a motion by Spencer’s attorney to dismiss the charge over a dash camera memory card that may have captured the shooting and was lost by law enforcement.
“The court finds that conduct by law enforcement was so egregious that dismissal of this case is warranted,” Wilson wrote.
At the time of the shooting, Fosler, 67, was out on bond after being charged with dozens of sexual offenses against Spencer’s then-13-year-old daughter.
Court documents show on the night of the shooting, Spencer had woken up to find his daughter missing, and later found the girl in the passenger seat of a vehicle Fosler was driving. Spencer forced Fosler’s truck off the road and, after an altercation, called 911 to report he had shot the man. — ABCChicago
The man was a repeat offender, and he came back looking for Spencer’s daughter.
After law enforcement had failed to protect her, he saw no other way to keep his precious daughter safe from a persistent threat. And he acted accordingly.
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