Why is this woman even facing prison time? This was clearly justified! The old man even had meth in his system.
A young woman killed her physically abusive stepfather after he dared her to shoot him in the basement of her home.
Sera Alexander shot and killed Anthony Hartmann after years of abuse, a court heard.
Montgomery Brown, defending, told the court ‘terrified’ Alexander had confronted her 49-year-old stepfather with a gun after she discovered him in the basement of her home in Des Moines, Iowa.
She told him she would shoot if he didn’t get out.
‘Fine, shoot me,’ he responded.
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Sera Alexander (pictured right in her mugshot) allegedly shot and killed her stepfather, Anthony Hartmann (pictured left))
Her lawyers argue the shooting was justified by self defence.
Hartmann, a perpetrator of domestic abuse, had convictions from 2001 and 2016.
Just six days before the killing, a no-contact order prohibiting him from going near her home had been lifted. Alexander was unaware of this fact.
Twenty-nine-year-old Alexander (pictured) confronted her stepfather in the basement of her home
She faces up to 50 years in jail but argues her actions are justified by self defense
Just six days before the killing, a no-contact order prohibiting him from going near her home (pictured) had been lifted. Alexander was unaware of this fact
She added Alexander and the rest of the family had been left terrified after Hartmann broke into the basement in a previous violation of a no-contact order.
He was arrested and the family had enjoyed ‘six months of peace’.
It was after this incident that Alexander told her mother she would kill Hartmann if he returned to the house. Defence said this had been meant as a joke.
Other witnesses described how Hartmann once struck his stepson on the head with a putty knife, leaving a scar.
On another occasion, he broke his wife’s hand with a screwdriver.
Alexander’s boyfriend Eric McDonald also…