Upon his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a Texas father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man was molesting her. What Authorities say happened then was the father pulled the man off his daughter and beat him…. to death.
With his daughter finally safe called 911 to request an ambulance be sent to his farm ASAP as he knew the man he had attacked was in critical condition. “Come on! This guy is going to die on me!” the young father begged the emergency dispatcher. “I don’t know what to do!”
The family ranch is so remote that on the 911 tape, the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn’t locate the property. At one point, he tells the dispatcher he’s going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital.
“He’s going to die!” the father screams, swearing at the dispatcher. “He’s going to f—— die!”
“It’s sad a man had to die,” a neighbor of the father, Michael James Veit, 48, said of the incident . “But I think anybody would have done that.”
The family ranch is so remote that on the 911 tape, the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn’t locate the property. At one point, he tells the dispatcher he’s going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital.
“He’s going to die!” the father screams, swearing at the dispatcher. “He’s going to f—— die!”
The tense, nearly five-minute call begins with the father saying he “beat up” a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, shouting into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.
In declining to indict the 23-year-old father in the June 9 killing of Jesus Mora Flores, a Lavaca County grand jury reached the same conclusion as investigators and many of the father’s neighbors: He was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.
