Good-Expression-4433 t1_j6tkl6t wrote on February 1, 2023 at 8:09 PM

So landlord shows up armed with her friends to do an illegal eviction instead of going through the courts or the police, likely threatened the guy for him to be prepared for them with a gun, and she got shot.

Regardless of if Watson is a good person or not, the victim went about it in the worst way possible and I'd argue that situations like that would turn violent more often than not.

[deleted] t1_j6whbnh wrote on February 2, 2023 at 11:25 AM

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Good-Expression-4433 t1_j6x231w wrote on February 2, 2023 at 2:36 PM

Which has nothing to do with legality of the situation. Even if he wasn't the one being rented to, hea may have established squatters rights which meant she was required to evict him. Call the police, report a squatter, they get the information, you file for eviction. The fact that the dude was waiting for her with a rifle definitely implies there was a history of threats, even if just preceding the break in. She had knowledge that he was living there for her to evict him so he wasn't just an immediate trespasser, and even if he was, she still had the responsibility to call the police and not what she did.

If she survived, the dude was going to be able to sue the fuck out of her.

[deleted] t1_j6x2t51 wrote on February 2, 2023 at 2:41 PM

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Good-Expression-4433 t1_j6x3egb wrote on February 2, 2023 at 2:45 PM

You're right. But even if he didn't have them, he was still staying there as a guest of the legal tenant. The story doesn't say there's no lease or that an eviction had already occurred. His cousin had a lease but no longer lived there who was there as a guest of the leaseholder/unauthorized sublease and they were going to evict the guy still living there. There's still a requirement to go through eviction proceedings in order to legally terminate the lease and classify the guy living there as a trespasser. And even that doesn't warrant going in with friends to shoot him or threaten him at gunpoint. It just means the police can remove him.

In short, the situation was pretty ironclad grounds to terminate the lease through eviction proceedings but he was not a legal trespasser at that point nor was the landlord justified in an armed breaking and entering.

ProvBroker t1_j6xg7jf wrote on February 2, 2023 at 4:10 PM

Adverse possession is completely different matter than establishing tenancy…