Dad Kills Daughter’s Boyfriend For Sneaking Into Her Room

A Washington father is has been charged for killing his daughter’s boyfriend.

Charles Heller, 49, was charged with second-degree murder for the death of 21-year-old Dustyn Hunt.

According to the Seattle Times, Lauryn Heller and her boyfriend Dustyn had snuck into the family’s home without notifying her parents. Her parents later discovered that their daughter was talking to someone and informed her that her guest would need to leave by 10:30 that night, however, Lauryn tried to hide him in her room, and her father became angry and approached her bedroom armed.

“This was what I was waiting for,” Hunt’s mother, wrote in a message to The Seattle Times. “This charge means so much. … I started to lose any type of hope for justice. I felt like it was slowly being forgotten about and brushed aside.”

Heller couldn’t explain why he was armed in this situation as Hunt was not.

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“Something didn’t feel right about the situation,” he claimed.

According to detectives, Lauryn said her father was military trained and told her never to put her finger on the trigger of the gun unless she was planning to shoot. In this case, he stormed her bedroom with his finger on the trigger.

“[Heller’s] finger was on the trigger the entire time he was pointing the weapon,” prosecutors wrote. “This point was important to Lauryn, and played a large role in her fear, because her father, formerly in the military, has training in handling firearms and had taught her that you do not put your finger on the trigger unless you are prepared to shoot.”

Hunt is reported to have apologized to Heller and informed that he was going to leave, bur Heller continued to yell. Lauryn then intervened and put herself between Hunt and the gun telling her dad “to shoot her if he was going to shoot anyone.” Hunt then moved the gun away from her, causing her dad to fall back. He then fired the fatal shot.

“It upsets me so much that this is my own dad. But this is what happened and this is what I saw,” Lauryn said. “I just want there to be justice in whatever way that’s served. I want his family to know peace. I want everybody to know what happened.”

As of now it’s not clear why it took two years for charges to be brought against Heller.