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Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape, murder, and offenses

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For years now, we have covered dozens of stories on this podcast where guns are used to take a human life.

And most of the time, the person pulling the trigger is the bad guy but the question we will

present to you in this story is when is taking a life justified in July of 2022, the Decro family in Sydney, Ohio had no idea that their lives

were about to change. It had been a seemingly normal summer.

But one day, after coming home from running errands,

someone from their past would show up at their front door,

and Mitchell and Stacey Decro knew exactly who it was. It was their daughter's ex-boyfriend,

22 year old James Rale, through ring camera footage that we will play throughout this episode, you will hear the decrows tell James to leave several times.

But he doesn't, and instead he starts to break their door down.

After multiple warnings, Mitchell-Dacro aims the gun at the intruder and he shoots him three times, killing him.

This story sparked a lot of controversy not just in Ohio but all throughout the nation.

Some claim that Mitchell-Dacro is a murderer, but others call him a hero who did

what he had to do to protect his family. So this is their story. I'm Courtney Brown and I'm Colin Brown and

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