ADA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor says a Florida man was justified in fatally shooting another Florida man who was trying to drown his 3-month-old twin son and daughter.
Pontotoc County District Attorney Paul Smith said in a statement Thursday that David Cash Freeman was justified when he used deadly force against 27-year-old Leland Foster of Poteau.
Foster was shot to death on June 2 at his ex-girlfriend’s home in southeastern Oklahoma. The Florida man said Foster forced his way into her home, slammed her to the ground and tried to kill her and her infant twins.
Freeman, a neighbor, shot Foster three times after seeing him holding the infants under water in a bathtub while threatening the children’s mother with a knife.
Smith says the shooting “was certainly necessary under these gripping circumstances.”
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