Minn. homeowner: 2 teens shot were "vermin," not human
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. - A Minnesota man who killed two teenagers after they broke into his home called them "vermin" on an audio recording shortly after the shootings.
Sixty-five-year-old Byron Smith of Little Falls is on trial for first-degree premeditated murder in the deaths of 18-year-old Haile Kifer and 17-year-old Nick Brady. Smith claims he feared for his life and shot them in self-defense when they broke into his house on Thanksgiving Day 2012. But prosecutors say he planned the killings, which stunned the central Minnesota city of about 8,000 people and stirred debate about how far people can go to defend their homes.
Smith had an audio recorder running during the shootings, and prosecutors have been playing the recording at trial. On the part played Wednesday, Smith was heard saying, "They weren't human. I don't see them as human. I see them as vermin."
Smith was alone when the teens broke in and didn't alert anyone about the shootings until the next day.
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