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A teenager who witnessed a dispute between his parents turn violent fatally shot his father in a desperate attempt to save his mother's life, police in Florida say.
The fight between Christopher and Jill Thorpe began Saturday evening during a bonfire party in Plant City, Fox News reports. The couple went inside of a mobile home and an argument ensued.
"He was beating her, [he] kept punching her," said Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter, according to Fox. "Then they went from the living room to the master bedroom where he kept beating her."
The couple's 17-year-old son, Channing Thorpe, ran into the mobile home where he discovered his father strangling his mother, police say. The teen used a handgun to fire several shots at his father to kill him, WTSP reports.
No one has been charged as of yet in this incident.
I can't imagine feeling that I had to choose which of my parents to let live. I have no idea how I would react under that sort of pressure.
So do you think the teenager in this story did the right thing? Or should he have tried something less lethal?