Thursday, May 8, 2014

German Turkish Exchange Student Shot and Killed in Montana Garage

German Turkish Exchange Student Shot and Killed in Montana Garage ---

German Turkish Exchange Student Shot and Killed in Montana Garage ---
tags: timeline 2014, Asian SuspectsMideast or Muslim Victim, turkish victim, student victim, home castle, shotgun, deliberate homicide, April 2014 

1 killed, 1 convicted of homicide April 27, 2014 German Turkish Exchange Student Shot and Killed in Montana Garage  In Missoula, Montana, Markus Kaarma is accused of setting a trap when he shot 17 year old intruder Diren Dede. Dede was a German exchange student of Muslim Turkish heritage. Kaarma appears to be of Asian ancestry, and some believe he may be a US citizen of Russian origin. Kaarma is a common name in Estonia. On December 17, 2015, a jury found Markus Hendrik Kaarma guilty of deliberate homicide.

update December 17, 2014  Wednesday  jury of eight women and four men found Markus Hendrik Kaarma guilty of deliberate homicide. German Turkish Exchange Student Shot and Killed in Montana Garage

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Victim: Diren Dede
Suspect: Markus Kaarma shot at the intruder in his garage 4 times

  • The boy was a german of turkish decent
  • Diren Dede
  • Markus Kaarma, 29, is accused of setting a trap in his Missoula garage to lure in would-be burglars so he could unleash deadly force — after growing frustrated by two recent robberies and an alleged lack of law enforcement. Charged with deliberate homicide

  • Police think the gunman might "have been impaired by alcohol, dangerous drugs, other drugs, intoxicating substances or a combination of the above, at the time of the incident," according to a newly published court document
  • Kaarma rejects the allegations. He said that he left the door open to air out his garage after he and his girlfriend smoked cigarettes.
  • A 17-year-old German from Hamburg, Diren was spending a school year in Montana as an exchange student, and he was proud of his Turkish heritage.
  • Just two months before, the couple had moved from the state of Washington to Missoula and since then, their home had been broken into twice, a
  • Markus Kaarma was the homeowner
  • His funeral was held at a mosque in Germany
  • U of Montana Student Muslim Association helped the father recover the body
  • Student was garage hopping, he was caught on a baby camera in the garage before he was shot
  • Montana homeowner may have been high on pot, he was angry about 2 previous thefts of marijuana
  • they had prepared their garage in the event of an intruder. Pflager had set up a motion sensor and a baby monitor and placed her handbag on a refrigerator in the garage. Inside the bag were personal items that she had catalogued, including a pill bottle with her name on it so as to provide evidence in the event of theft. They left the garage door open.
  • Could he be targeted as part of an elaborate operation because he is Turkish, which sided with the rebels against the Iran-backed government of Syria?

*Sources:



  • Markus Kaarma listens Wednesday as he is declared guilty of deliberate homicide by a ...




  • courtroom's enthusiasm for the verdict was tempered by sobs coming from Kaarma’s mother, Chong Oak Kaarma.
    The only person who rushed to judgment was the defendant," Deputy County Attorney Karla Painter said in her closing argument. "The only person that was targeted was Mr. Dede. He didn’t need to die on April 27. Was he somewhere he shouldn’t have been? Yes. Was he considering taking something he shouldn’t have? Probably. Did he deserve to die for (teenage) transgressions?"Instead Diren, an unarmed child, was violently and senselessly executed. Please tell the defendant and Mr. and Mrs. Dede though we live in a state with a strong gun culture, it is not one of lawlessness," she continued. "Please tell Mr. and Mrs. Dede that Diren’s life was worth more than a couple cans of beer. Please find him guilty."“Oh, no,” she cried, leaning forward in her chair.



  • Montana shooter may have been high when he killed German exchange student: cops

    Missoula police are drug testing Markus Kaarma, who is charged with deliberate homicide of German exchange student Diren Dede, 17, last month. Authorities say Kaarma was deliberately trying to catch a burglar after marijuana and pipes were stolen from his garage in a previous invasion.


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    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/drugs-factor-montana-garage-killing-cops-article-1.1782604#ixzz3180yaWLw


    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/searching-for-answers-in-a-german-exchange-student-death-in-us-a-967836.html

    Shot in Missoula: The Tragic Death of a German Exchange Student
    By Karin Assmann, Marc Hujer, Fidelius Schmid and Andreas Ulrich

    Photo Gallery: Death in AmericaPhotos
    Manfred Witt/ DER SPIEGEL
    Diren D., a German high school student from Hamburg, wanted to get a taste of American freedom during an exchange year abroad. Instead, he ended up dead. Are American gun laws to blame?

    Diren D. was always the first to choose his team when playing the Xbox video game FIFA, and he always picked the Galatasaray Istanbul football team. He often played late into the night, and would dance through the living room of his American host family when he won. A 17-year-old German from Hamburg, Diren was spending a school year in Montana as an exchange student, and he was proud of his Turkish heritage....
    So he spent the evening with Robby, an exchange student from Ecuador who became Diren's best friend during his nine months in Missoula. They played video games for hours, until about midnight when they stepped out for a bit....Robby and Diren headed out for a walk. They left Prospect Drive and turned down Deer Canyon Court. They had almost passed house number 2607 when Diren turned around... When Diren said that the garage door was open and he wanted to go in and look around, Robby turned around, shook his head and kept going. He said later that he had hoped Diren would follow him. But when he turned around again, Diren was nowhere to be seen...
    It was shortly after midnight when the motion detector beeped inside Markus Kaarma's house. Kaarma grabbed his shotgun and headed out to the garage while his wife flipped on the outside lights. Robby heard somebody shout: "I see you!" It was the voice of Markus Kaarma, as Robby would subsequently learn. Kaarma then fired four shots in two seconds with his shotgun, as he later testified.....


    New York Times ‎- 11 hours ago
    The killing of a 17-year-old German exchange student in Montanahas renewed criticism of “castle doctrine” laws and exposed a cultural gulf ...
    Huffington Post‎ - 18 hours ago

    www.nydailynews.com/.../drugs-factor-m...

    New York Daily News
    14 hours ago - Police say they want to know whether a Montana man was stoned or drunk when he fatally shot a German exchange student.
    www.spiegel.de › English Site › World › United States

    Der Spiegel
    2 hours ago - Shot in Missoula: The Tragic Death of a German Exchange Student ... was spending a school year in Montana as an exchange student, and he ...
    www.nbcnews.com/.../pot-may-be-factor-montana-excha...


    NBCNews.com
    2 days ago - ... into whether marijuana or alcohol played a role in the case of a Montanahomeowner accused of setting a trap and killing a German exc...
    www.voanews.com/...montana...german.../1909243.ht...


    Voice of America
    1 day ago - Montana homeowner may have been high on marijuana or drunk when he shot and a German exchange student in his garage in a case ...
    www.cbsnews.com/.../german-officials-demand-justice-after-e...


    CBS News
    Apr 30, 2014 - German officials demand justice after exchange student killed inMontana ... Montana man charged with shooting teen in his garage. It is not ...
    www.upi.com › Top News › U.S. News


    United Press International
    7 hours ago - Montana man charged with killing a German exchange student who invaded his garage may have lost marijuana in previous burglaries, ...
    news.msn.com/.../lawyer-teen-slain-in-montana-was-garage-hoppin...


    MSN
    2 days ago - MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The attorney for a Montana man charged in thedeath of a 17-year-old German exchange student says the teen and ...










  • 'Castle' Law at Issue After Fatal Montana Shooting ...

    www.nytimes.com/.../castle-law-at-issue-after-fatal-...

    The New York Times
    Oct 23, 2012 - Brice Harper shot and killed Dan Fredenberg in September, but the county attorney did not ... Rajah Bose for The New York Times ... But as he walked through Mr. Harper's open garage door, Mr. Fredenberg was doing more ...












  • The last mistake Dan Fredenberg made was getting killed in another man’s garage. 

    It was Sept. 22, and Mr. Fredenberg, 40, was upset. He strode up the driveway of a quiet subdivision here to confront Brice Harper, a 24-year-old romantically involved with Mr. Fredenberg’s young wife. But as he walked through Mr. Harper’s open garage door, Mr. Fredenberg was doing more than stepping uninvited onto someone else’s property. He was unwittingly walking onto a legal landscape reshaped by laws that have given homeowners new leeway to use force inside their own homes

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    That night, in a doorway at the back of his garage, Mr. Harper aimed a gun at the unarmed Mr. Fredenberg, fired and struck him three times. 










  • The Gun Report: May 1, 2014 - NYTimes.com

    nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/the-gun-report-may-1-2014/

    7 days ago - ... one of its citizens, who was shot and killed in Montana on Sunday. Diren Dede, 17, a German exchange student, wandered into the garage of ...





















  • The killing of a 17-year-old German exchange student in Montanahas renewed criticism of “castle doctrine” laws and exposed a cultural gulf ...




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