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Murder Charge Dropped In Case of Richmond Realtor Who Shot Romantic Rival

Alameda County prosecutors have dropped the charges against Terryan McDowell, the Richmond-based realtor who fatally shot a romantic rival at the Oakland apartment of the woman they were both seeing.

As Bay Area News Group reports, the murder case has been dismissed against 27-year-old Terryan McDowell, who was accused in the January 15 killing of 42-year-old Darnell Parker. McDowell has maintained from the start that he acted in self-defense when Parker showed up by surprise at the apartment of the woman he was dating. And the weapon he used was registered to him and he was permitted to carry it.

McDowell fled the scene of the shooting but later called police, saying that he went elsewhere out of fear he had been set up by his then-girlfriend.

Prosecutors filed a murder charge against McDowell in early February, his attorney successfully argued for his release on $150,000 bail, and subsequently prosecutors dropped the charge, saying they did not believe they could convince a jury that this was not an act of self-defense.

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Departing at high speed, then calling it in is a tactically sound decision- Mr. Parker may not have come alone. Pity the DAs had to pass, but not for trying. They would commiserate at their local Oakland In-N-Out burger, but it shut down due to rampant crime.

An armed society is a polite society.
— Robert A. Heinlein

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