My cousin, Stephen Guillermo, 26, is in his final final.
He will be put to rest this week after being shot to death May 3. After a night of typical Friday night college fun, he returned to his family home ― an older apartment building in San Francisco — but mistakenly to the identical apartment on the wrong floor.
The resident, Amisi Kachepa, 68, shot him with a handgun.
Why didn’t Kachepa look through the peephole and see a man half his size, disabled somewhat from drink, unarmed and posing no threat?
Maybe because he knew the gun laws would allow him to shoot — if Stephen were inside his apartment “home.”
A witness in the next apartment said there was no sound, nothing indicating a break-in.
Indeed, the knob lock was not broken. And the only way Stephen could have gotten in was if the deadbolt was unlocked. Stephen had to have been let in, invited in or lured in.
