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An Alabama grandfather is accused of murdering his son this week to save his 12-year-old granddaughter from abuse, authorities tell PEOPLE.
Hubbard Junior Hall, 64, was taken into custody on Tuesday shortly after he allegedly shot his 41-year-old son, Mark, at a home in Baldwin County, Alabama, according to the Baldwin sheriff’s office.
Investigators say the violence was sparked earlier that night after Mark, his daughter and the child’s grandmother were attending a baseball game in nearby Mobile, Alabama. (Mark coached his daughter’s softball team, officials say.) On their way home, Mark received a phone call that “had something to do with his 12-year-old daughter and it upset him,” Arthur says. “Whatever this individual told Mr. Hall, it upset him and he began to strike his daughter,” Arthur explains. “This assault or striking of the child continued on the entire drive home.”
On Tuesday, once the family arrived at the grandparents’ home in Baldwin County, Hubbard got into a confrontation with Mark after his son said he was taking his daughter to his house. The child was staying with her grandparents, but her dad lived nearby, according to Baldwin County District Attorney Robert Wilters. When Mark said he wanted to take the girl, Hubbard “intervened and said, ‘You are not going to take her with you. She is staying here with us,’ ” Capt. Arthur says, “and when turned to get his child to leave, shot him one time with a .25-caliber pistol in the left side.”[
If the father was so callous as to beat his daughter on the drive home, I can only imagine she had suffered from his abuse on other occasions. Obviously there is a lot we don't know and it brings up many more questions then there are answers to. It's a sad situation and at this point remains to be seen whether or not the Grandfather was justified. Bottom line, if he was justified I hope he is acquitted.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
