No charge for Texas dad who killed daughter's rapist
A US father who found his five-year-old daughter being raped, then beat the attacker to death will not be charged, prosecutors have said.
The 23-year-old man told police he found the girl being assaulted on Saturday 9 June by Jesus Mora Flores in a rural part of southern Texas.
A grand jury has declined to indict the man, finding that he was allowed to use deadly force to protect his daughter.
The father has not been named to protect the identity of his daughter.
The Lavaca County district attorney and sheriff announced the man would not face charges, as they held a news conference on Tuesday.
A witness who saw Flores abducting the girl to a remote spot raised the alarm, said a statement by the district attorney.
The father ran towards his daughter's screams and as he found her being attacked, "inflicted several blows to the man's head and neck area", said investigators.
A recording of the father's 911 telephone call was played at the news conference in which he tells a dispatcher he beat up a man he found raping his daughter.
As police struggle to locate the family ranch, the father swears and tells the dispatcher: "Come on! This guy is going to die on me! I don't know what to do!"
Emergency crews who responded to the father's 911 call found Flores' trousers and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body.
A medical examination of the girl at hospital backed up the father's story that she had been sexually assaulted, said prosecutors.
The father was not arrested, but was investigated for homicide.