Man Convicted For Murder After A Heated Bar Fight That Started With Mayonnaise
On a Friday night or any other night, you might want to go to a bar and unwind with a couple of drinks. Then you hear a commotion and think by fate and bad timing, a bar fight starts.
Bar fights are normal, some people can’t take the amount of alcohol they drink. Some just have bad tempers and rears their ugly head during disagreements.
Now your night out becomes annoying with all the yelling and bottle slamming because of petty fights. Although, sometimes these bar fights start from pettiness and end up with people becoming more than bruised.
Those kinds of fights can even start from something as small as condiments. In a bar down in Iowa, a man was arrested for being the suspect of a murder.
Apparently, Kristofer Erlbacher, the man in question came into the bar to eat and drink while Caleb Solberg and his half-brother Craig Pryor were also there. Then the threats started when Solberg poured mayonnaise on Erlbacher’s food.
There wasn’t any context of what ensued the mayo pouring but during the same night, Erlbacher spotted the two brothers outside a cafe and he rammed Pryor’s car before running over Solberg.
The violence didn’t stop there though. Erlbacher went back to run over him two more times.
If you see this news on your tv screens and anywhere else, you'd think it isn't real. It's really not every day that people get killed over things like mayonnaise.
If you're out and see a bar fight in person, would you even think that it would go as far as murder? Here's how the incident went on.
Here is Kristofer Elbacher
Harrison County Sheriff's OfficeErlbacher assumingly wanted to let Pryor know about what he did and proceeded to call him to let him know the situation of his half-brother. Then the trials started.
The bar fight in Harrison County was a regular bar fight as stated by Pryor, “until wasn’t anymore.” It was referenced by District Court Judge Greg Steensland.
Erlbacher argued that the reason things escalated was because of his intoxication. This was rebutted by the judge, saying, “Even if Erlbacher is under the influence of alcohol, he is responsible for his acts if he had sufficient mental capacity to form the specific intent necessary.”
He continued stating, “Intoxication is a defense, only when it causes a mental disability which makes a person incapable of forming specific intent." Erlbacher’s effort to have his charge be reduced from first-degree murder to second was dismissed.
The trial went on but it didn't look in favor of Erlbacher
Ulrich BaumgartenThere are certain facts after hearing all the evidence that pointed to the signs that Erlbacher wasn’t in danger at that time and the deadly force wasn’t necessary. Judge Steensland also added, “The evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt that Erlbacher acted without justification.”
There’s another fact that does not help Erlbacher’s case. It’s that when he ran over Solberg, he was heard crying for his brother but Erlbacher decided to make sure to finish the job and went back a second time then back again for the last hit.
