Posted on 05/14/2004 4:07:10 PM PDT by Stew Padasso
Police: Homeowner's Gunfire Surprises Armed Home Invaders
Resident Opens Fire On 5-6 Men Who Tried To Break Into Home
POSTED: 8:03 am CDT May 13, 2004
HOUSTON -- Two people are being questioned after one person was killed and another person was injured when a homeowner opened fire on several men who attempted to invade a southwest Houston home late Wednesday night, police said.
Home Invasion Suspect Dies From Resident's Bullet
Investigators said five to six men, two of them armed with assault rifles, tried to break into a home in the 16000 block of Blueridge near McHard around 11:45 a.m., but quickly fled the scene after two people inside the home opened fire on them.
The alleged invaders dropped their weapons and ran into a nearby field.
According to investigators, the homeowner and another man inside the home picked up the weapons, jumped in a pickup truck and went searching for the suspects. The man pulled over to the back of an open field and waited for the suspects to come out.
The resident reportedly spotted the suspects, chased them down and shot two of them.
One of the invaders died in the field and another person was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital in critical condition, investigators said.
Houston police questioned two suspects -- one adult and one juvenile -- tracked down by a K9 unit. One to two more suspects were never found.
Police have not charged the homeowner.
The incident remains under investigation.
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"The resident reportedly spotted the suspects, chased them down and shot two of them."
Warms my heart.
"two of them armed with assault rifles"
The press just can't help themselves.
Wow! Those two homeowners don't mess around, do they.
There must be something more behind this. Burglars or even gangs don't normally bring rifles along to a burglary. I'm not criticizing the homeowner for shooting the people who attacked his home, but there must be more to the story, I suspect.
"Police have not charged the homeowner."
This could only happen in Texas.
Anywhere else, the homeowner would now be in worse shape legally, than the original perpetrators of the crime.
This is one Texas law I've always agreed with.
Hey, regardless it's always a good productive day when another bottom feeder is sent to Hell.
I really love these kind of stories, but since they had left his home when he shot them, I'm concerned the DA may decide to file charges against them. What do you think? Was that legal?
That is a good question, there may be legal trouble here. I hope not.
IMO he did the right thing. However it does get sticky if he accidentally hits someone else etc. If it were me, I would have done the same thing.
You gotta love Texas!
Doesn't look good. They apparently didn't have any property he was trying to recover during the hours of darkness, he went looking for a confrontation... He may be fooged.
Glad the one scumbag is dead- if I had to guess, it was one doper/gang group hitting another, and getting skanked.
It will all come out in the house.
Let us guess at the race of the players involved here. Assume that the media HAS to cover this, after all, it did happen and is news.
The media ALWAYS does two things: (1) avoids everything that might add to a negative stereotyping of blacks and, (2) adds to the concept of blacks as victims.
From these rules, what can we tell about the races involved? There is an intersting variant bias present and that deals with guns. Thus, to the left wing media, any long gun is "an automatic assault rifle." Since the article doesn't emphasize the victimhood of either attacker or homeowner, we can assume that in neither case was the opposite party and evil white person. Thus, both groups were probably Mexican. There is a possibility that both groups were black, instead of Mexican and that view is supported by the "assault rifle" clue. The media would not add to a negative black stereotype by suggesting that they had access to heavy fire power.
Whites are probably excluded because whites with assault rifles are ALWAYS considered and described as "extremist, right wing Christian militia."
Thus, from the bias written into this article by the left wing media, I believe we can conclude that no whites were involved and that, both attackers and defenders were probably Mexicans but possibly blacks. Any evidence out there?
In Texas it is legal after dark to chase them down, shoot them in the back, run over them, whatever it takes, on your property or off.
So9
The deceased is now a "victim of violence" and maybe one of the 13 chilren a day who die from gun violence.
Glad the one scumbag is dead- if I had to guess, it was one doper/gang group hitting another, and getting skanked.
It will all come out in the house.
In NM, a perp has to have part of his body inside your house before you can legally shoot him. I can't imagine this guy getting a free pass to kill someone who is in a field. You many be right about it being drug/gang related. It doesn't exactly seem like it was a father, son event. I also can't imagine 5-6 guys armed with assault rifles dropping their guns and running. That doesn't compute.
In Texas it is legal after dark to chase them down, shoot them in the back, run over them, whatever it takes, on your property or off.I like Texas laws :-)
Wow, I didn't know they had such a law in TX. I'm amazed. In this case, if the perps didn't have any of the guys property and the owner wanted to get away with it, could he just throw some of his property out in the field and claim the perps stole it?
"home defense" ping
They probably won't charge the homeowner with any crime because there is not jury in the state that would convict. These bad boys needed killin' and that's a fact.
Acording to the law they don't have to steal anything or harm anything, they just have to make you fear that they are going to.
If you are on someones property at night you can be shot for suspicion of malicious mischief, even if you are running away and off the property.
So9
"In Texas it is legal after dark to chase them down, shoot them in the back, run over them, whatever it takes, on your property or off."
Close but wrong. It is permitted to use deadly force after dark to stop the commission of a variety of crimes or to retrieve your stolen property if you have no other way of getting it back. However, once these criminals fled with nothing, they were no longer committing a crime. It could go either way with the DA before he passes it to a grand jury. A Grand Jury will hear the case, as in all Texas shootings.
I hope they get it without a charge from the DA and proceed to no-bill (issue no charge). We'll see.
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