Intruder Shot To Death After Breaking Into Home (FL)

NBC6 ^ | July 13, 2005

[TheDon]

Nice. It would make a good newspaper advertisement.

[Eaker]

You sound experienced!

;<)

Good to see ya!

[WorkingClassFilth]

A: Getting drug money owed to him.

[sport]

I am not a genus and don't claim to be but to me if he was found dead inside the doorway, it would sure look to me like he was breaking in.

[Horatio Gates]

You sound experienced!

How'd you know I had teenaged daughters? 8>)

[papertyger]

I know I will get flack for this, but someone should be charged with something on this one.

Not necessarlily. Don't discount the possibility of an obsessed, stalking, ex-boyfriend. I've had friends who've had to deal with such, and let me tell you...shooting may have been completely justified.

[zip]

The BMW was probably stolen too. This is a cut and dried "defending his home" situation. More power to the shooter.

[Don_Ret_USAF]

Colorado Make May Day Law is great. If here in Colorado the break in justifies the shooting.

[Northern Alliance]

Not necessarlily. Don't discount the possibility of an obsessed, stalking, ex-boyfriend. I've had friends who've had to deal with such, and let me tell you...shooting may have been completely justified.

And it also may have been a cold-blooded murder of opportunity by Dad, so yes, we could speculate all day about exactly what happened and I am not discounting anything.
I still feel though, if he claims he shot an 'unidentified intruder' he should have had better control over who had keys to the house before doing so regardless of the time of night.
If he knew it was the ex-boyfriend and claims he had motive, that is something else. He still should have controlled the keys, of course, or changed the locks.
If a key gets lost to my house or I have any doubts at all about a copy being made that I do not know about, I change the locks for precisely this reason.

[Poser]

Probably a story with a happy ending, but the red BMW makes you wonder.

[Nov3]

Something stinks here.

[zip]

the break in justifies the shooting

That's the way it should be everywhere.

[standing united]

Just think of the tax dollars that have been saved, trying to defend this punk, and getting him back on the street to rob again, and again.

Crime has once again become a very dangerous occupation!

[NonValueAdded]

This will hinge upon the father knowing or not knowing the boyfriend had a key and whether or not the boy was a "houseguest" of the daughter given that the car was purportedly at the house all day. We are ALL making assumptions here but if I was investigating, here is what I'd want to know: was the boy a guest of the daughter at any time during the day? was the father aware of this (if knew there were house guests, then shoot-first becomes questionable)? if a guest, did the daughter and boy lead the father to believe the boy had gone home? did the daughter arrange for the boy to come back after dad was asleep? what will the boy's tox screen show? If he was under the influence, then opening a door with a key can sound much like someone breaking in. Who gave the boy the key? did the father know he had one? Until a lot of questions are answered, this cannot be called a righteous shoot.

And anyone questioning young punks in the greater Miami area driving late model expensive cars just hasn't been keeping up. Jeez.

[Mr. Mojo]

The man who shot him was the boyfriend of the Mother.

So the mother's boyfriend was unaware that the daughter's boyfriend had a key to the house?

Signed up today just to post on this thread, eh?

[Larry Lucido]

"saucysosy"

For someone who signs up just to post a derogatory comment on a thread, these folks sure do come up with some creative names!

[Larry Lucido]

And don't forget: "What did Karl Rove know and when did he know it?"

[El Gato]

And it also may have been a cold-blooded murder of opportunity by Dad, Story linked at #28 seems to indicate that it was not the Dad who did the shooting, but rather a "guest".