Posted on 05/22/2011 8:36:49 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A thief who tried to steal a WaveRunner from a lawyer's backyard was killed Saturday afternoon, Miami-Dade police said.
At 2:31 p.m., police received a call about a shooting at a Miami Shores home at the 9200 block of North Bayshore Drive.
The property belongs to attorney Jeffrey Davis and his wife Yasmin, according to Miami-Dade property records
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“There’s only so much Crockett can do. /sarc.”
LOL good one!!
never tell the cops you shot to kill. I shot to stop the threat because he said he was going to kill me. I kept shooting until he was stopped.
good point
Umm, I think I’d be a little quicker to pull the trigger after that experience as well.
No. He 'threatened' the owners ...
“I’m going to kill....” BOOM!!!
The problem with that is, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away, providing of course that it was like he said, his family was threatened.
If it truly was just property theft, then yes, I'd agree but did you see where they had already had one bad experience. I believe that would affect his reaction when he had another. Having a gun pulled on you/your wife would no doubt affect you for life.
He was probably an “honor student”...
I agreed until I came to this part “maybe he was trying to support his 6 children from his 5 girlfriends”.
Yeah, right. I don’t think men like this worry about supporting their families, that’s what welfare is for. This is more like needing drug money or money for fancy shoes.
My bet is on the wife shooting them. I know I’d be more apt to pull the trigger once I’d had a gun pulled on me and I feared for my life! Or the kid would be fine but I hope the wife, this could do irreparable damage to the son if he felt forced to pull the trigger.
The fact that they’re not sure WHO pulled the trigger makes me lean towards the son and they are trying to protect him.
Hope mom pulled the trigger.
Be sure to get in your target practice!!!
I agree—
Based on the 2009 robbery where wife had a gun stuck in her face.... I figure she shot and killed this thief. They are lawyered up and being very careful. So we still don’t know whether the mother or son shot the robber.
Due to wife’s (name is Yasmin) previous traumatic armed robbery she will get off on this one as she should
deadly force authorized in defense of an expensive water toy?
“deadly force authorized in defense of an expensive water toy?”
It is not about the value of the property. What price freedom? As far as I am concerned, you try to rob me of my peace of mind, my freedom, then you should pay with your life, or a least a few years of life if you survive the initial contact.
About 3 decades ago a TX rancher told the biker who was attempting to steal his tractor to get off or he would shoot him. The biker told him to “expletive” himself and suffered the immediate consequences. In TX, deadly force can be used in defense of property to stop a felony.
Not so sure about FL but it should be the law of the land.
If not it should be.
He won’t do that again.
I believe that Florida and Texas have similar ‘Castle’ laws... I can shoot any SlOB that attempts to steal my property or invade my ‘Castle’.
I checked it out about six months ago... My only regret is that I didn’t kill the SlOB...
I have had positive feedback from the local law enforcement folks...
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine
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