Homeowner opens fire on car burglary suspects [kills one]

abcnews.go.com ^ | 27 Nov 2011 | Samika Knight

[smokingfrog]

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Police say a homeowner shot and killed one of three men he caught breaking into his car on Houston's south side early this morning.

It happened near Gulf Valley and Springtime. Police say that homeowner saw three suspects stealing from his car and repeatedly yelled for them to stop. He said the three men had his car doors and trunk open, and were rummaging through.

The suspects didn't comply, so the homeowner went to get his gun.

The homeowner told police the suspects began to run back to their vehicle, but says he saw one of them reach for a weapon, so he started shooting, striking the driver of the suspects' vehicle.

[smokingfrog]

Video at link

[meatloaf]

Amish?

[Lazlo in PA]

This homeowner is going to regret the decision to shoot the criminal. You know how hard it is going to be to get blood out of the tan velor seats in that Buick? It’s going to be murder.

[patriot08]

From article:

One was later captured. Jesus Valentine Alaniz is charged with felony theft. The other suspect remains on the loose.

The homeowner was not injured.

The suspect who was killed has been identified as Nicolas Sanchez.

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Illegals?

[patriot08]

From article:

One was later captured. Jesus Valentine Alaniz is charged with felony theft. The other suspect remains on the loose.

The homeowner was not injured.

The suspect who was killed has been identified as Nicolas Sanchez.

_________________

Illegals?

[patriot08]

From article:

One was later captured. Jesus Valentine Alaniz is charged with felony theft. The other suspect remains on the loose.

The homeowner was not injured.

The suspect who was killed has been identified as Nicolas Sanchez.

_________________

Illegals?

[patriot08]

sorry about the multiple posts.

[ASA Vet]

the suspects began to run back to their vehicle

Reads like they had already left the victims car, so no clean up required.

[smokingfrog]

I think the Buick belonged to the dead perp.

[Lazlo in PA]

Upon closer review, I see that the criminals vehicle was shot up in the kerfuffle. The homeowner is lucky to not only avoid damaging his car, but taking out one of these maggots. Good news is so rare these days.

[ASA Vet]

Watched the news video, and read the article.

As usual Important details are missing.

What Caliber and what loading did the CITIZEN use to stop the crime?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Forget nationwide CCW, Congress needs to expand Texas's self-defense laws to the rest of the country.

It would relieve a lot of the overcrowding in prisons.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He was such a good boy.

He was really getting his life back on track.

[Red in Blue PA]

AMEN!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Aw crap. Now the Brady bunch will be whining that the gun toting rednecks shot Jesus. I can hear it all over the news now.

[COBOL2Java]

"The owner of the home looked outside, saw somebody in their car," Ofc. Richard Bolton with HPD Homicide said. "He walked outside, yelled at them [and] told them to stop."

Hopefully he yelled in both English and Spanish, otherwise he may be in trouble.

[COBOL2Java]

What Caliber and what loading did the CITIZEN use to stop the crime?

The journ-o-lists will say it was an AK-47 or a Glock...

[GOPJ]

Liberals wonder why crime's going down. Recently one came up with the idea that crime was down because of low inflation... really.

That we're fighting back might - just might - be a major part of the reason.

[Grams A]

Illegals?”

Don’t you know we don’t have any illegals in Houston. Otherwise I’m sure the Chronicle would have included that information in the headline. /sarc

[crghill]

They want overcrowding so they can build more prisons. They award the contracts to their buddies and get kickbacks. Thats the way it works. Big money in prisons.