Arlington homeowner shoots intruder

Star-Telegram ^ | 11/3/06 | BILL MILLER

[Teflonic]

A burglary suspect, who was shot early Friday during a break-in at an Arlington home, was arrested by police who tracked him to a wooded creek bed west of the house, police said.

The unidentified suspect was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth about 7 a.m. after officers caught him near the home he allegedly burgled in the 2000 block of Mill Creek Drive, police said.

Sgt. Steve Williams of the east patrol division said the suspect was shot more than once, but he did not know how many times.

Police responded at 4:15 a.m. to a report of a resident shooting a burglar inside the home, according to reports. The neighborhood is northwest of the intersection of South Center Street and East Pioneer Parkway.

A woman who answered the phone at the address on Mill Creek Drive confirmed that the shooting had occurred there, but declined to comment further.

It’s not the first time that an Arlington resident was in the news by confronting an intruder with deadly force.

Grandmother Susan Gaylord Buxton made international headlines a year ago when she shot and wounded a man who broke into her northwest Arlington home. The incident was recorded as Buxton’s granddaughter called 911. Buxton had a permit to carry a handgun.

[Teflonic]

A little more info and picture from WFAA:

ARLINGTON — Police nabbed a bloody man Friday morning who had apparently been shot and wounded by a homeowner.

Investigators said the the suspect fled after the 4 a.m. incident in the 2000 block of Mill Creek Drive.

Police said there was a trail of blood on the sidewalk outside after the homeowner, armed with a .38 caliber revolver, fired several shots at an intruder.

Officers found a wounded man in a wooded area and took him into custody.

The name of the suspect and the extent of his injuries were not immediately available.

[Hazcat]

IB4TP!

[300magnum]

Ping.

[Toadman]

Bow before lesser 2nd Amendment pingees!

[El Gato]

Don't mess with Texas homeowners!

But we do need to get this one some more range time.

[TexasTransplant]

Should have had a 12 GA or a .45 so in the picture the perp would be horizontal

TT

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

This is the kind of person who the dems want to be able to vote, knowing that they will vote for dems.

[bigbob]

Shoot Until Dead

[rabidralph]

Arlington--I just knew this headline wasn't about Virginia.

[Trygar]

When my uncle's house was broken into, my stepfather talked to my cousin, who was a Sheriff Deputy. My cousin told my stepfather that if he had to shoot the intruder, to make sure he killed him. 1) There would only be one side to the story and 2) It would be less paper work for him (my cousin) if the intruder was dead.

[Spktyr]

This is why you shoot center of mass *first*, *then* go for a headshot if that doesn't work.

[Belasarius]

That's funny.... I didn't catch on until you posted. Yeah, couldn't be Arlington, VA. It wouldn't be in the paper. When I lived in Norfolk, VA there was a helluva parking lot shootout just up the road from me and they never printed a thing about it in the Ledger-Star.

The bride and groom following their wedding were checking into their motel in a really nice area of town right beside my church when they were accosted by three guys with a shotgun. The groom shot and killed one of them and the other two grabbed him and tried to shoot him with his own pistol which misfired. He managed to get away. The two were subsequently captured. (This is all from memory from nearly 20 years ago).

The only reason I finally heard about was that the tiny little Hampton, VA paper wrote a story about it and I'm guessing it was the only press it got.

In my mind that was a front page headline and the notoriously anti-gun Ledger-Star concealed it.

[rabidralph]

Hey, Senior, thanks for your service. I was a JO2(AW).

Either the story wouldn't be in the Arlington, VA, rag or it would declare the robber was the true victim.

[CPOSharky]

Buxton had a permit to carry a handgun.

You don't need a permit in Texas to have a gun in the house.

[RichInOC]

Oh. This is the DFW Arlington, not the Riverside, California Arlington. Bummer.

Cut the homeowner some slack, by the way. How good a shot do you think you'd be if a burglar woke you up first thing in the morning?

[Recon Dad]

Now this is a guy that looks like he needed to be shot.

[JRPerry]

I was thinking the same thing Teflonic. If the guy was still walking ... the homeowner needs more range time, no doubt about it. Or at least they need to learn how to deliver mulitiple double-taps and reload more quickly.

[CountryBumpkin]

Good shots! One more bad guy gets a painful reality check.