Posted on 03/22/2014 12:20:43 PM PDT by marktwain
PORTER HEIGHTS, TX (KTRK) -- A 64-year-old woman opened fire and killed a man she says was trying to get into her Montgomery County home. According to an HFD spokesperson, that man happened to be a Houston firefighter and he may have been at the woman's house by mistake.
According to investigators, a 64-year-old woman was home alone on Monday night when she says she heard a noise and saw a man outside. Deputies say the woman claims she told that guy to leave and shot him twice as he attempted to enter the house.
"(The) person then attempted to gain entry into the house," said Sgt. Dan Zienteck with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. "She fired twice through the door, striking the person. The sheriff's office and EMS responded. The suspect was taken to Ben Taub Hospital and was pronounced dead at the hospital."
We've learned the man was her neighbor, Samuel Keen, 27. Detectives say the three year veteran Houston firefighter was out drinking with his friends at a bar in south Montgomery County Monday night. They say he took a taxi home and they believe he was intoxicated when he approached his neighbor's home.
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That’s a question for Rip Torn.
Some would say Biden knocking at the door would suffice.
Apparently she did not know the neighbor so would not have been able to identify him. Sad situation but I can guarantee you that anyone banging on my door late at night is going to find some lead somewhere in them.
Everyone on our cul de sac knows their neighbors and everything about them but when you live on a thru street it is likely most haven’t a clue as to who their neighbors are.
She said she ordered the man to leave, telling him she was armed and would shoot if he kept trying to come in.
that right there is very weird that he would keep coming...if someone says they are going to shoot me I would sober up real quick and quit moving forward.
Quite correct.
BUT — If you are drunk enough to kick the door down, you are too drunk to know it’s the wrong house.
If her house is in the county, and she shot him outside the county, then her house must be close to the county line. Wonder what county he was in when he was shot.
“For whatever reason, perhaps by mistake or negligence, the taxi driver dropped the firefighter off at the wrong house. Did the firefighter direct the driver to the wrong house or did the taxi driver not stop and drop off his passenger and the correct address?”
We had something like that happen in Northern Wisconsin. The Bus driver dropped off the intoxicated veteran at the wrong house. The vet couldn’t get inside, got even more numb, went “asleep” in the snow at -30 degrees and froze solid.
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