“See my post 14. You seem to know something about the area. Any thoughts from reading the full article. Could be another case of poor journalism but it seems like a strange story to me.”
Time of day, neighborhood,and neighborhood lead me to side with law enforcement with this one.
I don’t think the homeowner was in any way at fault, just a bad circumstance.
Lots of good learnings here. If your spouse calls the cops while you go investigate ,very important that spouse describes you and tells 911 that you are the homeowner and you are armed. Also, the fact that the screen door had holes in it but the front door didn’t might mean the intruder was on the way out the door when the homeowner opened fire , with the cops coming up the front steps at the same time. I’ll definitely adopt a wait and see on this one as it sounds like a chaotic scene. If you want to see true cop incompetence, google for the guy in Georgia who was shot in his own house though he was unarmed. Thankfully he survived. Cops went to wrong house while responding to a call. Killed his dog to boot.
Yeah, I wasn’t saying either police or homeowner did anything wrong, but seems like there are some missing details here. If someone woke me up in bed, it would be much less time than police could respond before I could find a gun, even if it was down stairs with someone else. So seems like the reaction time of the homeowner and the response time of the police are out of synch. Would the police roll up silent or with lights and siren? Seems like the owner was not all there and some stupidity/drugs/mental condition/association with the intruder may have been involved.