Posted on 07/17/2022 8:00:28 PM PDT by montag813
by Joshua Ford | 24News
33-year-old suspect Joseph A. Ortega was shot around midnight by a 93-year-old southern California homeowner named Joe Teague.
Teague fired his shotgun once, hitting one of the suspects. Ortega was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and later died.
Teague is not facing any charges.
Speaking to the local news outlet KNBC, Teague said a group of people consisting of “ladies and men” had “kicked the door open.”
“The big guy, he came at me,” Teague explained, adding that the rest of the group “started throwing objects that [were] in the house at me.”
“When they broke in, they got a lot of my equipment, and I approached them to put them under citizens’ arrest,” and “I kept telling them, ‘I have a shotgun with three shells in it,’ but I actually only had one. And they kept throwing stuff at me,” he explained.
Oscar Malma, who’s married to Teague’s granddaughter, said, “Recently he’s been having break-ins.”
Ortega was joined by several other individuals. They were inside the Teague’s residence when the shooting occurred.
“It happened once on Friday; on [a] bright day they went to break in the house. And now this happened in the middle of the night? … They were looking for him. They’ve been watching him. They’ve been watching the house for a while.”
“He was tired because every time he calls the police, [they take] forever to come and assist him,” Malma told KABC-TV. “He took the law into his own hands.” The station said authorities have not confirmed how many reported break-ins there have been at Teague’s home.
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A heart-warming story.
Born in 1929; he would only have been 10 or so at the outbreak of WW2, too young to serve. But he was raised in an era that respected those who did kill Nazis.
Too young. Does no one know history and arithmetic around here?
A cup of hot coffee and happy ending story make my morning!
I'd suggest 00 buck.
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