Posted on 07/21/2014 1:38:14 PM PDT by marktwain
In this strange incident, little is said about why the intruder tried to force his way into the shooters home. All that we know is that the homeowner drove into his garage, and the intruder drove a car behind the homeowner to prevent the garage door from closing.
A verbal altercation followed, then warning shots were fired, then the intruder was shot.
The authorities are investigating the incident, which they say stems from the rather ambiguous term "road rage".
From the marinscope.com:
The homeowner, a 71-year-old man, drove into his garage, and the other man tried to drive in behind him, but the homeowner closed the garage door onto the hood of the other man's car, Cusimano said.It seems unlikely that we will find out the details of this situation, but forced entry into another man's home is an invitation for him to use force against you.
California?
I hope this poor old man does not end up spending the rest of his life in prison.
What a stupid thing to say. Clearly, gunfire ended it.
If a person followed someone into their garage, far enough to have his car hit by the garage door, then he was intruding, and the homeowner was right to protect himself.
More details: The shooter is a medical doctor, flight surgeon, and he has been arrested.
http://www.marinij.com/crimebeat/ci_26166982/police-investigate-shooting-corte-madera-home
Warning shots? When is that ever a good idea?
You are supposed to get your wife, retreat to the bedroom and cower in a corner until you are shot dead. The police, arriving after the fatal blows, will then conduct a thorough investigation.
Due to the price increases on ammunition, do not expect a warning shot.
I don’t care who started this. It’s insane to pursue someone down their driveway and attempt to ram your vehicle into another.
At the point he followed the man the driveway he began forfeiting rights, including his life membership to the human race.
The Doctor made the right choice and I fail to see the premise by which he could be arrested and charged.
2 357s to the abdomonin, wow. Again, given the reported facts: followed into garage, warning shot, continues to come at him, two hits: if I were on this jury, I could mail in my verdict: Not Guilty.
Nice address btw. Great bicycling around that area.
...left turn signal on for 12 miles?
Good work! We get a bit more information from your search.
You know things are getting bad in anarchistic tyranny when one of the local elites has someone follow them to their home, invade their garage with a car, invade the garage themselves, and gets shot by the 70 year old elite.
The Doctor who has lived their for 40 years, is the one arrested...
It doesn’t say he was arrested.
Sorry, didn’t see the second article which does say he was arrested.
California has very good self-defense laws. His problem may be that he is in Marin County.
The problem is that we don’t know yet what happened before getting to the garage, or the exact actions each party took when they arrived there.
Good for him. He did a good job of cooling their so-called rage—a great example for everyone.
Warning shots work very well. Two Warning shots to center mass of the first perp gives warning to the rest (in both the form of audio and visual events, loud gunshots and their buddy dropping to the ground with a mortal chest wound) of the perps they are doing it wrong and should seek entertainment elsewhere.
Nope. I live here.
You follow me into my garage and I’m completely within my rights to end your aggression with deadly force.
And I will empty my mag into that person.
9 holes of .45 230grn JHP by Hornady and I’ll reload just in case the guy turns into a zombie but, he will be dead.
The only thing the doc did wrong was waste a round as a warning shot, which never works....
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