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Police: Intruder fatally shot after bursting into Boulder home
FOX31 Denver ^ | May 5, 2015 | BY CHUCK HICKEY

Posted on 05/05/2015 3:17:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A suspected home intruder was shot and killed by a homeowner Monday night after shattering a glass screen door and getting into a fight with the man.

Boulder police said there were several disturbances in the neighborhood involving the suspect before the shooting. Witnesses told police the suspect had tried to break into a number of homes, “yelling at residents and banging on their doors and windows as he tried to gain entry into their houses”.

A man and a woman were in the home at 98 Pima Court. Police said the couple was watching television when they heard the suspect banging on a window at the back of the house. The man told police he had the woman call 911 while he retrieved his handgun.

“The male occupant told police that he feared for his life,” police said in the news release.

The man was able to fire a single shot from his handgun, striking the suspect in the chest. The man was pronounced dead when police arrived.

The man and the woman, who have not been identified by police, “fully cooperated” with the investigation, police said. Neighbors said the man has lived in the some for some time.

Under Colorado’s “Make My Day” law, a homeowner has the right to shoot a home invader if they feel their life or the lives of anyone in the home is at jeopardy.

(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; guns; makemyday; secondamendment
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1 posted on 05/05/2015 3:17:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Taxpayer savings

BUMP


2 posted on 05/05/2015 3:22:12 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Neighbors said the man has lived in the some for some time.”

Say what?


3 posted on 05/05/2015 3:26:59 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer
Must be the weed.

-PJ

4 posted on 05/05/2015 3:29:47 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Parley Baer

I believe the reporter hit the s key instead of the h key.
Read this early in the Daily Camera.
Good shooting.


5 posted on 05/05/2015 3:30:56 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Parley Baer
Probably meant area instead of some.
6 posted on 05/05/2015 3:34:48 PM PDT by driftless2
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...broke into a boulder home?...

7 posted on 05/05/2015 3:59:03 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Did anyone see the local news articles about this?

They're showing the home that was broken into...
And RIGHT in the main front window, you can CLEARLY see a HUGH elk's head mounted on the freakin' wall!

Good thing that criminals are usually morons, eh?
8 posted on 05/05/2015 4:08:44 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("When you have to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk." --Tuco)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Boulder is a very Lefty city.

In all likelihood this was a Leftist home owner.

If so the “what’s good for me is not for thee” modus operandi thing is in full play.


9 posted on 05/05/2015 4:13:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: RandallFlagg

A Hugh elk’s head? That’s series.


10 posted on 05/05/2015 4:15:18 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

I laughed.
What kind of an idiot sees an obvious sign of the home being owned by people who might have a gun or five in their house and says, “THAT looks like an easy target!”


11 posted on 05/05/2015 4:17:22 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("When you have to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk." --Tuco)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good outcome.


12 posted on 05/05/2015 4:23:38 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Not all of them.
Considering that the homeowner hit the thug with one shot to the chest and ended him tells me he’s had some training.
The mounted elk head on the wall tells me he’s a hunter.

When I took my CCW class, one of the other students explained that he open carries in Boulder.

There are a LOT of lefties there, but there’s still some good guys.


13 posted on 05/05/2015 4:31:44 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("When you have to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk." --Tuco)
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The punk was 19-year-old Roberto Zamora.


14 posted on 05/05/2015 4:45:11 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("When you have to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk." --Tuco)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"... Under Colorado’s “Make My Day” law, a homeowner has the right to shoot a home invader if they feel their life or the lives of anyone in the home is at jeopardy."

Show me in the Colorado Revised Statutes where there's any such law entitled 'Make My Day'.

I see Colorado Revised Statutes 18-1-704.5, entitled "Use of deadly physical force against an intruder." but nothing as sensationalist as 'Make My Day' or 'Shoot The Carjacker' or 'Eat Lead You Dirty Hispanic Heathen' or 'Wildly Fire Shots At Shadows'.

That we let the media punks get away with this crap is the same as letting gun banners declare things to be 'Saturday Night Specials' or 'Assault Rifles' or 'Cop-Killer Bullets' or 'Minority-Seeking Missiles'.

Ridiculous. Good thing nobody reads newspapers and local news websites except for us anymore. Golly, they may be negatively influenced by agitation propaganda.

15 posted on 05/05/2015 5:28:35 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...after shattering a glass screen door...
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HUH? I’ve never heard of a glass screen door!


16 posted on 05/05/2015 5:40:28 PM PDT by octex
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To: octex

Those are the kind used on submarines


17 posted on 05/05/2015 5:46:35 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Redcitizen
"A Hugh elk’s head? That’s series."

Only a hugh moose with a stuned bieber would be more series.

18 posted on 05/05/2015 5:50:11 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; george76

I’m surprised that a Boulderite owns and knows how to use a gun.


19 posted on 05/05/2015 5:56:11 PM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: dynachrome; MileHi; Balata; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; Carley; ColoCowgirl; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


20 posted on 05/05/2015 6:00:24 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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