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72-Year-Old Homeowner Shoots, Kills Intruder
AmmoLand ^ | December 15, 2022 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/20/2022 3:39:44 AM PST by marktwain

On December 10, 2022, at about 3 a.m., the Bedford 911 service received an urgent call. According to the Pennsylvania State Police at the Bedford station, Bedford 911 received a call reporting a home invasion and an assault in progress. The call was disconnected. After the call was reconnected, there was a report of shots fired.

When the State Police arrived, they determined one shot had been fired, and the intruder, Dakota Lance Hall, was struck and died at the scene. WTAJ reported this. From wtaj.com:

State Police out of Bedford said they received a call of a home invasion and assault along Shoups Branch Road in Liberty Township shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday. While on the phone with the 72-year-old male homeowner, they said the 911 call disconnected. When the call reconnected, there were reports of shots fired.

When police arrived, they found the alleged intruder, Dakota Hall, 22, of Huntingdon, with a gunshot wound. Police said Hall died of his injuries at the scene.

The 72-year-old was taken to UPMC Bedford for injuries suffered in the assault.

Bedford is a rural community in Pennsylvania.  The population of Liberty Township is modest at 1,382 as of the 2020 census.  Shoup’s Branch Road is a short street in a development of what appears to be about 15 mobile homes in the satellite image. An athletic field is across the street.  On the other side of the athletic fields for baseball and football is a middle school and a high school.

The identity of the 72-year-old white male is unknown. Dakota Hall’s address is reported as in Huntingdon, PA. The homeowner is reported as being from  Saxon, PA, which is in Liberty Township. Huntingdon is about a half-hour drive northeast of Liberty Township.  In Hall’s obituary,

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

....case of beer


21 posted on 12/20/2022 5:01:20 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: mewzilla

“When police arrived, they found the alleged intruder, Dakota Hall, 22, of Huntingdon”

Almost certainly the case regarding the obit, but interesting how they change his age in the story to make him seem younger, almost a juvenile. A mistake? I kind of doubt it.


22 posted on 12/20/2022 5:28:57 AM PST by BobL
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To: mewzilla

From your link

“He was employed by his grandfather at Joe C. Hall Concrete as an equipment operator.”

age separation might be about right.


23 posted on 12/20/2022 5:29:23 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: marktwain
I read the article and it said that Hall was arrested in the spring of 2022, but the booking picture is not the same guy as the guy that was shot.

As usual, the "reporting" is shoddy and half-assed {at best}.

You can not take any story at face value.

This maybe what it seems like, but I'll wait.

24 posted on 12/20/2022 5:31:11 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: marktwain

There’s more to this story.


25 posted on 12/20/2022 5:49:02 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: marktwain

The left wants to take away our right to defend ourselves. The left wants the “oppressed” to waltz right in and take what is “rightfully” theirs from their “oppressors,” and then to kill their “oppressors” if their reptile brains tell them to do so.


26 posted on 12/20/2022 5:54:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media not worth camel spit. My pronouns: Who, What, I Don't Know.)
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To: marktwain

In California, the 72 year old would have been arrested for murder already.

Not sure how this will play out in Pennsylvania.


27 posted on 12/20/2022 6:56:45 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Bon of Babble

An athletic field is across the street. On the other side of the athletic fields for baseball and football is a middle school and a high school.
= = =

This will be classified as a ‘school shooting’. Bad guns.


28 posted on 12/20/2022 7:01:52 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: mewzilla

I disagree. IF someone breaks into your house they deserve what they get regardless of circumstances. One more dirt bag out of circulation, if this were encouraged we would have a lot fewer dirt bags who were a lot less bold.


29 posted on 12/20/2022 7:28:20 AM PST by LambSlave
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To: maddog55

yeah but he managed to knock someone up before that happend.


30 posted on 12/20/2022 7:41:35 AM PST by ronniesgal (Just GET A JOB already. )
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

31 posted on 12/20/2022 8:08:53 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

The identity of the 72-year-old white male is unknown....


32 posted on 12/20/2022 6:23:00 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChronicMA

I worked in a plywood mill, long ago. Some of the guys were putting in forty hour weeks, but doing meth.


33 posted on 12/20/2022 6:27:00 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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