[Clemenza]

Read my follow up: He DID NOT deserve to die. Nevertheless, he did something my parents always warned me NOT to do and now is dead in the process.

If I were the homeowner, I simply would have chased the kid and "confronted" him, no firearm necessary.

[Freedom2specul8]

Thanks for clarifying...I just didn't want anyone to think that freepers believe that we don't need to know our targets and beyond. It's the most important part of being a responsible gunowner..and so far, it looks like the homeowner was NOT being responsible. We'll have to wait and see.

[gatex]

"I simply would have chased the kid and "confronted" him, no firearm necessary."

You couldn't catch him --- and when you were a short distance away, an accomplice hiding could then enter your house (see my earlier post about this in Houston). Point is that we can not know the motives of others in the night.

There were also home invasions in Houston.

An Indian engineer in Houston said his friends were robbed in their garage after returning home -- robbers were waiting for them. He said a lot of the Indians got robbed because it was known that Indians often had a lot of gold jewelry.

[Frunabulax]

If I were the homeowner, I simply would have chased the kid and "confronted" him, no firearm necessary.

If I knew that some teenagers were playing pranks I'd just ignore the doorbell and go back to sleep. Chasing other people's kids around in the middle of the night is a bit risky. People might think you're some kind of pervert or something.