Posted on 08/21/2005 8:38:27 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A home invasion on Friday night left one man dead and police trying to determine his identity. It was around 1 a.m. when the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office received a call regarding a shooting in the 14200 block of Wildwood Drive in the Lake Wildwood subdivision.
According to Lt. Darrel Conn, with the MCSO detectives division, officers arrived to find a Hispanic male lying in the yard dead from an apparent gunshot wound.
Conn said the home is owned by an elderly man and his wife, who were home when the dead man allegedly decided to walk in. He said the homeowner told officers he was awake playing video games when an unknown male holding a beer bottle walked into the home through the front door. He is described as a Hispanic male, between 30 and 35.
The homeowner confronted the man and told him to get out of his house. Conn says the intruder went outside, but remained on the premises and went to the back yard. He says the homeowner then retrieved a revolver from inside the house before going outside to look around his property. When the elderly man discovered the intruder in the backyard, a struggle ensued and the intruder was shot at least once in the chest.
Conn says the dead man had only one piece of identification on his person, which does not appear to be his. There was no immediate way of determining his identity. The homeowner will not face charges.
Jail this man now!!!!! /s
LOL...Great Tag line BTW !!
isnt that one of the most atrocious things you've ever heard. i pray that talk radio will be talking about that decision for the next week.....
i know savage is planning on trying to help the guy out with legal representation.
You're right, but it's Texas, and I don't think he deserves any punishment worse than what you mentioned. I doubt he'll see any court time either. It's Texas.
Sounds like a drunk to me. He left the house when first confronted by the unarmed homeowner and then hangs around the yard as though he was confused about his whereabouts.
I would have called the police first, and only shot him as a last resort.
I disagree.
Think about it.
Think about going to bed, knowing there might be some nut case still wandering around. Will he break in? Has he moved on? Will I have the courage to do what needs to be done if he does break in? What if he's quiet and I don't hear him. Will he still be here when I go to the store tomorrow? Will the wife be safe when I leave?
Those questions now ALL have definitive answers in regard to the intruder. PLUS, he knows he's got what it takes to defend his home and wife. AND his wife has seen it done, so now she knows how it's successfully done.
Is this from some B rated movie from the 1950s?
Somebody please post a Zombies R Us kind of graphic. Thanks.
The intruder was probably drunk, otherwise he would not have gone to the back yard.
A friend told me a story, how in his misspent youth, he became very drunk, and went to a stranger's house, thinking it was his own home, and the police were called.
Thankfully, my friend was not killed, as he matured, stopped drinking and today is an upstanding citizen.
Your home state, MY home county! GOTTA LOVE IT!
Game over, amigo.
You beat me to it you rat-ba$tard. See my following post! LOL thanks.
I see your well-intentioned points, but it simply doesn't make sense for an elderly man to go into his darkened yard to mix it up with a drunken man likely half his age (or younger) while his wife waits helplessly inside.
The old man and his wife had the "homecourt" advantage. They could have called the police and urgently requested assistance. They could have then sat comfortably in their kitchen (gun in hand) waiting for the cavalry to arrive.
As an aside, I hardly think that shooting and killing another man led to a nice comfortable sleep that night.
~ Blue Jays ~
LOL.....Yeah that kind of jumped out at us Huh !
Stay safe !
It's Texas, where it is illegal to sue for damages incurred while you were committing a crime. And yes, that extends to the estate as well. The Kali case where a burglar breaks in, slips on a kid's toy, and successfully sues for millions cannot happen in Texas.
Likewise, trespassers who get shot are not allowed to sue for damages, and neither are their survivors.
This is why I have a magazine loaded with kitridges with 9mm 158 gr. silver bullets. Our back-up system is a fully-automatic .50 cal assault cross-bow with a 1200x power Zeiss scope. NP. Mission accomplished.
Uh, you are aware that in many parts of Texas, the response time is measured in minutes, not seconds, right? In many places, the police are physically unable to get to you for 45 minutes to an hour or more. This sounds like one of those cases.
Either way, Texas law is clear. You have the right to shoot trespassers on your land after dark, no questions asked.
10 to 1 says the shooter is charged with a crime.
In Texas? Unless he was unable to legally own a firearm, not likely.
Let's see:
1. Was the shootee trespassing? Yup.
2. Was it after dark? Yup.
3. Was it the shooter's land? Yup.
That's all that Texas law cares about.
Sue the video game company. The game obviously caused the home owner to shoot the drunk!
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