Posted on 11/29/2006 5:27:06 AM PST by xrp
Police say a 73-year-old man wasn't doing anything wrong last night in his Coon Rapids home when something wrong came to him.
"While he was in bed he heard someone breaking into the house," Anoka County Sheriff Captain Bob Aldrich said.
A burglar, police say broke in, and when he got to the second floor the 73-year-old man was waiting. "He keeps a rifle in his room for protection and in this instance he felt the need to use it and in this case he shot the intruder," Aldrich said.
The intruder died and the shooter, investigators say, will probably not be in any trouble for killing him. "You always have the right to defend yourself in your residence," Aldrich said.
Minnesota state statute 609.065 says:
"The intentional taking of a life of another is not authorized by section 609.06, except when necessary in resisting or preventing an offense which the actor reasonably believes exposes the actor or another to great bodily harm or death, of preventing the commission of a felony in the actor's place of abode."
Some neighbors of the homeowner are already coming to his defense for defending his safety, and, his home. "I believe that if they broke into his house and he was in there he was within his rights for what he did," said neighbor Jeffrey Hauf.
At this point police are still looking for a possible second suspect. The homeowner wasn't sure if one or two men broke in.
The homeowner has been questioned by police in the incident and he was never placed under arrest nor was he hurt during the break-in which happened around 11 Monday night.
Huh. So is Tony Parks a "teen" or "Male, 32 years old, Los Angeles"?
Thanks for the update. I'm sending this on to my grandson...
It's a rice bowl thing..
You are literally in someones rice bowl if crime decreases,
Crime is big business for a lot of entities and organizations
your resiting the criminal negatively impacts the number and nature of criminals and therefore represents a threat to someones rice bowl.
When you go from more than 100 deputies to 16 and have an 80% drop in crime a week into a LE Officers Union Strike..
"Rice Bowl".
Now you know one of the reasons why.
W
Good on him. There was a case in Fla. a while back in a diner, when two legally armed guys stopped a robbery by shooting the goblin. The young one was 69.
The man who shot the boy needs to develop heart symptoms, anxiety, back pain, etc. and sue the family of the boy for ruining his health (mental and physical). We should create an entire industry out of suing these no goods and their families. I do realize that sometimes the families are good people and should not be sued. Only sue them when they sue you.
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