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For all of you naysayer types here @ FR (the gun’em down let God sort’em out crowd) ... this kid was watching the Bronco/Chargers game with his buddies. The Broncos get their asses handed to them (Shanahan, the coach, was fired because the Broncos didn’t make the play-offs ...

What does the ballgame have to do with anything at all? A 180 pound man would have had to have drank more than 10 drinks to get to the point that they had a .261 BAC. Blood Alcohol Chart(^).

they needed the game) and this young man on his way home, having absolutely no prior arrest record of any type, gets his butt shot because he confused the house he lived in ...

How was the resident supposed to know Kennedy's arrest record, which you cite? How were they supposed to know what a great guy he was? How were they supposed to know that he was a golf pro?

which was identical to his (living there only a short period of time with roomates) that was just a block away ... on the same street.

I suggest you read the article. Kennedy had a BAC of .261. He was pounding on the door, cursing. These aren't just guesses or what the resident said. The people inside were on the phone with the 911 dispatcher for more than four minutes, begging for help. Help didn't come fast enough. What are homeowners supposed to do when someone is breaking in? Ask for the arrest record and job history of the person breaking in?

You are wrong about it being on the same street, too. The shooting was on Virginia Street. Kennedy lived on Institute Street. It was a different house on a different street and the houses don't look much alike anymore, though they were built at around the same time.

My response to you jerks that are making excuses for this piece of crap, trigger happy homeowner, stick it where the sun don’t shine ... FU.

I am unaware of anyone who is happy because this happened. I am aware of people who are blaming the residents, though, and that is wrong.

All they knew was that late at night, a man was pounding on their door, cursing and screaming. They called 911. Then he went to the back door and started breaking glass.

Ask yourself honestly: what did it look like to those poor, terrified people in the middle of the night?

Did it look like the local golf pro had come calling, or did it look like a home invasion and all that goes with it in the dark of night?

Speaking as a former Marine who actually lived & slept with a weapon for several years ... this trigger happy, nervous nelly, homeowner type, was way over bounds. A drunk kid and he (she?) shoots to kill ... what about a shot to a leg an arm ... what about a shot the head? What you have here is over reaction on the part of the homeowner ... totally. You gun advocate types are always making excuses for your brethren that obviously lack the intelligence and common sense of a reasonably experienced, mature, responsible gun owner.

Not same street but same house number. Interesting that both houses have a front and a back readily accessible to the street WITHOUT A FENCE.

Good fences sometimes end up protecting your neighbor's right to drink without leaking out through holes in his body.

Zoning may be at fault, or maybe the folks there just don't care for fences, but they do work. They can give you that extra couple of minutes to lock your doors and find your matched pistol set.Lesson, don't ever walk home in Colorado.