Posted on 07/06/2021 4:35:30 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A suspected home intruder has died after initiating a shoot-out with a rural California homeowner, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office.
The deceased, 41-year-old Rodney Lee Martin, was found inside the home with a stolen firearm on his person, authorities said.
At around 12:22 p.m. on Friday, deputies responded to a 911 call from a homeowner in unincorporated Modesto, according to a statement from the sheriff's office. Upon arrival, they found Martin dead from at least one gunshot wound.
The homeowner told the authorities that they rushed home after receiving an alert from their alarm company that their home had been broken into. Upon arriving and confronting Martin, the suspect opened fire, and the homeowner – who has not been identified or charged with any crimes – fired back.
Authorities said the homeowner is cooperating with law enforcement and several aspects of the incident remain under investigation.
FOX 40 noted that Friday's incident was the second death that week of a suspected home intruder in the Modesto area. On Tuesday, 32-year-old suspect Pearl Fierro allegedly used a fire extinguisher to break a sliding glass door at an elderly couple's home and threatened to kill them.
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Two stories with happy endings, nice way to start the day.
Depends on the county. There are still conservative areas and D.A.’s in Mexifornia.
“Gun control” as it should be!
I betcha that as we are reading this there is some minion in the AGs office searching for something / anything to charge the two homeowners with. Home Defense in the first degree?
It’s doubtful the Commiefornia kakistocracy allows the homeowner to sell the carcass of the burglar as maggot food to help pay for the cost of the bullets used and for cleanup.
Break-ins with a gun are for one purpose only: killing whoever is there. Every.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Gun control at it’s finest.
Happy ending...not so much for the home INVADER. CASTLE doctrine. (I was in fear of my life and my family’s lives.) All Lives Matter.
Good. All home invaders need to be neutralized. If they die, it’s their fault.
Wouldn't that make him a definite intruder, rather than a "suspected intruder"?
“FOX 40 noted that Friday’s incident was the second death that week of a suspected home intruder.”
Progress, it is encouraging.
No picture of the suspect. My moneys all in on he’s a BLM member. Ecause if he was white, his picture would be there, his church, his home address, his relatives names, his NRA membership number, and his political leanings and his Trump 2020 hat would have been shown.
“suspected intruder”. Yup, he was at his squatter rights home when some guy with a gun came in and shot him dead. That is the way some Cal DA will look at it.
He also must have been deaf not to hear the alarm going off so it is probably also a case of an attack on a disabled person plus if he was a member of a protected group, a definite racial bias charge. (s)
“...with a RURAL California homeowner...”
Even if it IS California, THIS was the perp’s LAST mistake - in probably a lifetime of nothing BUT mistakes. ;)
What's to investigate? Oh wait, it's California. Nevermind.
Well, think about it.
If the property burgled is worth less than $950, is there actually a prosecutable crime?
No, of course not. There is no difference in burgling $500 worth of used TV set from a private home and walking out of Walmart with a new $120 computer monitor
Neither will be prosecuted
“The homeowner told the authorities that they rushed home after receiving an alert from their alarm company that their home had been broken into.”
Homeowner - singular noun
They - plural pronoun
Aren’t there ANY editors anymore? This is a very basic grammatical error that should HAVE been (not should OF) corrected before going to print.
I got the point of the piece but it is sad to still see there really seem to be no editors these days. Sorry to be a grammar Nazi. Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
How can he be a suspected intruder?
He’s a confirmed intruder. He was in the home when killed.
Exactly, there is no castle doctrine in Calif. The homeowner, if not charged, will be put through hell. Instead of retreating and calling the cops, he rushed home and confronted the intruder. That’ll be the thinking of the leftist DA.
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