Posted on 07/02/2015 4:55:49 AM PDT by rellimpank
A 23-year-old man was able to fend off two intruders in his family’s home Tuesday morning, killing one and wounding the other, according to a police report released Wednesday.
Just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, Tarneshia Harris, 29, also known as Tiffany Carter, and a male accomplice broke into a house in the 3800 block of King Palm Avenue, near Pecos and Alexander roads, while several people were home, according to the report.
The duo initially tried a ruse to gain entry, police said.
Harris knocked on the door of the house and told the 12-year-old boy who answered that her car had broken down and asked to use the phone. The boy agreed, but then started to close the door. Harris pushed through and put him in a headlock, according to the report.
At that point, the male intruder, armed with a stolen .22 caliber pistol, came in the front door. He pointed his handgun at the boy and told him to be quiet, the report said.
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Not gonna argue the fact that the bad guys getting dead and/or put out of action is a good thing; it is. As advocates of using a gun for self defense we have to look at this critically, though. The defensive shooter is extremely lucky that things didn't go bad for him. Specifically, the article states that he went outside, then back inside and retreived a rifle. He then went back outside and fired at the fleeing vehicle "hoping to hit a rear tire and prevent them from leaving", according to the article. That action right there puts him, in many jurisdictions, at risk of prosecution. I'm glad things worked out for him; some of his actions were not the best, though.
He grabbed an AK47 and followed the perp outside where he fired a shot at a fleeing vehicle in hopes that he’d hit a tire. I’m not sure that was the smartest idea, but at least no one else was hurt. You shoot to protect yourself and your family. The threats fled and did not come back. I might’ve grabbed a rifle or shotgun to have in lieu of a pistol on the off chance they return before police arrive, but I wouldn’t have pursued outside unless outside was still on my property (i.e. a large plot of land or homestead).
I’m not sure the final rifle round was advisable (sat map shows a VERY residential area), but the brother seemed to be ready, willing and able to defend the family/home. Good on him.
He probably had seen pictures of the small truck that the LAPD shot 47 times through the back at the 2 Hispanic old women they thought was a 250 lb black male named Dormer, and assumed it was SOP.
:: You shoot to protect yourself and your family. ::
This is not the most salient of statements. Why would I not shoot a perp who is armed and raping a child in the alley behind my house?
Sorry. Defeating a criminal attempting to escape from a felony violation is, actually, American.
Somebody told me a lot of home invasions happen mid-morning.
http://www.news3lv.com/media/lib/166/f/5/1/f51b4d53-9d4c-438f-93a6-a8526ffb9896/Story.jpg
I love happy endings. Too bad the female lived though, it seems like she should be removed.
...Yeah if you’re out and about and happen across that very event. I’m talking to this specific event which happened in a home, and that’s the context to which I adhered. My statement was perfectly salient for the situation under discussion unless you’re in the habit of walking around your neighborhood and stopping in on your neighbors unannounced.
Oddly enough, Nevada has no Castle Doctrine Law. Even so, once you leave your own property and fire at someone, a lawyer may come back at you.
You have not interpreted my post correctly. Note, I indicated the “felonious activity” immediately outside my home.
Why should I not fire on an “escaping felon” immediately outside my domicile in effort to keep said-same available for the police to “clean-up”?
You might have some “liberal-style” conscience about perforating an escaping felon. For me, I’ll take my chances with the West Texas court system.
That's when a lot of residential burglaries happen also. Shortly after people leave for work.
Makes sense.
Well done young man!
Call me paranoid, but I get so few knocks at my door that I always have a handgun behind my back if I open the door for any reason. It just seems prudent.
That, and the feral class is just waking up mid-morning.
I think they're generally still awake from the night before, cranked up on meth or coke.
Depending on your state or even county, the legal reason not to is that it can be called murder. Morally, however, shooting to stop a person who attempted armed robbery or an armed home invasion sounds like something that makes the community safer. Police in most areas are allowed to shoot to stop a fleeing felon who poses an immediate danger to others. I approve of shooting in this situation, if local law permits [actually, I cannot think of many situations in which I don't approve of a legal shooting; there are a few, but they are rare].
Shooting a fleeing felon is not a “good shoot” if your life is not in danger.
I’ve been in a self-defense situation twice in my life, and I’ve twice had to make that split-second decision to shoot. It’s not something I would want anyone to have to make, but I made it and paid for it in anxiety while the legal system worked. In the end, nothing came of it, but too often people have opened fire on someone running away from them and found themselves in court defending their actions.
Call me liberal if you want, but having lived through this experience, I would not advocate someone open fire on anyone unless they’re in fear for their life. Naturally, if you have enough land to justify shooting someone, you probably have enough land to throw the body into a pig pen too, if you catch my drift.
In Oregon the the homeowner would go to jail
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